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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.

Magnus Berg

Job Title: Lead Product Designer

Company: Qlik

I work today as Lead Product Designer for Facilitation within Qlik R&D. This means I'm part of designing the facilitation and administration experience within both Qlik's Saas and client managed offerings. This includes content lifecycle management, digital purchasing, license management and more.. I have worked within Qlik organisation since 2007, starting as Pre-sales architect thereby consultant and later promoted to Master principal architect within Qlik's global enablement team before moving to my current possession.

Thomas Hopp

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Cloud Native Platform

Company: QlikTech GmbH

I'm based in Germany and with Qlik now for more than 16 years where I'm working as a Director in our Product Management Team. Within my role I'm working with our Software development teams to drive our Roadmap and make sure that we are adding value to our clients. My areas of responsibility are Enterprise Security & Content Workflow across the whole Platform. And I always enjoy it talking to our clients about their ideas, thoughts and feedback. Looking forward to meet you all in person as soon as possible again, Thomas

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.

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.

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.

Chris Ortega

Company: Qlik

Chris is the product manager for Qlik Catalog and Lineage capabilities and products and has over thirty years of experience in leading the delivery of large scale data solutions in the areas of data architecture and analytics. Chris was the Director of Data Architecture for Fidelity Investments where he architected the database to manage the firm’s fixed income trading and portfolio & risk management systems. He also served as the Chief of Operations for RGI Informatics, a healthcare analytics company, where he oversaw a 7x growth in company valuation. Chris was the Information Management practice lead for Hawkins Point Partners and Axis Technology and has provided his expertise to companies such as Blue Cross Blue Shield MA, United Healthcare, Epsilon, Publishers Clearing House, Readers Digest, March of Dimes, and Biogen. Chris holds a BA in Computer Science from Boston College.

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.

Dan Potter

Job Title: Vice President, Product Marketing

Company: 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.

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.

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.

Ian Crosland

Job Title: Vice President Product Management - Analytics

Company: 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

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.

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.

Christopher Kerr

Job Title: Director, Global Solutions, Consulting

Company: Qlik

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.

Björn Hansson

Thomas Hopp

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Cloud Native Platform

Company: QlikTech GmbH

I'm based in Germany and with Qlik now for more than 16 years where I'm working as a Director in our Product Management Team. Within my role I'm working with our Software development teams to drive our Roadmap and make sure that we are adding value to our clients. My areas of responsibility are Enterprise Security & Content Workflow across the whole Platform. And I always enjoy it talking to our clients about their ideas, thoughts and feedback. Looking forward to meet you all in person as soon as possible again, Thomas

Øystein Kolsrud

Job Title: Software Architect

Øystein Kolsrud is a software architect in the Customer First team at Qlik. This team deals primarily with escalated support cases from large customers and functions as a bridge between R&D and support for cases that require special attention. As such, Øystein has over the years been exposed to many of the scalability related issues users run into as their Qlik environment grows.

Konstantinos Mertzianis

Hi I m Kostas! I have been working with Qlik for the past 10+ years. Through that lovely journey, I have had the pleasure to work in various roles that mostly evolved around the Products and R&D organizations. Today, I have the pleasure to work for the Customer First Team as a Leader for the EMEA region. Generally I am curious by nature, an attribute that has cultivated my passion for analytics and data. Besides all that, I come from Greece and I have been living in Sweden for more than a decade now. Apart from being a dad to a fantastic 4 year old boy, I enjoy craft beer, swimming, snowboarding and design. Cheers!

Hampus von Post

I am Hampus von Post and I've been at Qlik for ten years entirely in the field of Performance & Scalability. Currently I act as Staff Architect within R&D ensuring everything we deliver is as scalable and performant. Historically I was involved with something known as Scalability Center where we helped enterprise engagements improve deployments, apps and methodologies such as pre caching. We also deliver a few service to the stack as well as will be showed here called the "App evaluator". Based in the very south of Sweden with my family of five I enjoy playing ice-hockey and avidly support Malmö FF (football team)

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.

Mariel Aseron

Job Title: BI Analytics Administration Manager

Company: AdventHealth

Mariel Aseron, graduated the University of Florida, obtaining both B.S. in Computer and Information Sciences and M.S. in Decision and Information Sciences. As a native of the Philippines and surrounded by strong women mainly focused in the medical field, she stepped out of tradition and studied art and technology. Mariel’s professional career began working with PwC Atlanta, under the Advisory Practice. She mainly focused on data management in the Financial and Healthcare sectors. This led to other opportunities within various healthcare systems within the Southeast Region. Mariel returned to Florida in 2014, joining AdventHealth IT Corporate Data Analytics department, and now manages the BI application infrastructure platforms utilized by the organization. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, Gator sports, and camping.

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.

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.

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.

Tony Rosa

Job Title: Master Solutions Architect

Company: Axis Group

With 25 years of experience, Tony has engaged in the architecture and implementation of Analytics and SOA solutions. He leads Axis Group's managed services team, supporting operations and engineering. Before joining Axis, Tony held positions in IT management at Nielsen Beverage Data Network, a leading provider of Beverage Alcohol Depletion and Retail Sales data, and IT professional services at Critical Path, part of OpenWave Messaging a messaging, security, and identity management solutions company.

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

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.

Paul Peterson

Job Title: Sr Director Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy & Compliance - Qlik Cloud Government

Company: 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.

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.

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.

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.

Jacob Vinzent

Company: Qlik

Jacob Vinzent is PreSales Director OEM EMEA at Qlik. He has been working with the largest OEM partners in EMEA over the last 6 years. He has a passion for cloud technologies, APIs and everything around automation. Before Qlik Jacob has been working with one of the first true multitenant PaaS systems in the world as well as running his own consultancy company. Jacob has experience with transition from a traditional on-site delivery model to an online SaaS delivery model, which is very aligned with both many of the OEM partner’s strategy as well as Qlik’s strategy as a SaaS first company.

Tonya Wolford

Company: School District of Philadelphia

Keren Zuniga McDowell

Job Title: Executive Director, District Performance

Company: School District of Philadelphia

Keren Zuniga McDowell, PhD, is the Executive Director of District Performance. In this role, Keren oversees the staff team and projects in the District Performance Office. The team’s work includes the Qlik Benchmarking, Analytics, and Management (QlikBAM) dashboards, School Profiles (Qlik QAP), data governance, the School Progress Report on Education and Equity (SPREE), Open Data, and data requests. The District Performance Office is in the Evaluation, Research, and Accountability (ERA) Division, which leads the District’s use of data and evidence to improve outcomes for students. This is achieved through the annual SPREE; QlikBAM; ongoing program evaluations and research; data quality and governance; the comprehensive school planning process; and professional development and technical assistance offered to District leadership, Assistant Superintendents, and Principals. Dr. Zuniga McDowell has over twenty years of experience in evaluation, data management, college access/success, and higher education and has committed her career to increasing educational opportunities for at-risk and underrepresented students. Prior to joining the District, Keren served as the Director for College Success with the Denver Scholarship Foundation (DSF) where she managed DSF’s college success services, scholarships, and research and evaluation divisions. Prior to her time at DSF, Keren served as the Director of the Center for Academic Access and Opportunity at Suffolk University in Boston, MA, where she oversaw the institution’s TRIO college access programs. Keren has also served as the Director of Research and Evaluation for two national non-profits, TERI (The Education Resources Institute) and Citizen Schools. In these roles she developed and led various multi-program, multi-site, large-scale program evaluations and data strategy initiatives.

Mike Ellis

Job Title: Director, Customer Success

Company: GINQO

Robin Sarkar is Senior Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics at IronRidge, where he develops the long-term business intelligence strategy and vision for the company and oversees the development and implementation of Data Analytics and Data Science projects. Since joining the company in 2014, Robin has lead the charge on various company-wide initiatives, included the overhaul of the entire S&OP process, developing tools that support customer advocacy and partnerships. Robin holds an MBA degree from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai. In his spare time Robin enjoys sports, amateur photography and spending time with his growing family.

Michael Lowe

Job Title: Director DATA + Analytics

Company: Earls

Mike Lowe, leader of the Data + Analytics department has a passion for understanding behaviour and putting data to work. He began his career at Earls Kitchen + Bar as a server and bartender while in university. In observing his guests he noticed the vast amount of data being collected through a dining experience. Mike moved to Earls HQ at graduation as an analyst and quickly grew to lead the Data + Analytics department. Mike and the team continuously pursue new ways to look at how Earls can enhance their guest's experience while maintaining a strong bottom line enhancing and leveraging their data pipelines.

Mike Ellis

Job Title: Director, Customer Success

Company: GINQO

Robin Sarkar is Senior Manager of Business Intelligence and Analytics at IronRidge, where he develops the long-term business intelligence strategy and vision for the company and oversees the development and implementation of Data Analytics and Data Science projects. Since joining the company in 2014, Robin has lead the charge on various company-wide initiatives, included the overhaul of the entire S&OP process, developing tools that support customer advocacy and partnerships. Robin holds an MBA degree from Texas A&M University and a Bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Mumbai. In his spare time Robin enjoys sports, amateur photography and spending time with his growing family.

Manon Lavergne

Job Title: Program Manager, Operational Support Services

Company: Ottawa Paramedic Service

Manon is a Program Manager with the Ottawa Paramedic Service located in Canada’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario. The Ottawa Paramedic Service is the sole municipal provider of paramedic services covering 2,778 km2 (1,072 sq. mi) with a population of just under 1,000,000. Ottawa’s Paramedics respond to over 140,000 medical emergencies annually. Manon is responsible for the Operational Support Services division, overseeing the Business Intelligence in Public Safety program, Community Paramedicine, Regulatory Compliance and Infection Control, Research, Emergency Medical Records, Professional Standards and quality assurance as well as the scheduling and staffing. Over the last 25 years, Manon helped evaluate, develop and implement several initiatives related to system performance. Most recently the operationalization of the Patient Priority System dashboard using real-time data has been a significant collaborative project aiming to reduce the impact on the pre-hospital system particularly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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.

Paul Peterson

Job Title: Sr Director Product Management - Qlik Cloud Platform - Security, Privacy & Compliance - Qlik Cloud Government

Company: 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.

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