Inspire 2020

Andrew Kramer is a Solutions Architect specializing in Analytics, Machine Learning, and statistical programming in R and Python. He specializes in helping companies get the most out of their analytics with Alteryx.

Dmitri is the Data Management and Analytics Practice Lead at Cornerstone. Educated in Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science, over the past decade Dmitri has held delivery and advisory roles on a variety of large scale transformation programs. He specialises in 'Centre of Enablement' initiatives driving the adoption of modern analytics platforms such as Alteryx and Tableau in a governed and sustainable manner.

Olivia Duane Adams (Libby) is the chief customer officer (CCO) and co-founder of Alteryx, and one of only a handful of female founders to take a technology company public, along with her founding counterparts, Dean Stoecker and Ned Harding. Libby’s vision and leadership in the creation of the world’s leading data science and analytics community is a key factor in the company’s 20+ year success. Under Libby’s leadership, the Alteryx Community has grown both on- and offline, serving as an incubator for the workforce of the future and empowering women in business via the Alteryx Women of Analytics initiative.

Libby recognized early on that creating a customer-centric culture went beyond delivering a successful product experience and set out to enable a global community of passionate data lovers, where Alteryx users can solve more together, boldly step into the unknown, and achieve more than they ever thought possible. Libby spearheads the growth of the Alteryx Community as an engaging platform online as well as offline, with support for local and topic-focused user groups, launching what is known today as the Alteryx Inspire user conference and introducing the Alteryx ACE program.

Before co-founding Alteryx, Libby held various sales, customer, and marketing roles at Strategic Mapping, Donnelley, and VNU Business Media.

Libby earned a bachelor’s degree from Castleton University in Vermont and is an active member of the university’s alumni association.

As an Information Management expert, Morten has led teams of data and analytics professional for national and international companies in Australia and Europe for over 10 years.Morten is passionate about harnessing the power of information as a fundamental strategic asset and is driven to ensure organisations enhance their IM maturity, while keeping a keen focus on alignment to business strategy and optimal outcomes for customers.

Sarah has been with Foodbank, the largest food relief organisation in Australia, for 10 years during which she has fulfilled a variety of roles as the organisation has grown. Last year Foodbank sourced food for 210,000 meals a day to distribute to over 2,400 charities and 2,000 schools. Prior to Foodbank, Sarah was in the food industry supporting farmers, particularly in the dairy and horticulture sectors.

Gennie is a media, marketing and communications professional with three decades of experience. She joined the team of R U OK? last year in the key leadership role of Campaign Director where she is responsible for the management and direction of all aspects of the R U OK? campaign portfolio. R U OK? is a suicide prevention charity with a mission to inspire and empower everyone to meaningfully connect with people around them and support anyone struggling with life.

Gillian leads The Smith Family’s cross-disciplinary research and evaluation team, conducting longitudinal quantitative and qualitative projects. The team’s focus is on investigating the factors influencing the educational outcomes of children and young people and assessing the effectiveness of The Smith Family’s Learning for Life scholarship program.

Dave has over 20 years’ experience across a diverse set of organisations and industries, ranging in size from start-ups to large multinationals. Through his experience in business optimisation and transformation, as well as more recent data-centric roles, Dave developed a real fascination for the role data can play in helping understand and shape business culture and strategy. This fascination and passion is reflected in his achievements at Pepper, where he has been successfully driving the program to embed analytics in a fast moving, entrepreneurial organisation for the interest of all stakeholders.

Paul has over 20 years’ experience in client relationship management in both the software and consulting services industries.  His background prior to this is in financial services and insurance, having assumed responsibilities for providing financial advice to clients, operational management and group compliance.Through this combination of experience Paul obtained a wealth of understanding of the finance industry which is reflected in his approach to all client engagements, ensuring that every solution delivers maximum value. Paul’s goal for Aware Services is to build long term and mutually beneficial partnerships with clients as he has done previously with organisations such as Suncorp, BT Financial Group, Macquarie and Challenger Financial Services.

Chris is dynamic and passionate about re-engineering businesses, and a catalyst for changing the status quo using the latest proven thinking to do things a better way. He brings a strategic yet real world pragmatism towards achieving longer-term objectives, whilst continuing to deliver on short-term goals. As an Analytics Principal at Telstra, Chris is leading the trend towards self-service analytics and data-driven decision making.

Dr. Dan Putler is Alteryx's Chief Data Scientist. At Alteryx, he has been one of the principle shapers of Alteryx's roadmap for predictive analytics and machine learning, helping to guide Alteryx into the Leader quadrant of Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning.

Raju Varanasi is the Director, Data Intelligence and Chief Information Officer at Catholic Education Office, Parramatta with responsibilities that include enterprise systems, service desk, change management, IT infrastructure, data and information services; Has over 25 years of experience in the Australian education system, with experience in both government and non-government sectors in Australia;  Served as General Manager of the first ever innovation centre for public schools and TAFE in NSW Department of Education, which he led successfully for 8 years; Raju was recently nominated in the top 25 CIOs in Australia for 2019.

Joe is an Associate Director in the Analytics and Data Insights practice at Javelin Group (part of Accenture Strategy) with experience in predictive and spatial analytics, customer segmentation, GIS, gravity and regression modeling and customer insight.

Esther loves harnessing Alteryx to solve problems and create solutions for clients and colleagues at McKinsey, and in the Alteryx community. She spreads the gospel of Alteryx wherever she goes!

Computer scientist turned neuroscientist turned data scientist, Alex Sadovsky has had a passion towards computers since he learned that hitting the right keys would let him play videogames on his Dad’s Commodore 64. Today, Alex’s role as the Senior Director of Product at Alteryx allows him to focus on the future of the Smart/Predictive (AI, ML, and Code Friendly) tools for the Alteryx platform.

Chris Logie is a curious explorer, data enthusiast, problem solver known for his ability to keep plants alive and making above average gin and tonics. Currently leading Deakin University’s talented Operational and Performance Analytics Team, Chris is passionate about getting better results by using data in the right way and working with smart people. Having a background in digital development and marketing analytics, he learnt early on that data holds the key to affect change and drive business improvement.

Andrew Kramer is a Solutions Architect specializing in Analytics, Machine Learning, and statistical programming in R and Python. He specializes in helping companies get the most out of their analytics with Alteryx.

David Wilcox is a senior software engineer at Alteryx with experience ranging from financial analytics to game development. At Alteryx, he has worked on the Apache Spark Direct and Apache Spark Code Tools, as well as the Python tools. He is now focused on the future of data platforms, machine learning, intelligent algorithms, and visualization.

JP Kabler is a Lead Software Engineer on Alteryx's Smart/Predictive team. JP's projects include Assisted Modeling, Code Free Machine Learning Tools, Insights, Connect, Apache Spark Direct, and the Python SDK. Before Alteryx, JP worked in both the defense and retail/CPG sectors helping to build targeted solutions for sales prediction, shelf optimization, on-shelf availability, and Natural Language Processing.

Mark Frisch is an Alteryx ACE who amplifies client business intelligence insights. Since 2015, he has been the Alteryx top community contributor. Mark leads two Alteryx User Groups and in 2018 became an Alteryx For Good Champion. He lives in Michigan and has seven poodles.

Sambit Das is an award-winning HR Consultant with over 16 years of HR transformation and systems consulting experience globally. He currently offers HR consulting services to The Salvation Army that involves data migration of more than 10,000 workers and 90000 volunteers into a single HR system. Sambit is pursuing Masters in Data Science with Northwestern University with specialisations in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning. His passion is to conduct research work and experiments that help make workplace better by finding answers to workforce problems in areas such as: employee productivity, well-being, employee attrition, diversity and inclusion, recruitment, engagement surveys and outcomes, organisational network analysis and many more. Sambit has published several case studies on People Analytics in the areas of Diversity and Inclusion, Recruitment and Learning. His case studies are published in the prestigious TowardsDatascience publication, where it taps into the brains of the world’s most insightful writers, thinkers and storytellers to bring you the smartest take on topics that matter.

Ganesh is a meticulous Data Analyst, passionate about helping businesses solve complex data problems. Ganesh holds a Master’s in Information Systems from Deakin University and has recently earned Alteryx core certification. He is currently on an exciting journey of solving complex data issues at The Salvation Army headquarters in Australia where he is involved in migrating the legacy systems data to Workday.

As a Product Manager at Alteryx, Alex works with teams across the company from ideation to design and delivery of new features. He spends time validating ideas before development and evangelizing completed work to marketing, sales, and customer support.

Craig Butt is an award-winning data journalist at The Age. He specialises in analysing data and turning it into news articles and visualisations aimed at a general audience. In addition, he teaches data journalism at the University of Melbourne.

My background is financial reporting and commercial contract management. I started using alteryx in 2015 at nbn because we needed a tool that had processing power and the functionality to replicate complex vba macros that were no longer feasible at scale. All of my alteryx knowledge is self-taught and from working with others who share the same passion… Automation!

Dave has a passion for location intelligence technology and his career is full of helping customers across multiple industries solve business problems with location intelligence. With experience across Esri, Google Maps, and CARTO, he is eager to help Alteryx customers solve their toughest location challenges.