Empowering Data Literacy with AI: Journey from Dremio CEO to Innovator with Founder Tomer Shiran | Ep 836
Empowering Data Literacy with AI: Journey from Dremio CEO to Innovator with Founder Tomer Shiran | Ep 836  
Podcast: The Digital Executive
Published On: Mon Mar 04 2024
Description: Send us a textIn this episode of the Digital Executive, hosted by Brian Thomas at Coruzant Technologies, we delve into the groundbreaking journey of Tomer Shiran, a pioneer in the big data analytics space and a key figure in the evolution of Dremio. Shiran, with a rich background as Dremio's founding CEO and a former VP product at MapR, discusses the transformative path of Dremio from its inception to becoming a major player in data analytics, serving large enterprise customers and embracing generative AI technologies to enhance user productivity and data accessibility.Shiran shares insights into Dremio's innovative features, like Text to SQL, which converts natural language queries into SQL code, democratizing data querying for users across varying degrees of data literacy. Additionally, he highlights the significant impact of emerging technologies, such as Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow, on the data analytics and management sector, emphasizing gen AI's potential to revolutionize the field. This episode provides a deep dive into the challenges and opportunities of integrating AI into data analytics platforms, the importance of self-service data access, and the future trends that will shape the industry.