PRIVATE FORUM PODCASTS
ACAN private forums connect a sponsoring vendor with a community of experts, fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing. These private forums focus on major advances and technological innovations in the field of data, analytics and artificial intelligence. ACAN podcasts are produced following each private forum. These podcasts highlight key insights and provide selected relevant and helpful commentary from the attending analysts and consultants.
In this podcast, Ron Powell talks with Justin Borgman, CEO and co-founder of Starburst, about how the company is redefining data access in the AI era. Justin shares how Starburst bridges the gap between raw enterprise data and AI insights—enabling both technical and non-technical users to drive decisions with governed, scalable, and real-time access. From natural language querying to simplifying RAG workflows with Iceberg and vector search, Starburst is building the open, trusted data foundation AI needs.
Listen now to learn how Starburst is making enterprise AI actionable.
This podcast is based on information shared during ACAN’s private forum with Starburst and ACAN’s analysts and consultants.
This podcast features Qrvey CTO David Abramson,who drives Qrvey’s technology direction, focusing on helping SaaS providers expand their products and create value from their data with embedded analytics, automation, and self-service data collection. In this podcast, you will hear David talk about Qrvey’s hyper-focus on the SaaS product use case for analytics. David will also describe how SaaS companies are using Qrvey to create richer analytics experiences, bring them to market faster, lower development costs and develop new revenue streams.
This podcast is based on information shared during ACAN’s private forum with Qrvey and ACAN’s analysts and consultants.
This podcast features Rick Hall, CEO of Coginiti. Rick began his career as a consultant, built and sold G4Analytics as a vertical data platform company, ran a large data product team for Nielsen, and was CTO at Acosta before founding Coginiti. Rick provides insight into the benefits of their AI-enabled collaborative data operations platform that empowers teams to build, publish and consume trusted data products.
This podcast is based on information shared during ACAN’s private forum with Coginiti and ACAN’s analysts and consultants.
This podcast features Mark Shainman, principal product marketing manager at Dremio. Mark has a wealth of experience working with analytics, data warehousing, big data, data lakes, cloud analytics, and now the Unified Lakehouse platform for self-service analytics. You will hear Mark detail the capabilities of Dremio’s next-generation lakehouse, their innovative query acceleration technology called Reflections, and how global organizations are achieving significant TCO savings with Dremio.
This podcast is based on information shared during ACAN’s private forum with Dremio and ACAN’s analysts and consultants.
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This podcast features Jonathan Agee, the co-founder and CEO of Validatar. He is an accomplished data and analytics leader with a passion for data-driven innovation and a strong belief in the power of automation to unlock new business models and generate value. Jonathan shares the multitude of benefits that can be achieved by future-proofing your data.
This podcast is based on information shared during ACAN’s private forum with Validatar and ACAN’s analysts and consultants.