Neha Narkhede is Co-Founder and CEO of Oscilar, and one of America’s wealthiest self-made women, according to Forbes. Narkhede is co-creator of Apache Kafka – an open-source distributed streaming system used for stream processing, real-time data pipelines, and data integration at scale – and the co-founder of Confluent. Previously Neha led product and technology at Confluent, and before that, led the data streams charter at LinkedIn where she and her co-founders created Apache Kafka. Born and raised in Pune, India, Narkhede moved to the United States in 2006, where she earned a master’s in computer science from Georgia Institute of Technology.