Data Council Courses

Text-to-SQL Is Not the Answer: How to Effectively Use AI for Analytics

Explore why AI complements rather than replaces BI practices in analytics workflows, with insights on effectively integrating natural language interfaces alongside traditional dashboards.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Analytics and the Dark Side of the Analytics Development Lifecycle

Explore the unintended consequences of the Analytics Development Lifecycle, including stakeholder marginalization and bottlenecks, and discover solutions for restoring data access while maintaining governance standards.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Governance is NOT the Governance of Data!

Explore the misconception that data governance equals governing data. Oriol Mirosa shares scalable practices for structuring and extracting value from data, bridging the gap between data producers and consumers in organizations of all sizes.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Bridging AI Implementation Gap: Strategies for Embedding Data Professionals with Business Units

Discover effective strategies for embedding data teams within business units to bridge the AI implementation gap, creating virtuous cycles where data professionals gain domain expertise while business teams improve data literacy.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

No More BS: How and When to Really Leverage AI

Discover practical frameworks for AI implementation assessment, learning when to choose AI versus simpler methods. Gain data-driven perspectives on building quality foundations and governance before pursuing AI solutions.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

AI is Going to Break Your Data Platform - Are You Ready?

Discover how AI's unpredictable workloads will disrupt traditional data platforms, requiring new approaches to handle chaotic query patterns, tighter latency constraints, and evolving optimization strategies.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

TapeAgents: A Powerful Framework for Building and Optimizing AI Agents

Discover TapeAgents, a framework for AI agent development featuring "tape" recording capabilities that capture agent actions, thoughts, and observations, enabling unprecedented transparency and data-driven optimization for robust real-world applications.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Everything Everywhere All at Once - Object Store Native

Discover how e6data's lakehouse compute engine delivers 10x faster SQL analytics at lower costs through K8s native architecture and object-store-native approaches for sub-second latencies under heavy concurrency.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Scaling GenAI and Agentic Workflows for Practical Solutions with Zerve

Discover how enterprises like Canal+ and NASA scale Generative AI through Zerve's distributed computing engine, transforming experimental AI into cost-efficient business solutions while streamlining development and reducing infrastructure costs.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building High-Impact Data Teams in an AI-Driven World

Discover strategies for structuring data teams across different organizational models, with insights on how reporting relationships shape priorities, influence, and success metrics in today's AI-driven landscape.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Data Mesh - Buzzword or the Right Guide Towards a Tactical Recipe to Improve Event Data Quality?

Explore how enterprises can guarantee event data quality upstream through Data Mesh principles, with insights from Avo's platform and real-world examples from companies like Moody's, Fender, and IKEA.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Model is Not the Product - Challenges in Building Successful AI Applications

Discover why powerful foundation models don't guarantee successful AI products. Explore the engineering, UX, and business considerations that bridge the gap between model capabilities and solving real user problems.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Tower's Elegant 2-Layer Data Stack for Harmonious Compute Engines

Discover Tower's elegant 2-layer data stack where compute engines coexist harmoniously, running Python frameworks from ETL to inference on scalable single-node compute with Iceberg open storage.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Unified Search Platform: Simplifying the Modern Search Stack - AI Launchpad 2025

Discover how TopK's unified search platform simplifies the modern search stack into a single API, combining vector databases with production-ready search solutions that integrate dense/sparse vector, text, and faceted retrieval with custom scoring.

• YouTube
• 12 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NAO: AI Code Editor for Streamlining Data Team Workflows

Discover NAO, an AI code editor built for data teams that unifies fragmented analytics engineering workflows across multiple tools, reducing context switching and enhancing productivity for data professionals.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video