Where Data Management is Evolving

Why "America's data steward" is more than a job title, and what it takes to keep fraud intelligence trustworthy in the age of AI agents. In this episode of AI Radicals, guest host Susan Wilson, Sales Leader at Alation, talks with Cara Tice, Chief Data Officer at Early Warning (the company behind Zelle), about what data stewardship really means when trillions of dollars in real-time payments, and the fraud intelligence protecting them, run on your data. Cara and Susan dig into why data products have replaced the "one data platform to rule them all" mentality, why integration and change management matter more than any single tool, and why AI doesn't create data problems, it just exposes the ones that were already there. "Your AI governance is reliant on your data management program. Make sure you've got data governance up and running, because AI is going to rely on your data management controls and the context you create." Listen to this episode to learn: Why "data products" — not centralized platforms — are the fastest path to trustworthy, reusable data Why AI governance is really just an extension of data governance, and why the two leaders need to be joined at the hip What a new CDO should fix (and what to leave alone) in their first 90 days on the job