The world’s leading data experts, renowned Qlik customers, and partners will share their stories and best practices for getting more value from your data.
Note: All of the breakout sessions will be available throughout the event and on-demand so you have flexibility to attend as many sessions as possible. Registration is not required for individual sessions. There are a select number of featured sessions scheduled daily that will allow you to ask questions of industry experts. See detailed agenda for additional information.
Michael Distler , Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Qlik
Michael Distler is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik and is responsible for messaging and go-to-market strategies related to catalog & lineage, Qlik Data Integration, Big Data and IoT. Prior to joining Qlik, Michael was responsible for product marketing of PTC’s Windchill PLM product line along with related solutions. Before that Michael held various marketing and consulting services leadership roles in several manufacturing and engineering software companies.
David Hufnagle , Manager, Enterprise Data and Analytics, Greene Tweed
Dave Hufnagle has over 30 years of I.T. experience. For the past 25+ years, that experience has been primarily focused in the Business Intelligence / Analytics space. As both an employee and a consultant, Dave has helped corporations in the Fortune 500 and smaller, private companies achieve performance results through analytics. Over the past 10 years, Dave has been leading organizations to the cloud by designing solutions in AWS and Azure. As a data and solutions architect, he has engineered solutions that focus on near real-time analytics. "We are used to having information available at our finger tips in real time. We should expect the same of our analytics solutions!"
Enterprises are inundated with massive amounts of SAP data and challenged to create more consumable insights without increasing headcount or system resources. It is a daunting task to deal with slow systems and manual coding to gain any value from historical data spanning thousands of products, customers, sales history, and the list goes on. In this breakout you’ll hear how global manufacturer Greene Tweed developed an efficient, cost-effective, and logical strategy to connect Qlik Data integration Platform and Microsoft Azure Synapse to build an intelligent supply chain for better business insight. Learn how Greene Tweed addressed their challenges and how they use data liberated from SAP for strategic analytics initiatives. In addition, you will discover:
• How to create a plan of attack to extract insights from massive amounts of SAP data
• How important change data capture is to building low latency extracts for massive data volumes
• Why automation with Qlik Data Integration Platform is crucial to expedite data availability
• How SAP data drives insights to optimize Manufacturing & Supply Chain
• The gains Greene Tweed realized by moving SAP data to Azure Synapse Search for code: 662683 to locate session during the QlikWorld Event
Michael Distler , Sr. Director, Product Marketing, Qlik
Michael Distler is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik and is responsible for messaging and go-to-market strategies related to catalog & lineage, Qlik Data Integration, Big Data and IoT. Prior to joining Qlik, Michael was responsible for product marketing of PTC’s Windchill PLM product line along with related solutions. Before that Michael held various marketing and consulting services leadership roles in several manufacturing and engineering software companies.
Dan Potter , Vice President, Product Marketing, 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.
This session provides an overview of the common data architectures used today. Whether you're filling a data lake bucket by bucket, streaming real-time data through a pipe like Kafka, considering the latest ideas like mesh or fabrics, sparking up a new lakehouse, or building a data warehouse in the cloud, we've got you covered! Search for code: 663207 to locate session during the QlikWorld Event
Ian Crosland , Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Qlik
Ian Crosland, Vice President Product Management - Analytics. Ian has over 20 years experience in the analytics space. In his role as Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Ian is responsible for leading a team of product managers that help drive the vision, product strategy and roadmap for the Qlik analytics capabilities. Prior to joining Qlik, he was responsible for both services and pre sales teams in a consultancy business delivering projects using analytics and data management software from SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos and Microsoft.
Tim Garrod , Product Management Director, Qlik
Tim is a Product Management Director at Qlik where he focuses on building cloud services to support customers in their journey to modern data analytics pipelines. He brings 20 years’ experience in the data and analytics space leading transformational efforts in financial services and other industries. Prior to Qlik, Tim spent a majority of his career in financial services as a lead architect and then Sr. Manager of Enterprise data at Raymond James Financial, followed by a stint at Oracle as a member of the data integration product management team. Modern data integration and analytic requirements for hybrid cloud brought Tim to Qlik where he enables customers with Qlik Data Integration’s unique capabilities for real-time & automated data pipelines. His passion for solving complex data problems and bringing automation to the forefront of data pipelines is only surpassed by his love of family, friends, bicycling and craft-beer in Colorado.
Helene Kerper , Senior Director of Product Marketing, Qlik
As Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, Hélène is responsible for Qlik’s cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategies, including the company’s value proposition, its product vision, innovation and direction, and its customer success approach. She has been with Qlik for 7 years and is based in Philadelphia, PA.
Christopher Kerr , Director, Global Solutions, Consulting, Qlik
Ready to bring the power of Active Intelligence to your organization? Join this session to learn how to get started to build an end-to-end analytics data pipeline that can deliver real-time information and drive immediate action. We will discuss top considerations and share best practices to get you on your way.
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David Freriks , Technology Evangelist, 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 , Global SAP Partnership & Strategic Alliances, Google
Learn how Qlik and our SAP Accelerators snap into the Google Cloud Cortex Framework.
Rocco Pecora , Technical Product Marketing Manager, Qlik
Rocco leads Technical Product Marketing and go-to-market strategies for the technical and developer-centric components of Qlik’s Data Analytics product portfolio. Prior to Qlik, Rocco lead implementation teams and deployed Qlik across several industries and use cases such as Energy and smart meter networks, Pharmaceutical commercial operations, Retail supply-chain digitalization, and more. Rocco enjoys helping customers evolve and transform through the combination of technology and analytics prowess.
Paul Peterson , Sr Director Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy & Compliance - Qlik Cloud Government, Qlik
Paul Peterson is Sr. Director of Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform . Paul has been with Qlik for over three years and has Product Management responsibility for Security, Compliance, Privacy and Special Markets. Paul is also Product Manager for Qlik's U.S. Public sector SaaS offering, Qlik Cloud Government. Paul has over 20 years in Product Management spanning many disciplines and markets ranging from Analytics, to Performance & Capacity Management, Identity Management and Cloud Management.
Qlik recognizes that the privacy and security of customer data is of paramount importance. Qlik continuously evaluates our trust, security, privacy and compliance policies, certifications and accreditations. This includes evaluating new certifications and accreditations, offerings and capabilities to support our global and industry regulated customers and prospects. To that end, Qlik is significantly investing in our efforts to support our customers move to our Cloud offerings. This session details Qlik’s efforts related to addressing our customer’s requirements in these areas including: - Learning about Qlik’s overall Security & Compliance Roadmap - Learning how Qlik’s various organizations work together in support of these initiatives for our customers. Search for code: 665914 to locate session during the QlikWorld Event
Ian Crosland , Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Qlik
Ian Crosland, Vice President Product Management - Analytics. Ian has over 20 years experience in the analytics space. In his role as Vice President Product Management - Analytics, Ian is responsible for leading a team of product managers that help drive the vision, product strategy and roadmap for the Qlik analytics capabilities. Prior to joining Qlik, he was responsible for both services and pre sales teams in a consultancy business delivering projects using analytics and data management software from SAP BusinessObjects, IBM Cognos and Microsoft.
Kathleen Hickey , Qlik
Kathy Hickey is a professional software Product Executive with more than 20 years of experience managing complex software product portfolios. She currently leads the Product Management team at Qlik responsible for managing Qlik’s software portfolio. She works closely with customers helping them achieve their business goals leveraging Qlik solutions to enable an Automated Data Analytics Pipeline resulting in a state of Active Intelligence. Prior to Qlik Kathy worked at CA Technologies managing portfolios across Security (Identity and Access Management), Infrastructure Management, and Virtualization and Automation.
Helene Kerper , Senior Director of Product Marketing, Qlik
As Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, Hélène is responsible for Qlik’s cross-portfolio messaging, positioning and go-to-market strategies, including the company’s value proposition, its product vision, innovation and direction, and its customer success approach. She has been with Qlik for 7 years and is based in Philadelphia, PA.
Bob Vecchione , VP Product Management, Qlik
Bob is a member of the Global Product Group responsible for managing Qlik’s Data Integration platform of products. Previously, he was one of the co-founders of Podium Data which was acquired by Qlik in 2018. Bob has been working on the design and delivery of complex large-scale data solutions for over 20 years. Since working at parallel computing pioneer Thinking Machines, Bob has been leveraging leading-edge technologies to solve challenging business problems for the world’s leading financial, insurance, pharmaceutical and retail firms.
Qlik’s Active Intelligence Platform is based upon continuous intelligence from real-time, up-to-date information designed to trigger immediate action in response to business Events as they evolve. Join this session to hear from Product Management Leadership to get an overview of Qlik’s product strategy and a deep dive on the roadmap for our portfolio across Data Integration and Data Analytics.
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Indranil Bandyopadhyay , CIO, Nedbank Insurance
Susanta Das , Client Partner, Tata Consultancy Services, 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.
South Africa-based Nedbank Insurance faced a strategic need to obtain real-time information about insurance operations. Changing customer expectations and an urgent need to operate with greater speed and agility gave way to better ways to share data and proactive handling of issues, leading to improved reporting processes and overall customer service.
To address these financial, compliance, and competitive challenges, Nedbank, along with its technology partners, TCS and Qlik, built an innovative state-of-the-art, real-time data lake. Leveraging a data ecosystem of solution partners and solutions, highlighted by Qlik Replicate and TCS BaNCS™'s transactional system, Nedbank Insurance’s robust data lake is enabling improved reporting and real-time query services and event streams.
Hear from Nedbank Insurance's CIO about how its Qlik Replicate and TCS BaNCS-based data lake is providing its management and other stakeholders updated information about the operational health of its business in real-time -- thus helping the insurer deliver a superior customer experience and be more competitive in today's digital-based Data Economy.
• Inside the experience of using Qlik Replicate
• Boosting performance and productivity
• Improvements in internal/external data sharing
• Success factors and "lessons learned"
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