Xavier Lopez is Senior Director of Product Management in Oracle's Spatial and Graph products group.  Over the last 20 years he has played a key role championing the development of spatial and graph database technologies in Oracle. He is currently focusing on the development of Graph Cloud Services.  Xavier is a leading expert in Semantic Web technologies, Linked Data, Property Graph databases, and Spatial Analysis.  He holds advanced degrees in engineering and planning from University of Maine, MIT, and the University of California, Davis.  Xavier is past member of the Mapping Science Committee of the U.S. National Academy of Science that advises the nation on mapping activities.