After 5 years at a startup in the UK I moved to the US and spent 5 years working on ANSI SQL support for multi-dimensional databases. In 1995, I moved to Sybase and became the query engine architect for the world's first commercial pure columnar database and chair of the TPC-H subcommittee.In 2005, I moved to Oracle, spending first 2 years in the Data Guard group at the last 10 years in the Data Storage Technologies where I am now the Architect for Exadata Smart Scan, co-owner of the table scan driver, and a member of both the In-Memory and Big Data SQL teams.
The conference is organized by the Croatian Association of Oracle users. More about the association can be found at Hroug.hr.