Ari Kaplan, head of 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” and IBM “Data Science Celebrity”