QlikWorld Online Speakers

Be inspired to look at your data in a whole new way.

Keynote Speaker

Malcolm Gladwell

Best-Selling Author

Malcolm Gladwell is the author of five New York Times bestsellers — The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, What the Dog Saw, and David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits and the Art of Battling Giants. He has been named one of the 100 most influential people by TIME magazine and one of the Foreign Policy’s Top Global Thinkers. Gladwell’s new book, Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong. Through a series of encounters and misunderstandings - from history, psychology and infamous legal cases - Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual adventure and challenges our assumptions on human nature and strategies we use to make sense of strangers, who are never simple. He explains why we act the way we do, and how we all might know a little more about those we don’t.

Event Host

Rick Jackson

Chief Marketing Officer at Qlik

Rick leads global marketing strategy and execution as Qlik continues to build upon its leadership position in the growing data and analytics market. A technologist at heart, he has more than 25 years of experience marketing software and services to businesses and consumers in the technology industry.

Rick joined Qlik from Rackspace where he was CMO and a member of the company’s senior leadership team. Prior to Rackspace, he served as CMO at VMware, where he was responsible for leading the company’s global marketing strategy since early 2009. In addition, Rick has led marketing organizations at Borland Software, BEA Systems and NetGravity, among others.

Qlik General Session Speakers

Mike Capone

Chief Executive Officer at Qlik

Mike leads Qlik’s mission to create a data-literate world, one where people, businesses, organizations and governments tackle their most complex challenges with data. Prior to Qlik, Mike was the COO of Medidata Solutions, a publicly-traded provider of SaaS analytics solutions to the healthcare, life sciences and pharma markets. There he played a significant role in the company’s product development, data science, professional services and go-to-market operations, guiding its strategy to provide a comprehensive cloud platform that leverages data and analytics to transform clinical trials.

James Fisher

Chief Product Officer at Qlik

James leads the product management and product marketing organizations that help drive Qlik’s vision, product and innovation strategy, messaging, thought leadership and go-to-market strategies. James has two decades of experience in global software and consulting businesses focusing on analytics, performance management, finance and mobile solutions. Prior to joining Qlik, he ran product marketing for analytics, mobile and finance solutions at SAP. He also previously held various marketing and consulting roles at BusinessObjects, Cartesis and PwC.

Mike Potter

Chief Technology Officer at 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.

Josh Good

Vice President Product Marketing, Data Analytics

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 innoviation, most recently focusing on Qlik’s transformation from a on-premise software company to a cloud based software as a service 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.

Elif Tutuk

Vice President, Innovation and Design at Qlik

Elif leads a team of scientists and engineers focusing on emerging technologies and new ideas to drive innovation at Qlik. She is has a diverse background including product management, product design, development and research. With 15+ years of experience in BI and Analytics, she is passionate about analytics, innovating with data and augmenting human intelligence with the power of analytics.

Kathy Hickey

Vice President, Product Management at Qlik

Kathy Hickey is a professional software Product Manager with more than 20 years of experience managing complex software product portfolios. She currently leads the Product Management team at Qlik responsible for managing the full portfolio of Qlik software. She works closely with customers helping them achieve their business goals leveraging Qlik solutions to enable their data and analytics pipeline resulting in increased data literacy across the organization. Prior to Qlik Kathy worked at CA Technologies managing portfolios across Security (Identity and Access Management), Infrastructure Management, and Virtualization and Automation. She has managed both on premise and SaaS solutions across all stages in the product lifecycle and is well versed in Agile Development methodologies.

Panel Speakers

Yassmin Abdel-Magied

Writer, Engineer, Advocate

Yassmin Abdel-Magied is a Sudanese-Australian writer, broadcaster and award-winning social advocate with a background in mechanical engineering.

One of the 2020 LinkedIn Changemakers, Yassmin is a globally sought-after advisor on issues of social justice, focused on race, gender and faith. She has travelled to 24 countries delivering keynotes on inclusive leadership, tackling unconscious bias and achieving substantive change. Yassmin’s internationally acclaimed TED talk, What does my headscarf mean to you, has been viewed over two million times and was chosen as one of TED’s top ten ideas of 2015. Yassmin has published a memoir and two fiction novels with Penguin Random House and has a number of screenwriting projects in development. Her social and current affairs commentary has appeared in TIME, The Guardian and Teen Vogue and she is a regular on the BBC, Aljazeera, TRT and Monocle 24.

In all her work, Yassmin is an advocate for transformative justice and a fairer, safer world for all.

Dr. Hannah Fry

Associate Professor in Mathematics

Dr. Hannah Fry is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics of Cities at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at UCL where she studies patterns in human behaviour. Her research applies to a wide range of social problems and questions, from shopping and transport to urban crime, riots and terrorism.

Her critically acclaimed BBC documentaries include Horizon: Diagnosis on Demand? The Computer Will See You Now, Britain’s Greatest Invention, City in the Sky (BBC Two), The Joy of Winning, The Joy of Data, Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic and Calculating Ada (BBC Four). She also co-presents The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry(BBC Radio 4) and The Maths of Life with Lauren Laverne (BBC Radio 6).

Hannah is the author of the worldwide bestselling book Hello World, How to be human in the age of the machine. As well as ‘The Indisputable Existence of Santa Claus: The Mathematics of Christmas’ (Transworld, 2016) and ‘The Mathematics of Love: Patterns, Proofs, and the Search for the Ultimate Equation

Dr. Paul Barth

Global Head of Data Literacy at Qlik

Dr. Paul Barth is the Global Head of Data Literacy for Qlik. Dr. Barth joined Qlik as CEO of Podium Data, which was acquired by Qlik in 2018 to create a next generation integrated data and analytics platform. He has spent decades developing advanced data and analytics solutions for Fortune 100 companies, and is a recognized thought-leader on business-driven data strategies and best practices.

Prior to founding Podium Data, Paul co-founded NewVantage Partners, a boutique consultancy advising C-level executives at leading banking, investment, and insurance firms. Through his leadership roles at Schlumberger, Thinking Machines, Epsilon, Tessera, and iXL, Dr. Barth led the discovery and development of parallel processing and AI technologies to dramatically accelerate and simplify data management and analytics.

Dr. Barth holds a Masters in Artificial Intelligence from Yale University, and PhD in Parallel Computing from MIT.