The Digital Agenda: Past Present and Future of the Datawarehouse

In this episode 2 of TDA podcast, Veridic Solutions CDO Piyush Malik engages Bill Inmon, popularly known as the “Father of data warehousing” in a fireside chat where they cover the past, present and future of datawarehouse along with anecdotes from their respective career journeys.

🎯Bill Inmon is perhaps world’s first data architect. He is also known widely as the “Father of Datawarehousing concept and defines a data warehouse as a subject-orientated, integrated, time variant, non-volatile collection of data in support of management's decision-making process.


🎯 Continuing in his 2023  series of  conversations with data leaders to move #TheDigitalAgenda forward, Piyush recently caught up with Bill Inmon and they got talking about:

✅Early days of data warehousing, conferences and speaking circuits

✅His experience publishing 60+ books and 2000 publications

✅Vendor v/s Industry bodies in Data leadership &  taking the agenda forward

✅Usefulness of Data Lakes and Data Lakehouse

✅Modern data stack, decentralization and data mesh and what’s in store in the era of ChatGPT


🎯Key takeaways…

🔑 Data Leaders can be opinionated but surely they are humble.

🔑 C-suite awareness of value from data is at an unprecedented level

🔑It's an exciting time to be in the data industry with modernization of data infrastructure through cloud, AI and emerging technologies 

 ▶️You can give this podcast a listen or see the video on youtube and there is a transcript in the accompanying blog too here.

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Piyush Malik