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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.

Michael Distler

Job Title: Sr. Director, Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Tim Garrod

Job Title: Product Management Director

Company: Qlik

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

Anand Rao

Job Title: Product Marketing Director

Company: Qlik

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

Steven Forster

Job Title: Supply Management Specialist

Company: Defense Logistics Agency

After graduating with a Digital Communications degree from Lebanon Valley College in 2005 there weren't many opportunities to utilize my education in central PA. I picked up the only job available at the time in the automotive service industry, which lead to working as an associate at Amazon which transitioned into becoming a forklift driver for Arnold Logistics. An opportunity presented itself to join Defense Logistics Agency as a Material Handler which I gladly took. Working in the warehouse isn't where I wanted to be but I knew it's what I had to do to get to where I wanted to be. Working my way through different promotions I left DLA for a position with the United States Army Security Assistance Command where I gained much of my experience in BI and analytics with a Tableau Certification and acquired my lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification from the Army Material Command in 2011. Being presented with an opportunity to return to DLA in 2015 I was able to acquire my MOST certification for Engineered labor standards as a part of the Business and Technology team in J4. In 2016 I was able to join our Operations and Workload Team where I was earned Qlik Certifications in Advanced Geo Analytics Development, Data Analytics, Data Literacy, Advanced-Data Modeling, and Advanced interface Design which allowed me to develop operational business intelligence applications for the DLA Distribution Enterprise. Some of these applications include our customer order fulfillment performance to all service members, support to the COVID strategic missions for the USNS Mercy and Comfort, Covid Vaccine Operations, Covid Test Kit Mission as well as several others.

David Freriks

Job Title: Technology Evangelist

Company: Qlik

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

Lauren Tran

Company: Microsoft

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

Fiammetta Draghetti

Job Title: Head of Qlik CoE NTT DATA IT

Company: NTT DATA IT

I’m engineer and I lead the NTT DATA IT Qlik Center of Excellence: fusion of consulting, design, UX/UI and technology to provide solutions of Data Experience. The CoE Qlik cover also the role of innovation lab based on Qlik technologies to explore Data Mining, Text Mining, Process Mining and Augmented Reality experiences extending Dashboards and Reporting in immersive Analytics solutions. Our mission is to support big companies in data driven transformation, data democracy, Self Service BI, others.

Maurizio Pontini

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

Company: Enel

I’m economist with extensive experience in supporting solutions for AFC processes with a strong focus on all the most innovative solutions that can contribute to the management and control of the financial and economic data of a Global Company present in several countries. I’m committed to the democratization strategies of financial and economic data and KPIs to support the CFO and worldwide his direct collaborators on the decision making processes. My mission is technological innovation and extension of solutions towards digital data availability, artificial intelligence services, process mining systems, other.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.