Mike Ferguson
CEO of Intelligent Business Strategies with over 40 years in data management and analytics, conference chair of Big Data LDN, and an industry expert on data architecture, governance, and enterprise ontologies.
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Dec 21, 2023 • 1h 2min
#156 - Mike Ferguson - Top Key Trends in Data Management and Analytics
Mike Ferguson, industry expert in data management and analytics, discusses top key trends in data management and analytics, including GenAI, architecture modernization, and FinOps. Podcast explores the role of generative AI in improving productivity and automation, as well as natural language interfaces in data management. Trends in data governance, such as AI in data catalogs and labeled data policies, are also discussed.
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Jan 22, 2026 • 41min
Mike Ferguson - CEO of Intelligent Business Strategies
Mike Ferguson, CEO of Intelligent Business Strategies and longtime data and analytics leader, reflects on four decades in data management and conference leadership. He talks about the resurgence of the semantic layer with AI, the chaos from vendor-specific metadata silos, the push for stronger data governance and provenance, and why enterprise ontologies may offer a unifying layer.
