Hello,
I am Jocelyn
I focus on data, AI, and enterprise software, advising CEOs, CDOs, CISOs, and CPOs to create trusted data and AI assets. My specialty is taking platforms and companies from idea to adoption, bringing them from whiteboard to reality.
As a thought leader and educator, I contribute to both professional and academic circles. I host influential technology podcasts and teach at American University Kogod School, Georgetown McDonough School, and General Assembly.
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Data and AI Philosophical moment....
"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly"
Podcasts
Navigating the Tech Ladder: Strategies for Scaling Your Startup
Jocelyn Houle discusses strategies for scaling and evolving technology in startups with our guest Pankaj Dhingra, CTO at Lighthouse Global.
Jocelyn Houle dives deep into the world of visual effects and the entertainment industry with Hanno Basse, CTO at Digital Domain. Hanno shares insights into the evolving landscape of content creation, the role of AI in shaping realistic digital characters, and the challenges and opportunities in the era of streaming services.
ocelyn Houle interviews Dara Meath, SVP & Chief Technology Officer of Build A Bear, a company renowned for its unique and personalized stuffed animal experiences.
Catch Jocelyn Houle, Host at BetterTech in coversation with Andrei Rebrov, CTO and co-founder of Scentbird, to explore the journey of Scentbird in the e-commerce landscape over the past decade.
Podcasts
Monolithic relational databases are the traditional foundation of financial core ledger systems. Nevertheless, the process of building and operating mission-critical ledgers to track and reconcile
Codat seeks to create a single flow and view for the bus. Small businesses, many accounting, banking, and commerce systems. That goal requires specialized approaches to authorization, data normalization, and availability.
Today we are interviewing architect and author Ole Olesen-Bagneux, who is finishing his first O’Reilly published book called Enterprise Data Catalogs.
Mingsheng Hong, is CEO and co-founder (along with Zheng Shao) of Bluesky. He is a thought leader for machine learning and has built data infrastructure to support some of the world’s most challenging workloads.
Today we are interviewing Krishna Gade about trusting AI, the technical challenges of ML monitoring and the real world problem statements beyond compliance that explainability can address.
Today, Zeashan Pappa, a Databricks Product Specialist for the Unity Catalog, joins us to discuss how catalogs can help companies capture the full value of their data.
Podcasts
Data observability is the idea of creating a unified view of all the data so you can head off problems early, identify outages, and address any conflicts in real time. Today we’re interviewing Streamdal’s founders Ustin Zarubin and Dan Selans.
Lee Edwards is a Partner at Root Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups that are focused on solving hard engineering problems.
Today, we are interviewing Matt Turck of First Mark Capital, who is in it for the long haul and whose portfolio companies include Dataiku, Crossbeam, Ada, Cockroach Labs, Clickhouse and more.
Enabling data engineers to create data pipelines easily while delivering data streams that meet low-latency, production requirements is a difficult balancing act. David Yaffe and Johnny Gaettinger join us today to share how they have created that balance at Estuary.
Podcasts
Today we are interviewing Alex Ratner, one of the founders of Snorkel AI. Snorkel AI evolved from research Alex led as part of his Ph.D. research at Stanford, focused on programmatic data labeling to enable much faster and more accurate ML training and retraining.
Talks and Presos
The “New Era of AI – Transforming Data into ROI” was the timely theme of the third annual Women Data Leaders’ Global Summit co-hosted by CDO Magazine and the Enterprise Data Management Council on November 8-9.
This session will explore innovative new ways to analyze all of the context around your data, enabling organizations to readily work across organizational boundaries to efficiently address their data obligations.
Experts discuss cyber collaboration among vendors, the enterprise and community, creating a system of record for cybersecurity, and cyber collaboration within DevSecOps.
Tim Hinrichs, Styra co-founder and CTO and OPA co-founder, Torin Sandall who pioneered Policy as Code with the development of Open Policy Agent before donating it to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF).
Professor led discussion of the utility of smaller data in the context of big data.
Our panel of tech and product experts will guide you through the intricacies of AI integration, from initial design to technical implementation and roadmapping. Gain invaluable insights into leveraging AI to enhance product functionality, user experience, and scalability.
Articles
Advice to founders on product design, investor pitches and moats for GenAi Startups
Early review of LLMs and risks, barriers to adoption for enterprise.
Opinion piece on the need for automated data protection
Part marketing of couse - but built on editorial content.
Interview: Medical device and software maker Zoll Medical Corp. has disclosed that it has suffered a data breach that resulted in the possible theft of records belonging to about a million people.
Research
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Working on it.....
