Nikita Shamgunov presented on the Real-Time Chief Data Officer and the cloud-forward path to predictive analytics. He discussed how MemSQL provides a modern data architecture that enables real-time access to all data, flexible deployments across public/private clouds, and a 360 view of the business without data silos. He showcased several customer use cases that demonstrated transforming analytics from weekly to daily using MemSQL and reducing latency from days to minutes. Finally, he proposed strategies for building a hybrid cloud approach and real-time analytics infrastructure to gain faster historical insights and predictive capabilities.