Demystifying the Cloud Data Journey
Speakers
Olivier Klein
Chief Technologist, Asia-Pacific & Japan
Amazon Web Services
Olivier’s expertise in IT architectures, Internet technologies, and software engineering paved the two decades for him helping businesses make the most of most out of technologies such as cloud computing to solve business struggles and adapt to a data-driven business model. Olivier has been working for AWS across Asia-Pacific and Europe to help customers implement architectural best practices and be successful in their digital transformation journey. In addition he advises how emerging technologies in the Artificial Intelligence (AI), ML, robotics and IoT space can help create new products, make existing processes more efficient and leverage new engagement channels for end-consumers. Prior to his AWS time, Olivier ran the digital product strategy for an American multinational publishing and education company across Asia and led engineering and R&D efforts to build a virtualised web service platform for a Luxembourgish Internet Service Provider pre-cloud era. Olivier has a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences Trier, and a masters degree from the National University of Singapore majoring in Software Engineering.
Kenneth Cheung
Principal Solution Engineer
Confluent
Kenneth Cheung has over 20-year experience in the IT industry. Mission is to help enterprises transform with Digital First strategy. He has been one of the pioneers who brought Real-time Event Streaming, Big Data analytics and Data Discovery solutions to the APAC markets. For the last 10+ years, he has been focusing on educating Greater China markets with a change of the way we do business analysis and has successfully brought Data Discovery into numerous enterprises ranging from Financial Services, Retail and Manufacturing. Largest project touches the hands of over thousands of users in a single enterprise. Prior to Business Analytics, Kenneth has spent over 5 years in the field of Information Security consulting where he secured many enterprises by delivering consultancy and audit services.
Dexter Chan
Cloud Specialist, APAC Enterprise Data Product Development
Bloomberg L.P.
James Richard Barrett
Quantitative Solutions Specialist
Bloomberg
James R. Barrett, CFA is a Quantitative Solutions Specialist based in Hong Kong. He worked in banks and hedge funds for over ten years before joining Bloomberg in 2017 to promote a more systematic approach to investing for our buy-side clients in North Asia. He specialises in automating fundamental investment research processes such as valuation, factor scoring and portfolio construction.
Cory Albert
Global Head of Cloud Strategy
Bloomberg L.P.