Ready for your Hour of (Data) Power with some Radioactive and Electric Feel thrown in? Ok, so hang tight, get your coffee or lemonade (depending on how your summer looks like!), as we bring you a double whammy from your newest Data-powered Innovation Jam to celebrate the anniversary launch of the 10th edition of the Data Powered Innovation Review. This jam packs in the "power" of music, as always. But this time drawing connections to what “power” really means - from John Lennon's "Power to the People" to Robert Palmer banding up with Duran Duran’s John Taylor (bass) and Andy Taylor (guitar) for Power Station and heavy metal crews like Power Trip. This eclectic musical journey serves as a metaphor for the unexpected and powerful combinations that arise when diverse elements mix, a theme that underpins the episode's core discussions.

Your hosts Ron Tolido and Robert Engels drum to the beats of two special pieces from the latest Data Powered Innovation Review 10: "The Serendipity Engine" and "Nature Engineered" with Neerav Vyas, VP Customer First, Insights and Data, Capgemini discovering rock music in a video store by accident and Franziska Wolf, Head of Quantum Chemistry for Capgemini Engineering playing the trombone in a band. While Neerav explains the "post-personalization world" where the goal is to achieve serendipity at scale – moving beyond mere recommendations based on known desires to surprising customers with things they didn't even know they wanted, Franziska talks of metallo-enzymes and how AI and quantum computing combined can help us understand nature better and create full stack simulation environment for biology.

The episode sets the stage for a deep dive into how AI and data are enabling unexpected discoveries and innovations, much like the serendipitous musical journeys shared by the hosts and guests. So do tune in and enjoy!

Timestamps:

00:00 - 02:29 – Ron takes a "Power" trip flexing the 10th edition of the Data-powered Innovation Review

02:29 - 06:25 – Ron and Dr. Bob explores their individual take on "Power" Through Music

06:25 - 07:44 – Introduction to the Data-powered Innovation Review and two of its authors from Edition 10

10:41 - 25:37 – Neerav takes us back to a serendipitous musical journey in 1995 and subsequent revelations

25:58 - 41:58 - Franziska Wolf dives into "Nature Engineered" with Quantum and AI

42:58 - Weiwei busts her last myth before the summer break.

Connect with our guests Neerav Vyas and Franziska Wolff and our hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Weiwei Feng on LinkedIn.

From punk rock to process automation, from Blondie to BSON — it’s a genre-defying episode of the Data-Powered Innovation Jam where we grab a virtual bench in Central Park with Andrew Davidson, SVP of Products at MongoDB, and let the data conversation run wild. What follows is an improvisational jam session on the evolution of data, the art of distributed architectures, and why NoSQL was the punk rebellion against the symphonic pomp of relational databases. But wait, that was then. Now, MongoDB is no longer the scrappy garage band. With MongoDB Atlas, best-in-class vector search, and AI-native memory architectures, it’s headlining the main stage of general-purpose data platforms in the GenAI era.

Your hosts Ron Tolido, Weiwei Feng, and Robert Engels riff on:

• Why document models might just be the new lingua franca of AI
• How vector search is redefining “relationship status”
• What vibe coding really means (yes, that’s a thing now)
• And how social science might hold the key to truly intelligent systems

Oh, and there’s Sting, and Talking Heads, and a band called Kobus Gaat Naar Appelscha. Because this is still a jam. In a world of LLMs and memory-centric platforms, “every doc you take” is part of something bigger.

Tune in. This one’s electric.

Timestamps:

07:55 – Introduction to MongoDB and guest Andrew Davidson

14:01 – Exploring social sciences, graph databases, and database storage choices

21:39 – Strategies for identifying optimal relationships within documents

29:23 – With natural language interfaces, is SQL still necessary?

34:31 – The concept of “vibe coding” and understanding programming fundamentals

38:01 – Weiwei debunks myths about diversity, inclusion, and data

Connect with our guest Andrew Davidson and our hosts Ron Tolido, Robert Engels, and Weiwei Feng on LinkedIn.

Ready for the remix? You might have already listened to one of the most recent episodes of the Cloud Realities podcast, where six dynamic voices from two podcast teams came together to unpack Capgemini’s TechnoVision 2025. From infrastructure and applications to collaboration, user experience, automation, and — naturally — a heavy dose of data and AI, it was an episode packed to the brim. Think you’ve heard it all? Think again.

But why stop at one listen? This time, we’re bringing it back with a data-powered twist — sharper, deeper, and just as bold. Discover what “Silent Letter Day” really means, vibe with “vibe coding,” explore alternate cloud realities, rethink RPA vs. Agents, and maybe even stumble into a Dutch punk band or two along the way.

Join Esmee van de Giessen, Dave Chapman, Rob Kernahan, Weiwei Feng, Robert Engels, and Ron Tolido spin the turntables of technology.

Tune in. Remix on.

Timestamps:

11:23 – Rob kicked things off with the ‘Invisible Infostructure’ container

18:59 – Ron reflected on his early work and shared insights on the ‘Applications Unleashed’ container

33:01 – Dr. Bob kept the energy high with ‘Thriving on Data’

42:45 – Weiwei delivered a dynamic overview of ‘Process on the Fly’

55:33 – Dave offered a thoughtful introduction to the ‘We Collaborate’ container

01:05:25 – Esmee wrapped up with the final container: ‘You Experience’