Bede Hackney

Country Manager, Australia & New Zealand Databricks

With over 25 years of experience in the IT and security industries, Bede joined Databricks in November 2019 to bring his extensive expertise to help expand the company’s presence in Australia and New Zealand markets.

He is acutely focused on driving data innovation forward and helping the success of Australian and New Zealand customers in their digital transformation efforts with data and AI.

Prior to joining Databricks, Bede held Executive Leadership roles at Tenable, Nimble Storage, VMware, Citrix and Packeteer. In addition to Bede’s cross-technology leadership experience, he comes from a strong technical background - focused mainly in the networking arena where he holds a CCIE and was awarded a US patent for management of network quality of service.

Day 1 Agenda (November 5th)

10:50 AM Enabling Data and AI to Transform Your Business

Data is what fuels digital transformation. Artificial Intelligence unlocks the potential of data and hybrid multi-cloud is the platform to democratise the data. At Databricks, we believe that these three are symbiotic to breaking down silos within businesses, creating more agile and adaptive processes, and powering better decision making to capture entirely new opportunities. 

Combining AI with data, business analytics and automation under a strategic vision will transform every business function and process, thus underpinning a truly data-driven approach to innovation. Join Databricks in this session where we will define the 10 imperative steps to help organisations define and execute their data and AI strategy and allow them to unleash the value of their data in totally new ways, enabling them to:

  • Predict and shape future outcomes
  • Empower people to do higher value work
  • Create intelligent workflows that automate decisions and experiences
  • Re-imagine highly personalised business models

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Bede.

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