This document discusses a presentation by Sanjay Goil on data-driven microservices. Sanjay leads product management for messaging and events data in the database at Oracle. The presentation will cover how microservices can become complex but can be simplified using the right persistence layer. It provides examples of how a modern mobile food delivery application could be built using microservices with a converged database for transactions, data, AI/ML. Upcoming sessions will cover the architecture of data-driven microservices with a converged database, Kubernetes and Helidon on Oracle Cloud.