Daniel is responsible for global business analytics & data strategy within the consumer division of J&J. He is developing organisational capabilities to enable marketing teams around the world to take fact-based decisions to grow their business. He’s a strong believer in data democracy and that marketers need to embrace new technologies to get value from their data. Before focusing on business analytics, Daniel worked in digital marketing as well as marketing procurement in J&J. He holds a master’s degree in electronic engineering from RWTH Aachen and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne.

Daniel Waisberg is an analytics advocate at Google, where he fosters analytics by educating and inspiring professionals when it comes to making data-driven decisions; he spends a considerable amount of his time analysing and visualising data to come up with interesting and actionable stories. Daniel is the author of ‘Google Analytics Integrations’ and the founder/editor of online-behavior.com, an analytics & optimisation portal.

Romeo Kienzler is the chief data scientist of IBM Watson IoT and holds an M. Sc. (ETH) in computer science with a specialisation in information systems, bioinformatics and applied statistics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. He works as an associate professor for artificial intelligence at a Swiss university. He also contributes to various open source projects. He regularly speaks at international conferences including significant publications in the area of data mining, machine learning and Blockchain technologies. Recently, his latest book on Mastering Apache Spark V2.X has been published. Romeo Kienzler is a member of the IBM Technical Expert Council and the IBM Academy of Technology - IBM’s leading brain trusts. #ibmaot

Jari Lappalainen is a finance director at Nokia Group Finance and Analysis, and is in charge of monthly Nokia Group financial analysis and long-term development of finance analytical capabilities. Previously, Jari has held various financial planning and analysis roles in budgeting, profitability analysis and risk management at Nokia and at Microsoft. Jari has a background in applied mathematics and before joining Nokia in 2007, he did financial simulation software, consulting and interest rate derivatives. Jari is married, has three children, and lives in Espoo, Finland.

Bartosz is a BI and data warehouse technologies enthusiast. In his career, he has been responsible among others for building and automating the solutions to support the work of the companies and departments in the areas of customer care, resource planning, accounting, supply chain and order entry. In development process, he uses mainly the advanced features of the spreadsheet like Power Pivot, Power Query and VBA, Power BI and R, their capabilities in combining, transforming and turning data into meaningful visualisation.

Prior to joining SAP as the global leader for predictive analytics back in 2015, Sven served as the senior vice president for European field operations at MicroStrategy, his expertise encompassed enterprise analytics, mobile applications and BI platform solutions. Prior to MicroStrategy, Sven served in leadership roles at Aprimo, SAS Institute, SPSS Software and Teradata. At SAS and SPSS, Sven managed portfolios in advanced predictive analytics, industry framework as well as customer intelligence solutions. He brings over 20 years of international experience in enterprise applications to the benefit of SAP’s customers worldwide. Since 2017, Sven is responsible for the Analytics Global Center of Excellence in EMEA and MEE in representation of SAP’s end-to-end analytics line of business that consists of business intelligence, budgeting & planning and machine learning/predictive analytics. The Global Analytics CoE in the European theatre is responsible for strategic customer engagements, thought leadership, event support, demand generation and field enablement programs. Sven has a Master of Science degree in business informatics from the University of Cologne (Germany).

Arnab Chakraborty is a leader in Accenture’s digital practice based out of Frankfurt and leads the analytics in ASG and AI practice in ASG/ EALA. Building on two decades’ experience in analytics he is focused on the profound implications of the latest developments in machine learning and AI more broadly to Accenture’s clients and has led multiple large- scale analytics transformation journeys for Fortune 100 companies. Arnab is recognised as an Edelman Laureate by the prestigious Franz Edelman Committee/INFORMS for his contributions in the field of machine learning and applying it to the field of e-commerce/ online personalisation. Arnab is a regular author in the field of analytics, artificial intelligence and operations research in leading journals and magazines and driving the research partnerships on deep learning. Arnab has two patents granted in predictive analytics and machine learning topics.

Laurent Herr has been the vice president ‘data’ for Orange Business Services since early 2017. Since joining the Orange Group in 1997, he has held a series of project and management positions: head of operations support system, head of transversal projects and quality of service for Orange France, head of the group marketing office, and large accounts sales director. Prior to joining Orange, Laurent was a researcher in computer science at INRIA. Laurent Herr is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure and of Telecom ParisTech. He also holds a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Paris South.

Kurt Buchleitner is currently responsible for e-commerce and analytics at Western Union Europe and Western Union International Bank in Vienna. Kurt has more than 20 years of experience in analytics, IT, marketing, product and business management and worked the past 5 years for the digital unit of Western Union in San Francisco, driving the digitisation of the European markets. Kurt holds a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) from the Blue Danube Business School of University Krems.

After a decade in sourcing, research and recruitment, Toby is currently leading the global talent intelligence at Philips. Toby’s responsibilities include all research, talent intelligence and labour risk and feasibility intelligence, across the breadth of the Philips organisation globally. Toby has worked in a number of guises; external search, internal, RPO and running own research firm. The key throughout has been in using the insight and intelligence gathered through research/search activities to have a true business impact.

Lee heads up the UK big data & analytics practice within the global Insights & Data business in Capgemini. He has a team of 140+ consultants in the disciplines of data science, engineering and visualisation; who work across various sectors delivering innovative and industrialised insights driven solutions. He has 20+ years of data experience and a proven track record of successful BI & analytics projects, both in an advisory and solution delivery capacity. His focus now is on helping organisations get real business value from their data by exploiting new tech & new ways of working and ultimately driving transformation through insight.

Andrew has been with Atos since 1998 when he joined KPMG. Trained as an electrical and electronic engineer, prior to Atos, Andrew worked for 15 years at RS Components and was responsible for setting up their international division and their analytics & database marketing team in 1991. Since joining KPMG/Atos, Andrew has focused not on technology, but on driving business benefit from the use of technology. He has developed and led profitable BI, application development and oracle practices within the UK as well as driving business across the entire private sector for the SI service line. In 2013, Andrew took on the leadership of the program to secure investment from Atos & Siemens in big data. Successfully securing a substantial budget, Andrew then became lead for the design and build of the Industrial Data Analytics Framework Architecture and Platform, which was the catalyst for the creation of Atos Codex, the new Atos end to end offer in analytics and IOT as well as the joint GTM with Siemens around Mindsphere. Andrew has now taken on a further role to develop a team of global evangelists that are responsible for helping clients shape their thinking on all aspects of digital transformation particularly when it is empowered and enabled by advanced analytics.

Tom came in touch with BI at AT&T, where he was hired as a .NET developer. They started their first BI project, making him part of their team and through study and continuous improvement of his knowledge about the BI-stack, he quickly grew from being a modeler to BI analyst and coach for the ever-expanding BI team. After a year and a half, he left the company to become a BI solutions consultant at Toyota. During this project, he was responsible for the analysis and creation of a BI project from start to finish. By standardising the project model, it became the example for all the starting BI projects. It achieved great maintainability in the project and flexibility for management to visualise the company through data. Currently, he is working as the BI architect on the enterprise data warehouse at the national lottery in Belgium (where he is not divining a way to cheat and win the jackpot, obviously).