
David Silva
David William Silva is a Ph.D computer scientist. He is responsible for translating business strategies and objectives into efficient, user-friendly, secure, and privacy-preserving data-centric solutions to enable organizations to extract maximum value from data correctly. David started his career as a Software Engineer focused on web services and agile software development. This experience led him to be involved with several projects, from startups to government and large corporations in many different fields. After 17 years of conducting R&D in Brazil, David moved to the US to engage in scientific research applied to a global industry of security and privacy, which has been his focus for the past nine years.

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Tirthankar Lahiri
Tirthankar Lahiri is Vice President of the Data and In-Memory Technologies group for Oracle Database and is responsible for the Oracle Database Engine (including Database In-Memory, Data and Indexes, Space Management, Transactions, and the Database File System), the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database, and Oracle NoSQLDB. Tirthankar has 22 years of experience in the Database industry and has worked extensively in a variety of areas including Manageability, Performance, Scalability, High Availability, Caching, Distributed Concurrency Control, In-Memory Data Management, NoSQL architectures, etc. He has 27 issued and has several pending patents in these areas. Tirthankar has a B.Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.