Speakers

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.

Ron Tolido is an Executive Vice President, CTO and Master Architect of Capgemini’s Insights & Data global business line. He is the lead author of Capgemini’s ‘TechnoVision’ yearly trend series and the editor-in-chief of the ‘Data-powered Innovation Review’ magazine publications. He has served for a decade at The Open Group’s governance board.

Mike Ferguson is an analyst and consultant and specialises in business intelligence / analytics, data management, big data and enterprise business integration. Mike has consulted for dozens of companies and teaches popular classes in Big Data, New Technologies for Data Warehousing and BI.

Peter Boncz has been active in the database community during the past four decades, making him a veteran. He leads the Database Architectures research group of research institute CWI in Amsterdam and has been involved in six startup companies so far.

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.

Jos is the director of the Erasmus Data Collaboratory – House of AI, where data & AI come to life. The EDC is part of the Erasmus Centre for Data Analytics, in which Jos serves as a member of the management team.

Panos Alexopoulos has been working since 2006 at the intersection of data, semantics and software, contributing in building intelligent systems that deliver value to business and society. He currently works as Head of Ontology at Textkernel BV, in Amsterdam, leading a team of data professionals in developing and delivering a large cross-lingual Knowledge Graph in the HR and Recruitment domain.

Thomas is currently working in the Innovation Lab of the CJIB, where he studies the role of architecture in combination with social issues. As a partially self-employed entrepreneur, he enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with others. His technical background, combined with the experience in BI and his commitment to social issues, resulted in the development of more and more architectural solutions.

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.

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.