Bob Dutcher
VP, Product Marketing - Analytics & Big Data, Oracle

Bob Dutcher is Vice President of Product Marketing for Oracle and is responsible for global customer adoption of Oracle Analytics and Big Data solutions. Mr. Dutcher has over 20 years of experience working with data, analytics, and finance teams across the globe to transform organizations with the power of data. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Dutcher led domestic and global product management and marketing teams at various companies, such as Moody’s Analytics, SPSS, Cartesis, and Business Objects. Mr. Dutcher is passionate about data, analytics and machine learning and presents at conferences around the world to impart his vision about the power of data, machine learning and analytics.

Nickoria L. Johnson
Sr. Director, IT Plan and Build, Alliance Data Systems

Strategic, results-oriented professional with 25+ years of experience in Technology Leadership, Consulting and Portfolio Management, with an earned reputation as a strong decision maker, polished executive, and “out-of-the-box” thinker. Proven track record for leading IT strategic transformation efforts, governing and optimizing multi-million dollar technology portfolios, defining and implementing change management initiatives, and establishing deep partnerships with business teams and vendor partners. Believes in a “people first” approach to leading teams and client service. Challenge-driven and ambitious with exceptional client service, communication, leadership and interpersonal skills.

Michael Morales
CEO and Founder, QMP

Prior to co-founding Quality Metrics Partners, Michael spent ten years in healthcare sales and management, specifically post-acute home healthcare, durable medical equipment, respiratory device, sleep and neurodiagnostics. Michael also served as a home health representative and participant in the Pioneer Plus Medicare Accountable Care Organization. Patient outcomes, statistics, healthcare business, and corporate level relationships are his forte. Most recently, Michael co-founded CAREiQ, providing a technology solution for QMP’s family of companies.
Michael completed his undergraduate work in Pre-Medicine/Science Studies at The University of Notre Dame as well as completed Post-Baccalaureate Business/Science studies at University of Texas at Arlington. Michael enjoys spending time traveling with his wife and three children.

Kenny Gorman
CEO & Founder – Eventador

Kenny has decades of experience with various database platforms behind some of the busiest companies in the world. He has had roles as Architect, Director, Manager, Developer, and DBA. He was a key member of the early teams that scaled Paypal and then eBay on Oracle. He ran one of the busiest PostgreSQL installations in the world at Hi5 and was an early adopter of MongoDB using it for various large projects at Shutterfly. He is an active member in the PostgreSQL community and scaled Hi5 from just a few servers to dozens running multi-terabye workloads on SSD and SAN backends. He has contributed to the early versions of pg_reorg, and wrote the pgstat2 utility as well as other tools and performance techniques. He’s been blogging about databases including PostgreSQL for years. He has been an active MongoDB community member, speaker, MongoDB evangelist, and now Mongo Master. In 2011 he formed the MongoDB as a Service provider ObjectRocket with colleagues from eBaY. ObjectRocket was acquired by Rackspace in 2012. Currently, Kenny is a Founder at Eventador.io, a streaming data service based on Apache Kafka. He is focused on building innovative data services to power the next generation of applications that must aggregate, mutate, filter, and join data in real time.