Salesforce is pleased to partner with analyst and blogger Michael Krigsman on CxOTalk, his web-based video show which brings together the top CIOs, CMOs, and Chief Digital Officers in the world for insightful conversation. On May 13 at 12:00PM Pacific Time/3PM Eastern Time, Michael will host on CXOTalk, Salesforce executives Adam Bosworth, Chief Strategic Officer, and Gary Flake, CTO Search and Data Science, for a conversation entitled, “Data & The Internet of Things.” No two topics are more top of mind so this should make for a fascinating discussion. Adam and Gary will wrestle with some of the following questions:

- What is the relationship between IoT, data, and meaningful change in business and the world?

- What happened because of the Internet?

- Where is machine learning headed?

- What is the AI apocalypse?

- Why does all this matter, who will it affect, and what should they do?

- What has Salesforce learned from customers?

- What is a customer-centric company?

Adam Bosworth has had a first row seat to most of the major technology shifts over the last 30 years and has been asking his trademark “dumb” questions along the way. The New York Times profiled Adam earlier this year. After Harvard, he developed the Quattro spreadsheet application at Borland and moved on to Microsoft where he designed the Access PC database. Landing at Google in 2004, Adam spearheaded the development of Google docs. Marc Benioff persuaded Adam to join Salesforce in 2013 where he has been busy at work building the technology behind IoT Cloud which was announced at Dreamforce last year. IoT Cloud allows users to listen to the world, connecting to any source, giving them the data to create 360 degree views of their customers to enable engagement of the right customer at the right time in the right way. The Thunder real-time event processing engine powers IoT Cloud.

Gary Flake owns the vision, strategy, and technology for the largest enterprise search engine in the world at Salesforce, while also leading the data science strategy for the engineering organization. He is well known for his work at Omniture and Yahoo in the early 2000s, where he helped pioneer the paid search business model. Later he joined Microsoft where he was a Technical Fellow looking into Internet products and technologies. Gary also joined Salesforce in 2013 where he is a thought leader in data science and machine learning. He sees a future where smart machines can work with humans, augmenting their capabilities and raising the IA of the average person.

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