Future of Databases

Brian Aker is the Director of Technology for MySQL. At MySQL he helps set direction for technology and looks for opportunies to harness and shape the MySQL database for efforts in Web, OEM, and Telephony. In his copious amounts of free time he works on Apache and Perl modules, and hacks on the Asterisk Telephony System (hence never has a working home phone number). In the past, he has been involved with projects for the Army Engineer Corps, The Virtual Hospital, Splunk, and Slashdot. He lives in Seattle with his dog Rosalynd.

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David Campbell is a Microsoft Technical Fellow working in the Data Storage Platform division where he is responsible for driving technical strategy and architecture of Microsoft SQL Server and other storage products. He also helps drive architectural alignment across Microsoft’s Server and Tools division. Dave’s current projects and interests include extreme scale data processing and programmatic data services.

Campbell joined Microsoft in 1994 as a developer and architect on the SQL Server Storage Engine team that was principally responsible for rewriting the core engine of SQL Server for SQL Server Version 7.0. He has held a variety of roles within the SQL Server division, including product level architect, and General Manager of product development.

Prior to Microsoft, Campbell worked at Digital Equipment Corporation on the DEC Rdb and DEC DBMS product development teams.

Campbell holds several patents in the data management, schema and software quality realms. He is a frequent speaker at industry and research conferences on a wide variety of data management and software development topics.

Dave lives in Sammamish, WA with his wife Marcia and two teenage sons.

Matt Domo is the General Manager for Amazon SimpleDB at Amazon Web Services where he sets the business and technical product strategy for Amazon SimpleDB. Matt also helps drive product and technical alignment with the other the utility computing components of the Amazon Web Services platform.

Matt joined Amazon in 2005 as Director of Enterprise Commerce Services where he lead the engineering efforts for Enterprise multi-channel technology solutions. Prior to Amazon, Matt worked at Microsoft Corporation in senior engineering positions on the SQL Server, bCentral, and Speech Server product development teams.

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Alistair is a principal at analyst firm Bitcurrent, and a frequent contributor to the GigaOm family of sites. Prior to Bitcurrent, Alistair co-founded Coradiant, a leader in online user monitoring, as well as research firm Networkshop. He has held product management positions with 3Com Corporation, Primary Access, and Eicon Technology.

Alistair has coordinated and spoken at a wide range of industry events, including Interop, Structure, Web2Expo and Unconference. He is the author of numerous articles on Internet performance and security, and co-author of Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Applications from Prentice-Hall.

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