We were honored to interview Cindi Howson, the Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot. She is an analytics and BI expert, with 20 plus years’ experience, and a flair for bridging business needs with technology. Cindi was previously a Gartner Research Vice President in data and analytics, lead author of the Analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, data and analytics maturity model, as well as research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics. We spoke to Cindi about her Bernedoodle dog, programming languages, and how to thrive as a woman in the tech field.