Data Science With Sam

EP 50: Evolution of Enterprise Data Engineering in Gen AI Era

Shashank Akinapalli is a Senior Data Engineer at TCS where he leads cloud data lakehouse initiatives and real-time streaming architectures for supply chain intelligence.

EP 49: The Human Side of AI in Media: Speed, Trust & What's Really Changing | Karima Sharif-Ali, Media & Marketing Leader

Karima Sharif-Ali — known affectionately in the industry as the Fresh Princess of Media — is the SVP of Strategic Accounts at Doceree, a platform transforming point-of-ca

EP 48: From Pilots to Productivity: What It Actually Takes to Make AI Work in the Enterprise

Jim Spignardo is the Director of Cloud Strategy and AI Enablement at ProArch, a global IT services and consulting firm. With 25 years in IT spanning network engineering,

EP 47: The AI Pioneer Who Decided Privacy Matters More Than Hype

If you ever had a document you wished you could just ask questions to - without it leaving your computer, wouldn't be pretty good from data privacy perspective? In this e

EP 46: Fix the Foundation First: Why Your Data Strategy Is Failing Before the AI Gets Involved

Most companies have spent years buying tools, running pilots, and building dashboards - and they still can't answer the questions leadership needs answered. The problem i

EP 45: Why AI Agents Break in Production: The Missing Harness in Your Data Stack

An independent evaluation of Snowflake's Cortex Analyst found 6 in 10 AI-generated queries were wrong — but they all compiled and ran without a single error. That's not a

EP 44: Human-Centered Credit - Building Explainable AI for Lending in an Agentic World

We are letting AI make life-changing financial decisions without requiring it to explain itself. The CFPB says 'insufficient information' is no longer an acceptable reaso

EP 43: The Outsider's Advantage: How Diverse Perspectives Unlock Enterprise AI Success

McKinsey says 88% of organizations are using AI. Only 6% are getting real value. Sumaiya Shrabony argues the gap isn't technical - it's trust. And the people best equippe

EP 42: When AI Meets Robotics: Building Machines That Care

In this episode, Sam sat down with guest Dr. Mohammad explore what it actually takes to build emotional intelligence into a physical machine - from the technical layers o

EP 41: The Reward Signal: The Missing Ingredient in Every AI System You’ve Built

74% of organizations hope to grow revenue through AI. Only 20% are actually doing it. That gap isn't a technology gap — it's a design gap. And today's guest has a name fo

EP 40: Governance First: The Architecture Framework That Makes AI Auditable, Defensible, and 99% Cheaper

Most AI governance is a policy document that nobody enforces. And in high-stakes environments - legal, healthcare, finance - that gap between policy and architecture is w

EP 39: Why the Future of AI Belongs to Divergent Thinkers

What if ADHD - penalised in classrooms and boardrooms for decades - is actually the competitive advantage in an AI-driven world? Palantir CEO Alex Karp said the future be

EP 38: The Local AI Stack Nobody Talks About (But Should)

You want to run AI locally. You have questions: What hardware do I actually need? Which framework should I use? How much will this cost? What's the realistic performance?

EP 37: Neurons: Future of AI Processing

What if the next generation of computers wasn't made of silicon — but of living human neurons? Not simulated neurons, not artificial neural networks inspired by biology,

EP 36: NVIDIA GTC 2026: Everything That Matters - Recapped

Jensen Huang took the stage at SAP Center in San Jose on March 16th and announced that NVIDIA now expects one trillion dollars in chip orders through 2027 — double the fo

EP 35: Who Actually Controls AI? The Governance Gap Explained

There's no international treaty governing AI, no agreed definition of "safe AI," and nobody with actual authority over frontier model deployment. A handful of CEOs make d

EP 34: DeepSeek R1 vs GPT-4: The $6M Model That Changed AI Economics

In January 2025, Chinese AI lab DeepSeek released DeepSeek R1—a model matching GPT-4 class performance at a fraction of the training cost. It wiped $600 billion off NVIDI

EP 33: Agents Everywhere: What Agentic AI Actually Means for Your Job

Everyone's talking about agentic AI, but there's a gap between the hype ("AI will do your job for you") and the reality, which is more nuanced and frankly more interestin

EP 32: AI Discovers Drugs: The 2026 Clinical Trial Moment for AI in Biotech

For years, AI in drug discovery has been a promise—billions invested, hundreds of papers published, dozens of startups founded, but actual drugs coming out the other end?

EP 31: Google's $30M Bet: The AI Impact Summit India and the Global South

Every major AI summit has been held in San Francisco, London, or Washington — until now. In this episode, Sam breaks down what happened when Google CEO Sundar Pichai flew