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Greek-American based in Spain where I run a global data/AI business. International keynote speaker, award-winning educator and the Founder of Dare to Data, on a mission to help individuals and corporations take the next step in their data and AI journey. After building a successful career in Big Tech companies such as Google and Waze, I shifted my focus to scaling impact through education, training and product evangelism. Today, I'm trusted by an extensive client list of Fortune 500 and Big Tech organizations. Outside of my corporate work, I hold an Adjunct Faculty position at several universities where I lecture and lead programs on data and AI for business. I also serve as an instructor for LinkedIn Learning and host a podcast for EM360. I am bilingual (English-Spanish) and offer collaborations in both languages.

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I am a regular international speaker supporting all things data and AI, as well as women in STEM. Some of my latest involvements include:
● Guest appearances on more than 30 podcasts such as SuperDataScience, DataFramed, Alter Everything, Ken's Nearest Neighbors, How to Get An Analytics Job, Driven by Data, Humans of Data Science, Present Beyond Measure, LightsOnData & more.
● Interview features, guest lecturer, panelist and event host!
● Keynote speeches delivered regularly since 2018 across 20+ countries in-person, virtually spanning the globe, with audiences surpassing 3,000+. A few of my latest involvements include:
→ → Fund Summit 2025 in Luxembourg LU, "Regulating the Machine: How AI is Forcing a Global Rethink on Ethics & Control"
→ → National Analytics Summit 2025 in Dublin IE, "When Data Meets Design"
→ → CNG Global Pulp Conference 2025 in Istanbul TR, "Igniting Transformation with AI"
→ → QSP Summit 2024 in Porto PT, "Navigating Tomorrow in a Data-Driven, AI-First World"
→ → Nitto ATP Finals Customer Summit 2024 in Turin IT, "Unleashing AI's Power in Modern Manufacturing"
→ → Data Universe 2024 in NYC US, "When Data Meets Design"

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For further opportunities (podcasts, events, etc.) in my interested fields, feel free to contact me directly.

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my employers/partners/clients.

Christina Stathopoulos, MSc

I see too many data and AI teams still fighting fires AFTER issues surface. We can no longer rely on reactive monitoring of our tech systems, it's just not gonna cut it anymore.

For the longest time, we've focused on simply 'observing' our data and IT systems, but what would it take to truly 'understand' them and act?

There is such a huge opportunity here for proactive observability. If you're new to the term or already exploring it but want to learn more, I got you!

I recently had the pleasure of hosting a podcast with Nic Benders, Chief Technical Strategist at New Relic, to talk about how we shift from basic monitoring to anticipatory observability and stronger understanding of complex systems. Nic comes with vast knowledge in this space, I'll share the episode link in comments.

Which finally brings me to the point of this post. The New Relic Advance conference has been announced and I've just signed up! 🤩

This is the perfect opportunity to learn from experts about the latest tools and approaches for observability that help teams move beyond just reacting.

RSVP here to save your spot (free to attend)! https://lnkd.in/eXZzgRCX

You can expect to learn more on…
✓ Clear revenue impact from observability
✓ Full stack insights across code, infra and AI
✓ Faster recovery with automated root cause analysis
✓ Confident AI scaling with teams focused on innovation

See you there February 25th! #data #dataobservability #artificialintelligence #newrelic #datagovernance

💚 Shout out to my partner New Relic, very much looking forward to the event.

Data & AI Evangelist | Global Keynote Speaker & Award-Winning Educator | Making data & AI work for everyone, through a responsible lens! | Join my #bookaweekchallenge 📚

I'm Ravit Jain — the Founder & Host of The Ravit Show, a platform dedicated to meaningful conversations with the people shaping the future of Data and AI.

What started as a passion for learning from industry leaders has grown into a global media platform that reaches millions. Today, I spend my time interviewing experts, covering major tech events, and working closely with companies to help them share their stories in a way that truly connects with the community.

Over the past few years, I’ve had the chance to:

Host 550+ interviews with data and AI leaders, founders, engineers, and product thinkers

Collaborate with 200+ companies — from fast-moving startups to nearly every major tech giant

Cover 100+ conferences across the world, sharing real-time insights and backstage conversations

Support 200+ partner campaigns to amplify their product launches, webinars, reports, and community efforts

My focus is always on creating content that is useful, grounded, and easy to understand — no hype, just real value. Whether it's discussing GenAI, data quality, modern architecture, or what it takes to scale AI responsibly, my goal is to keep the conversation practical and community-first.

If you’re building in this space or want to share what you’re working on, I’d love to connect and learn more.

You can reach out to me at Ravitjain0909@gmail.com for The Ravit Show queries :)

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Most AI analytics platforms assume one thing. Your data lives in one place. Kapil Chhabra, Co-Founder and CPO at WisdomAI on The Ravit Show challenged that assumption immediately. Enterprises are distributed. Their data is fragmented across clouds, warehouses, operational systems, and business units. Forcing everything into a single layer before AI can work is slow and expensive.

That is why WisdomAI introduced Federated Agentic Intelligence.

Instead of centralizing first and analyzing later, the system works across distributed sources. It assembles context at runtime. We spent time on what they call the Enterprise Context Layer. Without context, AI gives generic answers. With context, AI understands how metrics connect, what definitions mean, and how governance rules apply.

Kapil was clear that federation is not a feature. It is a design principle for the modern enterprise.

We also talked about what is next on their roadmap and what capabilities they are most excited about over the coming year. The focus is less on flashy features and more on depth, reliability, and scale.

If your organization is struggling to move from AI experiments to AI that executives actually trust, this conversation goes deep into architecture decisions that matter.

#data #ai #gartnerda #wisdomai #theravitshow

We have been building dashboards for 20 years. Now everyone is adding AI on top of them. But what if the real issue is the stack itself? That is where my conversation with Soham Mazumdar, Co-Founder and CEO, WisdomAI went at Gartner D&A on The Ravit Show!!!!

WisdomAI calls what they are building “Agentic Analytics.” Not a chatbot on top of BI. Not a copilot that still depends on humans to interpret everything. We talked about what is fundamentally broken in today’s analytics world:

- Dashboards answer questions you already thought of
- Executives need answers to questions they did not know to ask

Soham shared how enterprises are moving from static reporting to agents that reason across metrics, detect issues, and explain why something happened. The trust problem came up quickly. Most AI analytics tools look impressive in a demo. Very few hold up under real enterprise scrutiny.

We also discussed a real customer story with Cisco and what changed after deploying WisdomAI. The shift was not just faster answers. It was decision confidence.

Looking ahead, Soham believes analytics teams will not disappear. They will evolve into designers and supervisors of intelligent systems that operate continuously across the business.

For enterprise leaders rethinking the future of BI, this was a forward-looking and very practical discussion.

#data #ai #gartnerda #wisdomai #theravitshow

Your AI has a context problem. It’s not the model. It’s context!!!! That was the mic drop from Prukalpa ⚡, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Atlan on The Ravit Show when we kicked off this conversation. And honestly, it set the tone for everything that followed.

We spoke about why so many AI projects stall. Not because the model is weak. Not because the team is not smart. But because the data lacks shared meaning. No common definitions. No clear ownership. No business context.

Here is what we unpacked:

• What a “context layer” actually means in simple terms
• Why this idea is suddenly everywhere at Gartner this year
• Where the context layer fits in the modern data stack
• What Atlan is building to make context usable, not theoretical
• The one demo every data leader should see before leaving Orlando

One big takeaway:
If your AI does not understand your business context, it will confidently give you the wrong answer.

If you are at Gartner this week, stop by Booth 313. See how context is being turned into something real, usable, and operational.

#data #ai #gartnerda #atlan #theravitshow

BREAKING announcements from the front row at New Relic Advance 2K26. Today’s announcements from Ashan Willy (CEO, New Relic) and Brian Emerson (CPO, New Relic) made one thing clear: This is not just a product update. It is a shift toward intelligent, agent-driven operations. Here are the biggest announcements from the stage 👇

1. The Agentic Platform for operational AI
New Relic introduced a platform designed to let teams build and orchestrate AI agents that can investigate incidents, automate workflows, and reduce manual toil across production environments. The idea is to move from passive monitoring to systems that actively execute tasks

2. SRE Agent to automate investigation and response
A new AI-driven SRE agent uses telemetry signals across logs, metrics, traces, and dependencies to prioritize alerts, identify root causes, and guide remediation workflows

3. Intelligent Root Cause Analysis and smarter alerting
The platform now focuses on reducing noise and narrowing down the most probable failure paths quickly so teams can respond with clarity instead of chasing alerts

4. Intelligent Workloads linking performance to business impact
New capabilities aim to connect technical telemetry directly to user experience and revenue impact so organizations can understand not just system health, but business risk

5. Stronger OpenTelemetry and telemetry pipeline simplification
New Relic is also investing heavily in making telemetry ingestion and pipeline health more transparent, helping customers scale observability without increasing operational overhead

But what stood out beyond the announcements was hearing customers talk about this shift.

I joined the session “Customer Panel: Intelligent Observability in Action” with leaders from Nordstrom, Turo, and New York Life alongside New Relic’s team.

The conversation was less about dashboards and more about outcomes.

Customers talked about:

• Managing the growing complexity of AI-driven systems
• Moving faster without increasing operational risk
• And using observability as a way to connect engineering work to business impact

It was clear that for them, observability is becoming a strategic capability, not just a monitoring tool.

Why this matters

Engineering teams today lose a huge amount of time to firefighting, alert noise, and manual investigation. The promise of these announcements is simple:

- Reduce operational toil
- Speed up decisions
- And let teams focus on innovation instead of maintenance

If New Relic can execute on this vision, observability platforms will stop being dashboards and start becoming operational decision systems

From what I am hearing in sessions and hallway conversations, this shift toward agent-assisted operations is arriving faster than most organizations expected.

More updates coming live from the floor.

#Data #AI #NewRelic #Observability #AI #SRE #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #TheRavitShow

At New Relic Advance 2026 in San Francisco, one theme was impossible to miss. Observability is no longer just about seeing problems. It’s about fixing them. I caught up with Ashan Willy, CEO of New Relic, to talk about what this shift really means for customers.

The biggest highlight was the launch of their SRE Agent and the broader move toward an agentic platform. What stood out in our conversation was not just the technology, but the reason behind it.

Customers are overwhelmed by signals, alerts, and dashboards. They don’t need more data. They need faster action.

That is exactly what New Relic is aiming to solve. Closing the gap between insight and execution so engineers spend less time diagnosing and more time delivering.

Compared to last year, this feels like a real strategic inflection point. The conversation is no longer about adding AI features. It is about redesigning workflows around AI-native operations.

The big question now is not whether agents will assist engineers. It is how much responsibility they will take on as trust grows. If this launch works, by next year we should see fewer alerts, faster resolutions, and teams spending more time building instead of firefighting.

#Data #AI #NewRelic #Observability #AI #SRE #AgenticAI #TheRavitShow

AI will fail without strong data foundations. At the DataDriven Conference 2026 by Reltio, I sat down with Bronwen Schumacher from ZS to talk about what it really takes to make enterprise data ready for AI.

Bronwen leads the Reltio partnership at ZS, a global consulting firm deeply rooted in life sciences and healthcare. ZS has been one of Reltio’s earliest partners, working together for 13 years to build modern Master Data Management solutions for global pharma companies.

This year, they won Innovation Partner of the Year for their work integrating ZS’s platform, ZAIDYN, with Reltio. The goal is clear. Deliver an out-of-the-box data and analytics solution that helps organizations, including smaller pharmaceutical companies, master their data faster.

We also spoke about what 2026 really demands from enterprises. The focus is shifting toward Agentic MDM, where strong data quality, governance, and change enablement become the backbone for AI. Without organizational buy-in and clean, trusted data, large-scale AI programs simply do not scale.

Beyond pharma, ZS is also expanding into travel and hospitality, bringing similar data discipline to customer loyalty and experience use cases.

This was a grounded conversation about how real enterprises are preparing their data before chasing AI.

Sharing the full interview here.

#data #ai #datadriven #reltio #theravitshow

Some events are about trends. Others signal where the industry is actually going next. I am in San Francisco today, getting ready for New Relic’s Advance tomorrow, and this one feels like the latter.

Over the past year, almost every conversation with engineering and platform teams has circled back to the same theme. AI is helping teams move faster, but it is also making systems harder to manage. More signals, more dependencies, more pressure to react quickly.

Register here, you can join virtually too:
https://lnkd.in/dsCfKaFC

That is why this event matters. We are expecting one of the biggest waves of product releases New Relic has announced so far, all focused on helping teams move from simply seeing issues to actually resolving them faster and with more confidence.

I will be there with Aditi Jain, meeting teams, attending sessions, and sharing what actually matters once the announcements land.

If you have been thinking about joining, this is your last chance to register. And if you cannot make it in person, the virtual option makes it easy to follow everything as it happens.

Register here, you can join virtually too:
https://lnkd.in/dsCfKaFC

Should be an interesting one. Stay tuned.

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I am in Orlando for the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit 2026. And one company I am excited to cover is WisdomAI. I will be meeting their team on the show floor, interviewing their leadership, and going deep into how they are helping enterprises move beyond dashboards into agentic analytics. Find more details here – https://lnkd.in/eEAfAqjr

From what I am hearing, their booth is going to be one to watch. Live demos. Strategic 1:1 conversations. Giveaways. Raffles. Swag. And most importantly, real conversations about how enterprises can scale AI with context and clarity.

They are also hosting a fireside session featuring CEO Soham Mazumdar alongside Raj Kamra an enterprise AI leader from Cisco, focused on what it truly takes to operationalize AI across large organizations.

The energy around AI at this year’s summit feels different. It is less about experimentation and more about execution.

If you are heading to Gartner next week, make sure WisdomAI is on your list.

I will be sharing interview highlights and behind-the-scenes insights directly from the show floor.

Orlando, see you soon.

#data #ai #gartnerda #wisdomai #theravitshow

Bangalore always brings great energy when it comes to data, cloud, and AI conversations. Excited to be heading there the second edition of the Commvault Cloud Summit 2026 on March 5th. More details here
https://lnkd.in/daHXC4KT

I will be hosting a special panel with Tim Zonca, VP Product and Portfolio Marketing, and Woon Ho Jung, CTO Cloud Native at Commvault, where we will focus on something many teams are actively dealing with today protecting AI workloads, data pipelines, and building true cloud native resilience.

As AI adoption grows, Cloud, Platform, DevOps, and SRE teams are under pressure to ensure systems are not just fast but reliable, recoverable, and secure. This session will unpack what AI ready infrastructure actually requires and how teams can design resilience into their platforms from day one.

If you are working on modern cloud platforms or data systems, this summit will be worth your time.

More details here
https://lnkd.in/daHXC4KT

#data #ai #cloud #shift2026 #aiprotection #devops #sre #theravitshow

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