Humans Before AI: What We Want to Do with Intelligent Systems
Join Tiankai Feng, author of Humanizing Data Strategy: Leading Data with the Head and the Heart (2024) and Humanizing AI Strategy: Leading AI with Sense and Soul (2025), and Actian’s Chief Evangelist Ole Olesen-Bagneux for a conversation on redefining data leadership in the age of AI.
Date: December 16, 2025
Time: 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM CET | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST
Format: Live Webinar (with audience Q&A)
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This is Episode 4 of Data, Explored, Actian’s webinar series spotlighting real conversations about the future of data, governance, and AI.
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About the Webinar
AI is advancing fast—but real enterprise transformation still depends on people. In this episode of Data, Explored, we sit down with Tiankai Feng, thought leader and author of Humanizing AI Strategy, to explore how today’s data leaders can make sense of the change—and lead with clarity.
Tiankai’s 5C Framework—Competence, Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, and Conscience—was created to guide organizations toward ethical, human-centered data strategies. But in a world of generative models, intelligent agents, and semantic automation, what has changed? And what hasn’t? How can we translate this framework to AI?
Together with Actian’s Ole Olesen-Bagneux, we’ll examine:
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What it really means to “humanize” an AI strategy today
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Why context and content are becoming make-or-break for AI outcomes
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How knowledge graphs and metadata lay the foundation for trustworthy automation
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What role data leaders must play—now that AI is here to stay
Who Should Attend?
This session is designed for leaders and innovators at the intersection of AI, data, and human decision-making:
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Chief Data Officers and AI strategists
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Data governance and ethics leaders
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Enterprise and information architects
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Innovation, transformation, and business leaders
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Anyone rethinking leadership in the AI era
Featured Speakers
Tiankai Feng
Data & AI Strategy Director, Thoughtworks | Author | TEDx Speaker | Data Musician
Tiankai Feng is a Data & AI leader, musician, and optimist. As Director of Data & AI Strategy at Thoughtworks and author of “Humanizing AI Strategy”, he brings 12+ years of experience in analytics, governance, and transformation. Passionate about the human side of technology, he makes data and AI more approachable—and even fun—through music, memes, and fresh perspectives.
Ole Olesen-Bagneux
Chief Evangelist, Actian and O’Reilly Author
Ole Olesen-Bagneux is a globally recognized thought leader in metadata management and enterprise data architecture. As VP, Chief Evangelist at Actian, he drives industry awareness and adoption of modern approaches to data intelligence, drawing on deep expertise in data catalogs, decentralized architectures, and metadata frameworks. Ole is the best-selling author of Fundamentals of Metadata Management (O’Reilly, 2025), which introduces the novel Meta Grid architecture, and The Enterprise Data Catalog (O’Reilly, 2023). With a PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of Copenhagen, his unique perspective bridges the fields of information science and modern data management.
