From candy bars to industrial IOT, Arcus Data’s CEO Josh Hritz talks about the exciting use cases for the Splunk Edge Hub. Arcus Data has been a long time Splunk Partner and has created numerous solutions that help companies get the most out of their data with Splunk. The Big Data Beard team sits down with Josh to dive into some of these use cases and how the Splunk Edge Hub is helping solve the most complex industrial IOT challenges. 

The Big Data Beard team puts on their hard hats and dives into the world of bitcoin mining to see how Splunk and Fulcrum have ppartnered together to create a powerful solution for bitcoin mining farms. The team hears from Fulcrum’s Director of Security Analytics, John Owen, how Fulcrum is using the Splunk Edge Hub to help farms to optimize their operations, reduce costs, improve energy efficiency, enhance equipment performance, and ultimately increase their profitability.

We're at Splunk's .conf 19 (https://conf.splunk.com) with SVP & GM Rick Fitz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-fitz-7b32461/). Rick climbs in the #IoTRV with Cory Minton (https://www.twitter.com/cory_minton) as they discuss Rick's history around campervans and IT software tools. We also hear about Splunk's recent acquisitions of SignalFX (https://www.signalfx.com/) among other new logos to join the family. Rick shares what exactly goes into acquiring a company (hint: its not just the tech) and how AI plays a role in the new announcements from Splunk!

The Speaking in Tech team join Cory Minton, Kyle Prins & Rob Hout to kick off the year by giving their 2018 technology predictions.  Nothing is off limits as the team discusses what 2018 has in store for AI, Machine Learning, Cloud, Containers and more. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_SiT (http://bit.ly/BDB_SiT)

Cory Minton, Kyle Prins,Thomas Henson talk with Dr. Greg Michaelson, VP at Data Robot about all things machine learning.  Machine learning was one of the top trends in 2017 and 2018 looks to be no different but with the shortage of data scientists org...

Special guest Alan Gates from Hortonworks helps us explore where the Hadoop community is headed in 2018 and what's new with Apache Hive. We also take time to dive into Alan's background at working with Hadoop, Hive, and Pig in the early days at Yahoo. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_AGH (http://bit.ly/BDB_AGH)

Erin Banks, Brett Roberts, and Rob Hout talk with special guest Carey James, VP of Alliances at BlueTalon about all things data security.  Whether it is companies using the data for good or bad, we discuss the ethical implications of data and it’s use in analytics. We will also review how countries are dealing with data privacy issues through regulations like the EU, implementing General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). Does it really have an impact, can we change the regulation down the road as innovation evolves or will it hinder innovation in the long run? Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP14 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP14)

Thomas and Cory talk with special guest Bill Schmarzo, the “Dean of Big Data” about the organization challenges and opportunities in monetizing data assets.  Bill is the author of Big Data: Understanding How Data Powers Big Business and Big Data MBA: Driving Business Strategies with Data Science, is responsible for setting strategy and defining the Big Data service offerings for Dell EMC’s Big Data Practice. As a CTO within Dell EMC’s 2,000+ person consulting organization, he works with organizations to identify where and how to start their big data journeys. He’s written white papers, is an avid blogger and is a frequent speaker on the use of Big Data and data science to power an organization’s key business initiatives. He is a University of San Francisco School of Management (SOM) Executive Fellow where he teaches the “Big Data MBA” course. Bill also just completed a research paper on “Determining The Economic Value of Data”. Onalytica recently ranked Bill as #4 Big Data Influencer worldwide. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP13 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP13)

Brett Roberts and Kyle Prins talk with special guest and Big Data Beard member Erin "Big Data" Banks about her passions with data analytics and how data analytics are impacting all aspects of life, from the sports we watch to the food we eat.  In this special episode, Erin is literally putting her money where her mouth is and for every curse word that she says on the podcast, she is donating $10 to the Road Recovery Organization. Show Notes: http://www.bigdatabeard.com/bdb-podcast-ep-12/ (http://www.bigdatabeard.com/bdb-podcast-ep-12/)

Cory Minton, Rob Hout and Thomas Henson talk with special guest Anant Chintamaneni about BlueData's unique approach to making Big Data technologies easier to deploy, manage and orchestrate using containers and some other really cool innovations.

Cory Minton, Rob Hout and Thomas Henson talk with special guest Anant Chintamaneni about BlueData's unique approach to making Big Data technologies easier to deploy, manage and orchestrate using containers and some other really cool innovations.  Tune in to see what crumbs of knowledge got trapped in their beards.  Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP11 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP11)

Cory Minton, Rob Hout, and Alex Rodriguez talk with special guest Simeon Yep about Splunk .Conf culture, benefits of the Dell EMC partnership, and our collective passion for racing. Tune in to see what insights they found. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_CAR (http://bit.ly/BDB_CAR)

Cory Minton, Rob Hout, & Kyle Prins chat with special guest Andre Putsch about a special project he and his company, Otto, did around visualizing Splunk data in virtual reality.  The team then explores virtual reality use cases with Splunk and the art...

Recorded at Splunk (http://www.splunk.com/)’s .conf 2019, Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) sits down with Sendur Sellakumar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sendursellakumar), Chief Product Officer at Splunk to dive into all the great product announcements unveiled at the 10th annual .conf (https://conf.splunk.com/).  Every year, Splunk releases multitudes of features into Splunk Enterprise to provide customers with a best in class product but Sendur talks about how this year, Splunk has gone above and beyond the stack that is Splunk Enterprise.  Cory and Sendur unpack some of the major announcements such as Data Fabric Search (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/software/enterprise-data-search-and-analysis.html), Data Stream Processor (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/software/stream-processing.html) and Splunk Enterprise 8.0 (https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.0/ReleaseNotes/MeetSplunk) and get insights into how Splunk is evolving to enable Data to Everything.

Cory Minton, Rob Hout, & Keith Quebodeaux chat with special guest David Fearne about using fitness trackers to find out how happy people are. From London to .Conf, David has been measuring happiness across the world for years. Listen to stories around election analytics, burning the haystack for your data, ETL vs ELT, and more. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_HPY (http://bit.ly/BDB_HPY)

Live from the expo floor at Splunk’s user conference, .Conf 2017. Hosts Cory Minton and Brett Roberts chat with Splunk’s Kelly Kitagawa and Keegan Dubbs about their quest to find love, but to use Splunk to make the process of modern dating more successful with better data analytics driven decisions.  Join a delightful conversation with two incredibly bright women in tech that marry big data goodness with the real world use cases powered by Splunk while simultaneously making Brett wish he actually knew how to Splunk something…mostly his love life. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_LOVE (http://bit.ly/BDB_LOVE)

Live from the expo floor at Splunk’s user conference, .Conf 2017. Hosts Cory Minton, Rob Hout and Kyle Prins chat with Splunk’s Jon Rooney about the history of IT monitoring and how the innovations around IT Service Intelligence using Machine Learn...

From the expo floor at Splunk’s user conference, .Conf 2017. Hosts Cory Minton, Kyle Prins, & Rob Hout chat with Bill Emmett, Splunk’s Director of Solutions Marketing, about the announcements from day one of .Conf 2017, enhancements in Splunk 7.0, the end of meh-trics. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP5 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP5)

Cory Minton, Thomas Henson, Kyle Prins and Rob Hout discuss IoT fails, big data certifications, and other hot topics from the Big Data community. Our guest for this episode is none other than THE Rob Hout. Show notes can be found at https://bigdatabeard.com/bdb-podcast-ep-4 (https://bigdatabeard.com/bdb-podcast-ep-4)

Cory Minton, Thomas Henson and Kyle Prins discuss Ransomware, Splunk and other hot topics from the Big Data community. Our guest for this episode is none other than Kyle Prins. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP3 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP3)

Cory Minton, Kyle Prins, and Thomas Henson discuss Big Data tools, Smart Homes, start-ups and other hot topics from the Big Data community. Our guest for this episode is none other than Thomas Henson. Remember, this is our second episode... comments on how to make this better are welcomed. Show Notes: http://bit.ly/BDB_EP2 (http://bit.ly/BDB_EP2)

- Thomas Henson, Brett Roberts, and Cory Minton discuss hot topics from the Big Data community. Our guest for this episode is none other than Cory Minton. Remember, this is our first episode....comments on how to make this better are welcomed. -

Splunk .conf (https://conf.splunk.com/) is one of our favorite weeks of the year.  After a 14 day #RoadTrip2conf we couldn't think of a better way to start our .conf19 then to sit down with Splunk (http://www.splunk.com)CEO Doug Merritt (https://www.splunk.com/blog/author/dmerritt.html).  Cory and Doug discuss Splunk's vision around Data to Everything (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/enterprise-data-platform.html), Splunk4Good (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/about-us/splunk4good.html), the Splunk community and much more.

Passing through Colorado on our Road Trip 2 .conf19 (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/), we caught up with Andi Mann (https://twitter.com/andimann?lang=en), Chief Technology Advocate for Splunk (https://www.splunk.com/)in the final podcast before Splunk .conf19. (https://conf.splunk.com/) Tune in to hear Andi share innovative stories from his work in DevOps and how organizations use the powerful Splunk platform to mine valuable insights from all the emerging ops categories.  You'll get a preview of Andi's sessions at .conf19 (https://conf.splunk.com/learn/session-catalog.html?search=%22Andi%20Mann%22#/)and hear his passion for this exciting gathering of techies from around the world. Follow our entire adventure and all of our livestreams, podcasts, and live dashboards at https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/ (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/)

On day 11 of the Road Trip 2 .conf (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/), Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton)and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) sit down with Davitt Potter (https://twitter.com/davittjpotter?lang=en), Global Security Practice Lead and Frank Lyles (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-c-lyles-858538101), Splunk Sales Engineer to hear how Arrow (https://www.arrow.com/ecs/)is helping customers manage the complexities and ever the evolving landscape important areas like security and IoT.  At the beautiful Arrow HQ in Denver, Davitt and Frank talk about how Arrow's mission and strategy and the partner ecosystem they are leveraging to help their customers.  Cory and Brett hear about Arrow's partnership with Splunk and the way this partnership is helping customers.

Join us in Dallas, Texas when we catch up with Gregg Woodcock & Noah Woodcock to learn why and how they built Splunxter, their Splunk consulting practice during The Big Data Beard Road Trip to Splunk's .conf 2019! We also chat about Gregg's activity on Splunk Answers as well as the Dallas Splunk User Group he started. We also get a preview of Gregg's new venture, Siemplicity, (http://www.getsiemplicity.com) and how it will utilize Splunk to simplify for SIEM. Be sure to checkout their 2018 .conf talk here. (https://conf.splunk.com/files/2018/recordings/10-must-have-apps-fn1072.mp4) Find out more here: http://bit.ly/RT2C-E8a Follow our entire adventure and all of our livestreams, podcasts, and live dashboards at https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/

Dell.com (http://www.dell.com) is one of the most frequently visited eCommerce sites and is a major contributor to Dell Technologies revenue.  Where even minutes of downtime could cause millions in lost revenue, it's up to the Dell Technologies Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to ensure continuous availability. On day 9 from our #RoadTrip2conf, Kyle (https://twitter.com/KylePrins?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett)sit down with the team charged with ensuring Dell.com is always up and running.  Scott Mosqueda (https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-mosqueda-3680a11/), Sr. Director for SRE and Tanuj Arcot (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tanujarcot), Lead SRE Engineer talk about their responsibility to keep Dell.com up and running and how they turned to Splunk (http://www.splunk.com)to help.  Scott and Tanuj go into how Splunk was introduced into the data center and the evolution of how it's been used.

On the 8th day of our Road Trip 2 .conf (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/), we find ourselves at the Dell Technologies headquarters in Round Rock, TX.  Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton)and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett)sit down with Dell's (http://www.dell.com)new Chief Digital Officer, Jen Felch (https://twitter.com/jenfelch?lang=en) to hear about Dell's vision for digital transformation.  In a organization where digital transformation is a never ending journey, Jen talks about the role that  people, process technology and culture play in driving Dell's strategy and next phases of digital transformation.

Join Cory and Kyle in Nashville, TN as we go under the Fez, into the mind of the Splunk Trust. We chat with Splunk Trust members Duane "DuckFez" Waddle and George Starcher, discussing the history of Splunk Trust, how Duane became "DuckFez", and what really goes into being able to wear the black fez. We also chat about the community surrounding Splunk Answers, icq, and the slack channel.

It's Day 4 of our #RoadTrip2conf!  In our journey so far, we have traveled across 9 states and have had some excellent conversations.  For the podcast today, Kevin Steeprow and Ramon Taylor join Cory and Kyle for round 2.  Kevin and Ramon provide a deeper look into the tools and technologies that customers are using to solve their analytics challenges and further their AI capabilities.

The Big Data Beard team dives into the Data Drivers program and Splunk and talks about role data plays in giving the McLaren F1 and Esports teams a competitive advantage. Joined by Robert Castley, the team talks about how they Splunked the racing data and some of their favorite insights.

We are just outside Washington DC on day 2 of the #RoadTrip2Conf. Join us as Brett and Cory sit down with Navy veteran and Splunk's Public Sector Chief Technical Advisor, Juliana Vida. Juliana shares insights from her career as a naval officer turned technologist. She also provides advice for military personnel wanting to broaden their career in IT. Then we dive in on the power of data and how its helping transform experiences from higher education to military intelligence.

It's day 2 of our #RoadTrip2conf and today we are in Washington D.C meeting with Red River Technology (https://www.redriver.com/).  In today's podcast Cory (https://twitter.com/Cory_Minton?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)and Kyle (https://twitter.com/KylePrins?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)sit down with Kevin Steeprow (https://www.redriver.com/industry-news/podcast-4-for-4-with-kevin-steeprow), VP of Design Engineering and Ramon Thomas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramon-thomas-9b0bb329), Design Engineering Manager.  Kevin and Ramon provide a glimpse into how Red River is helping customers make sense of their data and turn insights in actionable intelligence.

Its finally here! The Big Data Beard team has started its epic Road Trip 2 .conf (https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/) today.  I can think of no better way to kick off our Road Trip series of podcasts than with Splunk's very own Jeff Champagne (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffchampagne).  In the first episode of season 5, Brett (https://twitter.com/bigdatabrett)and Kyle (https://twitter.com/KylePrins)sit down with Jeff and get his thoughts on how customers are deploying Splunk at scale, deployment trends and the evolution of SplunkNext (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/software/splunk-next.html).

Season four of the Big Data Beard podcast was 36 weeks of episodes following the trends, technology, and talented people making AI, IoT, and Big Data a big deal.  In season five, you're in for something different. This is going to be a very short, but crazy busy season of podcasts from the Big Data Beard.  Starting October 7th, you'll see a new podcast post every day, Monday to Friday until October 18th.  Then you'll see the podcasts we record during Splunk's .conf19 publish each Tuesday following the conference.  And don't forget to check out our YouTube channel for our daily "Breakfast With The Beards" during the Road Trip 2 .conf! You can follow along with all our progress on the Road Trip simply by going to www.BigDataBeard.com and click on Road Trip 2 .conf. Join us on this wild adventure as we uncover the incredible stories of Digital Transformation with Splunk and our sponsors, Dell Technologies, VMware, Red River Technologies, Arrow Electronics, and Converging Data!

Data processing today is based on a “Store then Analyze” architecture born in the big-data era.  Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett)sit down with SWIM.AI (http://www.swim.ai) CTO Simon Crosby (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sicrosby) to hear about their recently launched DataFabric software is changing how organizations can stream, analyze and store data.  Announced on September 18th,  DataFabric (https://www.swim.ai/product/datafabric/) software lets businesses interconnect all data-generating assets and provides real-time data classification, reduction, analysis and prediction. Simon talks about how this technology allows for an Analyze, Act and then Store architecture rather than the traditional Store then Analyze architectures that are most common.  Simon also talks about SWIM.AI's partnership with Microsoft Azure and its integration into the Azure suite of Data Analytics and AI tools.

Decoupling compute from storage has been a growing trend in the enterprise as organizations turn towards a data driven business.  Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Erin (https://twitter.com/banksek?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) sit down with Haoyuan (HY) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/haoyuanli1), Founder and CTO of Alluxio (https://www.alluxio.io/) to talk about the importance in data orchestration and how Alluxio provides customers with the ability to bring data closer to the compute across clusters, regions, clouds and countries.  Created in the same lab as Spark and other widely known open-source technologies, HY talks about the inception of Alluxio and the challenges this data orchestration platform solves.  HY also gives his vision for the future of innovations and how Alluxio enables them most effectively. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Decoupling compute from storage has been a growing trend in the enterprise as organizations turn towards a data driven business.  Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Erin (https://twitter.com/banksek?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) sit down with Haoyuan (HY) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/haoyuanli1), Founder and CTO of Alluxio (https://www.alluxio.io/) to talk about the importance in data orchestration and how Alluxio provides customers with the ability to bring data closer to the compute across clusters, regions, clouds and countries.  Created in the same lab as Spark and other widely known open-source technologies, HY talks about the inception of Alluxio and the challenges this data orchestration platform solves.  HY also gives his vision for the future of innovations and how Alluxio enables them most effectively. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

There may be an art to business, but there is science in data science.  In this episode of the Big Data Beard podcast we talk with McKay Curtis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/s-mckay-curtis-1400322a/), Senior Principal, Decision Science at The Walt Disney Company, about tackling the challenges of real world business with scientific experimentation.  Hear best practices on how his team works across this giant enterprise to power incredible experiences with data driven insights. This podcast was recorded at the Disney Data and Analytics Conference (https://disneydataconference.com/) in Orlando, Florida. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us! Links: Changing Science of Machine Learning (http://www.isle.org/~langley/papers/changes.mlj11.pdf) Uncontrolled by Jim Manzi (https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uncontrolled-jim-manzi/1110780464) Stone Roses - Breaking into Heaven (https://music.apple.com/us/album/breaking-into-heaven/1440870988?i=1440871143) I Love You, Now Die (https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/i-love-you-now-die-the-commonwealth-v-michelle-carter)

Disney (https://www.thewaltdisneycompany.com/) is so much more than Mickey Mouse and the amount of data being created across this massive enterprise represents untold value.  Tapping that value in dark data in consistent way is exactly what our guest, Ken Sterling, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ken-sterling-428860) and his Management Science and Integration team are doing inside Disney.  Learn how they've created a consulting practice inside the company and the lessons learned along the way. This podcast was recorded at the Disney Data and Analytics Conference (https://disneydataconference.com/) in Orlando, Florida. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Move over Justin Bieber, National Geographic is coming through!  Thats right, when it comes to Instagram, National Geographic is a pretty big deal.  Their total followers exceed some notable celebrities such as Drake, Rihanna, Khloe Kardashian and that’s right, Justin Bieber. With over 118 Million followers, National Geographic is in fact the biggest brand on Instagram.  Recorded at Disney’s Data and Analytics Conference, Cory and Brett sit down with National Geographic Partner's own Brad Dancer and Mia Vallo from the Insights, Analytics & Data Strategy team.  This team is responsible for overseeing all insights, analytics and business intelligence across National Geographic including social media.  Brad and Mia discuss the role that analytics played in becoming the biggest brand on Instagram and the journey that Nat Geo took to get to where they are today.  The team talks about some of the challenges, key lessons and best practices to driving platform engagement to the next level. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

What do chicken coops and Operational Technology have in common? The Big Data Beard team sits down with Sean Tufts to hear about how Optiv is using the Splunk Edge Hub to secure OT environments. Sean talks about the future of OT Security, the impact of AI and some interesting use cases. The team learns about how Sean used the Splunk Edge Hub to secure his chicken coop and much more. 

On this episode, we unveil the Big Data Beard Road Trip to Splunk .conf 2019, sponsored by Dell Technologies and Red River.  Three beards, two weeks, seven thousand miles in an RV, what could possibly be wrong with that?!? Join the beards for a chat about the epic adventure that they have planned for October crossing the country in an RV outfitted with IoT tech from Dell and Splunking the whole trip.  Learn how you can follow their adventures on a daily morning show, daily podcasts with some of the most interesting people in the world, and all the data from our IoT RV made real by our rolling Splunk data center! Follow our progress at: https://bit.ly/BDB_YTRTC2 (https://bit.ly/BDB_YTRTC2)

Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) get to sit down with Mr. @BigData, Ben Lorica (https://twitter.com/bigdata?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor), Chief Data Scientist at O’Reilly Media to get a glimpse into the future of AI, ML and Data Science.  Ben, who also happens to be the Program Chair for Strata Data, AI Conference and TensorFlowWorld talks about the common challenges he is seeing organizations have in starting and scaling machine learning projects and provides some best practices to take in order not to fall into the same traps as others.  The team also gets to hear about some of the trends, tools and technologies on the bleeding edge that are driving huge advancements in machine and deep learning.

Recorded at Rev2 (https://rev.dominodatalab.com), Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) and Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) get to sit down with Randi Ludwig (https://twitter.com/randirludwig), a Data Scientist at Dell Technologies to hear about how Dell is incorporating Data Science into its operations.  Randi, who works within Dell’s Support and Deployment Services and leads their Data Science Council talks about some of the use cases that she has worked on to help provide technical support agents additional tools to help them predict and resolve customer issues more quickly and effectively.  The team also explores some of the common data science challenges that most organizations are facing in the enterprise and hear about specific things Dell is doing to solve these challenges.

From a DVD company to a streaming company to a producer of some our favorite shows, Netflix (http://www.netflix.com) has been at the forefront of media and entertainment innovation since the late 90’s.  Today, Netflix touts over 148 million subscribers, accounts for nearly 15% of all global streaming traffic AND is the largest content producer with a $12 billion dollar content budget alone. Recorded at Rev2 (https://rev.dominodatalab.com),  Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) get to sit down with Michelle Ufford (https://twitter.com/michelleufford?lang=en), former Head of Data Science Tools at Netflix to better understand how Netflix is using data and data science to create a unique and awesome experience for its subscribers.  Michelle gives us insights into the open, collaborative and experimentation culture of Netflix that has been a major contributor to Netflix’s success.  The team also dives into the different tools and technology that Netflix is using to drive the variety of data analytics use cases.  So press pause on your episode of Stranger Things or Orange is the New Black and check out this exciting episode! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

From a DVD company to a streaming company to a producer of some our favorite shows, Netflix (http://www.netflix.com) has been at the forefront of media and entertainment innovation since the late 90’s.  Today, Netflix touts over 148 million subscribers, accounts for nearly 15% of all global streaming traffic AND is the largest content producer with a $12 billion dollar content budget alone. Recorded at Rev2 (https://rev.dominodatalab.com),  Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) get to sit down with Michelle Ufford (https://twitter.com/michelleufford?lang=en), former Head of Data Science Tools at Netflix to better understand how Netflix is using data and data science to create a unique and awesome experience for its subscribers.  Michelle gives us insights into the open, collaborative and experimentation culture of Netflix that has been a major contributor to Netflix’s success.  The team also dives into the different tools and technology that Netflix is using to drive the variety of data analytics use cases.  So press pause on your episode of Stranger Things or Orange is the New Black and check out this exciting episode! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) sit down Domino Data Lab's Co-Founder and CEO Nick Elprin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-elprin-0b30a038) to hear about how Domino Data Lab (https://www.dominodatalab.com/) is helping customers move from the traditional data driven approach and become more model driven.  Nick talks about the challenges in moving to a model driven approach and details the journey customers are taking to get there. Recorded from Domino Data Lab’s Rev2 (https://rev.dominodatalab.com/) Conference in New York City, Nick gives a brief history of Rev, Domino's yearly data science conference, and explains why this conference is different than the other AI and Data Analytics conferences out there. Lastly, Nick provides unique insights into some of the announcements that Domino Data Lab had at Rev2 and how the Domino Data Lab Platform is positioned to power model driven organizations. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle (https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/andrew-belle/37712246).  Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

From the Google File System that paved the way to Hadoop, to Tensor Processing Units to Kubernetes, Google (http://www.google.com) has been at the forefront of impactful technology innovation that has accelerated data analytics and AI.  Recorded from Domino Data Lab’s Rev2 (https://rev.dominodatalab.com/) Conference in New York City, Cory (https://twitter.com/cory_minton?lang=en) and Brett (https://twitter.com/BigDataBrett) sit down with Rod Bodkin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronbodkin/) to get his perspectives on the state of AI in the enterprise.  Rod, who is a Technical Director in the CTO office for Google Cloud and is focused on Applied AI talks about some of the game changers that have led to the past evolutions in data science and what Google is doing to drive technologies to help further these evolutions in Cloud, AI and Data Science in the future.  The team also dives into some recent examples of how Google is applying Deep Learning in areas like YouTube and Google IO. The 2019 Disney Data & Analytics Conference (https://www.disneydataconference.com/home/) is taking place at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando Floria on August 20th and 21st.  DDAC always has an all-star line up of speakers and this year Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III the “Miracle on the Hudson” Hero Pilot & Shane Battier Vice President, Analytics and Basketball Development for the Miami Heat will be the keynote speakers.  You can use promo code “BigDataBeard-2019” to receive 20% off your conference pass. Click here (https://disneyurl.com/DDACGuestCode) to register with the promo code.

Wrapping up our time at build 2019, Cory and Brett sit down with Mary Bellard, Senior Accessibility Architect for Microsoft. We hear how Mary and her team are using AI to help give people with disabilities equal access to data.  Mary also shares a few of Microsoft's initiatives and products around accessibility; like the Seeing AI mobile app and the InnerVoice project as well. We also hear about the Microsoft AI for Accessibility grant, which helps ideas receive funding to become real products that can affect change with a global reach.