Edward Screven is executive vice president and chief corporate architect at Oracle. He leads the teams that drive innovative product strategy, engineering, operations, sales, and technical support for a wide range of Oracle products.

In his role as chief corporate architect, Edward is responsible for technology and architecture decisions across all Oracle products and leads companywide strategic initiatives, including industry standards and security. He is responsible for Oracle Labs, which identifies, explores, and transfers new technologies that have the potential to substantially improve Oracle’s—and customers’—business. He’s responsible for many of Oracle’s best-known open source programs including Java, Oracle Linux, MySQL, and VirtualBox.

Edward studied computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and continues to enjoy programming in his personal time.

Nipun Agarwal is senior vice president of MySQL database and HeatWave development at Oracle. His interests include data processing, machine learning, and cloud computing. Prior to this role, Nipun directed a number of research initiatives at Oracle Labs that resulted in the introduction of new Oracle products, including MySQL HeatWave.

Joining Oracle in 1994, Nipun was initially a member of Oracle Database team for several years. He holds an MS in computer science and has been awarded more than 185 patents.

Vitor Freitas is Cofounder and CTO of Estuda.com, a startup that is revolutionizing education in Brazil. Estuda.com provides an online platform that optimizes the learning process for more than 8 million users, including students, teachers, and school systems. He is a serial entrepreneur who cofounded several digital companies over the last 20 years.