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Episodes
Episode 38: Why AI Won’t Fix Your Data Culture, It Will Only Amplify It (And What To Do About It)
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Noah Bruegmann, President of Data CRT, joins High Signal to discuss how to move your data function from a cost center to a strategic "value cente...
Episode 37: Engineered Intelligence and The Data Science Problem in AI
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jordan Morrow, SVP of Data & AI Transformation at AgileOne and the "Godfather of Data Literacy," joins High Signal to discuss the shift ...
Episode 36: AI and the Judgment Problem in Data Science
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn Woodard (Distinguished Engineer, LinkedIn), Andrés Bucchi (LATAM Airlines), and Jeremy Hermann (CEO & Co-Founder, Delphina) join High Signal...
Episode 35: Beyond Online Experimentation: Generative Software That Optimizes Itself
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Tingley, Head of Windows Experimentation at Microsoft and former Head of the Experimentation Platform Analysis Team at Netflix, talks about why...
Episode 34: Duolingo and the Future of Personalized Education with AI
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Bozena Pajak, VP of Learning at Duolingo, joins High Signal to discuss the evolution of AI at Duolingo: from personalized difficulty models to the cur...
Episode 33: Why Your AI Product Will Be Obsolete in Six Months (And What To Do About It)
27 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Benn Stancil, writer and co-founder of Mode, joins High Signal to ask some uncomfortable questions about the current AI moment. Is now actually a terr...
Episode 32: The Post-Coding Era: What Happens When AI Writes the System?
13 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Nicholas Moy, former Head of Research at Windsurf & now at Google DeepMind, joins High Signal to discuss the shift from "co-driving" to a truly "agen...
Episode 31: Why Data Governance In Your Org is Broken (And How to Fix It)
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cara Dailey, VP and Head of Data Strategy at Early Warning (the parent company of Zelle), joins High Signal to discuss the evolution of high-stakes da...
Episode 30: The AI Paradox: Why Your Data Team’s Workload is About to Explode
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Child, VP of Product, Data Engineering at Snowflake, joins High Signal to deliver a new playbook for data leaders based on his recent MIT report...
Episode 29: Why AI Adoption Fails: A Behavioral Framework for AI Implementation
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Liz Costa of the Behavioral Insights Team returns to High Signal to deliver a critical behavioral science playbook for the AI era focused on human and...
Episode 28: From Context Engineering to AI Agent Harnesses: The New Software Discipline
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lance Martin of LangChain joins High Signal to outline a new playbook for engineering in the AI era, where the ground is constantly shifting under the...
Episode 27: Why Your Data Team Doesn't Have a Seat at the Table (And How to Earn It)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Paras Doshi (Head of Data, Opendoor; former data leader at Amazon) joins High Signal to unpack the playbook for building an indispensable data functio...
Episode 26: Gen AI's True Cost: Why Today's Wins Are Tomorrow's Debts
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Vishnu Ram Venkataraman (Generative AI Executive & Entrepreneur; former AI Leader at Credit Karma and Intuit) joins High Signal to unpack the true cos...
Episode 25: How Data-Driven Growth Redefined a Media Giant
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sergey Fogelson (VP of Data Science, Televisa Univision) joins High Signal to reveal how the world’s largest Spanish-language media company built a ...
Episode 24: Rebuilding an Airline for the 21st Century: LATAM's Data-Driven Transformation
15 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Andrés Bucchi (Chief Data Officer, LATAM Airlines) joins High Signal to unpack how a century-old airline reinvented itself with data and AI—and how...
Episode 23: Why Most AI Agents Fail (and What It Takes to Reach Production)
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Anu Bharadwaj (President, Atlassian) joins High Signal to unpack how humans and AI agents will work together across the enterprise, and how that shift...
Episode 22: Why a Trillion Dollars of Market Cap Is Up for Grabs (and How AI Teams Will Win It)
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tomasz Tunguz (Theory Ventures) joins High Signal to unpack why a trillion dollars of market cap is up for grabs as AI reshapes enterprise software. H...
Episode 21: Why Great Data Still Leads to Bad Decisions (And How to Fix It)
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Amy Edmondson (Harvard Business School) and Mike Luca (Johns Hopkins) join High Signal to unpack what actually drives good decisions in data‑rich or...
Episode 20: Incentives, Accountability, and the Data Leader’s Dilemma
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Daragh Sibley, Chief Algorithms Officer at Literati and former Director of Data Science at Stitch Fix, joins High Signal to unpack how machine-learnin...
Episode 19: Defaults, Decisions, and Dynamic Systems: Behavioral Science Meets AI
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Lis Costa, Chief of Innovation and Partnerships at the Behavioural Insights Team, joins High Signal to explore how behavioral science is reshaping pub...
Episode 18: High-Stakes AI Systems and the Cost of Getting It Wrong
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Sudarshan Seshadri—VP of AI, Data Science, and Foundations Engineering at Alto Pharmacy—joins us to explore what it takes to build high-stakes AI ...
Episode 17: The Incentive Problem in Shipping AI Products — and How to Change It
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roberto Medri, VP of Data Science at Instagram, explains why most experiments fail, how misaligned incentives warp product development, and what it ta...
Episode 16: How Human-Centered AI Actually Gets Built
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Fei-Fei Li—co-director of Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute and one of the most respected voices in the field—reflects on AI’s evolution ...
Episode 15: Why Good Metrics Still Lead to Bad Decisions — and How to Fix It
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eoin O'Mahony—data science partner at Lightspeed, former Uber science lead, and one of the early architects of the system that kept NYC’s Citi Bik...
Episode 14: Why Most Companies Aren’t Actually AI Ready (and What to Do About It)
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Barr Moses—co-founder and CEO of Monte Carlo—thinks we’re headed for an AI reckoning. Companies are building fast, but most are still managing d...
Episode 13: The End of Programming As We Know It
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tim O’Reilly—founder of O’Reilly Media and one of the most influential voices in tech—argues we’re not witnessing the end of programming, bu...
Episode 12: Your Machine Learning Solves The Wrong Problem
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stefan Wager—Professor at Stanford and expert on causal machine learning—has worked with leading tech companies including Dropbox, Facebook, Googl...
Episode 11: What Comes After Code? The Role of Engineers in an AI-Driven Future
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Peter Wang—Chief AI Officer at Anaconda and a driving force behind PyData—challenges conventional thinking about AI’s role in software developme...
Episode 10: AI Won't Save You But Data Intelligence Will
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ari Kaplan—Global Head of Evangelism at Databricks and a pioneer in sports analytics—explains why businesses fixated on AI often overlook the real...
Episode 9: Why 90% of Data Science Fails—And How to Fix It -- With Eric Colson
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Signal, Eric Colson—former Chief Algorithms Officer at Stitch Fix and VP of Data Science and Machine Learning at Netflix—b...
Episode 8: From Zero to Scale: Lessons from Airbnb and Beyond
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Signal, Elena Grewal—former Head of Data Science at Airbnb, political consultant, professor at Yale, and ice cream shop owne...
Episode 7: What Lies Beyond Machine Learning and AI: Decision Systems and the Future of Data Teams
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Signal, Chris Wiggins—Chief Data Scientist at The New York Times, Professor at Columbia University, and co-author of How Dat...
Episode 6: What Happens to Data Science in the Age of AI?
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Signal, Hilary Mason—renowned data scientist, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Hidden Door—shares her unique insights into ...
Episode 5: The Hard Truth About Building AI Systems and What Most Leaders Miss About AI
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of High Signal, Gabriel Weintraub (the Amman Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Busi...
Episode 4: How to Build an Experimentation Machine and Where Most Go Wrong
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Ramesh Johari (Stanford, Uber, Airbnb, and more) explores the art and science of online experimentation, especially in the context of marketplaces and...
Episode 3: Data Science Meets Management: Teamwork, Experimentation, and Decision-Making
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chiara Farronato (Harvard Business School) discusses how digital platforms like Airbnb and Uber have transformed industries. She explores the challeng...
Episode 2: Fooling Yourself Less: The Art of Statistical Thinking in AI
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Hugo Bowne-Anderson welcomes Andrew Gelman, professor at Columbia University, to discuss the practical side of statistics and data science. They explo...
Episode 1: The Next Evolution of AI: Markets, Uncertainty, and Engineering Intelligence at Scale
19 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley) on the future of machine learning as it extends to a planetary scale in "The Next Evolution of AI: Markets, Uncertainty, ...