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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!"

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.

Jordana Reis

Job Title: Integration Architect

Company: Vale S.A.

Jordana Reis is an Enterprise Integration Architect at Vale S.A.. Vale is currently the second largest mining company in the world, with operation in over 30 countries. As an architect, Jordana is part of the team that works to implement a program named COI(Integrated Operations Center), which target is to optimize the iron ore value chain, by having more agile decision-make processes and margin maximization for the company. To have a robust Data Integration, capable to attend COI's requirements, Enterprise Architecture team has delivered a foundation of Attunity Replicate to replicate in near real-time a large amount of data from different systems, making information available for stakeholders along entirely Value Chain.

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.

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.

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.

Dave Elliott

Job Title: Global Solutions and Data Innovation manager

Company: Mayborn Group

I'm a Qlik Luminary, Vizlib Legend, Alteryx Innovator, analytics evangelist, data professional, and project manager with a business oriented approach. I have been working with Qlik for almost 10 years, my Qlik journey as a consultant for a Qlik Elite partner and then as Head of BI Delviery for that partner. Three years ago I started my role as Global Solutions & Data Innovation Manager at Mayborn Group (a world leader in baby-led products). The organization was at the beginning of its business intelligence revolution journey and was exploring the different analytics tools on the market. Now that journey has reached its next big milestone as we move towards Actionable Intelligence and next generation of our data architecture with QDI and QLik SaaS. Experience in delivering BI across Global Enterprise, SME, with over 20 years experience of BI delivery within both the public and private sector, including experience as lead consultant within global delivery of BI solutions. Experienced working with various public sector organisations, Further Education, NHS and Policing. Specialising in delivery of BI and business discovery, from requirements gathering, planning, development and delivery, working with all levels within a business from board level down. Outside of work, I'm a qualified pool and open water lifeguard, rescue Kayaker, volunteer leader for a local lifeguard club, avid stand up paddle boarder (usually joined by our chocolate labrador Bobby) and Board Trustee for the Royal Life Saving Society.

Darrin Shaw

Company: Mayborn Group

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Babu Kuttala

Babu Kuttala is Chief Data & Analytics Officer of ABB. He is responsible for ABB’s big data and advance analytics strategy, operations and processes. He oversees all aspects of data life cycle management and deploying artificial intelligence, cognitive computing and machine learning solutions to support the growth of ABB’s business units by partnering with them on revenue-generating programs related to internal business process data analytics. Previously, Babu was IS Director at Honeywell, where he was responsible for developing and executing data architecture strategy that supported Honeywell Finance, Sales & Marketing and Supply Chain Management. Babu holds master’s degrees in Knowledge Management (California State University) and Computer Information Systems (Quinnipiac University), as well as an MBA in Strategy & Finance from Quinnipiac University. He earned a graduate certificate in modern systems architecture and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Six Sigma Green Belt holder. In 2019, Babu was named the IDG “One to Watch Award” for demonstrating keen understanding of business goals, possessing the capabilities and character to be future leaders in the industry.

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.

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