Ari is Databrick's Global Head of Evangelism, and a leading influencer in AI, databases, and sports analytics. “The Real Moneyball guy”, the popular movie was partly based on Ari’s analytical and scouting experiences innovating Major League Baseball, and later creating the Cubs, Dodgers, and Orioles analytics departments. His background in data includes having been President of the worldwide Oracle users group (22,000 members) when Oracle acquired MySQL, Java, and Peoplesoft. Before Databricks, he traveled the world with McLaren Formula 1, assisting the racing strategy team to bring AI models to production.