Charles Xie is an expert in database and AI with more than 20 years of experience. He is the founder and CEO of Zilliz, an open-source software company developing unstructured database systems for AI applications. He is also serving as the board chairperson of LF AI & Data, an umbrella foundation of the Linux Foundation supporting open-source innovations in artificial intelligence, big data and analytics. Before Zilliz, Charles worked many years at Oracle US headquarters, where he was developing Oracle’s relational database systems and then became a founding member of the Oracle 12c cloud database project. The project proves to be a huge business success and has accumulated a revenue of over $10 billion to date. Charles holds a master’s degree in computer science from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a bachelor’s degree from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.