Talks, podcasts and interviews
Where Lior Barak has talked about what data really costs
Each entry links to the host's own page. The most recent ones cover the cost of data work, team capacity and trust in the numbers.
On cost, capacity and trust
2026Podcast guest
Tomorrow's Tech Workforce, Ep. 4
The hidden cost of Data, impacts on your team, growth & ROI
Data as a financial asset rather than a cost centre, FTE Debt, and what dashboards, pipelines and AI initiatives really cost.
2026Meetup talk
Data Berlin, Spiced Academy
The Math of Burnout: Why Your Data Team's Capacity Never Recovers
A live exercise with the audience on how unplanned work drains a data team's week.
2025Podcast guest
DataTalks.Club
How to rebuild data trust, mindful data strategy, and maintenance vs innovation
Where a data team's capacity goes, and how to rebuild trust in the numbers.
2024Podcast guest
Data Engineering Podcast
Building a data vision board: a guide to strategic planning
Putting a cost on data issues so a team can prioritise what to fix first.
Earlier
2024Interview
D3M Labs
Data should be like a plate of hummus
Data strategy and the maintenance cost every extra KPI adds.
2022Conference talk
Big Data LDN, London
How Idealo Powers a More Reliable Data Platform with Data Observability
Data trust and reliability at idealo, shared on stage with two idealo colleagues.
2022Speaker profile
2021Podcast guest
2021Podcast guest
DataTalks.Club
Data translator role and data strategy
How data professionals communicate with the business.
2020Podcast guest
Business of Apps Podcast, #49
What app publishers need to know about data today
Where data earns its keep for app publishers.
UndatedSpeaker profile
Lior also hosts Data Breakthroughs, a podcast of conversations with data and business leaders.