DataTopics: All Things Data, AI & Tech
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.
Dive into conversations that should flow as smoothly as your morning coffee (but don't), where industry insights meet laid-back banter. Whether you're a data aficionado or just someone curious about the digital age, pull up a chair, relax, and let's get into the heart of data, unplugged style!
Episodes
90 episodes
#90 How To Make AI Deliver Business Impact: Gaelle Helsmoortel on Turning Strategy Into Tangible Results
In this episode, Gaelle Helsmoortel joins us to discuss how to make AI truly deliver business impact, not just proof of concept.With over 25 years of experience spanning L’Oréal, startup leadership, and her curr...
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#89 SQLBits Unfiltered: dbt in Fabric, MLOps in Action & Copilot in Question
In this episode, we're joined by Sam Debruyn and Dorian Van den Heede...
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#88 “Data Shapes AI, and AI Shapes Data,” Emilie Nenquin on VRT’s Digital Transformation
In this episode, we explore how public media can build scalable, transparent, and mission-driven data infrastructure - with Emilie Nenquin, Head of Data & Intelligence at VRT, and Stijn Dolphen, Team Lead & Analytic...
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#87 How to Successfully Integrate AI into Your Business, with Tim Leers (Global Generative & Agentic AI Lead)
What happens when AI hype collides with enterprise reality? Tim Leers, Global Generative & Agentic AI Lead at Dataroots, pulls back the curtain on what's actually working—and what's not—in enterprise AI deployment today.We begin by ...
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#86 What’s Next for Kubernetes? KubeCon 2025 Recap with Nick Schouten
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world! Datatopics is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.In this episode of Data Topics, we sit down with Nick Schouten — data engineer at da...
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#85 From CDO to author: Jackie Janssen on the evolution of AI and implications for business and society
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world! Datatopics is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.This week, co-host Ben is joined by Jackie Janssen, former Chief Data Officer at CM, author o...
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#84 Let’s Get Meta: Why the Metadata You Ignore Might Be Costing You - with Special Guest Corentin
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unpluggedis your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that sho...
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#83 Who’s Minding the Metadata? Why Data Quality Matters in GenAI (Quality Time With Paolo)
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that should flow...
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#82 AI Cracked a Decades-Old Science Problem & Europe’s Push for Digital Sovereignty, The Secret Behind MCP, and The Cloud Hack That Slashes Costs By 62%.
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. DataTopics Unpluggedis your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that shoul...
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#81 AI Code Assistants: The Good, The Bad & The Overhyped, plus Python’s UV Glow-Up & Postman’s Existential Crisis
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.This week, we dive into the ...
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#80 AI Agents Run Wild, DeepSeek Breaks Records, Polars Cloud Expands, and Perplexity Reinvents Search
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. DataTopics Unpluggedis your go-to spot for relaxed discussions on tech, news, data, and society.This week, we’re unpacking everythin...
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#79 The $6 AI Model? France’s $85B Bet, DeepSeek's Censorship & The Python Upgrades You Need
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. DataTopics Unpluggedis your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that shoul...
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#78 The AI Act Lands, Meta Pauses, OpenAI Complains & DeepSeek Rises
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Data Topics Unpluggedis your go-to spot for relaxed discussions on tech, news, data, and society.This week, we’re joined by returnin...
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#77 DeepSeek R1: The ‘Open’ AI That’s Shaking Up OpenAI - Plus OpenAI’s Operator, Stargate, ByteDance, & more
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. DataTopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.This week, we’re joined by Jonas Soenen,...
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#76 AI at what cost? Environmental toll, Trump vs AI regulation, creative impact, & poisoned text for AI scrapers.
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that shou...
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#75 Developer Productivity in 2025: AI Replaces Engineers, Biden’s AI Chip Regulations, UV’s Killer Feature, and Doom in a PDF
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.In this episode, we delve into the big t...
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#74 Hello 2025! OpenAI’s O3, Deep Seek V3, Bolt.new and Doom Goes Artsy
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that flow as smo...
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#73 LLM Hunger Games: The Ultimate Showdown - Rootsconf recap (Part 3)
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that flow as smo...
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#72 Mastering Communication in the Workplace – Rootsconf Recap (Part 2)
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that flow as smo...
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#71 Navigating GenAI: How Organizations Must Adapt to Paradigm Shifts – Rootsconf Recap (part 1)
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.This week, we’re bringing you a special ...
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#70 What's Next for AI? A Recap of 2024 and Predictions for 2025
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.This week, Yannick joins the conv...
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#69 From Engineer to CEO: Alex Gallego on Building Red Panda
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.In this episode, we’re joined by a speci...
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#68 GenAI meets Minecraft, OpenAI’s O1 Leak, Strava’s AI Moves, HTMX vs. React & Octoverse Trends
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations that should ...
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#67 The AI Race: ChatGPT's New Web Search, Meta’s Llama AI Scaling Efforts & Python 3.13's Upgrades
Welcome to the cozy corner of the tech world where ones and zeros mingle with casual chit-chat. Datatopics Unplugged is your go-to spot for relaxed discussions around tech, news, data, and society.Dive into conversations tha...
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#66 From Will Smith to Meta's MovieGen: How AI Video Got Real. Plus Claude 3.5’s “Computer Use” & Open Source Tools
Welcome to Datatopics Unplugged, where the tech world’s buzz meets laid-back banter. In each episode, we dive into the latest in AI, data science, and technology—perfect for your inner geek or curious mind. Pull up a seat, tune in, and join us ...
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