Speakers

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Donald Farmer

Director
TreeHive Strategy
Donald Farmer, principal of TreeHive Strategy, is an internationally-known advisor to analytics vendors, investors and enterprises. His career has ranged from fish-farming and archeology, to leading product teams at Microsoft and Qlik. Donald specializes in helping his clients to develop advanced strategies for analytics, innovation and design, especially taking advantage of new technologies and techniques.
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Alec Sharp

Founder
Clariteq Systems Consulting
Alec Sharp, a senior consultant and acclaimed teacher with Clariteq Systems Consulting, has deep expertise in a rare combination of fields – business analysis and requirements specification, data modelling, strategy development, facilitation, and, of course, business process modelling, analysis and design.
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Rick van der Lans

Managing Director
R20/Consultancy
Rick van der Lans is an independent analyst, consultant, author and internationally acclaimed lecturer specializing in data warehousing, business intelligence, and database technology. Rick helps clients worldwide to design their data warehouse, big data and BI architectures.
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John O’Brien

CEO and Principal Advisor
Radiant Advisors
With 30 years of experience delivering value through data strategy, architectures, and analytics John O'Brien has a unique perspective that comes from key roles as a practitioner, consultant, and vendor CTO in the data analytics industry. As a recognized thought leader, he has been publishing articles, teaching, and presenting at conferences in North America and Europe for more than 15 years.
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Barry Devlin

Founder
9sight Consulting
Dr. Barry Devlin is one of the foremost authorities in the field of business insight and he is one of the founders of data warehousing. With over thirty years' experience in IT, of which twenty with IBM as "Distinguished Engineer", he is a valued consultant and teacher all around, plus author of the standard book “Data Warehouse – from Architecture to Implementation”.
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Lawrence Corr

Chief Data Modelstormer
DecisionOne Consulting
Lawrence Corr is a leading international BI consultant and former Ralph Kimball Associate. He has worked on data warehousing projects in the US, Europe, the Middle East and Africa within healthcare, telecoms, broadcasting, higher education, financial services and retail, helping organizations benefit from simpler, more inclusive requirements modeling techniques.
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Jan Henderyckx

Managing Director
BearingPoint
Jan Henderyckx is trusted advisor, speaker and author who has been active in the field of Information Management and Information Governance and strategy since 1986. He has presented, moderated and taught workshops at many international conferences and User Group meetings worldwide.
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Marco Brattinga

Principal Consultant
Ordina
Marco Brattinga, MSC, is Ordina’s senior principal expert for intelligent data-driven organizations and has more than 20 years of experience as a data architect and consultant in the public sector. Since 2011 he has been working on semantic technology for data management challenges, such as the modeling and exchange of information between organizations, in particular the semantic description of datasets and the understanding of legal texts
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Keith McCormick

Data Science Consultant and Instructor
Keith McCormick has leveraged statistical software since 1990 along with deep expertise utilizing popular industry advanced analytics solutions such as IBM SPSS Statistics, IBM SPSS Modeler, AMOS, Answer Tree, popular open source and other tools involving text and big data analytics. Keith has guided organizations to establish highly effective analytical practices across industries, to include public sector, media, marketing, healthcare, retail, finance, manufacturing and higher education.
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Tanja Ubert

Docent and researcher
Hogeschool Rotterdam
Tanja Ubert is Lecturer at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences at the CMI department, regarding all sorts of methodology, Design, Data engineering and Business Intelligence. She is co-author of the new Bachelor Applied Datascience & Artificial Intelligence and Researcher in the Research team for Education and Learning Technology.
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Gabriella Obispa

Lecturer and researcher
Hogeschool Rotterdam
Gabriella Obispa is a lecturer in Technology Law & Ethics at Rotterdam University of applied sciences at the CMI department. Co-developer for the new Bachelor Applied Data Science & AI.
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Arjen Bouman

Data Manager
APG
Arjen Bouman is data manager at APG. Together with his data management team, he is responsible for drafting and implementing data management policy at the largest pension provider of The Netherlands.
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Niels Naglé

Data Solutions Architect
Info Support
Niels Naglé is an experienced Data & AI Consultant - Architect, Chapter Lead Data & AI, trainer and speaker at Info Support. He specializes in data & Analytics solutions, business intelligence, modern data platforms, data mesh, Artificial Intelligence, data management, Machine Learning.
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Vincent Goris

IT Consultant
Info Support
Vincent Goris is a Young Professional with a passion for Data & AI and mainly experienced with data exchange in the healthcare domain.
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Dennis van Gelder

Consultant
Sogeti
Dennis van Gelder works at Sogeti as an expert in the field of data, data management, analytics and digital transformations. He is an experienced consultant who enjoys helping organisations become smarter.
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Partners

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Erik Fransen

Founder
Connected Data Group
Erik Fransen has been active as a consultant, trainer and speaker in the field of Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Data Virtualisation and Analytics since 1994. Erik has over 25 years of experience in management consultancy and as a trainer and regularly speaks at international conferences around various Data & Analytics topics.
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Petr Beles

Senior Consultant
2150 GmbH
Petr Beles has profound experience in data warehouse projects in the telecommunications, financial, and industrial sectors. Petr is co-founder and CEO of Datavault Builder.
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Erik van der Hoeven

BI Specialist
Erik van der Hoeven is a Business Intelligence Specialist from the Netherlands with more than 10 years’ experience in developing and designing Data Integration Solutions. He has helped companies such as NIBC, DCMR and Europool to increase the maturity and efficiency of their BI teams.
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