LIVE from Current NOLA: Scaling Streaming in the AI Era | Life Is But A Stream

From the heart of the expo hall at Current NOLA, this special episode drops you into the conversations, energy, and the breakthroughs as they happened. Host, Joseph Morais, and co-host, Adi Polak talk with data streaming leaders and community voices to unpack how teams are using Apache Kafka and Apache Flink to power low-latency, AI-ready applications—covering patterns from usage-based billing and hybrid operations to cost efficiency and streaming governance. You’ll also hear how shift-left processing and governance make AI-ready data possible at scale.

StartupSpot: ThoughtSpot Agentic Analytics at Startup Prices

In the world of early-stage startups, the real enemies aren’t competitors. It’s time, focus, and credibility. You’re racing to ship fast, protect runway, and look enterprise-ready long before you actually are. And in 2025, every serious buyer expects your product to have native, AI-powered analytics built in. Not basic dashboards, but a polished, conversational, ask-anything, data experience that delivers trusted answers.

Ep 49 | Designing an "AI-Anywhere" Culture with Teddra Burgess

AI is transforming not only the way we work, but what we value as work. Success in this new era won’t come from chasing efficiency alone, but from cultivating cultures where AI empowers people, strengthens purpose, and drives innovation with trust at the center. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Teddra Burgess, founder of Chasing Outcomes, joins host Paul Muller to explore how AI is reshaping not just work, but what we value about work. Teddra lays out a practical path to building an “AI-anywhere” culture: start with outcomes (not tools), empower every function (not just IT), and lead with trust, purpose, and adaptability.