Breaking Data Barriers

Frank Slootman currently serves as Chairman and CEO at Snowflake. Frank has over 25 years of experience as an entrepreneur and executive in the enterprise software industry. Mr. Slootman served as CEO and President of ServiceNow from 2011 to 2017, taking the organization from around $100M in revenue, through an IPO, to $1.4B. Prior to that, Frank served as President of the Backup Recovery Systems Division at EMC following an acquisition of Data Domain Corporation/Data Domain, Inc., where he served as the Chief Executive Officer and President, leading the company through an IPO to its acquisition by EMC for $2.4B. Slootman holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Netherlands School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Matt is an industry leader in enterprise data platforms. For over 20 years, he led the development of business-critical analytics platforms at Goldman Sachs. As a Managing Director, he was responsible for the entire data platform of Goldman’s $1T asset management business. Matt also co-led Goldman’s risk management platform where his team built Goldman’s first, company-wide data warehouse that helped it navigate the 2008 financial crisis.In 2015, Matt joined Snowflake to run Product Management and then went on to launch the Snowflake Data Marketplace. Today, Matt leads the Financial Services business globally where he is driving customer and product strategy for one of Snowflake’s most important industry verticals.

Randy started learning about computers in 1974. Since computers were tough to come by in the 70’s, Randy joined the Silicon Valley-based Homebrew Computer Club – an informal group to learn more about computers, share tips and trade electronic parts. At age 15, young Randy wasn’t yet old enough to drive himself to the Homebrew meetings and another member of the group, Steve Wozniak offered him a lift.

In 1977, at the urging of his carpool buddy, Randy joined a new company called Apple Computer as their first software engineer and employee #6. While at Apple, Randy wrote MacWrite, the world’s first WYSIWYG word processor, for the launch of the Macintosh in 1984. Randy’s career spans many of Silicon Valley’s most notable companies such as E*TRADE, Ebay and Google. Randy joined Square in 2011, and now runs the Platform and Infrastructure Engineering group (PIE) – responsible for much of Square’s underlying platform and infrastructure.

Flo is a tech enthusiast who loves leveraging modern tools and techniques to transform the way we do business. Flo currently leads the Engineering function at Quantium, he’s passionate about bringing to life complex systems in the most pragmatic ways. Prior to Quantium, Flo had a rich journey throughout the software industry in Europe from high frequency trading to start up creation.

Martin is leading the digital transformation of the Integrated Gas business within Origin. As a certified professional AWS Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer he employs a wide range of skills with specialty expertise in cloud architecture, cloud migration, systems architecture, software development and team management. With over 18 years’ experience as a system and solution architect, Martin has designed and led the delivery of major information, communications and software development projects to successful delivery for many large scale business and government organisations. He is considered an expert in the field of cloud architecture, machine learning, big data analytics and in-field communication systems.