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Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy is a Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect in Qlik's Global Enablement, Architecture and Research (GEAR) team. Leigh has been with Qlik for more than 8 years. Working in roles both in Professional Services and pre-sales at Qlik, Leigh is focused on helping Qlik's customers successfully transition their Qlik environments to Qlik Cloud. Leigh is based in Sydney, Australia.

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.

Magnus Berg

Job Title: Lead Product Designer

Company: Qlik

I work today as Lead Product Designer for Facilitation within Qlik R&D. This means I'm part of designing the facilitation and administration experience within both Qlik's Saas and client managed offerings. This includes content lifecycle management, digital purchasing, license management and more.. I have worked within Qlik organisation since 2007, starting as Pre-sales architect thereby consultant and later promoted to Master principal architect within Qlik's global enablement team before moving to my current possession.

Thomas Hopp

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Cloud Native Platform

Company: QlikTech GmbH

I'm based in Germany and with Qlik now for more than 16 years where I'm working as a Director in our Product Management Team. Within my role I'm working with our Software development teams to drive our Roadmap and make sure that we are adding value to our clients. My areas of responsibility are Enterprise Security & Content Workflow across the whole Platform. And I always enjoy it talking to our clients about their ideas, thoughts and feedback. Looking forward to meet you all in person as soon as possible again, Thomas

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.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Michael Distler is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik and is responsible for messaging and go-to-market strategies related to catalog & lineage, Qlik Data Integration, Big Data and IoT. Prior to joining Qlik, Michael was responsible for product marketing of PTC’s Windchill PLM product line along with related solutions. Before that Michael held various marketing and consulting services leadership roles in several manufacturing and engineering software companies.

David Hufnagle

Job Title: Manager, Enterprise Data and Analytics

Company: Greene Tweed

Dave Hufnagle has over 30 years of I.T. experience. For the past 25+ years, that experience has been primarily focused in the Business Intelligence / Analytics space. As both an employee and a consultant, Dave has helped corporations in the Fortune 500 and smaller, private companies achieve performance results through analytics. Over the past 10 years, Dave has been leading organizations to the cloud by designing solutions in AWS and Azure. As a data and solutions architect, he has engineered solutions that focus on near real-time analytics. "We are used to having information available at our finger tips in real time. We should expect the same of our analytics solutions!"

Patric Nordström

Job Title: Product Manager, Qlik Sense Visualizations and GeoAnalytics

Company: Qlik

Patric Nordström was the CEO and co-founder of Idevio, the mapping company Qlik acquired in 2016. After the merger Patric became the product manager for Qlik GeoAnalytics and Qlik Sense visualizations. Idevio was founded in 2003 and provided state of the art geographic software products for decision support and resource planning to clients such as Volvo, Schenker and the Swedish Armed Forces. Patric has more than twenty years of experience of project management and geographic software production. He has two Master Degrees from Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University and lives on the west coast of Sweden with his wife and two children.

Nicole Tamms

Job Title: Senior Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

Nicole Tamms is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager within the global products organization at Qlik. Drawing upon more than 20 years of software industry experience, Nicole is focused on go-to-market strategy, enablement and content creation supporting customer retention and visualization capabilities. She has been with Qlik close to four years, after spending much of her career with Quest Software, where she drove product marketing for their flagship database and data prep tools the previous 12 years. Nicole holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from Long Beach State University. She is a Southern California native, currently living in Long Beach, CA with her husband, two children, pit bull mix Bowen, bearded dragon Spike, and guinea pig Freedom.

Trey Smith

Job Title: Vice President of Services

Company: DI Squared LLC

Trey Smith has over a decade of experience in the Data Analytics industry. A Qlik Luminary Alumni and Partner Ambassador who has worked with some of Qlik’s largest customers and implementations. Over the course of his career, he has lead and implemented hundreds of projects across a wide variety of industries, becoming a well-known name in the Qlik community. In addition to Qlik, he is an experienced software developer, data engineer and technology enthusiast. His focus is to provide value through innovation and expertise.

Clive Bearman

Job Title: Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Piet-Michiel Rappelet

Job Title: Senior Product Manager Qlik Application Automation

Piet-Michiel Rappelet is the product manager for Qlik Application Automation and joined Qlik end of 2020 as part of the Blendr.io acquisition. Blendr.io is a powerful, hyper-scalable and secure integration platform (iPaaS) for Enterprises and SaaS companies and was released as Qlik Application Automation in Qlik's Active intelligence platform. It provides both technical and business users the ability to easily automate and orchestrate their analytics data pipeline, achieving a state of Active Intelligence. Piet-Michiel is 10+ years active in cloud software development as program, product, or architect lead and before Qlik, he joined Daltix, a big data startup in retail, and Blendr.io as COO, focusing on product and company growth.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Michael Distler is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik and is responsible for messaging and go-to-market strategies related to catalog & lineage, Qlik Data Integration, Big Data and IoT. Prior to joining Qlik, Michael was responsible for product marketing of PTC’s Windchill PLM product line along with related solutions. Before that Michael held various marketing and consulting services leadership roles in several manufacturing and engineering software companies.

Chris Ortega

Company: Qlik

Chris is the product manager for Qlik Catalog and Lineage capabilities and products and has over thirty years of experience in leading the delivery of large scale data solutions in the areas of data architecture and analytics. Chris was the Director of Data Architecture for Fidelity Investments where he architected the database to manage the firm’s fixed income trading and portfolio & risk management systems. He also served as the Chief of Operations for RGI Informatics, a healthcare analytics company, where he oversaw a 7x growth in company valuation. Chris was the Information Management practice lead for Hawkins Point Partners and Axis Technology and has provided his expertise to companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, United Healthcare, Epsilon, Publishers Clearing House, Readers Digest, March of Dimes, and Biogen. Chris holds a BA in Computer Science from Boston College.

Clive Bearman

Job Title: Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

As Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, Hélène is responsible for Qlik’s cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategies, including the company’s value proposition, its product vision, innovation and direction, and its customer success approach. She has been with Qlik for 7 years and is based in Philadelphia, PA.

Ola Mayer

Job Title: Director Product Management

Company: Qlik

Director of Product Management A 20-year technology industry veteran, Ola Mayer is a Director of Product Management at Qlik. In this role, Ola is responsible Qlik Cloud Data Services platform. She works closely with customers worldwide helping them to embrace modern data-ops approach delivered as-a-service to build the analytics data pipelines, while protecting and maximizing value of their investments through cloud first approach. Prior, she held product management positions at Attunity, IBM (XIV and Netezza divisions), Guardium and EMC where she was responsible for delivering to market leading products in the space of Information Management, Storage and Security on premises and in the cloud.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Michael Distler is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik and is responsible for messaging and go-to-market strategies related to catalog & lineage, Qlik Data Integration, Big Data and IoT. Prior to joining Qlik, Michael was responsible for product marketing of PTC’s Windchill PLM product line along with related solutions. Before that Michael held various marketing and consulting services leadership roles in several manufacturing and engineering software companies.

Dan Potter

Job Title: Vice President, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Dan Potter is the vice president of product marketing at Qlik. He is responsible for Qlik’s go-to-market strategies for modern data architectures, data integration and DataOps. Dan brings more than 25 years of leadership and marketing management having previously held executive positions at Oracle, IBM, Attunity and Progress Software. He helped accelerate industry-leading revenue growth in data integration at Attunity and post-acquisition at Qlik. He is a published author and frequent speaker on cloud modernization, data management and analytics.

Shelley Brennan

Job Title: Director, Product Management

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo is a Master Principal Enterprise Architect with a passion for building relationships and delivering cloud solutions for global organisations. He moved across the leading software vendors in the last 20+ years playing the role of expert in technologies such as EAI, ETL, CDC, MDM, Search Engines, Advance Analytics, Active Intelligence. He thrives in positive, people-centric environments and have the ability to translate architectural goals into actionable solutions while maintaining high levels of internal IT security and performance.

Adam Mayer

Job Title: Snr Manager Technical Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Adam is responsible for CDC Streaming, data replication as well as delivering Qlik’s Internet of Things (IoT) and GDPR go-to-market strategy. An avid follower of new technology with a deep fascination of all things IoT, data streaming and analytics. With a strong technical and engineering background spanning over 20 years.

Rafael Attux

Job Title: Qlik Data Architect Lead

Company: Leroy Merlin Brazil

Data enthusiast (Culture and Visualization), chosen as Luminary for the 3rd year in a row (since 2020), has been working with the Qlik environment for 9 years and currently leader of all DataViz platforms and strategies at Leroy Merlin Brazil

Ricardo Gerhard

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect - Latam

Company: Qlik

Qlik Solution Architect of the Year and President´s Club award 2020. With background in architecture and developing (+25 years), last 12 years working exclusively with Qlik products, Ricardo helped customers to get sucess in LATAM annd abroad large scale. Always available to discuss solutions and providing o guidance to the whole friends.

Chatelain Jeremy

Job Title: Data & Analytics Manager / Data Strategy Leader

Company: Gerente DataTeam

Formed as an industrial and computer engineer, I started my career as a Data Engineer at Capgemini in France. In 2015, I joined the ADEO group (third worldwide do it yourself company) working for the Leroy Merlin Brand in France assuming the management of Marketing and Central purchasing data projects. In 2018, 3 weeks before I got married with my wife Marine, I was called in Brazil to assume the responsibility of the data transformation ambitions of the Leroy Merlin local brand. 2022 will be a transition year for me. I should come back to Europe to assume the leadership of another data transformation plan in another brand of the same ADEO group! We will leave Brazil with emotion bringing back our two children born in São Paulo with us.

Jordana Reis

Job Title: Integration Architect

Company: Vale S.A.

Jordana Reis is an Enterprise Integration Architect at Vale S.A.. Vale is currently the second largest mining company in the world, with operation in over 30 countries. As an architect, Jordana is part of the team that works to implement a program named COI(Integrated Operations Center), which target is to optimize the iron ore value chain, by having more agile decision-make processes and margin maximization for the company. To have a robust Data Integration, capable to attend COI's requirements, Enterprise Architecture team has delivered a foundation of Attunity Replicate to replicate in near real-time a large amount of data from different systems, making information available for stakeholders along entirely Value Chain.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Michael Distler is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik and is responsible for messaging and go-to-market strategies related to catalog & lineage, Qlik Data Integration, Big Data and IoT. Prior to joining Qlik, Michael was responsible for product marketing of PTC’s Windchill PLM product line along with related solutions. Before that Michael held various marketing and consulting services leadership roles in several manufacturing and engineering software companies.

Tim Garrod

Job Title: Product Management Director

Company: Qlik

Tim is a Product Management Director at Qlik where he focuses on building cloud services to support customers in their journey to modern data analytics pipelines. He brings 20 years’ experience in the data and analytics space leading transformational efforts in financial services and other industries. Prior to Qlik, Tim spent a majority of his career in financial services as a lead architect and then Sr. Manager of Enterprise data at Raymond James Financial, followed by a stint at Oracle as a member of the data integration product management team. Modern data integration and analytic requirements for hybrid cloud brought Tim to Qlik where he enables customers with Qlik Data Integration’s unique capabilities for real-time & automated data pipelines. His passion for solving complex data problems and bringing automation to the forefront of data pipelines is only surpassed by his love of family, friends, bicycling and craft-beer in Colorado.

Anand Rao

Job Title: Product Marketing Director

Company: Qlik

At Qlik, Anand Rao is a Product Marketing Director for Qlik Data Integration. Anand has 20+ years of experience in data management, working at Informatica, Hitachi (Pentaho), IBM, and Embarcadero. Before his marketing roles, Anand worked as an engineer to develop leading-edge data integration software. Anand lives near San Francisco and relishes technology innovation.

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.

Björn Hansson

Thomas Hopp

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Cloud Native Platform

Company: QlikTech GmbH

I'm based in Germany and with Qlik now for more than 16 years where I'm working as a Director in our Product Management Team. Within my role I'm working with our Software development teams to drive our Roadmap and make sure that we are adding value to our clients. My areas of responsibility are Enterprise Security & Content Workflow across the whole Platform. And I always enjoy it talking to our clients about their ideas, thoughts and feedback. Looking forward to meet you all in person as soon as possible again, Thomas

Øystein Kolsrud

Job Title: Software Architect

Øystein Kolsrud is a software architect in the Customer First team at Qlik. This team deals primarily with escalated support cases from large customers and functions as a bridge between R&D and support for cases that require special attention. As such, Øystein has over the years been exposed to many of the scalability related issues users run into as their Qlik environment grows.

Konstantinos Mertzianis

Hi I m Kostas! I have been working with Qlik for the past 10+ years. Through that lovely journey, I have had the pleasure to work in various roles that mostly evolved around the Products and R&D organizations. Today, I have the pleasure to work for the Customer First Team as a Leader for the EMEA region. Generally I am curious by nature, an attribute that has cultivated my passion for analytics and data. Besides all that, I come from Greece and I have been living in Sweden for more than a decade now. Apart from being a dad to a fantastic 4 year old boy, I enjoy craft beer, swimming, snowboarding and design. Cheers!

Hampus von Post

I am Hampus von Post and I've been at Qlik for ten years entirely in the field of Performance & Scalability. Currently I act as Staff Architect within R&D ensuring everything we deliver is as scalable and performant. Historically I was involved with something known as Scalability Center where we helped enterprise engagements improve deployments, apps and methodologies such as pre caching. We also deliver a few service to the stack as well as will be showed here called the "App evaluator". Based in the very south of Sweden with my family of five I enjoy playing ice-hockey and avidly support Malmö FF (football team)

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.

Richard Han

Job Title: Solutions and Operations Partner

Company: UCB

Experienced Qlik / Business Intelligence solutions architect with a demonstrated history in collaborating with customers to convey actionable insights that may be monitored at a glance utilizing data model strategies / Qlik functions. Richard has been with UCB for two years partnering with field leadership ensuring reporting metrics align with strategic objectives by providing solutions that enhance overall field force effectiveness. We are inspired by patients and driven by science.

Robyn Lane Polynice

Job Title: Head of Reporting

Company: UCB

Robyn Lane Polynice is a transformational leader guiding organizations to achieve meaningful and sustainable change. Specializing in cross-functional collaboration, Robyn leverages DevOps experiences to break down silos, improve response times to customer needs, and increase confidence in applications. Currently, Robyn is the Head of Reporting at UCB where she is responsible for embedding data into the UCB culture through dynamic reporting and visualization initiatives using Qlik Sense.

ERIC SCHMID

Job Title: Director

Company: Bardess Group

Eric Schmid is a Director of Analytics with Bardess Group and technical account owner for UCB. Working closely with cross-functional teams across large global organizations, Eric helps drive digital change and adoption for Bardess Group's clients. Currently, Eric manages the Bardess teams that develop apps, automate data extracts, and maintain the day to day operations and integrity of UCB's Qlik platform as UCB build out the capabilities of their North America Reporting COE.

Jan Birkholz

Job Title: Business Development Engineer

Company: MEHRWERK GmbH

If you want to move companies forward, you can't stop at the old familiar. Jan understands the needs of customers and develops MEHRWERK's vision of a symbiosis between Data Analytics and Process Mining as a business development engineer. He sees the needs within the market and creates a demand towards data driven decision making. Listening carefully is most important, so that what was not there before finds its way into MEHRWERK ProcessMining based on the Qlik platform!

Thomas De Backer

Job Title: Product Owner || Data Tribe

Company: telenet bv

Starting his career in the Business Intelligence consultancy at Deloitte, Thomas joined the Telenet family +10 years ago, where he is currently Product Owner within the centralized data & analytics team in Telenet’s agile-at-scale organization. With a multidisciplinary team of data analysts, Oracle data warehouse & Big Data engineers, Thomas manages the trusted data product catalog in the data domain of customer journeys & omni-channel interactions, offering this catalog to data scientists, insights analysts & CRM with aim to accelerate on data-driven business transformations and unlock new potential. Thomas holds a master’s degree in Applied Economic Sciences from the Catholic University of Leuven (BE).

Miklas Gillon

Job Title: Qlik Development Expert

Company: telenet bv

Since the start of Miklas’ career, he is eager in transforming data into actionable business insights. During his 14 years of experience in Data/Business analytics, Miklas has worked in the telecom, banking, and energy sector. Since last year he is discovering the world of process mining using Qlik MEHRWERK. Miklas holds a master’s degree in Economics.

Tom Roels

Job Title: Product Owner || In-Life Experience

Company: telenet bv

Martin Kostic

Job Title: CEO

Company: Inphinity

Martin Kostic, CEO and Founder of both Inphinity and EMARK , is an inspirational and innovative leader who is dedicated to helping businesses and people get value from their data. A great visionary, he was inspired to establish Inphinity after 20 years of experience in the Qlik space through his founding company Qlik Master Reseller, EMARK. Inphinity was born out of the concept that he values very highly, pushing the boundaries of data analytics through innovation. At Inphinity he is responsible for driving the core value of innovation throughout the team and the Qlik Community. Having been a member of the Qlik Partner Advisory Council he is well known for his thought leadership throughout the Qlik ecosystem. A champion for broadening the capabilities of the Qlik platform, he dedicates himself to bringing the Qlik native Inphinity Suite to Qlik users across the globe enabling them to act upon their data. In addition he is committed to helping not for profit organisations get more value from their data through Inphinity’s and EMARK’s CSR programme. Apart from being the CEO of two international businesses, he enjoys travelling, spending time with his family, a multitude of different sporting activities and he constantly strives to learn more, and innovate always.

Lukáš Neduchal

Job Title: Chief Advisory Officer, Partner

Company: EMARK s.r.o.

Lukáš is currently the Chief Advisory Officer and Partner in EMARK Analytics (data analytics and digital transformation advisory company) and his main interest is in the areas of Business Process Optimization, Data Analytics, Value Engineering and IT Security Risk Management. He graduated from the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic and between 1997 - 2017 enjoyed many IT audit and IT consulting professional years within the Ernst & Young network as the Director of the IT Advisory Department in Slovakia. He is Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) and Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC). He is also Certified Cybersecurity Auditor in Slovakia. Board member of the Slovak chapter of the Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and Fellow member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants (FCCA).

Marek Zeman

Job Title: Head of department IS Security

Company: Tatra banka, a.s.

Marek has more than 20 years of experience with IT security. He deals with the introduction of new technologies into the banking environment. He focuses on database security, ICT risk management, behavioral metrics, analysis, evaluation and correlation of unstructured data, security of artificial intelligence. Marek is constantly increasing awareness of information security by introducing new educational approaches. He is a co-author of information security textbooks for primary and secondary schools. At the same time, he focuses on religious studies, his professional focus is medieval Christianity and Islam.

Jozef Úroda

Job Title: ICT and Security Risk Manager

Company: Tatra Banka

I started as an administrator of Identity Access Management system in Tatra banka, my position included creation of processes of user lifecycle stages. Currently I am responsible for methodology of cyber security in bank. One of my responsibilities is also the creation of security trainings with gamification parameters, oriented mainly on end user's behavior. Moreover, I am leading the team for education of security and the concept #predigitalnubezepcnost (#fordigitalsecurity - https://predigitalnubezpecnost.sk ) in Tatra banka, where our goal is the overall increase of security awareness of employees and clients. I implemented ICT & Security risk management in accordance with new EBA guidelines. I also hold a position of ICT & Security risk manager in Tatra banka.

Swapnil Khekale

Job Title: Head of Intelligence Solutions Group

Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Swapnil Khekale is a global leader within Cognizant’s Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Practice and is heads the Global solution architecture team for Intelligence. Over his 23 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence and Analytics, Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence, he has led various leadership positions in sales, consulting, delivery and product management. As a trusted business advisor, his stakeholders leverage his insights in driving strategic blueprints in delivering the intelligence for the CMO, CDO, CFO and CIO organizations. Over the last two decades Swapnil has been instrumental in setting up dozens of Industry solutions and Industry offering. He is a recognized thought leader and Speaker in multiple Industry Forums and annual conferences.

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy is a Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect in Qlik's Global Enablement, Architecture and Research (GEAR) team. Leigh has been with Qlik for more than 8 years. Working in roles both in Professional Services and pre-sales at Qlik, Leigh is focused on helping Qlik's customers successfully transition their Qlik environments to Qlik Cloud. Leigh is based in Sydney, Australia.

Kyle Jourdan

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy is a Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect in Qlik's Global Enablement, Architecture and Research (GEAR) team. Leigh has been with Qlik for more than 8 years. Working in roles both in Professional Services and pre-sales at Qlik, Leigh is focused on helping Qlik's customers successfully transition their Qlik environments to Qlik Cloud. Leigh is based in Sydney, Australia.

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo is a Master Principal Enterprise Architect with a passion for building relationships and delivering cloud solutions for global organisations. He moved across the leading software vendors in the last 20+ years playing the role of expert in technologies such as EAI, ETL, CDC, MDM, Search Engines, Advance Analytics, Active Intelligence. He thrives in positive, people-centric environments and have the ability to translate architectural goals into actionable solutions while maintaining high levels of internal IT security and performance.

Tony Rosa

Job Title: Master Solutions Architect

Company: Axis Group

With 25 years of experience, Tony has engaged in the architecture and implementation of Analytics and SOA solutions. He leads Axis Group's managed services team, supporting operations and engineering. Before joining Axis, Tony held positions in IT management at Nielsen Beverage Data Network, a leading provider of Beverage Alcohol Depletion and Retail Sales data, and IT professional services at Critical Path, part of OpenWave Messaging a messaging, security, and identity management solutions company.

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.

Niklas Holmberg

Job Title: Domain architect reporting & analytics

Company: Swedbank AB

Niklas Holmberg is an experienced business intelligence professional with thirteen years in the field. He has worked within R&D and as a consultant architecting BI solutions for customers in multiple industries. For the last six years he has worked within finance and been a solution architect for different analytical solutions e.g. data capture for streaming, AI platform and traditional BI platforms. He is a three-time Qlik luminary and a previous speaker at Qlik Data Revolution Tour and QlikWorld with focus on self-service analytics.

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

As Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, Hélène is responsible for Qlik’s cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategies, including the company’s value proposition, its product vision, innovation and direction, and its customer success approach. She has been with Qlik for 7 years and is based in Philadelphia, PA.

Marcus Spitzmiller

Job Title: Director, Presales Enterprise Architecture and Enablement

Company: Qlik

Marcus is a director within the Qlik Global Presales team focusing on next generation Qlik products and technical enablement. His areas of expertise include architecture, scalability, and deployment best practices.

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo is a Master Principal Enterprise Architect with a passion for building relationships and delivering cloud solutions for global organisations. He moved across the leading software vendors in the last 20+ years playing the role of expert in technologies such as EAI, ETL, CDC, MDM, Search Engines, Advance Analytics, Active Intelligence. He thrives in positive, people-centric environments and have the ability to translate architectural goals into actionable solutions while maintaining high levels of internal IT security and performance.

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy is a Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect in Qlik's Global Enablement, Architecture and Research (GEAR) team. Leigh has been with Qlik for more than 8 years. Working in roles both in Professional Services and pre-sales at Qlik, Leigh is focused on helping Qlik's customers successfully transition their Qlik environments to Qlik Cloud. Leigh is based in Sydney, Australia.

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo is a Master Principal Enterprise Architect with a passion for building relationships and delivering cloud solutions for global organisations. He moved across the leading software vendors in the last 20+ years playing the role of expert in technologies such as EAI, ETL, CDC, MDM, Search Engines, Advance Analytics, Active Intelligence. He thrives in positive, people-centric environments and have the ability to translate architectural goals into actionable solutions while maintaining high levels of internal IT security and performance.

Daniel Pilla

Job Title: Master Principal Analytics Platform Architect

Company: Qlik

Daniel is a Master Principal Analytics Platform Architect at Qlik and has been part of the PreSales organization for the last 7 years. He supports strategic accounts across the Americas, and primarily focuses on architecture, authentication, authorization, integration, and APIs.

Jacob Vinzent

Company: Qlik

Jacob Vinzent is PreSales Director OEM EMEA at Qlik. He has been working with the largest OEM partners in EMEA over the last 6 years. He has a passion for cloud technologies, APIs and everything around automation. Before Qlik Jacob has been working with one of the first true multitenant PaaS systems in the world as well as running his own consultancy company. Jacob has experience with transition from a traditional on-site delivery model to an online SaaS delivery model, which is very aligned with both many of the OEM partner’s strategy as well as Qlik’s strategy as a SaaS first company.

Jeffrey Goldberg

Job Title: Director - Product Management

Company: Qlik

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.

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.

Michael Lowe

Job Title: Director DATA + Analytics

Company: Earls

Mike Lowe, leader of the Data + Analytics department has a passion for understanding behaviour and putting data to work. He began his career at Earls Kitchen + Bar as a server and bartender while in university. In observing his guests he noticed the vast amount of data being collected through a dining experience. Mike moved to Earls HQ at graduation as an analyst and quickly grew to lead the Data + Analytics department. Mike and the team continuously pursue new ways to look at how Earls can enhance their guest's experience while maintaining a strong bottom line enhancing and leveraging their data pipelines.

Paul Barth

Job Title: Global Head of Data Literacy

Company: Qlik

Dr. Paul Barth is the Global Head of Data Literacy for Qlik. Dr. Barth joined Qlik as CEO of Podium Data, which was acquired by Qlik in 2018 to create a next generation integrated data and analytics platform. He has spent decades developing advanced data and analytics solutions for Fortune 100 companies, and is a recognized thought-leader on business-driven data strategies and best practices. Prior to founding Podium Data, Paul co-founded NewVantage Partners, a boutique consultancy advising C-level executives at leading banking, investment, and insurance firms. Through his leadership roles at Schlumberger, Thinking Machines, Epsilon, Tessera, and iXL, Dr. Barth led the discovery and development of parallel processing and AI technologies to dramatically accelerate and simplify data management and analytics. Dr. Barth holds a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from Yale University, and PhD in Parallel Computing from MIT.

Aart Labee

Job Title: Global Head of D&A

Company: Syngenta

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.

Ida Berg

Job Title: Head of Analytics

Company: Ikano Bank

Previously worked 6 years at Qlik as Pre-Sale and Technical trainer. Worked the most recent 8 years in various roles around Data & Analytics at Ikano Bank, currently Head of Analytics.

André Berlin

Qlik developer for more than 10 years and now working as a Scrum Master for the Qlik development team at Ikano bank. We're currently on an exciting journey with Qlik Sense SaaS at Ikano and I'm thrilled to take part on that!

Andreas Vasilas

Company: Ikano

I work as a Qlik Developer at Ikano Bank, where I've been working for approximately 1 year. This is my first time working with Qlik and I'm excited to be part of Ikano Banks transformation from Qlikview to Qlik Sense SaaS. Previously I have some Power BI experience which I believe provided me with good experience to easier get into the Qlik world.