Helsinki Data Mafia - Podcast You Can’t Refuse
The Official Podcast of Helsinki Data Week! By data nerds, for data nerds, in Finland and abroad. Top-shelf guests & hot topics from the world of Data, Analytics, and AI. Presented by Juha Korpela, Eevamaija Virtanen, Säde Haveri,
and Antti Rask - the Helsinki Data Week Crew.
In this episode, Katariina Kari, the Head of Data at In Parallel and former Lead Ontologist at IKEA, is interviewed by our Säde Haveri and Eevamaija Virtanen. The topic is Knowledge Graphs: what are they, how do they enable organizations to enhance their AI solutions, and how did Katariina actually end up working with them? Real-world use cases, value-creation, corporate memory - you don't want to miss this!
In this episode of Helsinki Data Mafia, Juha interviews Tiankai Feng, a data leader and author whose new book Humanizing Data Strategy came out recently. With Tiankai and Juha both also being musicians, the discussion takes an interesting and unique angle to the issues of data governance and strategy: how does all this stuff compare to playing in a band, and what could we learn from the world of music? Even if you're not a musician yourself, you will likely find some very fresh viewpoints here!
In this wide-ranging discussion (recorded live in Helsinki!) Juha and Säde talk with Alec Sharp, a world-renowned modeler of both data and business processes. Alec literally wrote the book on process modeling, and has practiced and taught classes on data modeling for decades. But is it really "data" modeling, when we're simply talking about "things" that exist in the actual business? And why are empathy and simplicity so important? And how do you know a $3B project is not going to work out? Listen to this episode of Helsinki Data Mafia to find out!
In this episode, Juha chats with Karin Håkansson, a Data Mesh Learning MVP, speaker, and Head of Data at Adapteo Group. The topic is Data Mesh - the federated, domain-driven, and product-oriented framework everyone's been talking about for the last few years. What is it really about, what is the role of data products in it, and what does it take to succeed with the Mesh?
Welcome to Helsinki Data Mafia! In this very first episode of the podcast, the Helsinki Data Week crew explain what this whole thing is about and why they are launching a podcast - and what exciting things lie ahead for the podcast & for Helsinki Data Week 2025!
