#589: Product-led Growth and AI with Sonal Mane, Databricks
The Agile Brand with Greg Kihlström®: Expert Mode Marketing Technology, AI, & CX
The Agile Brand
4.9 • 113 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Today we’re going to talk about the innovative use of AI in driving product-led growth with Sonal Mane, Senior Director of Digital Customer Experience and Growth at Databricks.
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| 0:00.0 | The Agile brand |
| 0:02.0 | Welcome to Season 6 of the Agile brand, where we discuss marketing technology and customer experience trends, insights, and ideas with enterprise and technology platform leaders. |
| 0:18.0 | We focus on the people, processes, data, and platforms that make |
| 0:22.1 | brands successful, scalable, customer-focused, and sustainable. This is what makes an agile brand. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm your host, Greg Kilstrom, advising Fortune 1000 brands on Martec, marketing operations, and |
| 0:33.6 | CX, best-selling author and speaker. The Agile Brand podcast is brought to you by Tech Systems, |
| 0:39.3 | an industry leader in full-stack technology services, |
| 0:42.4 | talent services, and real-world application. |
| 0:45.1 | For more information, go to teksystems.com. |
| 0:49.0 | Now let's get on to the show. |
| 0:52.5 | Today we're going to talk about the innovative use of AI and driving product-led growth |
| 0:57.0 | with Sanal Mani, Senior Director of Experience and Growth at Databricks. Sanal, welcome to the show. |
| 1:03.3 | Thanks, Greg. How you doing? Good, good. Let's get started with you telling us a little bit |
| 1:10.0 | about your role at Databricks. |
| 1:12.3 | Yes, absolutely. First off, thanks for having me on the podcast. And, you know, in the little bit |
| 1:18.4 | research that I've done, congratulations on your 500 plus episodes. So thank you. |
| 1:22.8 | Thank you. And all to see the growth and, you know, the relevance of the topics. |
| 1:26.7 | To start with intros, I'm Sona-Lamane, as Greg was mentioning, |
| 1:30.8 | and I'm responsible for driving growth with data practitioners. |
| 1:35.3 | So think data engineers, machine learning engineers, data scientists, across the Databricks |
| 1:40.9 | ecosystem. |
| 1:41.8 | And this includes both our customers as well as our partner organization. |
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