Factory Fireside
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Podcast Overview
<p>Factory Fireside is a podcast series exploring the evolving world of Data & AI, spanning strategy, technology, agents, and real-world implementation. We talk with leading practitioners to help you make smarter decisions when starting, running, and scaling Data, AI, and Agentic solutions in your organisation.</p>
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10/31/2025
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Recent Episodes
February 20, 2026
How a Power BI Dashboard Reached the Global Championship Finals | Fireside VizTalk Ep. 01
<p>In the very first episode of Fireside VisTalk, Oli and Gus — Frontend and Power BI Delivery Engineers at Insight Factory — break down the dashboard that earned Gus a spot as a finalist in the Power BI Global Dashboard Championship.</p><p>Gus walks us through every layer of his submission: the data preparation approach, design thinking process, his enterprise-style colour palette strategy, and the custom HTML/CSS visuals he hand-crafted inside DAX measures — including animated KPI cards, hover-over context chips, a spider/radar chart, an embedded guided tutorial, and a dynamic notifications panel.</p><p>Whether you're a Power BI developer looking to level up your design game or just curious about what it takes to compete on a global stage, this episode is packed with practical insights.</p><p>🔗 Follow Insight Factory: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.insightfactory.ai">https://www.insightfactory.ai</a> </p><p>🔗 Connect with Gus on LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gusbavia/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/gusbavia/</a></p><p>🔗 Connect with Oli on LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/odelemos/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/odelemos/</a></p><p>📌 Topics covered:</p><ul><li>Power BI Global Dashboard Championship overview</li><li>Data modelling best practices (calendar tables, column labelling frameworks)</li><li>Design thinking for dashboards — visual hierarchy & cognitive load</li><li>Using colour with purpose (not decoration)</li><li>HTML & CSS embedded in DAX measures for custom visuals</li><li>Building an embedded guided tutorial for accessibility</li><li>Pagination techniques for matrices</li><li>Custom spider/radar charts in Power BI</li><li>Dynamic notification panels</li><li>Conditional formatting & business rule logic pitfalls</li><li>Accessibility: alt text, tab order & inclusive design</li></ul><p>🎙️ Fireside VisTalk is a data visualisation series by Insight Factory where we unpack the craft behind great dashboards.</p><p>#PowerBI #DataVisualization #Dashboard #PowerBIChampionship #DAX #DataAnalytics #BusinessIntelligence #InsightFactory #FiresideVisTalk #PowerBIDeveloper #HTMLinPowerBI #DashboardDesign</p><p></p>
February 2, 2026
2025 AI Year in Review: Is Claude Code AGI? DeepSeek, RL Breakthroughs & What's Next | Agent Talk #1
<p>🔥 Welcome to Agent Talk — a brand new series from Factory Fireside where our young engineers in the trenches building enterprise-scale agentic solutions break down what's really happening in AI.</p><p>In this debut episode, Kahn Nguyen, Neil Mazunder, and Harry Nguyen dive deep into the AI developments that actually mattered in 2025 — and what turned out to be just noise.</p><p><strong>What we cover:</strong> → Is Opus 4.5 + Claude Code basically AGI? (Hot take alert 🌶️) → How reinforcement learning became THE word of 2025 → DeepSeek's papers that shook Silicon Valley → The shift from scaling laws to post-training optimisation → Why Chinese labs are outpacing American research → "Code is solved, but software isn't" — what this means for builders → Our predictions for 2026 and the next age of AI research</p><p><strong>About Agent Talk:</strong> InsightFactory has been heavily invested in developing enterprise-grade agentic solutions. Agent Talk is hosted by three of our engineers who are right in the depths of building these solutions for clients — not just agentic solutions, but enterprise-scale agentic solutions.</p><p>🎙️ <strong>Hosts:</strong></p><ul><li>Kahn Nguyen — Research Scientist @ insightfactoryAI</li><li>Neil Mazunder — Forward Deployed Engineer @ insightfactoryAI Applied AI Team</li><li>Harry Nguyen — Forward Deployed Engineer @ insightfactoryAI Applied AI Team</li></ul><p>📍 <strong>About </strong><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://InsightFactory.AI"><strong>insightfactory.AI</strong></a><strong>:</strong> We're an Australian AI company building enterprise-grade agentic solutions through our Forward Deployed Engineer model.</p><p></p>
January 27, 2026
Dr Sanjay Mazumdar - The biggest threat to Australia isn't an aircraft or a missile, it's someone sitting with a laptop in a lounge room.
<p>In this episode of Factory Fireside, I sit down with Dr. Sanjay Mazumdar — a pioneer who was building neural networks in the early 1990s before the internet even existed, and who has since shaped Australia's approach to AI, data, and national security.</p><p>Sanjay's journey spans developing the world's first mobile wallet at Motorola (in 1999!), leading the Data to Decisions CRC that spawned companies like Fivecast, serving as Chief Data Officer at KPMG, and now running the Defence Trailblazer — a $240 million initiative connecting universities, startups, and defence.</p><p>We go deep on:</p><p>→ Why most organisations get AI adoption completely backwards — and what to do instead </p><p>→ The real role of a Chief Data Officer (hint: it's not data governance) </p><p>→ Information warfare, deepfakes, and why guardrails alone won't protect us </p><p>→ Australia's quantum computing edge — and the encryption risks that come with it </p><p>→ What it actually takes to build a successful AI company (spoiler: it takes years) </p><p>→ Practical advice for business leaders preparing for the AI wave</p><p>Whether you're a founder, executive, or just trying to make sense of where AI is heading, this conversation delivers hard-won insights from someone who's been at the frontier for over three decades.</p><p>🎯 <strong>Key takeaways:</strong></p><p>[00:00] — Introduction </p><p>[02:15] — Doing a PhD in neural nets before the internet existed </p><p>[08:30] — The world's first mobile wallet (1999) </p><p>[15:45] — Why "AI envy" is derailing business strategy </p><p>[24:10] — Where the CDO role should actually sit </p><p>[32:00] — Information warfare and the limits of ethical AI </p><p>[41:20] — Inside Australia's Defence Trailblazer </p><p>[48:30] — Quantum computing: opportunity and threat </p><p>[55:00] — How Fivecast went from research project to global success </p><p>[62:15] — Three things every business leader should do now</p>
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<p>Factory Fireside is a podcast series exploring the evolving world of Data & AI, spanning strategy, technology, agents, and real-world implementation. We talk with leading practitioners to help you make smarter decisions when starting, running, and scaling Data, AI, and Agentic solutions in your organisation.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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