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Guy possesses an extensive knowledge of innovation, entrepreneurship, social media and marketing. First and foremost, he’s an evangelist. The term comes from a Greek word that means “bringing good news.” And that’s what he’ll be doing at #DataToOutcome.
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Formerly the chief evangelist at Apple, Guy is now the chief evangelist at Canva, a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz and a trustee of the Wikimedia Foundation. He’s also an executive fellow of the Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley) and an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales.
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With a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from UCLA, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College, Guy is the author of Wise Guy, The Art of the Start 2.0, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment and eleven other books. He's also the creator of the Remarkable People podcast and has more than 7M combined followers across social media.
Guy’s Golden Touch means “Whatever is gold, Guy touches.” Organizations that he has invested in or advises include: Alltop, Evernote, BagTheWeb, Enthrill, Garage Technology Ventures, Paper.li, Sixense, TicketLeap, uStream, and Visible Measures.
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Michele is a member of Forrester's Infrastructure & Operations research team, delivering strategic guidance to Forrester’s enterprise and vendor clients. Her expertise focuses on Internet of Things (IoT) platforms, technologies, applications and vendors, as well as enterprise mobility, mobile device application adoption and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) initiatives.
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President of the SAP HANA and Analytics Unit
Gerrit Kazmaier is president of the SAP HANA and Analytics unit with global responsibility for the development, product management, and solution management of this portfolio of solutions.
Gerrit is passionate about data and cloud technology and how continuous innovation can create lasting business value for SAP customers. With the vision to develop a unified approach for a business intelligence, planning, and predictive analytics solution, Gerrit built the foundation for SAP Analytics Cloud and the SAP Digital Boardroom. In 2018, Gerrit expanded his role to additionally cover SAP’s Database and Data Management organization, where he first began his career at SAP in 2009.
As head of development, product management, and solution management for these two areas, he is responsible for building, innovating, and driving the market strategy for SAP’s flagship in-memory business database SAP HANA as well as SAP’s analytics solutions.
During his tenure at SAP, Gerrit has filed over 30 patents on technologies for analytical and spatial data processing. Together with his team, he also won the prestigious SAP Hasso Plattner Founders’ Award for their work on creating a high-performance spatial engine inside SAP HANA.
Award-Winning Chef
Jen Barney’s reputation for creating desserts that look as exquisite as they taste is now known nationwide. The Wisconsin-based pastry chef and owner of Meringue Bakery catapulted to fame and proved her fierce culinary skills by winning two Food Network Baking Championship Titles. Her creations showcased skill, passion, and talent that have people calling her the Doyenne of Desserts.
A classically trained baker and pastry chef and graduate of the acclaimed Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts, Jen began her career 10 years ago as a wedding cake decorator. Her career has taken her from the Twin Cities area to New Mexico and back home to Wisconsin. Along the way, she has prepared desserts and pastries for large banquets and restaurants, designed specialty dessert lines, and created decadent confections and cakes for a variety of occasions.
Today, Jen is best known for her elegant wedding cakes and unique, custom flavors—from classical and subtle to novel and bold. Each wedding cake she creates is one of a kind and made especially for the one-of-a-kind couple and, when possible, made with seasonal and locally sourced ingredients. Specialties include edible flowers and hand-painted and sculpted cakes. Jen and her talented staff also offer seasonal items and party favors along with pastries and personalized desserts for corporate events.
Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist, Canva; Former Chief Evangelist, Apple; Brand Ambassador, Mercedes Benz; Best-Selling Author of 13 Books With Over Ten Million Social-Media Followers
Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley veteran with experience at Apple and Google. He has over 30 years of experience with creating products and services and going to market. During this exclusive session, Guy will discuss how to create innovative products and services using tactical and practical data-driven techniques that will transform your decisions and drive business forward.
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Guy Kawasaki, Chief Evangelist, Canva; Former Chief Evangelist, Apple; Brand Ambassador, Mercedes Benz; Best-Selling Author of 13 Books With Over Ten Million Social-Media Followers Gerrit Kazmaier, President of the SAP HANA and Analytics Unit Learn how SAP's data and analytics solutions can help you change your corporate culture to be more data-driven, as well as how to create true business value with your data. Gerrit Kazmaier, President of SAP HANA and Analytics, will discuss key trends and strategy for success.
Michele Pelino, Principal Analyst, Forrester
Enterprises spanning many vertical markets are pursuing digital transformation initiatives requiring IoT, AI, predictive analytics, blockchain and other emerging technologies to enhance operations, differentiate products, and transform customer engagements. Expanding these digital transformation initiatives beyond prototypes into scalable deployments requires IT professionals to break down barriers and collaborate with their operational technology (OT) counterparts. These stakeholders must evaluate opportunities to use software platforms and data analytics solutions to simplify the process of capturing real time data, address data governance issues, and ensure individuals from across the organization can transform captured data into actionable insight that is relevant to critical operational processes and industry specific use cases.
Iver van de Zand, VP SAP Augmented BI Solution Management, SAP
Iver van de Zand presents how the SAP vision and strategy for the SAP Analytics portfolio focuses on enabling end users to make better decisions and act with confidence.
Andreas Madsen, Senior Data and Analytics Partner, VELUX
Timo Elliott, VP Innovation Evangelist, SAP
Andreas Madsen and Timo Elliott discuss how VELUX is modernizing its enterprise application landscape to become a data-driven organization with more self-service thanks to SAP data and analytics solutions, including SAP Analytics Cloud.
Alexandra Thorogood, SAP Program Manager, RPC Technologies
Timo Elliott, Global Innovation Evangelist, SAP
RPC Technologies gained deep business insight in real-time, greatly enhancing their ability to forecast and manage projects thanks to SAP Analytics Cloud with SAP S/4HANA Cloud financial core. Alexandra Thorogood, SAP Program Manager at RPC Technologies, discusses with Timo Elliott, VP Innovation Evangelist at SAP.
Simone Raschig, Controlling Manager, Corporate Controlling CoE Central Forecast & Subsidiary, SAP
Natalia Tyagunova, Controller in Corporate Controlling Department, SAP
Max Gander, Financial and Corporate Analytics, CoE, SAP
Richard Mooney, Lead Product Manager for Advanced Analytics, SAP
The SAP Center of Excellence (CoE), Central Forecast and Subsidiary Controlling is an early adopter of predictive planning in SAP Analytics Cloud. Richard Mooney, head of Product Management for Augmented Analytics at SAP and key members of the CoE, discuss the value of automated planning thanks to ML-driven forecasting.
Many companies today are in a mixed landscape of on-premise and cloud solutions. Blair Wheadon, Senior Director, SAP Analytics Global Center of Excellence shares how to gain additional value from existing SAP BusinessObjects BI investments by using them in conjunction with the BI, planning, and predictive innovations provided by SAP Analytics Cloud for real-time insight and decisions.
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Mustafa Dadawalla, Global Data Governance Manager, Corning
Mustafa Dadawalla has created a practical, pragmatic approach to data governance. Learn key elements for developing a global data governance strategy. Discover the impact of a strong data strategy for the supply chain organization at Corning.
Sue Waite, Senior Director Platform and Data Management COE, SAP
David Steinbruck, Senior Director Enterprise Architect – Platform and Technology COE, SAP
The business defines your ultimate objectives. What does the business want and what do you want to achieve? And then, where can you support via an outcome driven data strategy. Learn about one of the very first steps to getting started – a data quality assessment. To answer one of the questions you better know the answer to, how good is my data to begin with?
SAP S/4HANA is a fantastic opportunity to consider your data landscape, correct past issues, and optimize for business transformation. Customers running SAP S/4HANA successfully today recommend cleansing and consolidating your data to get the most out of your investment in SAP S/4HANA. Getting there is often easier said than done – how do you know what to take and what to leave behind? In this session, you will learn about SAP solutions for information management.
Hear how Döhler is developing a data-driven culture and digital mindset to deliver business intelligence and advanced data insights. Learn how their One Data Management program ensures data is high quality and fit-for-use through automation, intelligence and corporate data literacy.
Mohamed Abdel Hadi, Global VP Product Management & Strategy Data Warehouse, SAP
Mohamed Abdel Hadi presents SAP's vision for the future of Data Warehousing. In this presentation, Mo will give an overview of the SAP Data Warehouse Cloud and its innovations.
Donnie McMillian, Executive Solution Engineer, SAP
Donnie McMillian presents an overview of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud, the advanced system for managing data and analytics. SAP Data warehouse cloud lets you make confident business decisions based on fast and easy access to trusted data. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud brings people and information together with an end-to-end data and analytics solution.
Felix Blume, Head of Product & Solution Management, PwC
Mohamed Abdel Hadi sits down with Price Waterhouse Coopers to discuss their use of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud.
Oliver Huth dives into one of SAP Data Warehouse Cloud's unique features, the Business Layer. In this presentation, Oliver will outline many of the unique and powerful properties of the Business Layer for modern data warehousing.
Heiko Schneider will take us on a tour of the latest technologies in SAP's BW/4HANA, an exploration of BW/4's latest features and advantages. In this presentation, he will touch on the new innovations and advantages found BW/4HANA 2.0.
Matt Zenus, Global Vice President, Database, Data Management, and Analytics, SAP
In the last ten years, the market has added new database types (data lakes) and deployment methods (hybrid and cloud). Probably, the number of databases your company uses has grown, too. In this session, learn how your business can benefit from a single point of access to all its enterprise data with one cloud database solution, and how you can satisfy more business requirements faster with SAP HANA Cloud.
Peter Chen, Director of Enterprise Architecture, Stericycle
Stericycle plays a critical role in today’s pandemic crisis by providing essential services to hospitals and healthcare facilities across the United States. Discover how the company has extended their SAP S/4HANA applications using SAP HANA and SAP Analytics Cloud for agile business empowerment and forefront innovations during the worldwide health crisis.
Jim Griffin, Senior Director Global Platform and Technology CoE, SAP
Data management used to be focused on getting data recorded into a permanent record for a company. Then data was copied and modified in very creative ways for analytics, resulting in data architectures that resembled spaghetti. In this session, learn how Canadian Pacific Rail simplified that landscape complexity with a single database that serves both transactions and analytics.
Horacio Balussi, CIO, Argentine Cooperative Association
Empower your business to act daily on critical decisions by combining spatial data with your business data. Discover how Argentine Cooperatives Association uses SAP HANA spatial services, machine learning, and other SAP technologies to digitalize the agriculture industry and run sustainable business practices.
Curtis Dudley, VP Enterprise Analytics + Data Services, Mercy
Amy Doescher, Software Business Development Manager, Intel
Business transformation is accelerating. You, too, need to accelerate your ability to provide real-time data for fast decision making. In this session, learn how Mercy overcame numerous unknowns and challenges due to COVID-19 with the help of SAP HANA and Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory. Discover how they build a solution that addresses patient care, healthcare worker safety and capacity planning during critical times.
Thomas Jung, Head of Developer Advocacy, SAP
From the move to cloud native approaches to the increasing influence of open source; the world of the SAP developer is changing rapidly. Join this introductory session of the developer track to see how these changes are impacting the way we work on a daily basis.
Are you a developer wanting to get started with SAP HANA development? Or maybe already an experienced HANA developer, but want to keep up with the latest capabilities? In this session we will overview how to get started with SAP HANA Cloud as a developer. From taking advantage of the free trial for self-education to what development tools work best for difference scenarios.
Witalij Rudnicki, Developer Relations, SAP
3 Simple and Delicious Recipes Your Family Will Love
Chef Jen Barney, Food Network Champion, Owner, Meringue Bakery & Café
Are you running out of recipes to make at home? In this session, two-time Food Network champion chef, Jen Barney, highlights 3 simple and yet elevated recipes that your family will love: Gluten Free Chocolate Brownie Cookies, Shortbread Cookies, and Browned Butter & Strawberry Rice Crispy Treats.