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For most enterprises, autonomous AI agents still feel like a risk waiting to happen. Andi Gutmans, Vice President and General Manager for Data Cloud at Google, joins Cindi Howson to explain what it takes to build the data foundation that trustworthy agentic AI depends on. He breaks down how organizations can finally activate the 90 percent of enterprise data that's unstructured, why tokenmaxxing is the wrong way to measure AI value, and how open standards like Apache Iceberg are helping leaders tear down fragmented, multi-cloud data silos and unify data across clouds.

Behavior change is the biggest hurdle in AI adoption. AI only creates value when people make it part of their everyday work. In this episode of The AI Forecast, Paul Muller sits down with Varun Puri, CEO and co-founder of Yoodli, to discuss why successful AI adoption starts with changing how people work. Drawing on his experience at Google, Google X, and as the founder of an AI startup, Varun shares practical lessons on embedding AI into everyday workflows and building habits that stick.

Most Kafka war rooms don't start at 2am in production. They start weeks earlier, when an engineer couldn’t explore a topic, see partition distribution, a quota or a config and shipped hoping for the best. That's the Platform Engineering waiting room: developers building apps waiting in a queue of tickets, with no self-service visibility into Kafka. That release triggers a P1 later.

New AI tools are coming out faster than ever, and your employees are working hard to stay at the cutting edge of new technology. Where does governance come into play? Explore how to govern AI without slowing down innovation in the latest episode of The AI Forecast, sponsored by Cloudera.