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.
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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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.
Chris Ortega , Qlik
Chris is the product manager for Qlik Catalog and Lineage capabilities and products and has over thirty years of experience in leading the delivery of large scale data solutions in the areas of data architecture and analytics. Chris was the Director of Data Architecture for Fidelity Investments where he architected the database to manage the firm’s fixed income trading and portfolio & risk management systems. He also served as the Chief of Operations for RGI Informatics, a healthcare analytics company, where he oversaw a 7x growth in company valuation. Chris was the Information Management practice lead for Hawkins Point Partners and Axis Technology and has provided his expertise to companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, United Healthcare, Epsilon, Publishers Clearing House, Readers Digest, March of Dimes, and Biogen. Chris holds a BA in Computer Science from Boston College.
Over the past year, Qlik has introduced a robust set of catalog & lineage capabilities to help Qlik Sense SaaS users easily profile and classify a variety of Qlik Cloud content as well as document the entire data landscape. Some of these same features are also being utilized within our recent Qlik Cloud Data Services. Learn more about the capabilities currently available as well as what we're planning for future releases.
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Shelley Brennan , Director, Product Management, Qlik
Vincenzo Esposito , Master Principal Enterprise Architect, Qlik
Vincenzo is a Master Principal Enterprise Architect with a passion for building relationships and delivering cloud solutions for global organisations. He moved across the leading software vendors in the last 20+ years playing the role of expert in technologies such as EAI, ETL, CDC, MDM, Search Engines, Advance Analytics, Active Intelligence. He thrives in positive, people-centric environments and have the ability to translate architectural goals into actionable solutions while maintaining high levels of internal IT security and performance.
Adam Mayer , Snr Manager Technical Product Marketing, Qlik
Adam is responsible for CDC Streaming, data replication as well as delivering Qlik’s Internet of Things (IoT) and GDPR go-to-market strategy. An avid follower of new technology with a deep fascination of all things IoT, data streaming and analytics. With a strong technical and engineering background spanning over 20 years.
This session is for anyone wanting to setup and use the free Qlik Analytics Platform for operational analytics of data pipelines and Snowflake environments. Make the most of your Qlik Sense SaaS entitlement as a Qlik Data Integration customer. We will cover the deployment of the Qlik Enterprise Manager analytic template app, loading your analytics logs into Qlik Sense and using the app to get actionable insights for optimal performance of your Qlik Replicate servers and replication tasks We will also show the free Snowflake Monitor app to gain better visibility of your Snowflake environment as well as monitoring costs to get better ROI.
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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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Leigh Kennedy , Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect, Qlik
Leigh Kennedy is a Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect in Qlik's Global Enablement, Architecture and Research (GEAR) team. Leigh has been with Qlik for more than 8 years. Working in roles both in Professional Services and pre-sales at Qlik, Leigh is focused on helping Qlik's customers successfully transition their Qlik environments to Qlik Cloud. Leigh is based in Sydney, Australia.
Rishi Ranjan , Sr Director, Data Management, Common Securitization Solutions
Sr Director Data Management at Common Securitization Solutions, Rishi Ranjan is a seasoned data professional with vast experience in data engineering, machine learning and real-time analytics. Rishi has passion for building high performance teams and innovative data products
With more and more data moving to Cloud, there is a need to reimagine modernization of data lakes and data warehouses to realize true benefits of cloud. At CSS, we built a modern cloud Data Lakehouse with near real time data ingestion and fully automated data warehouse lifecycle to provide rapid business insights. The Data Lakehouse uses Qlik's suite of tools to ingest data from heterogenous platforms in real time, automate the Data Warehouse & Data Mart lifecycle where raw data is transformed to analytics-ready state. Qlik also provides robust catalog and data governance capabilities. CSS uses Snowflake as cloud data platform storage and compute capabilities.
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Dave Elliott , Global Solutions and Data Innovation manager, Mayborn Group
I'm a Qlik Luminary, Vizlib Legend, Alteryx Innovator, analytics evangelist, data professional, and project manager with a business oriented approach. I have been working with Qlik for almost 10 years, my Qlik journey as a consultant for a Qlik Elite partner and then as Head of BI Delviery for that partner. Three years ago I started my role as Global Solutions & Data Innovation Manager at Mayborn Group (a world leader in baby-led products). The organization was at the beginning of its business intelligence revolution journey and was exploring the different analytics tools on the market. Now that journey has reached its next big milestone as we move towards Actionable Intelligence and next generation of our data architecture with QDI and QLik SaaS. Experience in delivering BI across Global Enterprise, SME, with over 20 years experience of BI delivery within both the public and private sector, including experience as lead consultant within global delivery of BI solutions. Experienced working with various public sector organisations, Further Education, NHS and Policing. Specialising in delivery of BI and business discovery, from requirements gathering, planning, development and delivery, working with all levels within a business from board level down. Outside of work, I'm a qualified pool and open water lifeguard, rescue Kayaker, volunteer leader for a local lifeguard club, avid stand up paddle boarder (usually joined by our chocolate labrador Bobby) and Board Trustee for the Royal Life Saving Society.
Darrin Shaw , Mayborn Group
Building on the successes they have achieved though the introduction of Qlik Sense Enterprise, Mayborn are taking their data and analytics to the next level with Qlik Data Integration and Qlik Sense SaaS. In order to achieve continued success, Mayborn have developed a data strategy which will underpin the next steps in their analytics journey. Attend and learn how that data strategy will support their data and analytics growth ambitions.
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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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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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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.
Marcus Spitzmiller , Director, Presales Enterprise Architecture and Enablement, Qlik
Marcus is a director within the Qlik Global Presales team focusing on next generation Qlik products and technical enablement. His areas of expertise include architecture, scalability, and deployment best practices.
This session will explain how to build the Active intelligence Platform. From your data source to Active Intelligence, Marcus covers various architectures that support Qlik's Active Intelligence vision. You will learn about how Qlik's Data Integration and Data Analytics portfolios work together to deliver actions and outcomes.
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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.
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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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