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Decode Summit
Data As Infrastructure Decoded
November 12, 2025 | One Day. Three Sessions. Endless Insight.
June 16–19, 2025
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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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A Conversation with IonQ's Niccolo De Masi
In this in-depth conversation with Niccolo De Masi, CEO at IonQ, we explore the evolving landscape of quantum computing and its intersection with artificial intelligence. The discussion provides a clear-eyed look at the current "quantum state of the union," where IonQ stands relative to its roadmap, and the strategic partnerships and milestones shaping its trajectory. De Masi offers investors and technologists insight into how IonQ is innovating at the edge of what's possible—particularly in linking quantum advances with AI acceleration. The session concludes with a forward-looking view on the pace of progress in the quantum space, and what key indicators to watch as the industry moves from experimentation to enterprise impact.
Accelerating Energy-Efficient Computing
While AI is positioned to unlock unprecedented gains in global productivity, constructing the computing superstructure will significantly alter the demand curve for energy. To enable continued progress in high-performance computing, the semiconductor industry needs to deliver a 10,000 times improvement in the energy efficiency of data center hardware over the next 15 years. During this discussion, Tristan Holtam, Group Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development at Applied Materials, will outline a path for the industry to deliver high-velocity innovation in the foundational manufacturing technologies that form the building blocks of the AI era.
Accelerating Intelligence at the Edge
In this session, Esam Elashmawi, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer of Lattice Semiconductor, and Daniel Newman, CEO at the Futurum Group, will discuss the growing need for flexibility and power efficiency in Edge to Cloud computing applications, and the silicon and software innovation enabling key industry trends around AI, connectivity, and security, and more, in the Communications, Computing, Industrial, and Automotive markets.
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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.