Ep 70 | AI Risk & Cybersecurity: Theresa Payton on the New Threat Landscape

As AI adoption accelerates, so do the risks that come with it. So what happens when AI puts cyberattack capabilities into everyone’s hands? In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller is joined by Theresa Payton to break down the new reality of AI-powered threats. Drawing on decades of experience as the first female White House CIO, CEO of Fortalice Solutions, and the author of four books on privacy and big data, Theresa explains why AI has fundamentally changed the rules of cybersecurity and why most organizations are still playing catch-up.

Stop the AI Iceberg | Secure AI Using Ontologies and Semantic Layers

Don’t let the "AI iceberg" sink your IP Most leaders only focus on the flashy models at the surface, but the real value—and the risk—is what’s underneath. Tony Seale and Jessica Talisman reveal why turning AI back onto your own data infrastructure to build connected ontologies is the key to security. This semantic foundation is the core of Agentic Analytics, ensuring your insights are grounded in your specific business logic rather than generic LLM guesses.

Ontology: The Secret to Semantic Layers | The Data & AI Chief Podcast

Is your AI-driven "autonomous enterprise" a reality or a peak-of-inflated-expectations dream? Most organizations rush toward the end state of AI agents without doing the foundational work of defining how their data actually relates through a robust ontology. In this episode of The Data & AI Chief, we sit down with Tony Seale, Founder of The Knowledge Graph Guys, and Jessica Talisman, CEO and Founder of The Ontology Pipeline. We break down why the "lost art" of data modeling and the development of semantic layers are the secret weapons for scaling Agentic Analytics.

How Semantic Layers and Ontologies Create Trusted AI

Learn why an organization’s ontology, a structured framework for how a business defines, connects, and makes sense of its data and knowledge, is the most valuable and most overlooked asset in any AI strategy. Jessica Talisman, CEO and Founder of The Ontology Pipeline, and Tony Seale, Founder of The Knowledge Graph Guys, break down what it actually takes to build trusted AI, covering everything from semantic layers and knowledge graphs to why provenance is non-negotiable.

Top Cloud Data Transformation Solutions With Strong Governance Controls

When data and analytics leaders evaluate cloud data transformation platforms, the conversation usually starts with connectivity, how many source connectors does it have, does it support our data warehouse, can it handle our data volumes. Governance controls tend to come up later, often after a compliance incident, an audit finding, or a data quality failure that traces back to a pipeline no one could fully explain.

The Best Data Transformation Software for Healthcare Analytics

Choosing data transformation software for healthcare analytics is categorically different from choosing it for any other industry. The evaluation criteria that matter most in a retail or SaaS context, such as connector breadth, transformation speed, and pricing tier, are necessary but insufficient in healthcare. Every tool on your shortlist needs to answer a harder set of questions first: Can it sign a Business Associate Agreement? Does it encrypt PHI at every layer of the pipeline, not just at rest?

How to Diagnose and Prevent HIPAA Compliance Failures in Healthcare Data Transformation

Most healthcare data compliance failures do not start with a breach. They start with a pipeline. A transformation job that ran without audit logging. A PHI masking step that failed silently on a subset of records. A patient identity matching operation that merged two records that should not have been merged. An ETL pipeline that was modified to add a new data source without anyone assessing the HIPAA implications of that change.