Data Lakes: Discovering, Governing And Transforming Raw Data Into Strategic Data Assets

Jiani Zhang is President of the Alliance and Industrial Solution Unit at Persistent Systems. Prior to this role, Jiani was the General Manager of Industrial Sector for Persistent Systems. Jiani has extensive experience in management consulting, marketing, product development and technology management. She also holds expertise in building and growing a business with P&L responsibility and leading teams in business strategy, offering & product development, go-to-market, and sales execution. Prior to Persistent, Jiani has also served as Director of Offering Management for IBM Watson IoT Platform and Head of Offering Strategy for IBM Industrial IoT where she pioneered the creation of the Industrial Analytics/AI IoT solutions.

E.G. Nadhan is the Chief Architect and Strategist for North America at Red Hat. He provides thought leadership on various concepts including cloud, blockchain, analytics and the Internet of Things (IoT) through multiple channels, including industry conferences, executive round tables and customer specific executive briefing sessions. With more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry—selling, delivering and managing enterprise solutions for global corporations—Nadhan engages in strategic dialog with IT decision makers and influencers across the ecosystem of customers and partners in North America to drive outcome-based differentiation with purposeful application of technologies.

Vikram is a Senior Director at MuleSoft. With over 20 years of rich experience in a variety of roles including development, architecture and functional analysis, he brings to the table diverse and cumulative experiences. In his current role, he creates digital transformation road-maps and strategies for customers across the globe.

Ranjeet Bhoyar leads the MuleSoft practice at Persistent Systems and also provides architectural insights, especially from integrations perspective, to other teams within the company, including the Salesforce team.

His team is responsible for everything integration. which includes API strategy, customer 360, legacy modernization, digital transformation, B2B and B2C integration patterns, micro services patterns, etc.