Karan Batta is Senior Vice President of Product at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). He is responsible for strategic product initiatives, including GPU, AI, and Multi-cloud. Karan’s organization also supports OCI’s largest and most strategic customers, ensuring that OCI is delivering the right services and features to those customers as well as implementing the operational workflows necessary to make Oracle’s customers successful.
Karan joined Oracle in 2017 as one of the first members of OCI working to define the core product portfolio, including compute, storage, and networking. He has held many roles within OCI that expanded OCI’s product portfolio, including leading roles running compute, GPU, platform features, multi-cloud products, and OCI’s GTM strategy.
Prior to joining Oracle, Karan worked in the core engineering team at Microsoft as part of Microsoft Azure Compute, where he worked on AI infrastructure such as GPUs and FPGAs, along with managing batch services. Before Microsoft, he was an early part of a startup called GreenButton in New Zealand that provided visual effects services on multiple cloud providers. GreenButton was acquired by Microsoft. Karan is based in Seattle, WA.
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The New Rules of the Cloud: AI and Multicloud
Savvy cloud providers have always met customers where they are. But they’ve also led the way as new opportunities for innovation, cost savings, and business success emerge. OCI’s approach to AI, multicloud, and distributed cloud are out-innovating the market. In this session, Karan Batta, senior vice president of OCI, discusses how OCI rewrote the cloud rules to unlock the value of the cloud for global enterprises and startups.



