John DesJardins is currently Chief Solutions Officer at Hazelcast, the most advanced real-time data platform. His expertise in large scale computing spans Machine Learning, Big Data, Internet of Things, and Cloud. He also has over 25 years of experience in architecting and implementing global scale computing solutions with top Global 2000 companies while at Hazelcast, Cloudera, Software AG and webMethods. He holds a BS in Economics from George Mason University, where he first built predictive models, long before that was considered cool.