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Alistair has been an entrepreneur, author, and public speaker for nearly 20 years. He’s worked on a variety of topics—from web performance, to big data, to cloud computing, to startups—in that time. In 2001, he co-founded web performance startup Coradiant (acquired by BMC in 2011), and since that time has also launched Rednod, CloudOps, Bitcurrent, Year One Labs, and several other early-stage companies.

Alistair chairs O’Reilly Media's Strata + Hadoop World and the International Startup Festival, and founded the Bitnorth conference. A sought-after speaker on technology and entrepreneurship, he’s written four books including the best-selling Lean Analytics which is being translated into eight languages. He is also an active advisor to several startup accelerators including Founderfuel and The Hive. His latest project, Tilt the Windmill looks at how large organizations balance sustainable growth with disruptive innovation.