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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Michael Distler , Sr. Director, Product Marketing, 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 , Manager, Enterprise Data and Analytics, 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!"
Enterprises are inundated with massive amounts of SAP data and challenged to create more consumable insights without increasing headcount or system resources. It is a daunting task to deal with slow systems and manual coding to gain any value from historical data spanning thousands of products, customers, sales history, and the list goes on. In this breakout you’ll hear how global manufacturer Greene Tweed developed an efficient, cost-effective, and logical strategy to connect Qlik Data integration Platform and Microsoft Azure Synapse to build an intelligent supply chain for better business insight. Learn how Greene Tweed addressed their challenges and how they use data liberated from SAP for strategic analytics initiatives. In addition, you will discover:
• How to create a plan of attack to extract insights from massive amounts of SAP data
• How important change data capture is to building low latency extracts for massive data volumes
• Why automation with Qlik Data Integration Platform is crucial to expedite data availability
• How SAP data drives insights to optimize Manufacturing & Supply Chain
• The gains Greene Tweed realized by moving SAP data to Azure Synapse
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Josh Good , VP Product Marketing, Qlik
In his role as Vice President, Product Marketing Data Analytics at Qlik, Josh is responsible to drive product marketing, messaging, go-to-market strategies and thought leadership for Qlik’s Data Analytics business. Josh has spent over a decade in the BI and analytics space, as a customer, seller and marketer. In all his roles, he has been a leader in business transformation and innovation, most recently focusing on Qlik’s transformation from visual analytics company to an end-to-end data analytics cloud provider. He is well known for his engaging personal presentation style and rich demos. Prior to Qlik, Josh led business intelligence and analytics projects at a premium outdoor clothing company. He also has experience in government acquisitions and biomechanical research. He holds a Bachelor's of Applied Science and a Master's of Science from Queen's University. Josh resides in Canada.
While the dashboard remains an important part of analysis, it is no longer the place where best-in-class decision-makers start. In this session, we will discuss the techniques and approaches to making analytics more accessible and actionable for a wider variety of users by using augmented analytics, active analytics and automation. Search for code 663210 to locate session during the QlikWorld Event.
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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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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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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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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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Derek Emlet , Manager
Derek Emlet is an experienced Data and Analytics consultant, solution architect, and futurist. Driven by a passion for creating a data driven future, he takes pride in telling stories using data, building high performing teams and technology solutions.
Eva Henry , Associate Director - Quality Systems & Compliance, Merck
Eva Henry is an accomplished QA professional with 17+ years of Quality and Compliance experience and 10+ years of management leadership. Eva has been with Merck for 3 years and has partnered with a specialized IT team to create a simplified, integrated, digitized business tool that empowers Quality leaders to make data driven business decisions. Eva's professional experience extends to the clinical settings, previously providing quality oversight of the manufacturing of cell and gene biotherapeutics targeting a variety of disease indications. Accomplishments in this setting include streamlining the release of clinical products for Cell Therapy clinical trials. Eva has a B.S. in Biotechnology from Rutgers University, a M.S. in Biotechnology Management form University of Maryland, and Graduate Certificate in Clinical Trials Informatics from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Elsa Roman , Director - Quality Systems & Compliance, Merck
Oscar Smith , Associate Director - Manufacturing Analytics, Merck
For over 20 years, Oscar Smith has worked in the Data and Analytics space. In the past few years, Oscar has been focused on leading digital transformation initiatives as a Modern Data Product Owner at Merck. In his current position, Oscar was responsible for leading the implementation of a new Analytical Product used to support Manufacturing leaders at Merck.
As organizations transition to become data driven, there is a growing need to leverage data from a myriad of source systems in order to quickly discover and democratize insights for decision makers. The Merck Manufacturing’s Quality Assurance team had identified an opportunity to become more efficient in gleaning insights from disparate Merck systems and raised the challenged to enable capability that would allow the ability to reduce timing by 80% to onboard new data and create key insights to the organization. The Merck team was able to redesign end-to-end architecture that included leveraging a modern data stack to establish foundational data products and Qlik Sense to rapidly build and align metrics across functional areas. This new capability has met expectations of the stakeholders and has paved the way to defining future capabilities that align to organization’s Data and Analytics Strategy.
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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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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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