Data-Driven Podcast · 2026-03-25 · 32 min
What does enterprise AI actually need to succeed: more data access or better context? In this episode of the Data-Driven Podcast, AtScale CTO Dave Mariani sits down with Coginiti CTO Matthew Mullins to unpack one of the most important debates in modern data architecture: access vs. understanding. The conversation explores the rise of the semantic layer, the role of open semantics, and why initiatives like the Open Semantic Interchange (OSI) matter for the future of AI and analytics. Matthew shares his journey from cognitive science and formal semantics into enterprise data, and how those foundations are becoming critical again in the age of AI.
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