How can today’s Chief Data Officers help their organizations become more data-driven? Join former Gartner analyst Malcolm Hawker as he interviews on thought leaders on data fabrics, blockchain and more — and learns why they matter to today’s CDOs. If you want to dig deep into the CDO Matters that are top-of-mind for today’s Chief Data Officers, this show is for you.
Latest episodes
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51 min
Why Data Governance and Modeling Need a First-Principles Rebuild | CDO Matters Ep. 108
Agents are about to hit data systems and governance frameworks at a volume, velocity, and variety they were never designed for. Bolting AI onto the old model may turn out to be the…
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26 min
Why Every AI Decision Still Needs a Human's Name | CDO Matters Ep. 107
Companies are handing agents real decision-making authority. Almost none of them have figured out who's accountable when the agent gets it wrong.📌 In this episode:Why "the business…
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52 min
Why Data Teams Are a Tax on the Business | CDO Matters Ep. 106
Most data teams think they're too busy to slow down. The real problem is they're too busy taking orders to ever be seen as anything but a cost center.📌 In this episode:The real dif…
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48 min
The Business Already Gets Governance — Data Leaders Just Aren't Listening | CDO Matters Ep. 105
Executives at the World Economic Forum in Davos are asking for data governance but the data profession wasn't in the room to answer. The gap isn't the business's understanding. It'…
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53 min
Making Data AI-Ready with Knowledge Graphs | CDO Matters REPLAY
Every CDO is being told to make their data AI-ready. What that actually requires is a harder conversation — and this episode gets into it.📌 In this episode:Why vector embeddings al…
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39 min
Data as a Product | CDO Matters REPLAY
Most CDOs talk about data products. Very few approach them the way a product manager would starting with customer need, validating demand, and building only what people will actual…
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55 min
A State Court Ruling Just Changed the Game — Are CDOs Ready? | CDO Matters REPLAY
A Delaware state court ruling rewrote the rules on corporate liability and CDOs are directly in the crosshairs. This is our most-played episode ever, and if you haven't heard it, n…
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34 min
Why 90% of Your Data Isn't AI-Ready | CDO Matters REPLAY
Most CDOs are still measuring AI readiness with a BI-readiness checklist and it's costing them. 80 to 90 percent of enterprise data is unstructured, sitting outside every governanc…
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49 min
The AI Portfolio Dilemma: Why Most Companies Can't Account for What They're Spending | CDO Matters Ep 104
Most organizations are committing serious capital to AI and can't answer a basic question: how much are we actually spending, and on what? That accountability gap is about to close…
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52 min
The Metadata Problem Nobody Talks About: Context, Catalogs, and the CDO's Next Land Grab | CDO Matters Ep. 103
Every organization is told they need context for AI to work. Almost none of them know where to start. The answer has been sitting in their metadata all along — but most CDOs haven'…
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40 min
The Data Sprawl Dilemma: Centralize, Replicate, or Virtualize? | CDO Matters Ep. 102
Most organizations default to replicating data: copying it from source systems into warehouses and lakes so their tools can reach it. Anu Jain, founder and CEO of Nexus One, thinks…
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58 min
The State of the Data Nation: Why Your Roadmap Is Already Behind | CDO Matters Ep. 101
The data and AI landscape shifted more in the last six months than in the three years prior and most data teams are still operating off roadmaps that predate it. Malcolm Hawker goe…
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55 min
100 Episodes In: What the Data Industry Got Wrong (And Still Won't Admit) | CDO Matter Ep. 100
For a hundred episodes, the data world has been told data is the center of the universe. It isn't — and three of the most credible voices in the industry are finally saying so out…
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55 min
100 Episodes In: What the Data Industry Got Wrong (And Still Won't Admit) | CDO Matters Ep. 100
For a hundred episodes, the data world has been told data is the center of the universe. It isn't — and three of the most credible voices in the industry are finally saying so out…
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49 min
The Data Scientist's Dilemma: Why Good Models Die Before They Ship | CDO Matters Ep. 99
Data science teams are delivering results — so why do so many projects never make it to production? Malcolm Hawker and Kristen Kehrer, founder of Data Moves Me and former data scie…
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49 min
The New Rules for Data Leadership | CDO Matters Ep. 98
The market for data leaders is growing - but the CDO role itself may be under pressure. In this episode, Malcolm Hawker and Kyle Winterbottom explore why organizations are question…
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52 min
AI Is Changing Marketing: What Every CDO and CMO Needs to Know About Data | CDO Matters Ep. 97
Episode OverviewIn this episode of CDO Matters, Malcolm Hawker sits down with Yext Chief Data Officer Christian Ward to explore how AI is fundamentally reshaping the relationship b…
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48 min
The Data Strategy Canvas | CDO Matters Ep. 96
Episode OverviewIn this episode of CDO Matters, host Malcolm Hawker speaks with Samir Sharma about the idea behind the Data Strategy Canvas and how organizations can bring more str…
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45 min
Product Thinking, Platform Strategy, and the Future of AI Governance | CDO Matters Ep. 95
Episode OverviewIn this episode of the CDO Matters podcast, I sit down with Microsoft’s Karthik Ravindran to unpack what it really means to be “AI-ready” in 2026, and why most orga…
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52 min
Rethinking Data Governance for AI | CDO Matters Ep. 94
Episode OverviewIn this episode of CDO Matters, Malcolm Hawker sits down with Sarah Levy, the CEO of Euno, to unpack why traditional data governance is collapsing under the weight…