Jeeva AKR leads the global sales strategy and execution for Cloud Scale Analytics business at Microsoft and is responsible for accelerating the growth of our Azure Cloud Scale Analytics portfolio. He is a thought leader in Data, Analytics and AI, and a frequent speaker at conferences on the topics related to Federated Analytics on distributed data, AI?ML and future with systems of systems communications with IIOT. Jeeva joined Microsoft from Dell Technologies where he worked as Global Head of Emerging Technologies (AI/ML, Analytics, IIOT). Prior to Dell, Jeeva was founder and CEO of his startup Electron Database Corporation, a real time analytical database technology company. Jeeva built this company from idea to acquisition by raising 3 rounds of venture capital and was recognized as an Entrepreneur of Year by TiE and E&Y for his effort.