CDO Matters Podcast · 2026-06-12 · 52 min
Every organization is told they need context for AI to work. Almost none of them know where to start. The answer has been sitting in their metadata all along - but most CDOs haven't connected those dots yet. In this episode: Why your data catalog is already a source of context - and how to expose it to agentic workflows today The semantic layer problem: definitions living in BI tools instead of governed catalogs, and why that creates risk Why engineers and library scientists think about language completely differently - and why that gap matters for AI Malcolm's argument that CDOs are in a unique position to make a "land grab" on unstructured data before someone else does The takeaway: "CDOs are in a unique position to make a land grab: the ontologists, the taxonomists, the library scientists are all over the organization without one single leader. That's your moment." - Malcolm Hawker About the host + guest: Malcolm Hawker is a former Gartner analyst, Chief Data Officer at Profisee, Editor-in-Chief of CDO Matters, and host of the CDO Matters Podcast.
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