Thuy is currently the VP of Business Intelligence at Age of Learning, where she leads the BI and data warehouse teams. Prior to Age of Learning, she was Senior Director of Enterprise Analytics at Experian for five years in which she led the analytics teams to revamp analytics functions and optimization impacts for the organization. Thuy is a creative problem solver who enjoys leveraging technology and data to fuel business insights and growth.

Kelly J. Mungary is currently the Director of Big Data Analytics at Lionsgate studios. He heads up a team of business intelligence engineers and data scientists that provide analytics for the theatrical, digital home entertainment, SVOD and TV teams. He is also responsible for planning and oversight of big data storage and analytics systems. In addition, Kelly has over 20 years of experience leading analytics, business intelligence, AI and data science initiatives for companies like GE, BofA and AIG. His responsibilities at Lionsgate include leading team collaboration with business units on predictive analytics, social media trending, product development, marketing metrics and sales planning business intelligence.

George Fraser is co-founder and CEO of Fivetran, a fully automated data pipeline that syncs all your databases and cloud apps into your data warehouse.

Norbert has over 10 years in the data space working in different industries and various roles; from analyst, to BI, database administration, consulting and architecting high volume, distributed systems.

Thomas is currently the VP of Architecture at Unico Solution where he has helped the company take two products to market. Working with various leaders in the Cloud and Integration space he continues to look for markets needs and trends to continue to guide the current product development as well as looking for new product development. Previously, Thomas worked at Informatica in both their Professional Services and R&D areas as a Solution Architect.

Ken Chestnut is Global Segment Lead for Big Data and Business Solutions at Amazon Web Services. He works with AWS technology and consulting partners to deliver big data and business solutions on behalf of joint customers.

Daniel Mintz is the Chief Data Evangelist at Looker, the BI software company headquartered in Santa Cruz, Calif. Previously, he was Head of Data & Analytics at fast-growing media startup Upworthy and before that he was Director of Analytics at political group MoveOn.org. Throughout his career, Daniel has focused on how people interact with data in their everyday lives and how they can use it to get better at what they do.

Todd Beauchene has been involved with databases and Business Intelligence for over 15 years. His experience includes Java development and BI roles for a number of the world’s largest technology organizations, including Amazon.com. He is currently a Senior Technical Architect at Snowflake Computing focused on enabling our partners to deliver solutions based on our Cloud-based Elastic Data Warehouse.

Steve has spent his career as software engineer, consultant, entrepreneur, and sales engineer in databases and analytics, working for companies like Adobe, MathWorks, and SQLstream. Joining Snowflake Computing 3 years ago as its first Sales Engineer, Steve now leads the Sales Engineering team. He loves to talk about Snowflake’s unique cloud-based architecture and how a business can leverage this architecture to change business processes, develop new insights, and provide new data products and services.

Jon has spent over 15 years creating and applying disruptive enterprise technologies at startups and established enterprises. Most recently, Jon has focused on data analytics in product and marketing roles at Aster Data, Teradata, and Cloud9 Analytics. Prior to that, he was a core member of the VMware marketing team and an engineer at Hewlett Packard. Jon holds a BSEE from Stanford University and an MBA from Duke University.

Ross is a lifelong data enthusiast. As the Director of Product Marketing at Snowflake, he is charged with leading the discussion about analytics, big data, and cloud data warehousing amongst Snowflake’s customers, partners and the marketplace as a whole. Before Snowflake, Ross was a product marketer at Tableau Software where he gained an appreciation for the importance of performant data warehousing in analytics. He has had the opportunity to speak at Strata/Hadoop, South by Southwest, the Tableau Conference, and TechWeek. Ross is also the founder and former Chairman of the Iron Viz Championship, the worlds largest and longest running data visualization competition.

Kent is a recognized industry expert, thought leader, trainer, and published author in the areas of data modeling, data warehousing, data architecture, and various Oracle tools (like Oracle Designer and Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler). He is a certified Data Vault Master, Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner (CDVP2), and an Oracle ACE Director with over 30 years experience in the Information Technology business.

Paul serves the CIO role, focusing on the industrial internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing. His research explores how new technologies challenge established organizations and their business models. Cloud computing may not always save its adopters money, but cloud-based approaches consistently provide the flexibility and agility required to win, serve, and retain business in the age of the customer. Paul also looks at the way IoT is creating opportunities in sectors from healthcare and utilities to manufacturing and retail. At the simplest level, connected devices are used to track the use of expensive physical assets. But the opportunities are far larger than that, altering the ways in which machines are built, sold, used, and maintained, and transforming the relationship between makers, operators, and customers in ways that we are only just beginning to understand.

Robert is an accomplished technology evangelist with business sense and a passion for building highly scalable cloud based web applications backed by polyglot database architectures. He currently serves as Principal Architect at Snagajob, where he lead the implementation of Snowflake. Prior to Snagajob, he worked as Senior Enterprise Architect at LandAmerica.

Alex Ross is Sales Consulting Manager at Tableau in the UK and is passionate about empowering customers to build a data-driven culture. Alex has over 12 years’ experience in the data-related software industry working with organisations across a variety of sectors including not-for-profit, higher education, finance, and government. Prior to joining Tableau, Alex specialised in data quality, financial risk and compliance, and CRM using a range of database and reporting technologies. Alex’s blog tableaujunkie.com helps people to understand how they can integrate data from a variety of sources with Tableau Software.

Carlos was born and raised as a professional in the banking industry. Carlos has worked for several major and global banks, architecting and deploying high performance backend applications. He joined OutSystems in 2014, as an Architecture Expert and recently joined the Architecture group in Digital Platform team, which the main focus is to define the foundations for a Low Code Company. 

Cameron is a senior retail/restaurant technology executive with a history of building leading-edge infrastructures, systems, and products. He spent the last 4 years at Snap Kitchen helping scale the brand from 8 units to 50 plus, using data to build a better guest experience, real time app integrations, and BI decision making.

Paul has been a member of the University of Notre Dame Business Intelligence team for just over 1 year. Previously, he was Director of Business Intelligence at Better World Books, one of the world’s largest online booksellers. In his time at Notre Dame he has helped lead efforts to move analytics to cloud based solutions such as Snowflake. Currently, he is working on migrating the Notre Dame Enterprise Data Warehouse to Snowflake. He is a graduate of Notre Dame with a BA in English. In lieu of writing prose, he has chosen instead to write millions of lines of SQL.

Michal Klos is Director of Data Platform at Localytics, an app marketing and engagement platform. Michal leads the Data Platform team that is responsible for the core data infrastructure that drives Localytics’ products.

Adam Weinstein is the Executive Director of Analytics & Data Science at athenahealth, with responsibility for the client-facing reporting experience, product analytics and data science. Prior to this role, he served in a variety of positions related to product operations at athenahealth, with responsibility for value-based payment programs, clinical content and clinical data standards. Mr. Weinstein holds a MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management and an MS from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health, Science and Technology, as well as a BA in Computer Science from Brandeis University.

Erika started her career in 2008 working across the Microsoft BI stack. She has since enjoyed the opportunity to develop and implement BI solutions across numerous industries with tools such as Alteryx, Tableau, Looker, Paraccel, Redshift, and Snowflake. Her favorite project was the “Cow Cube”. Seriously. Ask her.