Torsten Steinbach is the Chief Architect for Analytics and AI at EDB. He is uplifting Postgres towards a platform for analytics and AI workloads, augmenting and extending it with enterprise-level Data Lakehouse and AI functionality. Torsten previously held senior positions in engineering of cloud, database and analytics technology. He has been a Distinguished Engineer at IBM and CTO for Big Data in Cloud. He has also been the lead architect for IBM's enterprise database performance tooling as well as in-database Data Science & Machine Learning, for instance via deep embedding of Apache Spark. Torsten lives and breathes data and he is an experienced speaker in setting bold visions for database technology, data analytics, data science and AI and more in order to excite teams to pursue and deliver in complex endeavours.