Data management is one of the biggest barriers for enterprises to create impact with AI. Simply put, it means that companies often struggle to stay in control of and get value out of their data. In this episode of the AI Change Makers podcast, we talk to Piethein Strengholt, who currently works as a cloud solution architect at Microsoft, about what these typical data management challenges look like and how you can go about solving them. Piethein has acquired extensive knowledge and experience on the topic over the years, especially during his former role designing and implementing data mesh architectures at ABN AMRO. Based on this, he recently published the book ‘’Data Management at Scale’’, a practical guide for how to build a modern scalable data landscape. And there a lot of factors to be considered! To start exploring this topic, the most common challenges, their solutions as well as best practices for doing data management right – tune in now!

As one of the first players to succeed in the ecommerce field, eBay has grown from a small scale market place in 1995 to one of the best known online platforms in the world. With more data available today than anyone can chew on, it’s becoming increasingly important for the company to have the right tools and skills in place – to turn the data into valuable actions. In this episode of the AI Change Makers podcast we talk to the head of global analytics at eBay Classifieds Group, Allard de Boer, who shares his extensive experience at the ecommerce giant. He talks about the many areas where eBay uses data and AI to improve their platform, how the role of human creativity and problem solving remains critical in the process, and how this sparked an inhouse training program to raise the bar across the whole organization on using data.

With the large amount of available data at Heineken, the appetite for doing more with AI and machine learning has been growing. In this episode, we hear from Senior Analytics Consultant Sandra Oudshoff and Management Reporting Manager Jasper van Panhuis how AI and data analytics are being applied at Heineken and what value it brings to their organization. Heineken is harvesting their data-driven journey. The goal is to use their data to make improvements across various business domains, ranging from the brewing of beer to delivering it to the consumer – all whilst being more sustainable. Heineken uses the GAIn AI Translator Program to empower this journey and also to identify new growth opportunities. A big thank you to Sandra and Jasper for sharing their stories with us in this episode of the AI Change Makers.