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
Clive Bearman , Director Product Marketing, Qlik
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.
Ola Mayer , Director Product Management, 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.
This session will provide an overview of Qlik Cloud Data Services, use cases and roadmap. Search for code: 663204 to locate session during the QlikWorld Event
Clive Bearman , Director Product Marketing, Qlik
Ola Mayer , Director Product Management, 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 , Product Marketing Director, 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.
This session will provide an overview, sample use case and roadmap of the Qlik Data Gateway; a new component of the Active Intelligence Platform powered by Qlik Cloud. Search for code: 663205 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
Jordana Reis , Integration Architect, 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.
Vale is one of the largest mining companies in the world, operating in 30 countries and with a complex value chain composed of Mines, Mineral Processing, Railroads, Ports, Shipping and Distribution.
Vale’s Integrated Operations Center was implemented to increase data integration and to optimize the iron ore value chain. The vision to shift from local optimization to global optimization, required a large amount of data distributed across many systems in the production chain. Having data as the main pillar to support the IOCs business transformations, Vale turned to Change Data Capture, with Qlik Replicate and Enterprise Manager. This has resulted in:
• Replicate in near real-time (less than 15 minutes) a large amount of data (e.g. 5,2 million records replicated per hour (average of 6 GB per hour)) spread across multiple systems and geographies;
• Quickly enable new data sources replication to multiple Analytics Repositories with reduced effort;
• Centralized management of data replication with a single team administrating the platform;
• Ability to enable new replication servers on different network zones to meet compliance and security requirements to handle industrial data.
Attend this session and learn more about Vale’s interesting data integration journey.
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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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Leigh Kennedy , Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect, 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 , Sr Director, Data Management, 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
With more and more data moving to Cloud, there is a need to reimagine modernization of data lakes and data warehouses to realize true benefits of cloud. At CSS, we built a modern cloud Data Lakehouse with near real time data ingestion and fully automated data warehouse lifecycle to provide rapid business insights. The Data Lakehouse uses Qlik's suite of tools to ingest data from heterogenous platforms in real time, automate the Data Warehouse & Data Mart lifecycle where raw data is transformed to analytics-ready state. Qlik also provides robust catalog and data governance capabilities. CSS uses Snowflake as cloud data platform storage and compute capabilities.
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Mariel Aseron , BI Analytics Administration Manager, 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.
For any sizable organization, a state-of-the-art data analytics platform is no longer an option but a necessity. Healthcare data continues to evolve and exponentially grow! This includes housing sensitive information from various sources, which adds data complexity. It is imperative to have a well-designed analytics infrastructure to enable strategic payoff early on. Many components like design and architecture are key factors for successfully implementing growth and adaptability. Build for impact and success! Search for code: 664393 to locate session during the QlikWorld Event
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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