Businesses of every size are challenged by the demand for ‘digital transformation’. As business units increasingly expect a consumer-like experience from internal IT, integrating on-premises infrastructure with agile cloud environments presents serious data management challenges. DX is a process, not a single project, and that’s where many challenges lie. And that’s what we’re going to talk about today, with me is Piet Loubser, VP Product and Solutions Marketing at Hortonworks.

• How to manage multi-cloud environments
• The need for enterprise-wide commitment
• Mobility and digital transformation
• Transforming products, processes and the customer experience
• Digital transformation for the Dev Team: Cloud, DevOps and the agile data environment

Bio: Piet Loubser serves as Vice President of Product and Solutions Marketing at Hortonworks where he is responsible for the positioning and GTM of the entire Hortonworks product and solution portfolio. His professional career includes more than 30 years in the Hi-Tech industry driving product, market and business development strategies in numerous companies transforming technology vision and GTM to accelerate growth. Prior to Hortonworks, Piet held executive leadership positions in marketing and sales at Informatica, HP, SAP and Business Objects. During his time at Business Objects and Informatica he was part of the leadership team that drove the strategies to grow and scale the companies growing from mid-size into market leaders with more a $1bn in annual revenues. Piet holds a B.S. degree in computer science and applied mathematics from the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa.