Data Stars & Scars
Data Stars & Scars is hosted by Harj Chand and features conversations with data leaders and executives across the data stack. Each episode explores the decisions that changed how organizations make decisions and get work done. Guests share both the wins that paid off and the mistakes they would take back. The show is aimed at people whose job is making data count.
Episodes
Industrial AI, and the Human in the Loop
Twenty years ago, Julien Debard was running a rig that cost a million dollars a day. At 23. Offshore in Nigeria. With his best data arriving by USB stick in someone’s pocket on a chopper. Now he’s a 2026 S&P Global Energy Awards finalist and the person a lot of energy leaders call to work out where AI actually earns its keep.This episode is the throughline of his career: technology only create
