Big on Data

George's got tech, data, and media, and he's not afraid to use them. Coming from an IT background, he's had the chance to learn to play many instruments on the way to becoming a one-man band and an orchestrator: being a Gigaom analyst, serving Fortune 500, startups and NGOs as a consultant, building and managing projects, products and teams of all sizes and shapes, and getting involved in award-winning research among others. George runs Linked Data Orchestration: http://linkeddataorchestration.com

Andrew Brust has worked in the software industry for 25 years as a developer, consultant, entrepreneur and CTO, specializing in application development, databases and business intelligence technology. He has been a developer magazine columnist and conference speaker since the mid-90s, and a technology book writer and blogger since 2005. Andrew serves as Senior Director, Technical Product Marketing and Evangelism at Datameer, a big data analytics company.

Tony Baer, the founder and principal of dbInsight, is a recognized industry expert on data-driven transformation who advises cloud data platform providers on competitive positioning and product roadmaps. His combined expertise in both legacy database technologies and emerging cloud and analytics technologies shapes how technology providers go to market in an industry undergoing significant transformation. During his 10 years as a principal analyst at Ovum, he established successful research practices in the firm's fastest growing categories, including big data, cloud data management, and product lifecycle management. He led deep dive research on how cloud-native architectures are transforming data management. He originated the term "Fast Data" which has since become synonymous with real-time streaming analytics. Baer advised Ovum vendor clients regarding product roadmap, positioning, and messaging and helped them understand how to evolve data management and analytic strategies as the cloud, big data, and AI moved the goal posts. He provided strategic counsel to Ovum enterprise clients from the Fortune 100 to fast-growing privately held companies. Onalytica named him as one of its influencers for data, data management, and cloud in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Analytics Insight named him one of the 2019 Top 100 Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Influencers.