PODCAST | Massachusetts CDO Karthik Yajurvedi on Building Cross-Agency Data Trust
CDO Magazine Podcast SeriesShow Notes
In the final part of this three-part CDO Magazine series, Karthik Yajurvedi, Chief Data Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, joins Deloitte’s Adita Karkera for a conversation on what it really takes to operationalize data sharing across government agencies. The discussion explores governance without bottlenecks, building trust across silos, context-based data quality in the age of AI, and why modern CDOs must increasingly operate as strategic business leaders rather than purely technical executives. Listen now.
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