Ari
Kaplan

Ari is Databrick's Global Head of Evangelism, and a leading influencer in data, AI, and sports analytics. “The Real Moneyball guy”, the popular movie was partly based on Ari’s analytical and scouting experiences innovating Major League Baseball, and later creating the Cubs, Dodgers, and Orioles analytics departments. He is coauthor of “The Data Intelligence Platform for Dummies”, a DataIQ “Top 20 Influencer in AI” 2024, and was President of the worldwide Oracle users group (22,000 members) when Oracle acquired MySQL, Java, and Peoplesoft. Before Databricks, he traveled the world with McLaren Formula 1, assisting the racing strategy team to bring AI models to production. He is also President of the Independent Investigation into the Fate of Raoul Wallenberg, Sweden's humanitarian hero, leveraging data analytics to find missing prisoners.