Join Zak this week as he talks with Brett and Collin about differentiating data-centric roles in organizations at various stages of data maturity!Guests:Collin McCarter, Data Scientist and Brett Truelove, Analytic Engineer from Northwestern Mutual

In this weeks episode, I’ll be talking with Jules Damji, Lead Developer Advocate on the Ray team at Anyscale, about the ever evolving landscape of enterprise grade distributed computing. From Hadoop to Spark and now to Ray, we talk all things compute, and where the landscape may be headed in the future!

Your new rvatech/Talks host Zak Brown kicks off season 3 by talking with Alex Miller, founder and organizer of the Strange Loop conference. Join us as we discuss what it takes to build out a truly "Strange"  tech community that can withstand the test of time.

ICYMI - ProductFest RVA sold out for the first year, so catch the lunchtime roundtable episode hosted LIVE on the stage with Richmond's Product Gurus: Devin Smith - Experience Principal at Active Digital, Isaiah Harvin - Senior Product Manager at Disney Streaming, and Amy O'Callaghan - Head of Product at Vangst

Subash is an energetic and inspiring individual who can make anybody a believer in how valuable their data is. They see value in data when others just see it as a thing to retain and archive. When Subash hears of a company using an application to run their business and doesn't use any of it, they get pumped because that indicates there is a ton of valuable data.Misspellings (for search purposes): Subash, Sabash, habash, habas, datagoodness, r-coder, python, senior analyst, seeking data science roles, data scientist contractor, data science work, analytical contractors, data strategist, statistical programmer, data dealer)

Panelists Include: Ford Prior, Principal Cloud Engineer – CarMax (Moderator & Podcast Host)Marcus Thornton, Deputy Chief Data Officer – Virginia Office of Data Governance and AnalyticsSouj Narasimhacharya, Senior Vice President of Engineering – Koalafi