Donald is an internationally respected thinker in the fields of data analysis and innovation, with over 30 years of deeply practical experience. His background is very diverse, having applied data analysis techniques in scenarios ranging from fish-farming to archaeology to advanced manufacturing. He has worked in award-winning startups in the UK and Iceland, and spent 15 years at Microsoft and at Qlik leading teams designing and developing new enterprise capabilities in data integration, data mining, self-service analytics and visualization

Mike Ferguson: Managing Director of Intelligent Business Strategies Limited As an independent analyst and consultant he specializes in business intelligence, data management and enterprise business integration. Based in UK, he has over 28 years of IT experience. Mike has consulted for dozens of companies on BI strategy, technology selection, enterprise architecture, MDM and data governance. He has spoken at events all over the world and written numerous articles. Mike is a resident expert on the BeyeNETWORK in various European countries, providing articles, blogs and his insights on the industry.

Jorge Garcia: Senior BI and Data Management Analyst at Technology Evaluation Centers. Jorge has more than 20 years of experience in all phases of application development, database and data warehouse (DWH) design, as well more than 9 years in project management, covering best practices and new technologies in the BI/DWH space. Prior to joining TEC, García was a senior project manager and senior analyst developing BI, DWH, and data integration applications with Oracle, SAP Business Objects, and data integration. He has also worked on projects related to the implementation of BI solutions for the private sector, including the banking and services sectors. He has had the opportunity to work with some of the most important BI and DWH tools on the market.

Rick Gilbert: Executive Director and Data Management Consultant of Winter Corporation With more than 35 years of technology and executive management experience, Rick provides independent consulting to clients to plan for successful implementation of their large-scale data management programs. Having extensive first-hand experience and knowledge in large-scale data warehouse development as well as business management perspective, Rick brings an additional business-value dimension to the planning of data warehouse applications. Previously, Rick was Managing Director of Enterprise Decision Support Solutions for FedEx Services and also held executive positions in IT, Marketing, Customer Service, and Operations Management at US West and its predecessor Mountain Bell Telephone Company.

Benjamin Goewey: Founder and Principal Consultant for Datamensional, LLC. Mr. Goewey has extensive experience providing positive impacts to companies through the utilization of various business analytics tools and solutions. Ben has been passionate about providing actionable, relevant, and timely information for decision makers to help them make decisions more quickly and effectively. Before founding his own firm in 2009, Ben implemented analytic solutions at IBM and Fidelity Investments. He has implemented and advanced the utilization of open source business analytics and data integration tools at a broad range of customers including enterprise companies such as Cisco, Dell, Huawei, and at various midsize and start-up companies.

Pauline Hannemann: An independent management consultant, thought leader and practicing visionary with 25 years of experience in enterprise information management, business intelligence and technology. Ms. Hannemann’s strategic and tactical experience spans the entire spectrum of the CIO across many industries. Her blended passion and experience in business consulting, sustainable practices, innovation and Information management enables her to deliver an unparalleled holistic perspective to her clients. Previous roles include, Executive Management Consultant, CIO-Sr. Executive Director of Information Resources, Sr. Principal- IM practice, Associate Partner – BI practice, Master Business Consultant, Sr. Executive Director of Technology, Director of Information Management, and Founder of The Information Engineers.

capioIT was founded in 2010 to act as a trusted advisor supporting successful outcomes in emerging technology and geographic markets globally. It was founded by CEO Phil Hassey, who has 20 years experience in corporate strategy, consulting and market intelligence. capioIT is constantly “tilting the world view” providing unique, but grounded perspectives for clients.

Jan is a highly rated consultant, speaker and author who has been active in the field of Information Management and Relational Database Management since 1986. He has presented, moderated and taught workshops at many international conferences and User Group meetings worldwide. Jan’s experiences, combined with information architecture and management expertise, have enabled him to help many organisations to optimise the business value of their information assets. He is Founder and managing partner of Inpuls, a company that focuses on information management and data insight. He is actively involved in non-profit organisations as Director of the Belgium and Luxembourg chapter of DAMA (Data Management Association) and as Board member of DAMA International. He has published articles in many industry journals, and has been elected to the IDUG Speakers Hall of Fame.

Chuck Hooper: Owner of BIAlytics. Chuck does business intelligence consulting, speaking engagements, and training sessions on visual analytics, data warehouse design, and other BI topics, at both the technical and the executive levels. In 2005, PRS became Tableau’s first consulting partner. In 2008, Chuck joined Tableau Software to start their Professional Services group. As of April 2011, Chuck is back in the independent consulting world, with his 40+ years of experience, specializing in BI for healthcare and education.

Ralph Hughes: MA, PMP, CSM serves as Chief Systems Architect for Ceregenics, provider of project leadership consulting for DW/BI programs among the Global 2000 since 1988. Inventor of the Agile Data Warehousing method and the Zuzena automated DW/BI testing engine, he published the first book on agile data warehousing in 2008. He is a faculty member of The Data Warehouse Institute, frequently a keynote speaker at their quarterly world conferences, and one of five judges on their annual Emerging Technologies and Methods practices award panel. He started in DW/BI and data analytics while earning his masters degree from Stanford University in econometric forecasting, and has led data warehousing programs in the aerospace, telecommunications, e-commerce, and pharmaceuticals industries.

Co-founder and Editor of NEBI. Master in information and communications technology, specialist in Business Intelligence, with over 10 years experience in information management. This experience have enabled me to check that the value you bring to a company information, depend on the processes and organizational culture, as well as for the people who manage and the technology used to manage it

John Johansen: Partner of Agile Technologies, a management consulting firm helping companies innovate, execute and realize bottom line performance improvements. As a partner since the firm’s founding in 1997 Mr. Johansen leads the firm’s business intelligence and analytics engagements and consults for clients on data warehousing, business intelligence and strategic application architectures. His clients include global insurance and financial service companies, travel services organizations and public sector agencies. Mr. Johansen holds a Computer Science degree from Lehigh University.

Paul Kautza has over thirty years of experience – selling to, consulting with and educating fortune 1000 organizations in the effective use of information and technology for data warehousing, business intelligence and analytics. This includes helping organizations develop global strategies that drive the design and deployment of profitable business intelligence solutions. He is experienced in helping customers understand information technology in order to insure the technologies they select will meet their business strategies and business analytical requirements. Paul joined TDWI in 2007 to lead its Education Group. In this capacity, he was responsible for course development, overall curriculum, conference programs, regional seminars and the professional CBIP certification program. Paul maintains close contact with the education needs of the industry through his network of customers, instructors, industry analysts and technology vendors. Paul holds a BS degree in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin.

Kai R. Larsen: is an associate professor at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business, where his focus is on teaching business analytics and privacy topics. His research on natural language processing and related algorithms to create a theoretical backbone for behavioral research across disciplines has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute.

Dirk Lerner: is a well experienced IT Consultant at ITGAIN and is responsible for the Competence Center Data Modeling & Data Vault. For over 10 years he has headed BI projects and is considered an expert for BI architectures and data modeling. Dirk is an advocate of flexible, lean and easily extendable data warehouse principles and practices.

Gregory is a Business Intelligence professional with a passion for simplifying and strengthening the decision making process through the use of visualization. He has been described as a “purple person”, straddling the worlds of both business and technology to forge strong and lasting partnerships that deliver real value to the organization.

Professionally, he has enjoyed success across various leadership roles and functions including: Sales, Channels, Operations, Finance and Professional Services. Personally, he is active in his community, sitting on the Brain Tumor Board of Advisors at Duke Health, working closely with the “Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center at Duke”, and “Angels Among Us” to help bring an end to Brain Cancer.