About

Tim Gasper is VP of Product at data.world, home of the most recommended cloud-native, SaaS enterprise data catalog, and co-founder and CEO of Opulent, smarter, deeper marketing insights.

Previously, Tim was Director of Product, Data & Analytics at Janrain, the world's leading customer identity management platform, acquired by Akamai in 2019, and Co-founder at Ponos, a fully automated, IoT hydroponics solution for growing food at home and urban farming.

He also served as Director of Product & Marketing at Bitfusion, the world's first end-to-end deep learning and AI development and infrastructure management platform, acquired by VMware, and Global Portfolio Manager for CSC Big Data and Analytics, where he was responsible for the product team and the strategy, roadmap, partnerships, and technology architecture for the Big Data and Analytics product portfolio.

Tim joined CSC via acquisition of Infochimps, where he was VP of Product leading their open data marketplace and Big Data Platform as a Service. Infochimps pioneered the Hadoop and Spark as a Service market with deployment to any public or private cloud environment, and provided developers and data scientists the fastest and easiest path to creating business-impacting analytics and data applications.

Before that, Tim founded Keepstream, a social media analytics and curation startup, that was acquired by Infochimps in 2011.

Tim has over 12 years of product management and product marketing experience across software, SaaS, and AI and analytics products, and is a writer and speaker on entrepreneurship, lean startup methodology, and big data analytics.

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Check out the podcast I co-host, an honest, no-BS, non-salesy conversation about enterprise data management: Catalog & Cocktails

An example video episode from our podcast, on Data Mesh vs Data Fabric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYQjb_Kc5aQ

Some examples of presentations I've done:

Robot Farmers and chefs: In the field and in your kitchen - O’Reilly [50:00]

Democratize Food: Bringing Food Production Into the 21st Century [6:45]

Getting to Insights Faster: A Framework for Agile Big Data [58:49]

Top Strategies for Successful Big Data Projects [56:22]

Real-Time Analytics Use Cases and the Architectures Behind Them [20:55]

5 Big Data Use Cases [1:00:56]
 

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