Zhamak Dehghani works with Thoughtworks as the director of emerging technologies in North America, with a focus on distributed systems and big data architecture, with a deep passion for decentralized technology solutions. She founded the concept of Data Mesh in 2018, a paradigm shift in big data management toward data decentralization, and has been evangelizing the concept with the wider industry. She's the author of the book "Data Mesh: Delivering Data-Driven Value at Scale".