The Titanic Moment for Traditional Data Architecture
Broadcast Date: August 13th, 2026
Apache Iceberg is rapidly becoming the architectural foundation for the modern enterprise data estate, enabling organizations to decouple storage from compute while preserving openness and governance at scale. By bringing database-grade capabilities like ACID transactions, schema evolution, time travel, and intelligent metadata management to low-cost object storage, Iceberg transforms the traditional data lake into a shared, high-performance platform that can power analytics, AI, machine learning, and real-time applications alike.
The result is a more flexible data architecture that ideally eliminates redundant data copies, simplifies operations, and dramatically reduces vendor lock-in. On this episode of DM Radio, we’ll explore why so many organizations are embracing what some call the “Iceberg Revolution,” and what it means for the future of enterprise data architecture. We’ll examine how Iceberg enables a composable data stack, supports multiple compute engines against a single source of truth, and lays the groundwork for semantic layers, knowledge graphs, and agentic AI.
Host:
Eric Kavanagh
CEO at The Bloor Group
Eric has nearly 30 years of experience as a career journalist with a keen focus on enterprise technologies. He designs and moderates a variety of New Media programs, including The Briefing Room, DM Radio and Espresso Series, as well as GARP’s Leadership and Research Webcasts. His mission is to help people leverage the power of software, methodologies and politics in order to get things done.
Guests:
Sami Akbay
Founder of dagen.ai
