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Ali Ghodsi

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CEO Databricks

Ali Ghodsi is the CEO and co-founder of Databricks, leading the company’s growth and international expansion. He previously served as VP of Engineering and Product Management before becoming CEO in January 2016. He is an adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and serves on the board of UC Berkeley’s RiseLab. Ghodsi helped create Apache Spark, and his research in resource management, scheduling, and data caching influenced Apache Mesos and Hadoop. He holds an MBA from Mid-Sweden University (2003) and a PhD in Distributed Computing from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2006).

Bio from: Databricks DATA + AI Summit 2023

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Thursday Keynote

2025-06-12 · Data + AI Summit 2025

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with Bilal Aslam (Databricks) , Michael Armbrust (Databricks) , Arsalan Tavakoli-Shiraji (Databricks) , Miranda Luna (Databricks) , Michael Flynn (Rivian) , Ken Wong (Databricks) , Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) , Keegan Dubbs (Databricks) , Matei Zaharia (Databricks) , Michelle Leon (Databricks) , Michael Piatek (Databricks)

Discover the latest advances on the Data Intelligence Platform and hear from the companies who are already enjoying success.

Wednesday Keynote

2025-06-11 · Data + AI Summit 2025

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with Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase) , Kasey Uhlenhuth (Databricks) , Justin DeBrabant (Databricks) , Greg Ulrich (Mastercard) , Richard Masters (Virgin Atlantic Airways) , Ali Ghodsi (Databricks) , Reynold Xin (Databricks) , Nikita Shamgunov (Neon) , Dario Amodei (Anthropic) , Holly Smith (Databricks) , Hanlin Tang (Databricks)

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