Singapore 2025
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Mike's research focuses on AI technologies, platforms, and practices that enable technology professionals to deliver applications that lead to prescient digital experiences and breakthrough operational efficiency. His key technology coverage areas are AI and emerging technologies that make software faster, smarter, and transformative for global enterprises and organizations. He advises business and technology leaders around the world on the intersection of business strategy, AI, and digital transformation. Mike has authored more than 130 research reports and is a recipient of the Forrester Courage Award for making bold calls that inspire Forrester clients to make great business and technology decisions.
He is a frequent and highly sought-after speaker at industry, corporate, and technology events for his audience-designed, insightful, and energetic speeches.
Mike provides technology vendors with actionable advisory sessions on technology buying trends, strategy advice, messaging, product roadmaps, and buyer personas for the areas he directly covers. He also offers “what-if” investment advisory for clients who wish to invest in or launch new products in the markets he covers.
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Head of Data Engineering at GoTo Group, where he leads the design and development of a modern data engineering platform supporting both real-time and batch processing for critical financial and payment use cases. His engineering philosophy emphasizes simplifying complex business challenges using cloud-native principles such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Data as a Service (DaaS), and event-driven architecture. He is a strong proponent of open-source technologies, working extensively with tools like Apache Flink, Kafka, Airflow, and more. He is also currently spearheading the cloud migration of GoTo’s data engineering platform, with a focus on building scalable, resilient, cost-efficient, and observable infrastructure.
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Head of Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Platform, responsible for the research and development of Apache Paimon & Apache Iceberg and its products, PMC Chair of Apache Paimon，PMC member of Apache Flink, Committer of Apache Iceberg.
Jingsong Lee have been engaged in distributed streaming computing, distributed batch computing, and lake storage, and currently focus on the technology of lakehouse.
