DATADRIVEN

MODERN DATA MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE


Feb 12-14, 2025
Orlando, FL

Keynote Speakers

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Zack Kass

Zack Kass is an AI Futurist, keynote speaker, consultant, and the former Head of Go To Market for OpenAI. He has spent over 14 years in the field of AI with companies like Figure Eight, Lilt, and OpenAI. His mission is to ensure businesses and governments are active participants in the AI-powered future by demystifying AI, making it accessible and understandable for everyone, and helping leaders navigate the rapidly evolving environment.

While Head of Go To Market at OpenAI, Zack worked at the helm of the team key channeling OpenAI’s innovative research into tangible business solutions. Zack built the teams responsible for OpenAI’s sales, partnerships, and customer success and served as a personal advisor to countless executives deploying the technology across their business.
Today, he is considered one of the foremost thinkers in Applied AI. His thought leadership and techno-optimist views have been featured in countless publications, such as Fortune, Newsweek, Entrepreneur, AdAge, and Business Insider to name a few. Zack has also advised many top companies on AI, including Coca-Cola, Morgan Stanley, and Agmen.

Beyond the corporate world, Zack is a staunch techno-optimist, an advocate for AI’s potential to revolutionize the human condition and reduce suffering. He works tirelessly to promote the promise of AI, serving as a counter-narrative to the prevailing media cynicism.

Zack received his BA from The University of California, Berkeley, and resides in Santa Barbara, California.

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Manish Sood

Manish is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Reltio, the first cloud-native, software-as-a-service (SaaS) data platform. An entrepreneur with a vision of the big-picture ways data can drive business and industry transformations, Manish founded Reltio in 2011 to help organizations accelerate the value of their data and deliver on business outcomes. Since its inception, Manish has led Reltio’s evolution from the concept stage to a high-growth company valued at $1.7 billion with more than $100 million in annual revenue.

Manish previously led product strategy and management for the Master Data Management (MDM) platform at Informatica and Siperian. During his career, Manish has architected some of the largest and most widely used data management solutions used by most Fortune 500 companies today. Manish holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Andhra University College of Engineering.

Mainstage Speakers

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Asha Saxena
Founder & CEO

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Laura Merling
Global Transformation Executive
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James Lupton
Chief Technology Officer

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Ravit Jain
Founder & Host

Hear from data leaders

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Matt Krause
Sr Mgr, Product Manager
Customer Data

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James Shuman
VP Sales Development and Operations

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Amy Whisnant
Director of Product Platform Management

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Bijan Yeylaghi
Head of Customer Data

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Linda Monteiro-Hopper
Senior Director, IT Data Platforms and Governance

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Chad Lindsey
Vice President of Enterprise Systems and Data & Analytics

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Ross Schalmo
Chief Data Officer

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Ujjawal Goel
Director, Customer MDM and Data Governance

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Sanjaya Nath
Product Manager - US Market MDM

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Kimberly Choate
Director, Data Delivery and Big Data

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Kanchanreddy Ganta
Lead Engineer IT Software Dev & Execution

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Alex Langhorne
Data Governance Manager

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Rufus William
VP Data Strategy & Management

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Vamshi (Vamsheekher) Andhe
Director, IT Data and Business Intelligence

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Marcie Stoetzel
Sr. Manager Enterprise Core Data Management

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A.J. Varganin
Director, Engineering

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