Breakfast
Raji Narayanan
StreamSets
Biography:
Raji Narayanan is a product leader who comes with a wealth of experience leading product and engineering teams at startups and industry leaders. She focuses on solving challenging problems for businesses around data, cloud and APIs. At StreamSets, she leads a stellar team of product managers and designers to drive overall product roadmap and strategy for delivering compelling products and user experiences.
Arvind Prabhakar
Co-Founder & CPOStreamSets
Biography:
Arvind Prabhakar is a seasoned technology leader, who has worked on data integration challenges for over 10 years. Before co-founding StreamSets, Arvind was an early employee of Cloudera, and led teams working on integration technologies such as Flume and Sqoop. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, Arvind is heavily involved in the open-source community as the PMC Chair for Apache Flume, the first PMC Chair of Apache Sqoop, and member of various other Apache projects. Prior to Cloudera, Arvind was a software architect at Informatica, where he was responsible for architecting, designing, and implementing several core systems.
Girish Pancha
Co-Founder & CEOStreamSets
Biography:
Girish Pancha is a data industry veteran who has spent his career developing successful and innovative products that address the challenge of providing integrated information as a mission-critical, enterprise-grade solution. Before co-founding StreamSets, Girish was the first vice-president engineering and chief product officer at Informatica, where he was responsible for the company’s corporate development and entire product portfolio strategy and delivery. Girish also was co-founder and CEO at Zimba, a developer of a mobile platform providing real-time access to corporate information, which he led to a successful acquisition. Girish began his career at Oracle, where he managed the development of its Discoverer Business Intelligence platform.
Simon Rogers
Data EditorBiography:
Co-host of The Data Journalism Podcast with Alberto Cairo and author of ‘Facts are Sacred‘, published by Faber & Faber around the world. He has also written a range of infographics for children books from Candlewick. Data editor at Google, based in San Francisco, he is director of the Sigma Data Journalism Awards and teaches Data Journalism at Medill-Northwestern University.
Tristan Zajonc
CEO and Co-FounderContinual
Biography:
Tristan has spent the last 10 years working on machine learning infrastructure. He is currently the cofounder and CEO of Continual, an operational AI platform to the modern data stack. He was previously the CTO for Machine Learning at Cloudera and cofounder of Sense, one of the first enterprise data science platforms.