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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.

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.

Clive Bearman

Job Title: Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Piet-Michiel Rappelet

Job Title: Senior Product Manager Qlik Application Automation

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

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Chris Ortega

Company: Qlik

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

Clive Bearman

Job Title: Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Ola Mayer

Job Title: Director Product Management

Company: Qlik

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

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.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Dan Potter

Job Title: Vice President, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

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.

Shelley Brennan

Job Title: Director, Product Management

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Adam Mayer

Job Title: Snr Manager Technical Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Rafael Attux

Job Title: Qlik Data Architect Lead

Company: Leroy Merlin Brazil

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

Ricardo Gerhard

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect - Latam

Company: Qlik

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

Chatelain Jeremy

Job Title: Data & Analytics Manager / Data Strategy Leader

Company: Gerente DataTeam

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

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.

Ian Crosland

Job Title: Vice President Product Management - Analytics

Company: 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

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.

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.

Christopher Kerr

Job Title: Director, Global Solutions, Consulting

Company: Qlik

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.

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)

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.

Rishi Ranjan

Job Title: Sr Director, Data Management

Company: 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Marcus Spitzmiller

Job Title: Director, Presales Enterprise Architecture and Enablement

Company: Qlik

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

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Daniel Pilla

Job Title: Master Principal Analytics Platform Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Jacob Vinzent

Company: Qlik

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

Jeffrey Goldberg

Job Title: Director - Product Management

Company: Qlik

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Mike Ellis

Job Title: Director, Customer Success

Company: GINQO

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

Michael Lowe

Job Title: Director DATA + Analytics

Company: Earls

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

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.

Indranil Bandyopadhyay

Job Title: CIO

Company: Nedbank Insurance

Susanta Das

Job Title: Client Partner, Tata Consultancy Services

Company: TCS

Accomplished senior level professional with overall experience of more than 30 years, and demonstrated experience of managing delivery operations of multiple customers in multicultural, multilingual environment, servicing multiple customers across business domain and technology. Domain led transformation experience for large Insurance transformation for South African customers. Result-oriented with the ability to co-ordinate multiple projects across locations enforcing delivery process and driving value for the customer.