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CDO Magazine Podcast Series

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Beth Hiatt on Building AI Governance at LPL Financial: Infrastructure, Process and Meaning

Beth Hiatt, SVP of Product Management, Data Governance and Responsible AI at LPL Financial, tells Jessie Smith, Chief Product Officer at Ataccama, that AI without business context will not produce the results a company expects. Hiatt breaks down why the first 90 days of an AI program need the underlying data infrastructure in place, and why a governance team has to sit inside that process instead of policing it from outside.

From a Billion Files to the Handful That Matter: DataXray’s CEO Kyle Dupont on Getting a Data Estate AI-Ready

Kyle DuPont, Founder and CEO of DataXRay, speaks with Maribeth Achterberg, CDO Magazine Editorial Board Member, about how AI is changing the value of unstructured data. The conversation focuses on metadata, file relevance, and how enterprises can help users and agents find the information needed for specific workflows.

Inside Tony Trim's Manufacturing AI Strategy: Data, Scale and Shop-Floor Execution at Eaton

Tony Trim, Manufacturing Operations AI Leader at Eaton, explains why the biggest obstacle on the factory floor was never the equipment itself but the tribal knowledge trapped in people's heads and scattered across disconnected systems. In conversation with Stephen Hooper, SVP Operations Solutions at Autodesk, Trim breaks down the digital thread concept and the three traits that separate manufacturers who scale AI across hundreds of facilities from those stuck running one-off pilots.

Identity Is Not a Compliance Problem: Rohit Chauhan, Former Mastercard EVP, on the New Risk Surface

Most banks still treat customer identity as a compliance requirement, and that framing now leaves every online transaction exposed. Rohit Chauhan, former Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence and Fraud Solutions at Mastercard, joins Robert Lutton, Vice President of Sandhill Consultants, for the concluding part of a three-part series on the identity graph. The conversation covers why siloed customer data undermines verification and why real-time convergence has to be solved in the architecture.

AI Agents Join the Workforce: Muralidhar Vemulapalli on Why They Need Accountability

In the final episode of this three-part series, Muralidhar Vemulapalli, Chief Enterprise Architect and Acting Chief Technology Officer at Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, tells Chris Gengo, Chief Innovation Officer at HiLabs, why AI approving eighty percent of prior authorization requests does not mean reviewers can step back. Vemulapalli lays out the decision-centric architecture, funding discipline, and governance principles health plans need to move AI from pilot to production. The conversation closes with a forecast on which health plans will still be processing claims by the next decade and which will be preventing the risks behind them.

Why Better Data Beats Bigger AI Models: Enterprise AI Executive Rohit Chauhan

Rohit Chauhan, former Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Fraud Solutions at Mastercard, tells Robert Lutton, Vice President of Sandhill Consultants, why a more powerful AI model will not fix fraud detection on its own. Chauhan argues that trust in AI comes from the data architecture underneath it, not from the model's output, and explains how connected context can flip a flagged transaction into a normal one.

AI Governance Makes Innovation Scalable in Trust: Insights from Muralidhar Vemulapalli

In this CDO Magazine interview, Muralidhar Vemulapalli, Chief Enterprise Architect and Acting Chief Technology Officer at Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, tells Chris Gengo, Chief Innovation Officer at HiLabs, why ungoverned AI cannot be deployed at enterprise scale. Vemulapalli lays out the governance model, from AI inventory to human-in-the-loop review, that turns fast models into trustworthy infrastructure. The conversation also covers why provider data is becoming a competitive differentiator instead of a compliance checkbox.

No Use Case, No Value: Mindfuel CEO Nadiem von Heydebrand on Proving AI ROI

Enterprise leaders frequently fail to justify data investments because they report on technical outputs rather than commercial outcomes. In this video, Mindfuel CEO Nadiem von Heydebrand joins CDO Magazine Editorial Board Member Justin Heller to solve this operating model problem. The discussion provides a clear framework for tracking AI value to prove true return on investment to the board.

Fraud Detection Now Depends on Connected Data Architecture: Former Mastercard AI & Fraud Solutions EVP

Banks continue investing in more sophisticated fraud models, yet many still struggle to keep pace with increasingly connected fraud schemes. In Part 1 of this three-part interview series, Rohit Chauhan, former Executive Vice President of Artificial Intelligence & Fraud Solutions at Mastercard, explains to Robert Lutton, Vice President of Sandhill Consultants, why connected data architecture has become the foundation for trusted Enterprise AI and modern fraud detection.

AI Readiness Starts With Decision Infrastructure: Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield's Murali Vemulapalli

Muralidhar Vemulapalli, Chief Enterprise Architect and Acting Chief Technology Officer at Arkansas Blue Cross Blue Shield, tells Chris Gengo, Chief Innovation Officer at HiLabs, why most health plans generate insight but never turn it into an operational decision. Vemulapalli argues that AI governance and a unified data fabric matter less than the decision infrastructure and shared accountability that actually move outcomes. This is part one of a three-part CDO Magazine conversation on enterprise AI strategy in healthcare.

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