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Pushpendra Arora

Job Title: Director, Data Platform & Vis Analytics

Company: Novartis

Pushpendra Arora leads Data Platform and Visual Analytics for the Novartis Oncology Business unit. As part of his role he is responsible for strategizing and leading the data enablement and visual analytics initiatives across the commercial domain in US Oncology. Pushpendra joined Novartis in 2019 and has held roles of increasing responsibility resulting in extensive cross-cultural, functional experience in commercial Data and Insights domain.

Albert Mestre

Job Title: Associate Director Visual Analytics

Company: Novartis

Albert Mestre has vast experience leading reporting and Visual Analytics projects throughout his career, translating business needs into actionable analytic-focused visualization initiatives to provide solutions and recommendations to enable business excellence. As a member of the Visual Analytics team in Novartis Oncology Business unit, Albert leads solution architecture, delivery and quality assurance for all visualization tools development and operations.

Tyler Osterman

Company: SDG Group

I've been with SDG for a little over 2 1/2 years and working with Novartis for the last 2 years. We've used QlikSense to help transform the reporting infrastructure and environment from PPT to individual brand applications with a user intervention data model to an omnichannel reporting suite mashup approach to help revolutionize how Brands interact, explore, and investigate their data.

Mariel Aseron

Job Title: BI Analytics Administration Manager

Company: AdventHealth

Mariel Aseron, graduated the University of Florida, obtaining both B.S. in Computer and Information Sciences and M.S. in Decision and Information Sciences. As a native of the Philippines and surrounded by strong women mainly focused in the medical field, she stepped out of tradition and studied art and technology. Mariel’s professional career began working with PwC Atlanta, under the Advisory Practice. She mainly focused on data management in the Financial and Healthcare sectors. This led to other opportunities within various healthcare systems within the Southeast Region. Mariel returned to Florida in 2014, joining AdventHealth IT Corporate Data Analytics department, and now manages the BI application infrastructure platforms utilized by the organization. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, Gator sports, and camping.

Derek Emlet

Job Title: Manager

Derek Emlet is an experienced Data and Analytics consultant, solution architect, and futurist. Driven by a passion for creating a data driven future, he takes pride in telling stories using data, building high performing teams and technology solutions.

Eva Henry

Job Title: Associate Director - Quality Systems & Compliance

Company: Merck

Eva Henry is an accomplished QA professional with 17+ years of Quality and Compliance experience and 10+ years of management leadership. Eva has been with Merck for 3 years and has partnered with a specialized IT team to create a simplified, integrated, digitized business tool that empowers Quality leaders to make data driven business decisions. Eva's professional experience extends to the clinical settings, previously providing quality oversight of the manufacturing of cell and gene biotherapeutics targeting a variety of disease indications. Accomplishments in this setting include streamlining the release of clinical products for Cell Therapy clinical trials. Eva has a B.S. in Biotechnology from Rutgers University, a M.S. in Biotechnology Management form University of Maryland, and Graduate Certificate in Clinical Trials Informatics from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Elsa Roman

Job Title: Director - Quality Systems & Compliance

Company: Merck

Oscar Smith

Job Title: Associate Director - Manufacturing Analytics

Company: Merck

For over 20 years, Oscar Smith has worked in the Data and Analytics space. In the past few years, Oscar has been focused on leading digital transformation initiatives as a Modern Data Product Owner at Merck. In his current position, Oscar was responsible for leading the implementation of a new Analytical Product used to support Manufacturing leaders at Merck.

Mike Ellis

Job Title: Director, Customer Success

Company: GINQO

Robin Sarkar is Senior Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics at IronRidge, where he develops the long-term business intelligence strategy and vision for the company and oversees the development and implementation of Data Analytics and Data Science projects. Since joining the company in 2014, Robin has lead the charge on various company-wide initiatives, included the overhaul of the entire S&OP process, developing tools that support customer advocacy and partnerships. Robin holds an MBA degree from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai. In his spare time Robin enjoys sports, amateur photography and spending time with his growing family.

Manon Lavergne

Job Title: Program Manager, Operational Support Services

Company: Ottawa Paramedic Service

Manon is a Program Manager with the Ottawa Paramedic Service located in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario. The Ottawa Paramedic Service is the sole municipal provider of paramedic services covering 2,778 km2 (1,072 sq. mi) with a population of just under 1,000,000. Ottawa’s Paramedics respond to over 140,000 medical emergencies annually. Manon is responsible for the Operational Support Services division, overseeing the Business Intelligence in Public Safety program, Community Paramedicine, Regulatory Compliance and Infection Control, Research, Emergency Medical Records, Professional Standards and quality assurance as well as the scheduling and staffing. Over the last 25 years, Manon helped evaluate, develop and implement several initiatives related to system performance. Most recently the operationalization of the Patient Priority System dashboard using real-time data has been a significant collaborative project aiming to reduce the impact on the pre-hospital system particularly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

Rocco leads Technical Product Marketing and go-to-market strategies for the technical and developer-centric components of Qlik’s Data Analytics product portfolio. Prior to Qlik, Rocco lead implementation teams and deployed Qlik across several industries and use cases such as Energy and smart meter networks, Pharmaceutical commercial operations, Retail supply-chain digitalization, and more. Rocco enjoys helping customers evolve and transform through the combination of technology and analytics prowess.

Paul Peterson

Job Title: Sr Director Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy & Compliance - Qlik Cloud Government

Company: Qlik

Paul Peterson is Sr. Director of Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform . Paul has been with Qlik for over three years and has Product Management responsibility for Security, Compliance, Privacy and Special Markets. Paul is also Product Manager for Qlik's U.S. Public sector SaaS offering, Qlik Cloud Government. Paul has over 20 years in Product Management spanning many disciplines and markets ranging from Analytics, to Performance & Capacity Management, Identity Management and Cloud Management.