CR009: Increasingly mission critical data & AI with Robin Sutara, Databricks

The value of Data & AI is perhaps self evident, but it was often a high cost tech solution looking for a problem to solve.  Now though, with sustainability concerns, increasingly difficult economic times, post-pandemic global change and easily accessible tools, D&AI suddenly has a mission critical role to play.

Dave, Sjoukje & Rob are joined by Robin Sutara, Field CTO at Databricks to discuss the reality of data usage today.  They talk about he characteristics of organisations that have successfully created a data transformation to rethink how business gets done, supply chains in a de-globalising world, the importance of clarity of outcome and data delivery team diversity.

The team also talk about the incredible launch, potential and concerns around ChatGPT.

TLDR:
01:00 Intros
01:37 Cloud conversation with Robin Sutara
27:26 The incredible rise of ChatGPT
35:35 Being back on the same timezone as my calls!