E127 - GenAI Best Practices: What Early Adopters Have Learned

In this special episode, host Cindi Howson pulls together the most useful, and hard-won, lessons from a year of conversations with Data Chiefs leading the GenAI charge. With generative and agentic AI no longer a side experiment, this episode spotlights five practices early adopters can rely on to move from pilots to profit. Expect straight talk on what to prioritize, how to bring people with you, and how to scale AI with the trust, literacy, and guardrails that make impact stick.

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Tying AI to Real Dollars with Anand Iyer, Ecolab (02:10): Anand cuts through the...