Sam Lightstone is an IBM Fellow and Master Inventor in the IBM Analytics group. He leads a number of technical teams in product development for relational databases, data warehousing & big data, cloud computing, analytics for IoT, data virtualization, ground to cloud data movement, and machine learning. He co-founded the IEEE Data Engineering Workgroup on Self-Managing Database Systems. Sam has more than 60 patents issued and pending and has authored four books and over 30 papers. Sam’s books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. You can follow Sam on social media. His Twitter handle is "samlightstone".