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Decode Summit
Data As Infrastructure Decoded
November 12, 2025 | One Day. Three Sessions. Endless Insight.
June 16–19, 2025
Data As Infrastructure Decoded
Data has become the backbone of modern enterprise infrastructure—fueling everything from AI models to mission-critical workloads. But as data volumes surge and architectures evolve, organizations are redefining how data is stored, scaled, secured, and activated.
Join The Six Five Media’s Decode Summit for a focused one-day deep dive on Data as Infrastructure, featuring exclusive analyst-led conversations with technology leaders from Snowflake, Qlik, and Elastic. Together, they’ll decode how next-gen data platforms are powering smarter pipelines, accelerating AI readiness, and reshaping enterprise architecture for agility, trust, and innovation.
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Carl is a Senior Director of Product Management and Head of Analytics at Snowflake, and joined Snowflake as an inspired customer. Previous to Snowflake, he was the General Manager for Square’s Developer Platform, Group Product Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, and an Engineering Manager at AWS S3. Outside of work, Carl enjoys exercise and spending time on the beach. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.
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Steve Kearns is the GM of Search Solutions, bringing 20+ years of experience, including information extraction/retrieval, search technologies, analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. He has extensive expertise in large-scale distributed systems, product strategy, and open-source leadership. Known for his innovative approach, Steve has a strong track record of leading teams to deliver impactful, cutting-edge solutions across these domains.
Sharad is a data & analytics thought leader, strategic thinker, and technologist specializing in GenAI, Data Products / Data Mesh, Data Integration, Data Governance and Cloud. In his current role as Field CTO for Data in Americas at Qlik, Sharad Kumar is responsible for technical leadership, customer engagement, sales support, and providing input and feedback to product development around Qlik’s diverse portfolio of data integration and data quality products.
Sharad brings over three decades of extensive experience in the technology sector, with a predominant focus on Data and Cloud solutions. Prior to joining Qlik, Sharad was the founder of Mozaic Data, pioneering the development of an innovative Data Product Experience platform designed to enable organizations to build, secure, govern, deploy, and manage domain-centric data products in the cloud. Prior to that, as Global CTO of Accenture’s Data & AI group, Sharad worked with some of the largest data-driven customers assisting them with their data strategy and transformation to Cloud.
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How Snowflake Is Building the Future of Data Intelligence with AI - Decode Summit Keynote
Carl Perry, Senior Director of Product Management at Snowflake, joins Brad Shimmin to discuss how Snowflake is blending open data standards, native AI tools, and unified governance to shape the future of enterprise data intelligence.
How Elastic Is Expanding Data Observability for the AI Era - Six Five Decode Summit
Steve Kearns, GM of Search Solutions at Elastic, joins Brad Shimmin to discuss how Elastic is redefining AI search, context engineering, and developer experience to help enterprises build smarter, more relevant AI applications from day one.
How Qlik is Enabling Modern AI Initiatives
Sharad Kumar, Field CTO – Data at Qlik, joins host Brad Shimmin to offer insights on how Qlik’s Open Lakehouse on Apache Iceberg empowers enterprises to operationalize AI, streamline data management, and achieve significant cost efficiencies.
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Carl is a Senior Director of Product Management and Head of Analytics at Snowflake, and joined Snowflake as an inspired customer. Previous to Snowflake, he was the General Manager for Square’s Developer Platform, Group Product Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, and an Engineering Manager at AWS S3. Outside of work, Carl enjoys exercise and spending time on the beach. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and two children.