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March 9-13, 2026
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Speakers

Sailesh KrishnamurthyVP, EngineeringGoogle Cloud

Sailesh Krishnamurthy is Vice President of Engineering at Google where he leads engineering for all Databases at Google Cloud and for all of Google’s services. He is an innovator and entrepreneur with 25+ years of experience in databases and the cloud. Before Google, Sailesh was GM for Aurora and RDS MySQL at Amazon preceded by a stint at Cisco Systems via the acquisition of Truviso, a real-time streaming data analytics software company that he co-founded. Sailesh is an authority in data management and is an author of over a dozen academic papers and several issued U.S. patents. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 2006.

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