Building an Enterprise Company in a Consumer World by Mike Olson (Cloudera)

The new world of consumer technology has completely transformed the expectations of users, and those expectations have now carried over to the world of enterprise IT. What should the builders of new enterprise software companies do to meet them? Mike Olson, a co-founder of Cloudera, has some answers.

Meet the speaker:

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Mike (@mikeolson) co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and served as its CEO until 2013 when he took on his current role of chief strategy officer (CSO.) As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera’s product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as vice president for Embedded Technologies after Oracle’s acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business positions at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has a Bachelor’s and a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Agenda:

6.00 - 6.45pm: Registration, Networking
6:45 - 7.00pm: Introductions
7:00 - 7:45pm: Talk by Mike
7:45 - 8.15pm: Q&A session
8.15 - 9.00pm: Networking