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Learn from the experts at Inspire 2012
Inspire 2012 brings you some of today's most visionary thinkers - from a variety of industries - all sharing an insider's view on strategic analytics. Tap into a universe of insights, tips, demos, panels, how-to's, case studies, partner talks, trainings, and more… Let our keynote speakers give you a glimpse of the future. Learn what's to come with Alteryx 7.0. Hear as much as you can about Big Data, and BI. And pick up best practices galore in our hard-hitting sessions.
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Keynotes
Dean Stoecker
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Alteryx
Dean's leadership and motivational skills, along with his ability to create, communicate and realize a vision, are a driving force behind the steady, 20-plus percent annual growth rates of Alteryx over the last decade. He is an accomplished and respected industry professional with more than 20 years of experience, bringing to Alteryx a strong knowledge of industry dynamics, technology trends, and application requirements related to market analysis and spatial technologies... read Dean's full bio.
Gene Kranz
Former NASA Flight Control Director and Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient
Gene Kranz's decorated 37-year federal career included the culmination of the Space Race, receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the lifecycle of the Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space programs. Kranz is perhaps best known for leading the team that successfully returned the Apollo 13 shuttle to Earth in 1970 after an on-board explosion crippled the flight system in orbit...read Gene's full bio.
George Mathew
President & Chief Operating Officer, Alteryx
George's broad experience in leading product management and market strategy at the world's largest BI solution provider is helping to further accelerate exponential growth at Alteryx, while the business enjoys the highest customer success rate in the industry. His insights into the rapidly changing customer requirements within the enterprise BI software market are also helping Alteryx and its growing community of users to achieve unprecedented improvements in operational efficiencies and returns on investment...read George's full bio.
Executive Panel: Agile BI and Analytics
Olivia Duane Adams
Chief Customer Officer, Alteryx
Prior to Alteryx, Olivia was a leading sales representative for the media, advertising, communications, and automotive industries at Strategic Mapping, a provider of spatial analytics and mapping software. She sold early renditions of desktop-based geographic business intelligence solutions, all before the Web emerged as the most effective tool for deployment...read Olivia's full bio.
Boris Evelson
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Business Intelligence, Forrester
Boris Evelson, principal analyst with Forrester Research Inc., has more than 25 years of experience with enterprise software and applications implementation, management consulting, and strategic advisory skills. Most recently, Boris was a managing partner at Textra, a boutique strategic advisory firm. Boris spent several years as a vice president and a strategic technology advisor at JPMorgan/LabMorgan, advising the bank's large enterprise software clients on enterprise adoption issues and product and marketing strategies. Boris also served as a senior manager of data warehousing and customer relationship management (CRM) practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers...read Boris's full bio.
Joseph McKeska
Group Vice President, Real Estate and Market Development, SuperValu
Joseph M. (Joe) McKeska is SUPERVALU Group Vice President of Real Estate and Market Development and is responsible for real estate functions across the company, as well as property tax, asset management and surplus property. In addition, he is responsible for companywide research and market development. He also leads the management and development of department business systems and oversees the retail capital planning efforts for the company...read Joe's full bio.
Todd Rudie
Vice President, Software Development, Experian Marketing Services
Experian Marketing Services helps organizations improve their return on marketing investment by targeting and engaging customers with highly precise marketing.
Business Leader Summit
Boris Evelson
Vice President and Principal Analyst, Business Intelligence, Forrester
Boris Evelson, principal analyst with Forrester Research Inc., has more than 25 years of experience with enterprise software and applications implementation, management consulting, and strategic advisory skills. Most recently, Boris was a managing partner at Textra, a boutique strategic advisory firm. Boris spent several years as a vice president and a strategic technology advisor at JPMorgan/LabMorgan, advising the bank's large enterprise software clients on enterprise adoption issues and product and marketing strategies. Boris also served as a senior manager of data warehousing and customer relationship management (CRM) practices at PricewaterhouseCoopers...read Boris's full bio.
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Jan KestlePresident, Environics Analytics |
Mukund PadmanabhanDirector of Real Estate Research, Office Depot |
Jan Kestle has been a leader in the marketing information industry for nearly forty years. An expert in using statistics and mathematics to help solve business challenges, she has worked with hundreds of clients in all industries to help them find and serve their customers. In November 2003, she founded Environics Analytics, establishing a new marketing and analytical services company based in Toronto...read Jan's full bio.
Mukund Padmanabhan has more than 20 years of broad retailing experience encompassing real estate, marketing, IT, human resources, store operations, and finance expertise. In his role as Director of Real Estate Research and Real Estate for Office Depot, Mukund is responsible for developing the real estate strategy and executing local marketing programs for the multi-channel retailer, leveraging technology, market and customer data...read Mukund's full bio.
Drew Moore
Senior GIS Specialist, Great Clips
Drew Moore serves as the lead spatial data analyst for Great Clips, Inc., the world's largest salon brand, as a member of the Real Estate department where he specializes in customer transfer and new store opportunity analysis. He previously worked at Target as a member of the Research and Planning department. Drew holds a Master of Science degree in Geography from Minnesota State University...read Drew's full bio.
Christian Ormond
Director of Site Location, Delhaize America
Christian Ormond is responsible for setting the site location strategy at Delhaize America, a leading supermarket operator with more than 1,600 stores in 16 states across the eastern United States. Delhaize America operates the Bottom Dollar Food, Food Lion, Harveys, Hannaford Supermarkets, Reid's and Sweetbay brands, each of which has a distinct strategy and a well-established brand image. Christian uses Alteryx to quickly analyze spatial relationships and large datasets to identify the optimal locations for store deployment...read Christian's full bio.
Tom Sturgeon
Analytics Manager, North America IT Business, Schneider Electric
Tom Sturgeon is the Analytics Manager for Schneider Electric's North America IT Business, the global leader in Energy Management with 110,000 employees in more than 100 countries. For the past six years he has worked with Sales and Marketing teams to help drive intelligent business decisions and measure the success of various revenue generating initiatives. Prior to joining Schneider Electric Tom spent three years working in the database marketing industry supporting B2B and B2C marketing activities through targeted consumer and business list fulfillment...read Tom's full bio.
Andy Verostek
Market Planning Analyst, Del Taco
Andy Verostek has been with Del Taco since 2004 and has created extensive mapping, market planning, demographic reporting, marketing analysis and site analysis tools. Since adopting Alteryx in 2009, Andy has helped Del Taco improve productivity 19-fold in real estate site reporting and has been able to create dozens of applications previously not possible for the company. Andy is a Certified Franchise Executive from the International Franchise Association, and works directly with franchisees in developing their growth strategies alongside that of the brand...read Andy's full bio.
Developer Spotlight & Studio
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Adrian HarveySenior Research Analyst, Buxton Buxton Company provides strategic decision-making information for retail site selection and targeted marketing. |
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Gary WoodVice President, Software Development, Environics Analytics Environics Analytics is the premier marketing and analytical services company in Canada. |
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Kory CunninghamWeb UI Architect, Core Web, Alteryx |
Ian Erickson
Chief Architect, Core Web, Alteryx
Prior to Alteryx, Ian was the CEO of AnalyGIS, a full-service GIS consulting & data development company in Colorado. Before that, he was a marketing specialist with Telocity, a residential DSL provider based in Cupertino, California, where he advanced the company's marketing technology and increased overall subscribership. At Empower Geographics, a strategic partner of MapInfo Corp, he was a senior GIS developer responsible for client projects on the desktop and on the web...read Ian's full bio.
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Gary SchwartzAPI Developer, Core Web, Alteryx |
Alteryx User Group
Bill Abt
Senior Analyst and Real Estate Finance Manager, The Yankee Candle Company
Bill Abt is the Real Estate Finance Manager and Senior Market Analyst at The Yankee Candle Company, the leading designer, manufacturer, wholesaler and retailer of premium scented candles. He is responsible for developing predictive models, and spatial and financial analyses to support Yankee Candle retail store site selection as well as advise the Company's Wholesale Division with prospecting insights for the Gift Account Channel. Bill also supports the Company's executive team with research to guide strategic multi-channel planning efforts and assess key initiatives taken on by the Company including most recently, the Company's decision to expand into Canada in 2011...read Bill's full bio.
Michael Gold
Vice President, FarSite
Michael spearheads new business development and manages client projects for FarSite. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Classics and has an M.A. in History from the University of Minnesota. Michael will be graduating this spring with an MBA from Ohio State University's Working Professional program with a focus on strategy and innovation...read Michael's full bio.
Anthony Johnson
GIS Manager, Archon Group
Anthony Johnson is the GIS Manager for Archon Group L.P., a commercial real estate investment company within their research department. Before Archon Group, Anthony spent time in the student and single-family housing industries. The Research department operates within a client services environment providing research support for the firm. Anthony's responsibilities include managing spatial data, handling GIS related client mapping requests, building modules for reporting, portfolio underwriting, and database management. Since joining the organization, his role has been to continue to push the envelope for spatial integration and incorporating GIS analysis into the company's decision making processes...read Anthony's full bio.
Geri LaRose
Market Research Systems Analyst, Dick's Sporting Goods
Geri LaRose joined the Dick's Sporting Goods Team in May of 2010 as the systems analyst for the Market Planning and Analysis team. In this role, Geri is responsible for creating the analytics to support an enterprise wide geospatial solution. Though new to Dick's Sporting Goods, Geri leveraged her knack for adopting new technological solutions to quickly automate key workflows for the Market Planning and Analysis team. Using Alteryx, she made an immediate impact by reducing time analysts spent pulling data and helping them more accurately create executive presentations for their monthly senior executive real estate committee...read Geri's full bio.
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Julia MarshSenior Business Analyst, Southern States |
Erin ByersBusiness Analyst, Southern States |
Julia Marsh has been employed with Southern States Cooperative since 2004. Southern States Cooperative is one of the top agricultural supply companies. It operates 150 retail locations, a variety of wholesale facilities (such as fertilizer plants and feed mills), as well as, a network of independent dealers. Julia received her Master's of Science in Agricultural Economics from University of Illinois and a Graduate GIS Certificate from Penn State...read Juila's full bio.
Erin Byers came to Southern States in August 2011. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 2008. Her engineering and programming background have been valuable to the Business Analysis team as it ramps up its use of Alteryx. In her short time at Southern States, Erin has worked on many projects. She developed a method to disseminate prospect information to store managers using Alteryx spatial tools...read Erin's full bio.
Ryan McClarren
Senior Analyst, FarSite
Ryan is the lead data scientist building and implementing statistical models as well as managing FarSite's team of analysts. Ryan graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S.E. in Nuclear Engineering. Ryan also earned his M.S.E. and PhD in nuclear engineering from Michigan before working as a computational physicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory. An author of 25 scientific journal articles, he is an expert on the uses and limits of prediction using statistical inference and computational simulation...read Ryan's full bio.
Deanna Sanchez
GIS Manager, Rent-A-Center
Deanna Sanchez is the GIS Manager for Rent-A-Center, which she joined in 2010. She has a degree in Geography with concentrations in GIS and Medical Geography from the University of North Texas, and has been employed as a GIS professional for 12 years. An avid power user of Alteryx, Deanna began using Alteryx (formerly SRC) products in 2005. In addition, she has an extensive background in demographic analysis, retail and municipal GIS solutions, and three-dimensional spatial visualization. Deanna implemented and centralized the GIS for Rent-A-Center, and manages Alteryx for the company. She is also responsible for comprehensive market planning and store site selection research for both national and international expansion efforts...read Deanna's full bio.
