Ari
Kaplan

Ari Kaplan, head of technical evangelism at Databricks, is a leading influencer in AI, databases, and analytics. He is most known for innovating sports analytics by creating the Cubs and Dodgers analytics departments and traveling the world with McLaren's Formula 1 team. His datawarehouse leadership includes President of the worldwide Oracle users group when they acquired MySQL, Java, and Peoplesoft. He was awarded Caltech’s “Alumni of the Decade”, IBM “Data Science Celebrity”, and a 2024 DataIQ Top Influencer.