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Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: 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

Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Augmented Analytics

Company: 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.

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Magnus Berg

Job Title: Lead Product Designer

Company: Qlik

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

Thomas Hopp

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Cloud Native Platform

Company: QlikTech GmbH

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

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: 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

Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Augmented Analytics

Company: 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.

CJ Bauder

Company: 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

Job Title: BI Analyst

Company: 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

Job Title: Qlik Analyst

Company: 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

Job Title: Qlik Manager JBS USA

Company: 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.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

David Hufnagle

Job Title: Manager, Enterprise Data and Analytics

Company: Greene Tweed

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

Patric Nordström

Job Title: Product Manager, Qlik Sense Visualizations and GeoAnalytics

Company: Qlik

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

Nicole Tamms

Job Title: Senior Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Andrew Kruger

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Company: Qlik

Senior Product Manager

Yuliya Kiperberg

Job Title: Product Manager

Company: 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

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Company: Qlik

Senior Product Manager

Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: 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.

Trey Smith

Job Title: Vice President of Services

Company: DI Squared LLC

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

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Chris Ortega

Company: Qlik

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

Clive Bearman

Job Title: Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Ola Mayer

Job Title: Director Product Management

Company: Qlik

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

Clive Bearman

Job Title: Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Ola Mayer

Job Title: Director Product Management

Company: Qlik

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

Anand Rao

Job Title: Product Marketing Director

Company: Qlik

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

Josh Good

Job Title: VP Product Marketing

Company: 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.

Rafael Attux

Job Title: Qlik Data Architect Lead

Company: Leroy Merlin Brazil

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

Ricardo Gerhard

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect - Latam

Company: Qlik

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

Chatelain Jeremy

Job Title: Data & Analytics Manager / Data Strategy Leader

Company: Gerente DataTeam

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

Vitaliy Trenkenshu

Job Title: Managing Partner

Company: 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.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Tim Garrod

Job Title: Product Management Director

Company: Qlik

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

Anand Rao

Job Title: Product Marketing Director

Company: Qlik

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

Chris Hansford

Job Title: Principal BI Development Manager

Company: 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.

Pushpendra Arora

Job Title: Director, Data Platform & Vis Analytics

Company: Novartis

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

Albert Mestre

Job Title: Associate Director Visual Analytics

Company: Novartis

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

Tyler Osterman

Company: SDG Group

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

Brian Dunphy

Company: 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

Job Title: Chief Data Officer

Company: 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

Job Title: CTO

Company: 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.

John Delligatti

Job Title: Director Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Company: SDI

Qlik Luminary for 2021-2022, UiPath MVP 2022 and one of the winners of the 2021 MDM Future Leaders Award recognizing rising stars in the distribution industry under the age of 40, and SDI’s Director of Digital Supply Chain Transformation, John Delligatti is furthering the company's mission to change the way people think about and manage MRO & Facilities Maintenance. John drives innovation and improvement through anaytics, automation and digital product development to ensure SDI’s digital strategy is aligned with client and corporate goals. He oversees the lifecycle of SDI’s digital products while driving a data literacy culture and championing the adoption of robotic process automation across the organization. He has lead the development of applications that are reshaping the industrial supply and facilities management space. Additionally, he spearheaded the organizations Citizen Developer program, pioneering the use of RPA to automate functions that enable SDI to do more for their customers than ever before.

Steven Forster

Job Title: Supply Management Specialist

Company: 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.

David Freriks

Job Title: Technology Evangelist

Company: Qlik

David Freriks is an Technology Evangelist in the Technology Alliances Organization at Qlik. Dave’s mission (in his 9th year at Qlik) is to help spread the word on the power of the Qlik Platform with cloud/data systems and build integrations with partner technologies related to that ecosystem. He has spent 20+ years in the business intelligence space working at Qlik, SAP, IBM, and Cognos helping launch new products to market. Dave has a background in data warehousing and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Texas Tech University. He is married with two kids, and two Australian Shepherd’s.

Lauren Tran

Company: Microsoft

Lauren Tran is a Data Scientist and AI Architect at Microsoft. She works with Microsoft's top partners and customers to design, architect, and build their Machine Learning and AI solutions on Azure. She has been building custom Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Computer Vision models for 10 years. Prior to joining Microsoft in 2014, she completed her Master's Degree in Computer Science at Dartmouth College, where she conducted research in the fields of Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image Forensics, and Natural Language Processing.

Fiammetta Draghetti

Job Title: Head of Qlik CoE NTT DATA IT

Company: 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

Job Title: Chapter Leader Data Competence Center - AFC Digital Hub/Enel Group

Company: 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.

Björn Hansson

Thomas Hopp

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Cloud Native Platform

Company: QlikTech GmbH

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

Øystein Kolsrud

Job Title: Software Architect

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

Konstantinos Mertzianis

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

Hampus von Post

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

Daria Constantinov

Job Title: Senior Consultant BI & Analytics

Company: 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

Job Title: Manager Artificial Intelligence and Data

Company: 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.

Mariel Aseron

Job Title: BI Analytics Administration Manager

Company: AdventHealth

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

John Park

Job Title: Principal Solution Architect

Company: Qlik

Dilip Ranjan

Company: Amazon

David Freriks

Job Title: Technology Evangelist

Company: Qlik

David Freriks is an Technology Evangelist in the Technology Alliances Organization at Qlik. Dave’s mission (in his 9th year at Qlik) is to help spread the word on the power of the Qlik Platform with cloud/data systems and build integrations with partner technologies related to that ecosystem. He has spent 20+ years in the business intelligence space working at Qlik, SAP, IBM, and Cognos helping launch new products to market. Dave has a background in data warehousing and a Mechanical Engineering degree from Texas Tech University. He is married with two kids, and two Australian Shepherd’s.

Michael Harding

Job Title: Global SAP Partnership & Strategic Alliances

Company: Google

Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: 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

Job Title: Sr. Director, R&D-AutoML

Company: 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.

Richard Han

Job Title: Solutions and Operations Partner

Company: UCB

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

Robyn Lane Polynice

Job Title: Head of Reporting

Company: UCB

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

ERIC SCHMID

Job Title: Director

Company: Bardess Group

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

Jan Birkholz

Job Title: Business Development Engineer

Company: MEHRWERK GmbH

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

Thomas De Backer

Job Title: Product Owner || Data Tribe

Company: telenet bv

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

Miklas Gillon

Job Title: Qlik Development Expert

Company: telenet bv

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

Tom Roels

Job Title: Product Owner || In-Life Experience

Company: telenet bv

Angeline Corvaglia

Job Title: Chief Operating Officer

Company: Inphinity

Angeline is the Chief Operating Officer of Inphinity and Emark Analytics. Before taking this position, over the course of 15 years Angeline worked on or led a number of major data management and digitalization projects for a large European financial institution with roles in Austria, Italy, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. As the CFO of one of the institution’s daughter companies, she was the leader who spearheaded the simplification of the reporting environment through the implementation of Qlik and Inphinity tools. She was also a key player in the implementation of a financial management and consolidation tool for 350 companies in 15 countries and in the formation of a Holding company for 15 countries. This expansive professional experience puts her in a unique position to support customers find additional value in their Qlik environments through the Inphinity Suite.

Radomir Starzyczny

Job Title: Head of Data Analytics

Company: Model Group

I am a global Head of Data Management & Analytics in one of the biggest cardboard packaging companies in Europe. I work with the data on daily basis not only as a part of my career, but data works for me as an imporant guide in daily decision making. Analytics and insight into the data are some of my biggest passions.

Róbert Šrotýř

Job Title: Chief Product Officer

Company: EMARK Analytics

Business is my domain, technology is my passion. Connecting the two worlds to maximize productivity and outcomes has been my main driver. Recognizing that data is the new building block for businesses and economy, I find myself in comfortable role of using it to create synergies and help achieve customers their business goals by translating them to data strategies and executing on them.

Martin Kostic

Job Title: CEO

Company: Inphinity

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

Lukáš Neduchal

Job Title: Chief Advisory Officer, Partner

Company: EMARK s.r.o.

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

Marek Zeman

Job Title: Head of department IS Security

Company: Tatra banka, a.s.

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

Jozef Úroda

Job Title: ICT and Security Risk Manager

Company: Tatra Banka

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

Swapnil Khekale

Job Title: Head of Intelligence Solutions Group

Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

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

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Kyle Jourdan

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Tony Rosa

Job Title: Master Solutions Architect

Company: Axis Group

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

Luciano Dall'Antonia

Job Title: VP Consulting

Company: GINQO

Mike Ellis

Job Title: Director, Customer Success

Company: GINQO

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

Robin Sarkar

Job Title: Senior Manager Business Intelligence & Analytics

Company: IronRidge

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Paul Peterson

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

Company: Qlik

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

Paul Barth

Job Title: Global Head of Data Literacy

Company: Qlik

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

Vinay Dheer

Job Title: Director, Data & Analytics Culture, Strategy and Literacy

Company: 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

Job Title: Chief Data and Analytics Officer

Company: 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

Job Title: European Lead, Augmented Insights

Company: 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.

Thomas Gorr

Job Title: Product Manager of Write!

Company: 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

Job Title: Presales Solutions Architect

Company: Inform Software GmbH

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

DAN SOMMER

Job Title: Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead

Company: 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.

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

katie mackenzie

Company: 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

Job Title: Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead

Company: 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.

Arten Charles

Job Title: Solutions Manager, Environmental and Sustainability

Company: 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

Job Title: Product Manager, Analytics

Company: 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.

Dominic Graf

Company: 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.

Niklas Holmberg

Job Title: Domain architect reporting & analytics

Company: Swedbank AB

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

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Marcus Spitzmiller

Job Title: Director, Presales Enterprise Architecture and Enablement

Company: Qlik

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

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Daniel Pilla

Job Title: Master Principal Analytics Platform Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Jacob Vinzent

Company: Qlik

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

Derek Emlet

Job Title: Manager

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

Eva Henry

Job Title: Associate Director - Quality Systems & Compliance

Company: Merck

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

Elsa Roman

Job Title: Director - Quality Systems & Compliance

Company: Merck

Oscar Smith

Job Title: Associate Director - Manufacturing Analytics

Company: Merck

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

Jeffrey Goldberg

Job Title: Director - Product Management

Company: Qlik

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Tonya Wolford

Company: School District of Philadelphia

Keren Zuniga McDowell

Job Title: Executive Director, District Performance

Company: 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.

Mike Ellis

Job Title: Director, Customer Success

Company: GINQO

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

Michael Lowe

Job Title: Director DATA + Analytics

Company: Earls

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

Mike Ellis

Job Title: Director, Customer Success

Company: GINQO

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

Manon Lavergne

Job Title: Program Manager, Operational Support Services

Company: Ottawa Paramedic Service

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

Paul Barth

Job Title: Global Head of Data Literacy

Company: Qlik

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

Aart Labee

Job Title: Global Head of D&A

Company: Syngenta

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Paul Peterson

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

Company: Qlik

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

Ida Berg

Job Title: Head of Analytics

Company: Ikano Bank

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

André Berlin

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

Andreas Vasilas

Company: Ikano

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

Ross Agutter

Job Title: Head of Business Intelligence

Company: 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

Company: Lenovo

Ooi Bee Hong

Company: Maxis

Mike Potter

Job Title: Chief Technology Officer

Company: 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

Job Title: Senior Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Dan Williams

Job Title: BI Manager

Company: 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.

Patric Nordström

Job Title: Product Manager, Qlik Sense Visualizations and GeoAnalytics

Company: Qlik

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

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Nicolas Michel

Company: 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

Patric Nordström

Job Title: Product Manager, Qlik Sense Visualizations and GeoAnalytics

Company: Qlik

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

Nicole Tamms

Job Title: Senior Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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