Don't Panic! It's Just Data · 2026-04-20 · 27 min
Podcast: Don’t Panic It’s Just Data! Guest: Adrian Estala, VP, Field Chief Data & AI Officer, Starburst Host: Doug Laney, Research & Advisory Fellow at BARC and Author of Infonomics & Data Juice After years of heavy investment in data lakes and warehouses, many enterprises still face a frustrating reality. Insights continue to remain slow, fragmented, and hard to trust. In the recent episode of the Don’t Panic It’s Just Data podcast , host Doug Laney, Research & Advisory Fellow at BARC and Author of Infonomics & Data Juice, is joined by Adrian Estala, VP, Field Chief Data & AI Officer at Starburst . They sat down to discuss why more enterprises are adopting a new architectural approach, the business semantic layer, to speed up AI adoption . What’s the Core Issue in AI Data Enterprise? The core issue, Estala argues , is not a lack of infrastructure but an inconsistency between how data is organised and how enterprises think. “No one’s really there yet,” he says, reflecting on a decade of backend optimisation.
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