Data Voyagers Podcast

Picture a meeting room on a Tuesday afternoon. Someone is presenting the quarterly numbers. Behind that one slide there are months of work. Pipelines that run at three in the morning. A data model somebody argued about for weeks. Numbers checked, rechecked, governed, blessed. The chart goes up on the screen. Everyone nods. And then the person at the head of the table leans back and says, "I hear you. But my gut tells me something d...

Healthcare produces more data than almost any other industry, yet most of it is used to describe what already happened. This episode explores what happens when that data starts predicting instead. We look at how predictive analytics can flag a patient's deterioration hours before a crisis, how AI is reshaping electronic health records, why clinical intuition and algorithms work better together than apart, and how universities are p...

Somewhere right now, a server is running a job that nobody remembers asking for. It spun up months ago, for a project that shipped, or maybe one that never did, and it has been quietly humming along ever since. Every hour, it costs a little. Nobody sees it. Nobody turns it off. Because turning things off was never the exciting part.

We did not fall in love with data because of the meter. We fell in love with the build. That moment ...

You ask questions every day. Always have. You asked them before you could read, before you could write, well before anyone handed you a dashboard. Questions feel natural. They feel automatic. Questions were the beginning of Philosophy and Science.

But think about the last conversation where someone walked away with completely the wrong idea of what you needed. Or the last time you got a technically correct answer that was totally u...

There is a moment in every great match that nobody saw coming. The pass, no model would recommend. The run that made no sense until it did. We watch sports for that. The thing you cannot predict.

And yet, right now, somewhere behind that pitch, a room full of people is trying to predict exactly that. Measuring every step. Every sprint. Every heartbeat. The most human, chaotic, emotional thing we do, the beautiful game, has quietly ...

There is a moment some people hit in their careers. They stop being someone who uses a tool and start being someone who believes in it. They write the blog post nobody asked for. They answer forum questions at 11pm. They drive six hours to speak at a conference they could have watched from home.

Qlik has two programs working on exactly that. One for partners. One for customers. Different audiences, but the same instinct behind both...

AI is showing up in every tool, every workflow, and every job description. But understanding how to use it is still treated like something you either pick up on your own or just don't bother with.

Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas, this episode features some of the members of the Women Who Qlik group: Stephanie Robinson, Priscila Paolinelli, and Gwen Stamp.

In this episode, they talk...

Every conversation around AI seems to orbit the same themes. Speed. Scale. Capability. What systems can now do without us. But beneath that momentum, a quieter question keeps surfacing, one that is harder to measure and harder to answer. If the system writes, decides, recommends, and acts, what is left for the human? Not in theory, but in practice. Not as a slogan, but as a responsibility.

Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Q...

We often speak about data as a business asset. Something that improves efficiency, increases revenue, or sharpens decisions. But there are moments when data steps outside the boardroom and into something far more consequential. When it becomes a tool not just for insight, but for intervention.

Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik MVP Igor Alcantara, and Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik Education Ambassador Angelika Klidas,...

Artificial intelligence has been moving fast. It writes, summarizes, recommends, and explains. It feels capable, even reliable. But behind most of these systems there is still a quiet limitation. They wait. They respond. They depend on us to take the next step.

Agentic AI changes that. It takes a goal and turns it into action. It plans, selects tools, executes tasks, and adjusts along the way. The shift is subtle at first, but its ...

Dashboards are everywhere. Clean, interactive, and full of answers. They show us trends, highlight risks, and point to opportunities. But there is a quiet assumption behind most analytics systems, that once the insight is delivered, the job is done. It rarely is.

Because insight without action is just observation. And action without context often leads to poor decisions. The real challenge is not only understanding the data, but cr...

Platforms look powerful. Capable. Comprehensive. They promise insight, automation, intelligence. But platforms do not succeed because of features alone. They succeed because people adopt them, build around them, and carry them into markets that no vendor could reach alone. In the world of data and analytics, the real architecture is not only technical. It is human. Partnerships, incentives, trust, and leadership determine whether t...

Artificial Intelligence feels powerful. Capable. Objective. It drafts our emails, ranks our candidates, flags our risks, recommends our actions. It moves quickly, scales effortlessly, and speaks with confident fluency. But what happens when intelligence spreads faster than responsibility? What if the real risk is not that AI makes mistakes, but that we never decided who owns those mistakes?

Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and ...

Numbers feel precise. Clean. Objective. They sit on dashboards with confidence, backed by charts, models, and carefully defined metrics. But what if the danger is not bad data, but trusting numbers too easily? What if filters reshape reality, samples distort conclusions, and metrics quietly become targets instead of signals?

Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik MVP Igor Alcantara, and Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik Educa...

We live in a time where data is everywhere. We measure everything. We store everything. We visualize everything. And yet, somehow, we still get surprised by outcomes. Projects fail even though the numbers looked good. Decisions backfire even though the dashboards were green. Predictions miss reality even with sophisticated models behind them.

Presented by Qlik Partner Ambassador and Qlik MVP Igor Alcantara, and Qlik Partner Ambassa...

As 2025 comes to a close, the Data Voyagers crew comes together for a final, unscripted conversation to reflect on the year behind them. In this season-closing episode, Qlik Partner Ambassadors Igor Alcantara, and Angelika Klidas, are joined by Qlik MVP Mark Costa to look back at how Data Voyagers grew across the podcast, blog, and YouTube, share behind-the-scenes moments, highlight meaningful conversations, and reflect on personal...

In this insight-packed conversation, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas sit down with Dan Sommer, Qlik’s Senior Director for Global Market Intelligence, to explore how data, analytics, and AI are evolving and what truly matters as organizations navigate this shifting landscape. Dan shares his perspective on the signals shaping the market, the trends worth paying attention to, and how strategy, technology, and decision-making ...

Recorded in Lund, Sweden, the birthplace of Qlik, this special episode of Data Voyagers features an honest and unfiltered conversation with some of the best Qlik customers. In this episode, Qlik Partner Ambassadors Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas sit down with Qlik Luminaries Vivienne Parsons (NHS Foundation Trust) and Henri Rufin (Radiall) for an open and unfiltered conversation about analytics, data practice, challenges, use c...

Recorded in Lund, Sweden, the birthplace of Qlik, this special episode of Data Voyagers features an in-depth conversation of our hosts, Igor Alcantara and Angelika Klidas with Qlik CEO Mike Capone. Together, we explore Qlik’s remarkable journey from its Scandinavian origins in 1993 to its present as a global leader in data and AI. Mike reflects on how Qlik’s mission evolved from helping people see the whole story in the...