Speaker – Mr Craig Stephen
Mr Craig Stephen
Executive Vice President,
Oracle
Biography
Craig Stephen is the Executive Vice President of Research & Development at Oracle. In a career spanning over 35 years, Craig has held numerous senior executive and technical leadership roles, as well as being technical advisor to Oracle’s executive team, including CTO Larry Ellison and CEO Safra Catz.
Craig’s leadership responsibilities at Oracle mirror his diverse interests, ranging from information security to theoretical computer science to the intersection of technology, policy, and the law. Specifically, Craig is responsible for:
- Oracle Labs – Oracle’s advanced research and development organization charged with the mission to identify, explore, and transfer new technologies to bring about greater efficiency and cost savings to Oracle’s customers.
- The Java Platform Group – responsible for developing and improving the world’s most widely used programming language, development platform, and runtime.
- The Software Assurance Group – responsible for creating and implementing advanced automated program analysis tools and techniques to ensure software and cloud infrastructure powered by Oracle are secure and free of defects.
- Corporate Security Architecture and Compliance – responsible for providing oversight in terms of cybersecurity design and architecture for new and existing Oracle products, while ensuring compliance with technical, legal, and licensing standards
Some of his key initiatives include machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies that underpin Oracle’s “self-driving” Autonomous Database, advanced anomaly detection systems that guard against cyberattacks; and large-scale SQL and graph-based analytic engines that outperform all competition.
Craig speaks frequently to Oracle customers, leads Oracle’s internal developer-centric Product Architecture Community (OPAC), and serves on the Board of the Bay Area Science and Innovation Consortium (BASIC). He is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a BS in Applied Mathematics.