Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Bridgestone's Chief Data Officer on leading with trust and data

In this episode, Johnathan Tate, Chief Data Officer at Bridgestone Americas, shares how he navigates the critical first 90 days in a new role, builds trust with executives, and positions data as a strategic growth driver. Whether you’re currently in a CDO seat or working toward one, Tate’s playbook offers a blueprint for how to accelerate impact, align with business needs, and lead through AI-fueled transformation.

Modernizing legacy data architectures for the AI era with CarGurus

In this episode, Parag Shah — data leader and transformation expert with experience at Rocket Software and CarGurus — shares how forward-thinking enterprises are modernizing their data infrastructure with unified analytics platforms, best-in-class vendors like Fivetran and Snowflake, and extensible tools like the Fivetran Connector SDK.

Windsurf: Using AI to build a custom connector with Fivetran's Connector SDK

This tutorial demonstrates how to build a Fivetran Connector SDK custom connector using Windsurf. The demo showcases the end-to-end process of creating, testing, and deploying a connector that ingests Animal Drug Adverse Events (ADAE) problem reports from the openFDA API.