The world’s leading data experts, renowned Qlik customers, and partners will share their stories and best practices for getting more value from your data.
Chris Mabardy , Senior Director Product Marketing, Qlik
Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.
Steven Pressland , Senior Product Manager, Augmented Analytics, Qlik
Steven is the Product Manager responsible for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning. Having spent many year delivering analytics solutions across a wide range of enterprise customers he moved to Qlik where he worked for 4 years in our pre-sales team helping our largest customers deliver value. For the last 3 years he has been a Product Manager driving the strategy for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning.
In this session, Qlik Products will provide an overview of current and planned Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning capabilities in our platform. From natural language to insight generation to AutoML, you will get an overview of the features we currently offer and what is planned on our roadmap. Attend and see how automated machine learning, a new important addition to the Qlik portfolio, can help you make the most of predictive and explainable insights in Qlik Cloud. Additionally, you'll get a sneak peek into our roadmap for AI and AutoML.
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Chris Mabardy , Senior Director Product Marketing, Qlik
Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.
Steven Pressland , Senior Product Manager, Augmented Analytics, Qlik
Steven is the Product Manager responsible for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning. Having spent many year delivering analytics solutions across a wide range of enterprise customers he moved to Qlik where he worked for 4 years in our pre-sales team helping our largest customers deliver value. For the last 3 years he has been a Product Manager driving the strategy for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning.
Machine Learning can enhance many use cases for customers. In this session we explore how customers can enhance their analytics strategy with machine learning. With Automated Machine Learning (AutoML) analysts can deliver meaningful insights through explainable AI and predictive analytics. Data scientists can integrate their ML pipelines of choice on a wide range of third party platforms through Advanced Analytics Integration. Explore these different options and use cases for ML derived value with a technical showcase of Machine Learning with Qlik Cloud.
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CJ Bauder , JBS
Welcome - my name is CJ Bauder and I work on the Qlik Team at JBS! I began working with JBS in 2016, and spent 5 years working in the business as an analyst. Early on, while gaining understanding of business processes, I taught myself QlikView/Sense scripting and dashboarding so we could begin leveraging these powerful visualization tools. The experience has given me a business oriented perspective into dashboard design, data architecture, and usability. Now I am excited to be a part of our Qlik Team, bringing those same learnings into the I.T. division for our company! Our session today will present our model for business engagement and success using Qlik Products. These tools empower our business to connect to data, curate a self service environment, and allow business to drive improvement from the ground. Creating the most fluid and friction free analytics tools is crucial to success in a self service world. We hope you will join us to further the capability of your team today!
Allen Corona , BI Analyst, JBS
Allen Corona is a Qlik Developer at JBS USA, Originally starting as a IT management trainee and transitioning full time to the Qlik team in August. Allen provides support to Qlik developers and assist business units with their Qlik needs. We hope you enjoy our session today on curating a self service BI space in your business.
Luis Galvan Valadez , Qlik Analyst, JBS
I am a trilingual business intelligence analyst with more than +5 years of experience in data analytics. I have had the change to work in different industries such as Banking and food processing. My career experience started in 2010 when I joined National Bank of Canada ( the 6th largest bank of Canada). I started working as credit analyst in the MasterCard credit department, and my last position was business intelligence analyst in the QA retail division. In 2015, I had the opportunity to join JBS Canada Foods (a division of JBSSA) as business analyst. I spent 3 years as business analysts in multiple line of business such as Sales, Operations and Production, Finance, and Logistics. Though these years, I learnt the business scope at a detail level, and apply data analytics to provide insights. I was reached by BI Team, in the corporate (Greeley, CO), and in October of 2019 I joined this team. Since then, I have expanded the knowledge acquire in the Canada division, and apply it to a large scale to other protein division in the company. Also, I have had the change to train, and develop new employees in the company to use Qlik technologies, provide continuous support to Qlik developers, and work with internal and external stakeholders in multiple projects such as process improvements, creation of Dashboards, and data pipelines.
Steph Robinson , Qlik Manager JBS USA, JBS
Stephanie Robinson is has been a Qlik Luminary for 3 years. She is the Business Intelligence Manager for the Qlik space at JBS foods USA and runs a team of 6 Qlik team members. She has been working JBS for 3 years and working in BI for over 20 years.
A walk though of the JBS BI Landscape and how we have created a self service Business Intelligence landscape where anyone person in the company can learn to be a developer, create applications to answer business questions and use Qlik to improve their processes and business. Included are a couple of JBS Qlik BI team members to also discuss the role of our inhouse training, together with deep dives on various subjects and working hand in hand with Qlik to bring our business users from 0 to developer. And also, our vision of where we plan to go from here.
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Yuliya Kiperberg , Product Manager, Qlik
My name is Yuliya Cashman-Kiperberg, I'm the Product Manager for QlikView, Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows, Qlik Sense Mobile, and Accessibility. I've been at Qlik for a bit over a year now. Prior to Qlik, I spent several years in Data and Analytics at BNY Mellon as a Product Owner, developing an Information Delivery product that allowed clients to better understand, validate, and visualize large amounts of financial data in various dashboards and reports.
Andrew Kruger , Senior Product Manager, Qlik
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Chris Mabardy , Senior Director Product Marketing, Qlik
Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.
In this session, we will explore our Active Intelligence oriented analytics capabilities and how business users can engage with them. Attend this session and learn about recent feature improvements and how to trigger insights to action with alerting and mobile.
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Vitaliy Trenkenshu , Managing Partner, datanomix.pro
Vitaliy Trenkenshu, Managing Partner at datanomix.pro, a Qlik® Solution Provider. Specializes in helping regulatory government agencies to effectively use data analysis to combat economic and corruption crime. Develops analytical applications that compare data from many different sources, find anomalies, suspicious transactions. These tools focus the attention of auditors on the riskiest transactions, thereby increasing the effectiveness of audits. He developed a new methodology for data analysis for calculating economic and corruption risks in public procurement, which contains 43 risks at all stages from the planning to payments. Over the past 12 years, he has led several large projects in data analysis for law enforcement and regulatory authorities of Kazakhstan: the General Prosecutor's Office, the Financial Monitoring Agency (Economic Investigation Service), the Internal State Audit Committee, the Financial Police, and others. The developed analytical systems revealed various corruption risks and red flags in public procurement, tax evasion, registering shell companies (recorded on nominees), and other violations that cause economic damage to the state. Based on the identified risk factors, auditors did spot checks. In some cases, it was possible to compensate for the damage. And in many cases, they were able to prevent financial losses if the risk was identified at an early stage. The largest anti-fraud data analysis project has brought more than $ 600 million in economic impact.
The sheer volume of public procurement contracts in Kazakhstan makes them impossible to monitor for compliance & efficiency by the relevant authorities, including the The General Prosecutor’s Office, The Financial Monitoring Agency, and The Ministry of Finance. As a result, the annual losses to the state budget were estimated at USD 470 million. The Datanomix team developed an analytical software, using Qlik Active Intelligence, that identifies risky tenders, and contracts, focusing the attention of auditors on items with the highest risks of non-efficient spending. Now governmental auditors are equipped with a powerful award-winning tool that boosts their efficiency and helps them prEvent losses in procuring entities from purchasing overpriced products, saving taxpayers money. As a result, over 86 million USD of taxpayer's money has been saved in 2021.
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Jordana Reis , Integration Architect, 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.
Vale is one of the largest mining companies in the world, operating in 30 countries and with a complex value chain composed of Mines, Mineral Processing, Railroads, Ports, Shipping and Distribution.
Vale’s Integrated Operations Center was implemented to increase data integration and to optimize the iron ore value chain. The vision to shift from local optimization to global optimization, required a large amount of data distributed across many systems in the production chain. Having data as the main pillar to support the IOCs business transformations, Vale turned to Change Data Capture, with Qlik Replicate and Enterprise Manager. This has resulted in:
• Replicate in near real-time (less than 15 minutes) a large amount of data (e.g. 5,2 million records replicated per hour (average of 6 GB per hour)) spread across multiple systems and geographies;
• Quickly enable new data sources replication to multiple Analytics Repositories with reduced effort;
• Centralized management of data replication with a single team administrating the platform;
• Ability to enable new replication servers on different network zones to meet compliance and security requirements to handle industrial data.
Attend this session and learn more about Vale’s interesting data integration journey.
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Chris Hansford , Principal BI Development Manager, DEFRA / Environment Agency
Chris Hansford has more than 40 years’ experience of working in the public sector, both in uniform and as a Civil Servant. Having left school with no formal qualifications, Chris quickly realised that every day is a learning day. Utilising his asset management surveying, project management, accountancy skills and technology experience he has worked as a data, analytics and insight evangelist for Defence, Cabinet Office and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. In his seconded role as Principal Business Intelligence Development Manager with the Environment Agency Chris is using this business knowledge to great effect to assist the EA build state of the art (proof of concept) actionable dashboards and reports using the latest Qlik products, both on premise and in the cloud. Chris is also an advocate for democratising data and promoting its public use through APIs to enable everyone to be able to make key actionable decisions with up-to-date fit for purpose environment and climate data. Additionally, as a 4-year Qlik Luminary Chris is keen to promote the Luminary Program, analytic training/upskilling and data literacy skills within the Defra Group, Central Government and beyond.
This walkthrough and demo will demonstrate the use of the Environment Agency, UK Met Office and other freely available API's to monitor UK Environment and Weather Events in near real time. This app also captures all previous Events for the last 31 days in order to predict potential future flooding in order to give decision makers time to deploy warnings and help protect the lives of citizens and business at risk.
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Brian Dunphy , Dawn Meats Group
I am a Senior Project Manager for BI and Software Development in Dawn Meats Group based in the head office in the South East of Ireland. I have been with the company for 17 years and have been using Qlik since 2008 - growing the Qlik footprint in the company to over 500 users and 80+ applications across all areas of the business. In my spare time I like to keep fit and and I am kept busy enjoying life with my wife, 4 kids, 3 dogs and 2 cats!
Radovan Oresky , Chief Data Officer, EMARK
I believe in the Value of Data and help to create innovative solutions for Digital Transformation, Data Science, Visual Analytics, and Cloud Data. People in EMARK helped me grow from developer to CDO and Partner. But I still reserve some time to design and script customer apps, recently with focus on advanced analytics and planning. I started to use Qlik 14 years ago and I still love it today, because I'm able to change peoples lives with it (really!).
Maria Sandorova , CTO, Inphinity
Maria Oreska, Qlik Partner Ambassador and CTO at Inphinity, is a true data believer, innovator, and enthusiast. With her strong mathematical background she sees the potential of data not only in robotics or research but in understanding the world around us, our businesses, and clients' behavior, as well. At Inphinity she is responsible for the product portfolio, roadmaps, and native integration with Qlik Sense for everyone using the products, including admins and developers. The Qlik native Inphinity Suite is pushing the boundaries of data analytics as we know it moving towards true actionability and process intelligence: Inphinity Forms - the premium Qlik write-back extension, Inphinity Flow - process and hierarchies visualization, Inphinity Mole unstructured data connector. In her current role, she draws from her previous experience - Qlik developer, project manager, and SAP consultant for financial risks. In addition to leading the Inphinity technical team, she is fulfilling her mission to help people use and understand their data, by sharing her own inspirational content on social media, and being involved in some freelance projects regarding data. She led an international independent team that designed, developed, and published an online COVID-19 Interactive Analytics app. You can find her Qlik technical-related content also on the platform dataonthe.rocks.
Qlik predicts a rolling weekly forecast for End-of-Year evaluation and salespeople accept or adjust this projection for their products and customers multiple times a week. Budgeting follows a few more workflow steps. Yield prices are reviewed daily and key people are automatically notified. These are some nice solutions that help people in Dawn Meats drive business and also serve as a catalyst to transition from QlikView to Qlik Sense. We'll talk a bit about challenges on this journey and show demos of implemented solutions.
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Ian Crosland , Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Qlik
Ian Crosland, Vice President Product Management - Analytics. Ian has over 20 years experience in the analytics space. In his role as Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Ian is responsible for leading a team of product managers that help drive the vision, product strategy and roadmap for the Qlik analytics capabilities. Prior to joining Qlik, he was responsible for both services and pre sales teams in a consultancy business delivering projects using analytics and data management software from SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos and Microsoft.
Tim Garrod , Product Management Director, 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.
Helene Kerper , Senior Director of Product Marketing, 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.
Christopher Kerr , Director, Global Solutions, Consulting, Qlik
Ready to bring the power of Active Intelligence to your organization? Join this session to learn how to get started to build an end-to-end analytics data pipeline that can deliver real-time information and drive immediate action. We will discuss top considerations and share best practices to get you on your way.
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Steven Forster , Supply Management Specialist, Defense Logistics Agency
After graduating with a Digital Communications degree from Lebanon Valley College in 2005 there weren't many opportunities to utilize my education in central PA. I picked up the only job available at the time in the automotive service industry, which lead to working as an associate at Amazon which transitioned into becoming a forklift driver for Arnold Logistics. An opportunity presented itself to join Defense Logistics Agency as a Material Handler which I gladly took. Working in the warehouse isn't where I wanted to be but I knew it's what I had to do to get to where I wanted to be. Working my way through different promotions I left DLA for a position with the United States Army Security Assistance Command where I gained much of my experience in BI and analytics with a Tableau Certification and acquired my lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification from the Army Material Command in 2011. Being presented with an opportunity to return to DLA in 2015 I was able to acquire my MOST certification for Engineered labor standards as a part of the Business and Technology team in J4. In 2016 I was able to join our Operations and Workload Team where I was earned Qlik Certifications in Advanced Geo Analytics Development, Data Analytics, Data Literacy, Advanced-Data Modeling, and Advanced interface Design which allowed me to develop operational business intelligence applications for the DLA Distribution Enterprise. Some of these applications include our customer order fulfillment performance to all service members, support to the COVID strategic missions for the USNS Mercy and Comfort, Covid Vaccine Operations, Covid Test Kit Mission as well as several others.
The utilization of new capabilities has enabled DLA to advance our mission through the development of understandable and actionable ways Senior Leaders can make decisions and drive change in the organization. We’ve been able to increase the quality and speed of our management decisions, communications, and team productivity.
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Fiammetta Draghetti , Head of Qlik CoE NTT DATA IT, NTT DATA IT
I’m engineer and I lead the NTT DATA IT Qlik Center of Excellence: fusion of consulting, design, UX/UI and technology to provide solutions of Data Experience. The CoE Qlik cover also the role of innovation lab based on Qlik technologies to explore Data Mining, Text Mining, Process Mining and Augmented Reality experiences extending Dashboards and Reporting in immersive Analytics solutions. Our mission is to support big companies in data driven transformation, data democracy, Self Service BI, others.
Maurizio Pontini , Chapter Leader Data Competence Center - AFC Digital Hub/Enel Group, Enel
I’m economist with extensive experience in supporting solutions for AFC processes with a strong focus on all the most innovative solutions that can contribute to the management and control of the financial and economic data of a Global Company present in several countries. I’m committed to the democratization strategies of financial and economic data and KPIs to support the CFO and worldwide his direct collaborators on the decision making processes. My mission is technological innovation and extension of solutions towards digital data availability, artificial intelligence services, process mining systems, other.
An enhanced Mobile User Interface integrated with collaboration instruments and designed with powerful UX improve the Next Generation Data Analytics in Administration Finance and Control Area at ENEL. The solution is adopted worldwide about 1.000 users (C Level and mid management) and democratized data access. Qlik was selected as Data Experience platform in Data Driven Transformation Strategy. From main source SAP, Qlik supports analysis and discovery on KPIs: Economic (Revenue, Gross Margin, OPEX, EBITDA, EBIT), Financial (Cash Cost, Total Credit, Turnover, Rolling Turnover, NET DEBT, GROSS DEBT, Other), Operational (Customer, Energy Sold);Investments (Tot Invest, Asset, Customer, etc), Climate Impacts, Risk Management & Control.
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Daria Constantinov , Senior Consultant BI & Analytics, Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Daria is an experienced Qlik developer at Deloitte Czech Republic and a trainer for Qlik Sense data architecture and visual frontend. She has more than four years of experience in structured data analysis, ETLs, data mining and visual analytics. Daria has worked on numerous engagements including identification of suspicious transactions, leading the deployment of visual analytic capabilities within the Financial Services industry, optimizing reports and workflows for their updates. She was also developing reports specialized in cost improvement, saving potential, and VAT analytics.
Alexander Nagler , Manager Artificial Intelligence and Data, Deloitte Consulting GmbH
Alexander is Analytics Expert, Project Manager (GPM) and “Qlik Luminary/ Partner Ambassador” at Deloitte Germany. As a certified Qlik developer, trainer and project manager he has led various analytics implementations with Qlik and Tableau and developed a lot of applications for a wide range of areas over the past 10 years. He is especially keen to combine the proven capabilities of leading BI platforms with AI/ML functionalities or embed them into Web-apps to create analytical solutions with high ROI and extremely short time-to-value. Beyond that, Alexander loves to work in interdisciplinary teams, which combine their best to create extraordinary solutions for our customers.
Besides the fact that Qlik Sense has been on the market for almost a decade now and Qlik SaaS has become the new shiny platform going way beyond the scope of data visualization, there is still a large share of customers running QlikView installations. Since these customers are always at risk for discontinuing Qlik, the question of how to move them successfully to Qlik Sense and Qlik SaaS is of utmost importance for the medium- and long-term commercial success of Qlik. By the example of a Managed Tax Analytics solution Deloitte operates for a large international consumer goods producer and retailer, this session will provide insights on: 1) How external shock Events like Brexit or COVID create windows of opportunity for change beyond the pure necessary 2) How internal dynamics and operating modes of Qlik partners can make them agents of change or stagnation 3) The crucial relevance of the Qlik technology partners to face the massive competition from more significant BI vendors.
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Chris Mabardy , Senior Director Product Marketing, Qlik
Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.
Nick Magnuson , Sr. Director, R&D-AutoML, Qlik
Nick is the Senior Director, R&D-AutoML with the privilege of delivering on Qlik's vision for AI/machine learning. Nick joined Qlik through the acquisition of Big Squid.ai in the fall of 2021 where he was the firm's CEO. During his tenure as CEO, Big Squid transitioned to a fast-growing, customer-focused AI company, embracing modern SaaS practices, product-led growth, while fulfilling on the mission to simplify the adoption of AI/ML in business analytics. He held prior roles at Big Squid as head of product where he developed from inception the firm's AutoML platform, Kraken, as well as Customer Success where he pioneered the firm's SONAR© program. Nick has a long history around machine learning dating back to 2000 where he employed machine learning models as a quant investor in a variety of capacities for over 15 years. He is an alum of Dartmouth College.
Qlik AutoML is a game changing capability that gives our users the power to create ML models and predictive analytics without having to be data scientists. In this session we will introduce Qlik AutoML, including the capabilities and value it provides our customers in conjunction with Qlik Sense. We will also include a demonstration and a look forward.
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Paul Barth , Global Head of Data Literacy, 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.
David Miller , European Lead, Augmented Insights, Accenture
David Miller is Accenture's European Lead for Augmented Insights, this team assists clients in developing data led-improvements in their business using human centric and data visualization approaches. He is passionate about working with clients to understand how a better understanding of their people, their processes and their data can lead to richer, more effective solutions. Through this work he has become an advocate of data literacy and data driven decision making. Supporting business to become data literate is key to businesses gaining the real benefits of the data revolution. He lives in England with his wife and two children.
Sam Netherwood , Mudano
The Data Literacy Project has just completed a new global survey and report on the upskilling evolution in data literacy. Based on this research, Qlik and Accenture have created a data literacy blueprint providing practical insights and actionable steps to help businesses to deploy data literacy across their enterprises. The authors of the report will talk about their approach and findings from the responses of 1,200+ C Suite executives and 6,000+ employees in seven countries. They will share what the survey participants said about Data Literacy (spoiler they thought it was very important) and what the survey told us about the opportunities, challenges and outright surprises to be found while working to improve the use of data. We'll talk about the experiences that we distilled into the blueprint and how you can improve your companies use of data.
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Richard Han , Solutions and Operations Partner, 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 , Head of Reporting, 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 , Director, 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.
UCB had outsourced management and development of their Qlik Sense data analytics solution platform called View360 for several years. As part of an ongoing strategy to take full ownership of their data systems, UCB contracted Bardess to migrate the View360 platform from an externally managed AWS environment into UCB's globally managed in-house Azure environment. That migration occurred about 1 year ago and its success has increased transparency, stability, and reliability of data refreshes. It also provided a faster, more responsive experience for users, and expanded self-service capabilities. UCB has used the insight gathered from the success of the migration to further strategize on how they would migrate additional data systems into their Azure environment.
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Martin Kostic , CEO, 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 , Chief Advisory Officer, Partner, 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 , Head of department IS Security, 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 , ICT and Security Risk Manager, 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.
Did you know that you can built efficient IT Risk Management system using Qlik without major investments of both time and money? Join us for our session with the leading Slovak bank Tatra Banka to explore a solution that significantly automated and simplified the whole IT risk management process, while helping the bank to work interactively with both static and dynamic IT risks. The solution helped to record, manage, analyze and group the IT risks according to the EBA guidelines. From the very low technical details, through the application and business services layer to the granularity of 5 risk areas, to be reported as required. The Bank is now able to review and analyze the risk profile in ICT security across the whole organization. It brought a significant reduction in the workflow of the entire risk management process and the ability to report the overall risk profile of the company at any time. It is now possible to identify exact stage of the risk and owners of the next step of risk processing – everything in one place. Thanks to the solution the bank is now able to effectively enter, record, maintain, manage, evaluate, and approve IT risks including full approval workflow supported by notifications functionality.
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Swapnil Khekale , Head of Intelligence Solutions Group, 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.
Analytics is not dashboard-driven anymore. It is AI-powered hyper-personalized experiences. Inspired by the famous author Dr Spencer Johnson of “Who Moved My Cheese”, Swapnil Khekale will be presenting a topic on “Who Moved my Dashboard”. Like the parable of Dr. Johnson’s teaching on how to stop fearing for what lies ahead and instead thrive in an environment of change and uncertainty, Swapnil will be presenting in these current uncertain business scenarios, how should business thrive with actionable insights! Join this session to leverage Qlik’s Data Literacy program on how to close the gap between data, insights and action by embracing Qlik’s Data Integration and Modern Analytics Platform.
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Luciano Dall'Antonia , VP Consulting, GINQO
Mike Ellis , Director, Customer Success, 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.
Robin Sarkar , Senior Manager Business Intelligence & Analytics, IronRidge
IronRidge, a leading solar racking manufacturer, operates under a distribution business model. Our partnership with our distribution network extends far beyond fulfilling orders. We are committed to helping our partners grow their businesses by making smart, data-driven purchasing decisions. In this session, IronRidge Senior Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics Robin Sarkar and GINQO (Qlik Partner) Lead Luciano Dall'Antonia will walk you through Compass: a powerful customer dashboard we built using Qlik’s Active Intelligence. Compass allows IronRidge’s distributor customers to confidently chart a course of action using historical order history and real-time data forecasting. We’ll show you how Compass:
• Provides distribution customers with access to their own secure dashboards, where they can check order history, shipping inventory, current inventory levels, forecasting & order recommendations, and review their rebate statuses,
• Generates sophisticated simulations showing parts supply by week that factor in past spend and existing bookings, and
• Equips distribution customers with a powerful planning tool that recommends when to replenish orders based on run rate and growth planning.
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Rocco Pecora , Technical Product Marketing Manager, 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 , Sr Director Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy & Compliance - Qlik Cloud Government, 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.
This session details Qlik's SaaS offering for the U.S Public Sector. Qlik is undergoing certification for a FedRAMP and DoD certified offering that paves the way for U.S. Public Sector, including Federal Civilian, DoD, State and Local Governments and U.S. Defense industry sector customers to more easily adopt and deploy the most powerful analytics solutions in the market. Paul Peterson, Qlik's Sr. Director of Product Management for Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy and Compliance and Qlik Cloud Government will provide an update highlighting target market, capabilities, security certifications and roadmap for the offering.
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Paul Barth , Global Head of Data Literacy, 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.
Vinay Dheer , Director, Data & Analytics Culture, Strategy and Literacy, Regeneron
Vinay Dheer is responsible for Data Culture at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He currently leads an enterprise Data Literacy effort. Vinay has been working with data and technology for over twenty years. Previously he was responsible for technology to benefit Clinical Trial operations at Regeneron. Before Regeneron, Vinay was with Pfizer and responsible for leveraging data and technology for various business functions. Before Pfizer, Vinay was in entrepreneurial roles in a mobile applications company, early childhood education and electronic medical records. He has an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a B. Tech from Birla Institute of Technology & Science.
Joe DosSantos , Chief Data and Analytics Officer, Qlik
Joe is responsible for the alignment of business and technology to enable 3rd Generation Business Intelligence at Qlik. He is responsible for use case prioritization, DataOps methodology, and the deployment of information management systems, including all of Qlik’s Data Integration and Data Analytics products. He also provides thought leadership in modern Data Architecture and Data Governance, and serves as an evangelist at major conferences and events. Prior to Qlik, Joe was the Vice President of Enterprise Information Management Technology Services at TD Bank Group. In this capacity, he was responsible for enterprise technology required for the management, transformation, and analysis of information across the Bank. He led the delivery of an enterprise data lake that included a metadata driven catalog and data as a service experience, Hadoop native ETL, and next generation reporting, analytics and artificial intelligence solutions. He is also responsible for the Master Data Management, Data Governance, and Data Warehousing tooling. Prior to joining TD Bank, Joe led the Big Data Consulting Practice for EMC Corporation's Professional Services Organization, solving innovative client analytics challenges such as energy theft detection, geolocation analytics for telecommunications and gaming companies, and consumer analytics for financial services clients. He also developed the value engineering team for Master Data Management solution provider Siperian (now Informatica) and spent the first decade of his career at Accenture, largely deploying ERP and Data Warehouse solutions to high tech manufacturers. Joe is a graduate of Georgetown University.
David Miller , European Lead, Augmented Insights, Accenture
David Miller is Accenture's European Lead for Augmented Insights, this team assists clients in developing data led-improvements in their business using human centric and data visualization approaches. He is passionate about working with clients to understand how a better understanding of their people, their processes and their data can lead to richer, more effective solutions. Through this work he has become an advocate of data literacy and data driven decision making. Supporting business to become data literate is key to businesses gaining the real benefits of the data revolution. He lives in England with his wife and two children.
Data Literacy is rapidly becoming competitive a necessity for leading organizations. Upskilling a workforce to confidently read, write, analyze, and argue with data is a fundamental part of becoming data-driven. Starting this transformation can be daunting and requires a clear strategy, pragmatic roadmap, and executive buy-in. This panel of practitioners and luminaries will share their experiences launching data literacy programs and share what they have learned. We will discuss how to build a business case to get started, as well as best practices, pitfalls, practical first steps, and models to scale adoption and continuously improve. Real-world case studies will describe the people, process, and technology investments needed to create a data literate culture.
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Thomas Gorr , Product Manager of Write!, INFORM GmbH
Thomas Gorr has been a Qlik consultant at INFORM DataLab in Aachen, Germany since 2015. His first projects were implemented in QlikView, followed by other projects in Qlik Sense since its beginning. For a customer’s project, Thomas invented the first writeback solution on the Qlik market—the extension called “Write!”. The first version of “Write!”, developed for QlikView, was migrated to Qlik Sense later on. With increasingly more projects to follow, Thomas enhanced a simple extension to become an enterprise-ready product: the “Write!”-extension can solve a range of use cases from simple data entry and writeback, up to complex financial planning solutions with integrated budgeting & forecasting algorithms and automated approval workflows—directly in Qlik. Besides his expertise in data analytics and extension development, Thomas is quickly attuned to upcoming technology trends on the market, especially in Qlik, for pioneering new solutions and possibilities for customer requirements. Since partnering with Qlik, Thomas has consistently participated in Qlik and data events worldwide. Keeping in direct contact with Qlik R&D, Thomas aims to bring new impulses of his own and those of his customers to the official Qlik roadmap. Should you wish to contact Thomas, please feel free to email him at: thomas.gorr@inform-software.com
Kevin Heßhaus , Presales Solutions Architect, Inform Software GmbH
In this session, we will show how we moved Lufthansa Cityline's cost center planning solution from SAP to Qlik. We helped them decrease a forecasting process, taking from 3 hours in SAP, to less than 2 minutes in Qlik. We also helped them move the entire process for the entire business unit completely from SAP to Qlik. During our presentation, we will highlight the solution, how we implemented it, what made it that fast, and what the future plans of this solutions are.
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Helene Kerper , Senior Director of Product Marketing, 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.
DAN SOMMER , Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead, Qlik
Dan leads Qlik’s Market Intelligence Program, responsible for supply, demand, macro, and micro picture. With 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, Dan is a frequent keynote speaker, blogger, and columnist. Dan previously held the position of Research Director for BI and Analytics at Gartner.
The massive modernizaton during the pandemic opens new opportunities for driving not just transformation, but also innovation. In today's world, success requires collaborative value chains, not only within your company, but with partners, suppliers, customers, and even competitors. What roles do data and analytics play? And how can you get set up for success? Join Dan Sommer in this highly anticipated session to discover the top 10 emerging BI and data trends, and find out how to use them to your advantage.
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Helene Kerper , Senior Director of Product Marketing, 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.
katie mackenzie , Qlik
Katie is a Competitive Intelligence Manager who joined Qlik in 2013. She has been in the analytics space for more than 25 years starting in Customer Support in the early days of Business Intelligence. She has a passion for data and loves digging into any available data set. Katie enjoys helping customers understand the unique features that differentiate Qlik.
DAN SOMMER , Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead, Qlik
Dan leads Qlik’s Market Intelligence Program, responsible for supply, demand, macro, and micro picture. With 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, Dan is a frequent keynote speaker, blogger, and columnist. Dan previously held the position of Research Director for BI and Analytics at Gartner.
This session will show you some of the unique capabilities of Qlik; which you simply can't do in our competitor's tools. A panel of customers and partners will talk about how these capabilities drive business transformation.
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Arten Charles , Solutions Manager, Environmental and Sustainability, Cority
A creative, and enthusiastic collaborator, Arten “Art” Charles is a Solution Manager at Cority. In this role, he is responsible for the design, creation, and adoption of targeted industry software solutions. Art’s 15 years of EHS operations and regulatory experience, including roles as a permit consultant, environmental inspector for the state of Kentucky, and as an Environmental Engineer and Environmental Information Systems Administrator for Arch Resources. This diverse background enables Art to provide guidance on the successful implementation of valuable technology solutions for Cority Customers. Art has a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from The University of Virginia's College at Wise.
Anita Venkitarayan , Product Manager, Analytics, Cority
Anita Venkitarayan is Cority’s Product Manager for Analytics, where she brings over 10 years of experience working across different enterprise technology products in SaaS, Business Intelligence, and ML to build Cority’s analytics solutions. In her prior roles, Anita has worked extensively to provide data solutions using advanced statistical analysis, machine learning and modeling techniques in the Healthcare and Public Safety industries. In her role, she focuses on helping to provide valuable data products to Cority’s customers. Anita has a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University with a focus on applied math and a bachelors’ degree in Electrical Engineering from BITS – Pilani, Dubai.
Cority will demonstrate to participants how it has leveraged and integrated Qlik Sense into its market leading enterprise Environmental, Health, Safety, and Quality (EHSQ) and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) SaaS application to drive sustainable business strategy. The key takeaways of the session are: 1. How to successfully use Qlik Sense to track sustainability and ESG key performance indicators (KPIs) 2. The power of connecting your EHSQ data to Qlik to present and analyze KPIs and drive decisions at an organizational level 3. Why data is critical for ESG decisions
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Dominic Graf , BMW Alphabet
Head of Sales Support at Alphabet GB, part of the BMW Group. A commercially focused and experienced manager with a background in both Finance and IT, looking to use data to build competitive advantage for businesses and their customers.
Alphabet GB, part of the BMW Group, is a leading provider of Automotive and Business Mobility solutions for car and commercial vehicle fleets in both the public and private sector. Alphabet in the UK operates over 150,000 cars and commercial vehicles of all makes and models. A key differentiator in bidding on new projects and retaining large existing fleet customers is having a digital portal to allow customers to understand how their fleet is changing over time. As part of their digital transformation, Alphabet have continued to invest in the Qlik platform and in 2021 secured funding to develop a portal based on the Qlik Analytics Platform integrated into the Coeus portal technology supplied by UK Qlik Elite partner Catalyst BI Ltd. One of the main drivers for Alphabet to invest in a digital customer portal was a large bid on a commercial fleet contract that had a customer portal as a mandatory requirement. Alphabet were successful in this bid and showcased the Fleet Insights portal as part of the bidding process. The outcome was securing a multimillion pound, three year contract as the first customer and this had led to several other successful Fleet Management contracts during 2021. A few of the metrics deployed in the Fleet Management portal include: • The total number of vehicle contracts per month over time • Total number of vehicles under management • Average CO2 Development month by month in grams per km • Fuel type over time to track migration to electric fleets • How much are cars over and under in their mileage compared to their contract • When do new vehicles need to be ordered . The project has been so successful that the wider BMW Group are exploring using the Coeus portal solution and Qlik Analytics Platform technologies to roll out a number of external facing portals to support a range of divisions across the Group. This will lead to an expansion of analytics and Qlik usage across the BMW Group. The ease of use and ability to bring Qlik objects into the portal, in a simple, configurable, no code way has opened up the use of data and analytics and brought Qlik to a set of external stakeholders to deliver true value for portal end users and BMW teams.
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Tonya Wolford , School District of Philadelphia
Keren Zuniga McDowell , Executive Director, District Performance, School District of Philadelphia
Keren Zuniga McDowell, PhD, is the Executive Director of District Performance. In this role, Keren oversees the staff team and projects in the District Performance Office. The team’s work includes the Qlik Benchmarking, Analytics, and Management (QlikBAM) dashboards, School Profiles (Qlik QAP), data governance, the School Progress Report on Education and Equity (SPREE), Open Data, and data requests. The District Performance Office is in the Evaluation, Research, and Accountability (ERA) Division, which leads the District’s use of data and evidence to improve outcomes for students. This is achieved through the annual SPREE; QlikBAM; ongoing program evaluations and research; data quality and governance; the comprehensive school planning process; and professional development and technical assistance offered to District leadership, Assistant Superintendents, and Principals. Dr. Zuniga McDowell has over twenty years of experience in evaluation, data management, college access/success, and higher education and has committed her career to increasing educational opportunities for at-risk and underrepresented students. Prior to joining the District, Keren served as the Director for College Success with the Denver Scholarship Foundation (DSF) where she managed DSF’s college success services, scholarships, and research and evaluation divisions. Prior to her time at DSF, Keren served as the Director of the Center for Academic Access and Opportunity at Suffolk University in Boston, MA, where she oversaw the institution’s TRIO college access programs. Keren has also served as the Director of Research and Evaluation for two national non-profits, TERI (The Education Resources Institute) and Citizen Schools. In these roles she developed and led various multi-program, multi-site, large-scale program evaluations and data strategy initiatives.
The School District of Philadelphia (SDP) is focused on improving outcomes for all students and is leveraging its data to do so. Using Qlik Sense, SDP has created a set of internal and external dashboards and KPIs to track progress in each area of student achievement, with shared accountability and progress monitoring across multiple stakeholder groups from internal school leaders, to external partners, and the wider community. This session will share how SDP moved from using static displays of progress (annual reports) to a set of interactive Qlik tools designed to align stakeholders to the District’s Goals and Guardrails, and establish a system of collaborative progress monitoring to ensure all students learn. This session will provide live demonstrations of SDP’s internal (Qlik Sense) and external dashboards, including School Profiles, and the intentional alignment across these tools to ensure all stakeholders have access to a standardized set of data in support of students and schools.
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Mike Ellis , Director, Customer Success, 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 , Director DATA + Analytics, 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.
COVID-19. If we have to hear that name one more time...in the hospitality business COVID hit hard. Many businesses were brought to their knees. From a revenue perspective, so was a longtime Qlik customer, Earls Restaurants, a family business and one of Canada's most respected brands. Earls was able to weather the very volatile storm and position for the future by: • Advancing store systems • Moving to the cloud (Google) • Modernizing analytics with Qlik Sense • Preparing to move to SaaS • Streamlining the data pipeline Join us to hear Manager of Business Analytics Michael Lowe show how Earls has prepared for post pandemic growth by modernizing the overall data platform and approach.
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Mike Ellis , Director, Customer Success, 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 , Program Manager, Operational Support Services, 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.
As a leader in the pre-hospital field, the Ottawa Paramedic Service has a strong Infection Prevention and Control section to ensure the health and safety of our personnel and the community that we serve. Prior to COVID-19, tracking incidental occurrences of biological or infectious disease exposures was easily done with a manual tracking sheet. COVID-19 changed that. The Infection Prevention & Control dashboard was developed in collaboration with our Qlik partner, GINQO. Our goal was to ensure proper contact tracing of potential and/or actual COVID-19 exposures as well as all other infectious diseases. By improving the mechanisms for capturing data, notifying personnel and stakeholders, and documenting the progression of a case, this project ensured better control and monitoring of any infectious disease and ultimately had a significant impact in a pandemic situation. Join this session to learn about the many benefits of the final solution including improved efficiency of the Regulatory Compliance & Infection Control team, increased safety, and provided a robust location for case documentation. Further, the solution captures case information in a way that allows management easy and rapid access to real-time data on infection and workplace trends.
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Paul Barth , Global Head of Data Literacy, 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 , Global Head of D&A, Syngenta
The super-fast-growing availability of relevant data makes it essential for every employee to learn THE 21st century skill: “talk data” and become a “Data Citizen”. A session full of inspiration for D&A, Digital and Business representatives by sharing indispensable knowledge to kick-start a data literacy program as a key enabler to transform into a data-insights driven organization: - How to champion data literacy awareness and form a Powerful Coalition? - How to conduct data literacy for “Early Adopters” to bolster the value proposition? - How to partner with IT, Digital and Business domain stakeholders to align the data literacy program and collectively support a continuous improvement program with a data literacy culture at the core? - Training is not the same as learning: the use of Capstone project to apply the learnings from a Data Literacy course via a Data story telling exercise, combining Context, Narrative and Visualizations. - “None of us is as good as all of us”. How to collaborate with trusted partners like Qlik in levering each other's knowledge and experiences.
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Rocco Pecora , Technical Product Marketing Manager, 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 , Sr Director Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy & Compliance - Qlik Cloud Government, 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.
Qlik recognizes that the privacy and security of customer data is of paramount importance. Qlik continuously evaluates our trust, security, privacy and compliance policies, certifications and accreditations. This includes evaluating new certifications and accreditations, offerings and capabilities to support our global and industry regulated customers and prospects. To that end, Qlik is significantly investing in our efforts to support our customers move to our Cloud offerings. This session details Qlik’s efforts related to addressing our customer’s requirements in these areas including: - Learning about Qlik’s overall Security & Compliance Roadmap - Learning how Qlik’s various organizations work together in support of these initiatives for our customers.
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Ida Berg , Head of Analytics, 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.
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 , 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.
With Qlik Sense SaaS, we found the right motivation for ourselves as well as the arguments for investing and taking a leap on our analytics journey. An organization wide cloud- and SaaS first strategy was in place and had paved parts of the path already. When we listen to our users and see what we can achieve today we can say with confidence that we made the right decision. We have a plan and a goal for our SaaS journey, but as we learn, and the platform evolves the path to it and the concept of what Qlik Sense will mean for us and our organization constantly evolves.
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Ian Crosland , Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Qlik
Ian Crosland, Vice President Product Management - Analytics. Ian has over 20 years experience in the analytics space. In his role as Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Ian is responsible for leading a team of product managers that help drive the vision, product strategy and roadmap for the Qlik analytics capabilities. Prior to joining Qlik, he was responsible for both services and pre sales teams in a consultancy business delivering projects using analytics and data management software from SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos and Microsoft.
Kathleen Hickey , Qlik
Kathy Hickey is a professional software Product Executive with more than 20 years of experience managing complex software product portfolios. She currently leads the Product Management team at Qlik responsible for managing Qlik’s software portfolio. She works closely with customers helping them achieve their business goals leveraging Qlik solutions to enable an Automated Data Analytics Pipeline resulting in a state of Active Intelligence. Prior to Qlik Kathy worked at CA Technologies managing portfolios across Security (Identity and Access Management), Infrastructure Management, and Virtualization and Automation.
Helene Kerper , Senior Director of Product Marketing, 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.
Bob Vecchione , VP Product Management, Qlik
Bob is a member of the Global Product Group responsible for managing Qlik’s Data Integration platform of products. Previously, he was one of the co-founders of Podium Data which was acquired by Qlik in 2018. Bob has been working on the design and delivery of complex large-scale data solutions for over 20 years. Since working at parallel computing pioneer Thinking Machines, Bob has been leveraging leading-edge technologies to solve challenging business problems for the world’s leading financial, insurance, pharmaceutical and retail firms.
Qlik’s Active Intelligence Platform is based upon continuous intelligence from real-time, up-to-date information designed to trigger immediate action in response to business Events as they evolve. Join this session to hear from Product Management Leadership to get an overview of Qlik’s product strategy and a deep dive on the roadmap for our portfolio across Data Integration and Data Analytics.
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Ross Agutter , Head of Business Intelligence, Defra
I'm a Business Intelligence and Data Analytics leader working within central UK government. I have 6+ years experience in Data Architecture and Data Engineering, developing data models based on HR/Financial reporting needs and supporting of the development of Operational Apps for arm's length bodies. I am a chartered management accountant and particularly interested in initiatives to drive digital innovation in the public Finance and Accounting professions, unlocking the potential of data to drive efficiency through better decision making.
Matias Hermida , Lenovo
Ooi Bee Hong , Maxis
Mike Potter , Chief Technology Officer, Qlik
Mike Potter is responsible for leading Qlik’s R&D and Information Technology organizations. Since joining Qlik in 2014, Mike scaled the R&D team and played a critical role in designing and building innovative products and transforming the delivery cadence, from one major product launch a year, to multiple product releases delivered throughout the year. Previously, Mike worked at Cognos for thirteen years, and was one of the originators of Cognos Business Intelligence products. After IBM’s acquisition of Cognos, he spent six years with the company leading global development organizations for Financial Performance Management and BI across the various Cognos product lines. Prior to joining Qlik, Mike was Senior Vice President of Engineering at CA Technologies, where he led a global development organization within the IT Infrastructure space. Mike was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is an accomplished inventor with multiple patents and expertise in financial analytics, financial performance management, data and business modelling, master data management, OLAP, SQL and data access. Mike holds both a BS in Computer Science and a MCS in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa.
Nicole Tamms , Senior Product Marketing Manager, 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.
Dan Williams , BI Manager, PizzaExpress
Business Intelligence Manager for PizzaExpress in the UK, which is a restaurant company with sites across UK, Ireland, Hong Kong and UAE. Been working at PizzaExpress for the last four years leading the Business Intelligence team to push forward analytics across the business, especially within restaurants. During my time at PizzaExpress, Qlik Sense has been deployed across all restaurants in UK and Ireland, with a comprehensive suite of dashboards including near-real time sales information. Always looking to do more in BI and make PizzaExpress the best in class for analytics in the hospitality industry.
Modernization not only entails the implementation of new technology, but also a cultural shift, and more than likely a cloud strategy. During this interactive QA session with Mike Potter, Qlik's Chief Technology Officer, select customers including Lenovo, PizzaExpress, Defra and Mixis will share their experiences as they transitioned from on-premises analytics to Qlik Sense SaaS. They will describe the drivers of SaaS adoption within their organization, hurdles, and critical success factors. And finally, they’ll reveal how key Qlik Sense SaaS helped lower TCO while driving actionable insights within their organizations.
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Nicolas Michel , Siemens
Key Achievements:
- Developed and implemented a Business Intelligence (BI) strategy for SI Procurement (EUR 6.5 bln. purchasing volume) from scratch in 2017 with focus of user friendliness and brand constancy. Continuous growth of users.
- Defined a Qlik Sense framework as a guideline for the development of applications
- Built a BI Ambassadors' team, resulting in improved internal cooperation
- Lead two developers in Portugal to meet the increasing BI demand
- Automated around 80% of my monthly reporting by using the BI platform Professional Career in Siemens
- Data Mart Product Manager and Data Mart Business Analyst- Procurement Business Unit Controller
- Procurement Controller [80%] & Part-Time Student
Easy accessible data, executive management reporting and a large userbase on Qlik Sense – all this is the result of years of tuning by the Procurement Controlling department of Siemens Smart Infrastructure. Starting at a diverse tool environment, the efforts to create a monthly report cost the department an immense amount of precious working time. Different interfaces and passwords, not user friendly masks and lack of standardization was the battles the users had to face every month with high manual effort.
All this manual labor was transformed step by step by automatizing the data collection, integrating Qlik Sense, training the users and establishing a guided analytics dashboard with a state of the art functionality. Supported by the SI IT DataMart the data resides in a secured cloud environment powered by automatized data access and complex data models in the background. The results are solid. Siemens realizes four key criteria with their units dashboards:
• Their ease of use by standardization and a single source of truth as well as a connection of multiple sources
• High user acceptance through high quality information, trust in the app and data preparation and time saving for all users
• Efficiency through automatic updates, and single point of entry to all applications
• Cost: No time loss for adapting to different tool user interfaces, saving time to focus on operational tasks to generate business value.
All of this, the Journey and the end result will be shared in this breakout session, a guided and gripping development with the best in class use case to take away.
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Patric Nordström , Product Manager, Qlik Sense Visualizations and GeoAnalytics, 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 , Senior Product Marketing Manager, 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.
Get ready for Qlik’s new Authoring Experience within Qlik Sense Cloud, making application creation accessible to anyone through simple drag-and-drop actions. Qlik is continually evolving, refining ease-of-use and navigation; and, during this session we’ll demonstrate how the new Authoring Experience expedites layout and chart creation, simplifies filtering, provides easy access to frequently-used properties, and speeds access to data tables and fields. Join us to see how the new simplified Authoring Experience will expand data literacy to more people across your organization and dramatically reduce the application design learning curve for new Qlik Sense Cloud customers.
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