Gregory Floyd is an Enterprise Architect at Southern Company, where he provides strategic direction and technical consulting in cloud, IoT, integration, and data analytics. He architects and leads many key projects in the cloud including the most recent adoption of the lakehouse for data and analytics. As an inventor, Greg holds 10 patents registered with the USPTO. Greg has presented technical topics at several developer and technical conferences. Greg is an avid proponent for cloud and is actively engaged with Microsoft, Oracle, and other cloud providers.