Welcome back to Alter Everything! Explore the evolving landscape of AI and its increasing integration with human decision-making, collaboration, and societal impact. This episode features insights from Tiankai Feng, a thought leader in human-centered AI governance, discussing how organizations can responsibly deploy AI while maintaining accountability, authenticity, and social trust.

Panelists:

• Tiankai Feng, Data & AI Strategy Director @ Thoughtworks - LinkedIn
• Joshua Burkhow, Chief Evangelist @ Alteryx - @JoshuaB, LinkedIn

Recourses and Links

• Humanizing Data Strategy - by Tiankai Feng
• Humanizing AI Strategy - by Tiankai Feng
• ThoughtWorks - Official website
• Books on AI ethics and governance
• YouTube - Data & AI Music Parodies

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Episode Chapters

0:00 Opening teaser

2:09 Meet Tiankai Feng

3:41 Why AI failures are really human failures

8:55 Should humans adapt to AI or constrain it?

13:19 Defining your relationship with AI

16:02 Decision-making, prompting fatigue, and trust

19:27 AI, teams, and collaboration

27:37 The "they" layer and unseen stakeholders

32:18 Deepfakes, disinformation, and critical thinking

36:02 The environmental cost of AI

39:48 Why AI governance must evolve

42:14 A dual-track AI strategy for leaders

45:54 Lightning round

48:28 Where to find Tiankai Feng

In this episode of Alter Everything, we are joined by Dr. Ami Bhatt for a discussion around her multifaceted role in healthcare, emphasizing the integration of AI in clinical practice. She highlights the potential of AI to improve access to care, enhance clinical decision-making, and support drug development. Dr. Bhatt also addresses the challenges of implementing AI in healthcare and the importance of human expertise in leveraging technology effectively.

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00:04 Opening: Why healthcare AI is different

01:39 Dr. Ami Bhatt's role across care, innovation, and policy

06:14 Three major areas where AI is shaping healthcare

12:41 Why AI on EKGs is especially promising

14:46 Collaborative intelligence vs. replacing humans

21:16 Ambient documentation and the doctor-patient connection

24:47 What "good enough" means when access is limited

31:41 Prevention, digital health, and patient agency

34:55 Self-diagnosis with AI and advice for clinicians

41:42 Lightning round

We’re back! In this episode of Alter Everything, Josh Burkhow sits down with Ari Kaplan, Head of Evangelism at Databricks and a pioneer of AI in sports. From building operating systems as a kid and studying at Caltech to transforming baseball analytics and now shaping enterprise AI strategy, Ari shares how physics-inspired thinking, relentless curiosity, and better data have driven his career. They explore the evolution from databases to generative AI, common mistakes organizations make with GenAI, why data engineering matters more than prompt engineering, and how true evangelism is about planting seeds and not pushing hype.

Panelists

• Ari Kaplan, Head of Evangelism @ Databricks – LinkedIn
• Joshua Burkhow, Chief Evangelist @ Alteryx – @JoshuaB, LinkedIn

Topics

• Databricks
• Major League Baseball analytics & the Moneyball era
• AI in sports, healthcare, and enterprise
• Generative AI & data engineering foundations
• Data + AI governance
• Raoul Wallenberg humanitarian investigation
• Alter Everything podcast

In the third episode of our “Data [in the] Sandbox” mini-series, Susan tells Maddie all about psychics and predicting the future! Erm... well... actually she talks about predictive analytics, and how you can use patterns in data to make educated guesses on what is likely to happen in the future. Tune in to hear how!

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This episode was produced by Cecilia Murray, Mike Cusic, and Matt Rotundo. Special thanks to Andy Uttley for the theme music.

Welcome to “Data [in the] Sandbox”, a podcast mini-series for kids! Have you ever wondered what analytics is? It sounds complicated right? Or maybe you’re curious about why data is important to everyday life. Tune in to hear a real life Data Science Journalist, Susan Currie Sivek, teach her friend Maddie Johannsen, about how data collection and analytics can help you solve tough questions, such as “How can data about snacks help Maddie run faster??”

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This episode was produced by Cecilia Murray, Mike Cusic, and Matt Rotundo. Special thanks to Andy Uttley for the theme music.

This episode is an accessibility extravaganza! Guest host and Alteryx Engineering Manager, Steve Tomasak, had a chat with Accessibility and Localization Team Lead, Jeremy Likes, and Kyle Waterworth, Accessibility Product Manager. Both users of assistive technology, Jeremy and Kyle share their personal experiences, and explain the principles of Universal Design. They also shout out ground breaking assistive technologies, and talk about how they’re working to make the Alteryx Platform more accessible to all users.

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This episode was produced by Cecilia Murray, Mike Cusic, and Matt Rotundo. Special thanks to Andy Uttley for the theme music.

This episode is a celebration of the incredible efforts made by students in Australia, who shared a behind the scenes look at the Alteryx For Good Data Challenge competition, cosponsored by Alteryx Partner RXP.

You'll get to hear from the four student team leaders throughout this episode as they shared which Australia nonprofit organization they supported, and ultimately how they learned Alteryx to turn real world challenges into life-changing, impactful insights.

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This episode was produced by Cecilia Murray, Mike Cusic, and Matt Rotundo. Special thanks to Andy Uttley for the theme music.

Alteryx CDAO, Alan Jacobson, had a chat with author and scientific journalist David Quammen about COVID-19 to discuss the origins of the virus, where we stand historically against other pandemics, and how we can use data to work together towards eradication.

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This episode was produced by Cecilia Murray, Mike Cusic, and Matt Rotundo. Special thanks to Andy Uttley for the theme music.