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Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.

Steven Pressland

Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Augmented Analytics

Company: Qlik

Steven is the Product Manager responsible for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning. Having spent many year delivering analytics solutions across a wide range of enterprise customers he moved to Qlik where he worked for 4 years in our pre-sales team helping our largest customers deliver value. For the last 3 years he has been a Product Manager driving the strategy for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning.

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Rocco Pecora

Job Title: Technical Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

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

Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.

Steven Pressland

Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Augmented Analytics

Company: Qlik

Steven is the Product Manager responsible for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning. Having spent many year delivering analytics solutions across a wide range of enterprise customers he moved to Qlik where he worked for 4 years in our pre-sales team helping our largest customers deliver value. For the last 3 years he has been a Product Manager driving the strategy for Augmented Analytics and Machine Learning.

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 Cor

Job Title: BI Analyst

Company: JBS

Allen Corona is a Qlik Developer at JBS USA, Where Allen develops Qlik Sense applications and assistance business units on Qlik needs.

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!"

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.

Yuliya Kiperberg

Job Title: Product Manager

Company: Qlik

My name is Yuliya Cashman-Kiperberg, I'm the Product Manager for QlikView, Qlik Sense Enterprise on Windows, Qlik Sense Mobile, and Accessibility. I've been at Qlik for a bit over a year now. Prior to Qlik, I spent several years in Data and Analytics at BNY Mellon as a Product Owner, developing an Information Delivery product that allowed clients to better understand, validate, and visualize large amounts of financial data in various dashboards and reports.

Andrew Kruger

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Company: Qlik

Senior Product Manager

Chris Mabardy

Job Title: Senior Director Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

Chris Mabardy is a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Qlik, having been with Qlik for 13 years. He is focused on Qlik’s analytics offerings including Augmented Analytics, Active Intelligence, Visual Analytics, Qlik's Associative Engine, Mobile Analytics, and Qlik roadmaps. His background includes Product and industry marketing, management consulting and software development, and an MBA from Duke University.

Trey Smith

Job Title: Vice President of Services

Company: DI Squared LLC

Trey Smith has over a decade of experience in the Data Analytics industry. A Qlik Luminary Alumni and Partner Ambassador who has worked with some of Qlik’s largest customers and implementations. Over the course of his career, he has lead and implemented hundreds of projects across a wide variety of industries, becoming a well-known name in the Qlik community. In addition to Qlik, he is an experienced software developer, data engineer and technology enthusiast. His focus is to provide value through innovation and expertise.

Josh Good

Job Title: VP Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

In his role as Vice President, Product Marketing Data Analytics at Qlik, Josh is responsible to drive product marketing, messaging, go-to-market strategies and thought leadership for Qlik’s Data Analytics business. Josh has spent over a decade in the BI and analytics space, as a customer, seller and marketer. In all his roles, he has been a leader in business transformation and innovation, most recently focusing on Qlik’s transformation from visual analytics company to an end-to-end data analytics cloud provider. He is well known for his engaging personal presentation style and rich demos. Prior to Qlik, Josh led business intelligence and analytics projects at a premium outdoor clothing company. He also has experience in government acquisitions and biomechanical research. He holds a Bachelor's of Applied Science and a Master's of Science from Queen's University. Josh resides in Canada.

Shelley Brennan

Job Title: Director, Product Management

Company: Qlik

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Adam Mayer

Job Title: Snr Manager Technical Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Rafael Attux

Job Title: Qlik Data Architect Lead

Company: Leroy Merlin Brazil

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

Ricardo Gerhard

Job Title: Senior Solution Architect - Latam

Company: Qlik

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

Chatelain Jeremy

Job Title: Data & Analytics Manager / Data Strategy Leader

Company: Gerente DataTeam

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Swapnil Khekale

Job Title: Head of Intelligence Solutions Group

Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Swapnil Khekale is a global leader within Cognizant’s Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Practice and is heads the Global solution architecture team for Intelligence. Over his 23 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence and Analytics, Enterprise Performance Management and Business Intelligence, he has led various leadership positions in sales, consulting, delivery and product management. As a trusted business advisor, his stakeholders leverage his insights in driving strategic blueprints in delivering the intelligence for the CMO, CDO, CFO and CIO organizations. Over the last two decades Swapnil has been instrumental in setting up dozens of Industry solutions and Industry offering. He is a recognized thought leader and Speaker in multiple Industry Forums and annual conferences.

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Kyle Jourdan

Company: Qlik

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

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

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

DAN SOMMER

Job Title: Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead

Company: Qlik

Dan leads Qlik’s Market Intelligence Program, responsible for supply, demand, macro, and micro picture. With 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, Dan is a frequent keynote speaker, blogger, and columnist. Dan previously held the position of Research Director for BI and Analytics at Gartner.

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

katie mackenzie

Company: Qlik

Katie is a Competitive Intelligence Manager who joined Qlik in 2013. She has been in the analytics space for more than 25 years starting in Customer Support in the early days of Business Intelligence. She has a passion for data and loves digging into any available data set. Katie enjoys helping customers understand the unique features that differentiate Qlik.

DAN SOMMER

Job Title: Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead

Company: Qlik

Dan leads Qlik’s Market Intelligence Program, responsible for supply, demand, macro, and micro picture. With 20+ years of experience in the IT industry, Dan is a frequent keynote speaker, blogger, and columnist. Dan previously held the position of Research Director for BI and Analytics at Gartner.

Dominic Graf

Company: BMW Alphabet

Head of Sales Support at Alphabet GB, part of the BMW Group. A commercially focused and experienced manager with a background in both Finance and IT, looking to use data to build competitive advantage for businesses and their customers.

Helene Kerper

Job Title: Senior Director of Product Marketing

Company: Qlik

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

Marcus Spitzmiller

Job Title: Director, Presales Enterprise Architecture and Enablement

Company: Qlik

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

Vincenzo Esposito

Job Title: Master Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

Leigh Kennedy

Job Title: Distinguished Principal Enterprise Architect

Company: Qlik

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

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.

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.

Ross Agutter

Job Title: Head of Business Intelligence

Company: Defra

I'm a Business Intelligence and Data Analytics leader working within central UK government. I have 6+ years experience in Data Architecture and Data Engineering, developing data models based on HR/Financial reporting needs and supporting of the development of Operational Apps for arm's length bodies. I am a chartered management accountant and particularly interested in initiatives to drive digital innovation in the public Finance and Accounting professions, unlocking the potential of data to drive efficiency through better decision making.

Matias Hermida

Company: Lenovo

Ooi Bee Hong

Company: Maxis

Mike Potter

Job Title: Chief Technology Officer

Company: Qlik

Mike Potter is responsible for leading Qlik’s R&D and Information Technology organizations. Since joining Qlik in 2014, Mike scaled the R&D team and played a critical role in designing and building innovative products and transforming the delivery cadence, from one major product launch a year, to multiple product releases delivered throughout the year. Previously, Mike worked at Cognos for thirteen years, and was one of the originators of Cognos Business Intelligence products. After IBM’s acquisition of Cognos, he spent six years with the company leading global development organizations for Financial Performance Management and BI across the various Cognos product lines. Prior to joining Qlik, Mike was Senior Vice President of Engineering at CA Technologies, where he led a global development organization within the IT Infrastructure space. Mike was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and is an accomplished inventor with multiple patents and expertise in financial analytics, financial performance management, data and business modelling, master data management, OLAP, SQL and data access. Mike holds both a BS in Computer Science and a MCS in Computer Science from the University of Ottawa.

Nicole Tamms

Job Title: Senior Product Marketing Manager

Company: Qlik

Nicole Tamms is a Sr. Product Marketing Manager within the global products organization at Qlik. Drawing upon more than 20 years of software industry experience, Nicole is focused on go-to-market strategy, enablement and content creation supporting customer retention and visualization capabilities. She has been with Qlik close to four years, after spending much of her career with Quest Software, where she drove product marketing for their flagship database and data prep tools the previous 12 years. Nicole holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Marketing from Long Beach State University. She is a Southern California native, currently living in Long Beach, CA with her husband, two children, pit bull mix Bowen, bearded dragon Spike, and guinea pig Freedom.

Dan Williams

Job Title: BI Manager

Company: PizzaExpress

Business Intelligence Manager for PizzaExpress in the UK, which is a restaurant company with sites across UK, Ireland, Hong Kong and UAE. Been working at PizzaExpress for the last four years leading the Business Intelligence team to push forward analytics across the business, especially within restaurants. During my time at PizzaExpress, Qlik Sense has been deployed across all restaurants in UK and Ireland, with a comprehensive suite of dashboards including near-real time sales information. Always looking to do more in BI and make PizzaExpress the best in class for analytics in the hospitality industry.

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