TIBCO Analytics Forum (TAF) 2022 was an inspiring event full of transformative content with attendees and speakers from all over the world. The conference theme was Visual Analytics in Space and Time.

1. Summary

Eye-opening keynotes from leaders and visionaries in the academic, business, and technology worlds that encompassed the art, science, history, social implications, technology, and applications of analytics.
Inspiring customer breakouts on how analytics is being applied to address real-world needs today in energy, manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences, government, and universities.
The latest TIBCO capabilities in data visualization, business intelligence, data science, model operations, streaming analytics, data virtualization, master data management, cloud offerings and industry accelerators
The Hackathon on sustainable energy

TAF22 took place as a digital event on June 13-15, 2022

2. Keynotes

Visual Analytics in Time and Space

Day 1: TIBCO CAO Michael O'Connell kicks-off the TIBCO Analytics Forum. Michael outlines the conference theme 'Visual Analytics in Time and Space' with examples of time trends, and geospatial and space-time analytics.

He is then joined by dataviz guru, analyst, and visual artist, Nadieh Bremer. Nadieh has created visual analytics for Google, Sony Music, UNICEF, and the New York Times, and recently co-authored, a beautiful coffee-table book, Data Sketches with Shirley Wu. She's won awards from Information is Beautiful, North American Digital Media, World Digital, and more. Check out visualcinnamon.com for highlights, and the fireside chat with Nadieh Bremer: https://youtu.be/l2mUpJGXsNI?t=911.

Tobias Lehtipalo wraps up the session with a tour of the TIBCO Data Management and Analytics product portfolio that powers self-service visual analytics, data science, and reporting for all.

Michael O'Connell, TIBCO Software, Inc., Chief Analytics Officer | Nadieh Bremer, Visual Cinnamon, Data Visualization Artist | Tobias Lehtipalo, TIBCO Software, Inc., Vice President Product Management | Fred Studer, TIBCO Software, Inc, Chief Marketing Officer

View the full keynote here: https://youtu.be/l2mUpJGXsNI

Spotfire: What's New and What's Next

Catch up on recent innovations in Spotfire 11 software, including a streamlined data function end-user experience and the remarkable Spotfire Mods for extending the visual analytics palette. Learn how Spotfire version 12 can help you do your job faster, easier, and better, regardless of whether your role is business, analysis, or IT. Version 12 lets you act on insights right from your visualization and it's easier than ever to scale your deployment using containers and Kubernetes on Linux. See the popular requests from our user community that have been implemented to help you in your daily work, and get a glimpse of our Spotfire plans for the future.

Niklas Amberntsson, TIBCO Software, Inc., Product Manager, Spotfire

View this keynote here: https://youtu.be/FetzF0gfxnQ

Humanizing the Analytics & Reporting Experience with AI

Day 2: In Ben Shneiderman's new book, Human-Centered AI, he describes how it is possible to have high levels of human control AND high levels of automation. He walks us through his latest work and the growing influence of human-centered AI.

Vijay Raman, then takes us through the latest innovations in TIBCO WebFOCUS software humanizing the user experience with the new WebFOCUS Hub. This enables new machine learning capabilities in WebFOCUS Designer, and provides a scalable, microservices platform for container-based deployments.

Michael O'Connell, TIBCO Software, Inc., Chief Analytics Officer | Ben A. Shneiderman, University of Maryland, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor, Department of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory | Vijay Raman, TIBCO Software, Inc., Senior Director, Product Management

View the full keynote, with Ben Shneiderman starting at 5mins into the recording: https://youtu.be/gohbgGjWpZY

Data on Fire: End-to-end Data Management and Analytics with TIBCO

Join a group of TIBCO experts for a rapid-fire tour of the TIBCO Unify and Predict portfolio and watch hyperconverged analytics in action. We analyze oil and gas production completions data using:

Spotfire visual and geographical analytics
TIBCO Data Science predictive modeling of pressure data
Deployment of TIBCO Data Science models for TIBCO's Streaming equipment surveillance
TIBCO EBX shared data asset governance, management, and consumption
TIBCO Data Virtualization federated views for breaking down data silos

Dev Kannabiran, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr. Director, Presales | Atheer Alattar, TIBCO Software, Inc., Lead Data Scientist | Neeraj Khatri, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr. Solutions Consultant | Fred Yoo, TIBCO Software, Inc., Lead Solutions Engineer

View this keynote here: https://youtu.be/bUu3rmErn84

Visual Analytics in Time and Space Part 2

Join TIBCO COO Matt Quinn for a historical perspective on data and analytics that form a framework for understanding the potential of tomorrow.

Then, leaders from Groupe Renault lay out their collaborative, enterprise-wide, self-service BI strategy and implementation.

Finally, Neil Kanungo and Michael O'Connell then provide a visually-stunning update from their ground-breaking work Visual Analytics in Time in Space. This session includes fundamental concepts of analytics visual perception principles in multi-granular time dimensions and a deep dive into spatial and spacetime applications. Topics include time series and time-varying displays, spatial analytics, transformation, geoanalytics, and more!

Michael O'Connell, TIBCO Software, Inc., Chief Analytics Officer | Matt Quinn, TIBCO Software, Inc., Chief Operating Officer | Neil Kanungo,TIBCO Software, Inc., Dr. Spotfire | Christophe Verdon, Groupe Renault, IT Database and BI Product Leader | Christophe Aubignac, Groupe Renault, Head of Solution Architects

View this keynote here: https://youtu.be/9XAwvSYJhdc with the special Dr Spotfire session here: https://youtu.be/9XAwvSYJhdc?t=2235

3. TIBCO Analytics

TIBCO Analytics is a comprehensive insight platform for visualization, modeling, streaming, data management, and model ops. The following software was showcased at TIBCO Analytics Forum 2022:

Spotfire - The most comprehensive visual analytics platform on the market with built-in data wrangling, predictive modeling, and real-time analytics
TIBCO Data Science - Collaborative advanced analytics platform, helping Data Scientists model, deploy, and scale AI/ML solutions across their organization
TIBCO Streaming - Enterprise-grade, cloud-ready streaming analytics for quickly building real-time applications at a fraction of the cost and risk of alternatives
TIBCO Data Virtualization - Enterprise data virtualization solution that federates access across multiple and varied data sources
TIBCO EBX - Master Data Management to govern all your data assets in one solution including but not limited to: workflow, data quality, and role-specific applications
TIBCO WebFOCUS - Enterprise business intelligence and analytics solution equipped with data management, visual discovery, predictive analytics, and powerful visualizations in one unified platform.
TIBCO ModelOps - Get more models into production, faster. Bring scale and ease to how you deploy and govern analytical models.

4. Customer Breakout Sessions

SM Energy

Dynamic Design for Efficient Authoring in Spotfire - Julie Sebby, SM Energy, Lead Developer - Automation

This session will educate on the full dynamism of Spotfire document properties, IronPython, and JavaScript to create easy-to-maintain dashboards. Attend this session for powerful tips that will save analyst development time through more efficient foundational design. Gone are the days of laboriously modifying visual after visual to meet different stakeholder needs. With these golden tips, you will find yourself empowered to create stronger, easily adaptable analyses!

View this session here: https://youtu.be/b9luUwQVsqU

Petracana

In-style Spotfire Dashboard Elements for Highlighting Insights in Data - Jolene Robertson, Petracana, Director | Neil Kanungo, Dr. Spotfire

TAF21 hackathon winner Jolene Robertson gives a master class on interactive Spotfire dashboards and visual analytics. She shows us a minimalist style, maximizing the insights-to-ink ratio by using layout blocks, HTML and JavaScript snippets, and color schemes that make visual elements pop with information. She shows how a set of reusable navigation elements and configuration blocks results in convenient navigation and targeting, especially for Spotfire Web Player consumers. She also shows how interactive brush-linking and drill-down can be combined with snazzy report outputs. This is a not-to-miss session for all Spotfire enthusiasts.

View the session here: https://youtu.be/rr98AAM63x8

Bayer AG

Experiences Creating New Visualization Types Using Spotfire Mods API - Holger Schimanski, Bayer AG, Head of Data Review and Operational insights

A new API and development approach for creating custom visualization types has been released as part of the Spotfire 11 version. Mods allow creating new visualization types for specific use cases that aren't part of Spotfire standard visualizations. In this presentation, you will learn about some of the Bayer experiences using Spotfire Mods API for Sankey and Kanban board visualization.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/IPTwYySeIzk

Gilead Sciences Inc.

Increasing Operational Efficiency of Spotfire Deployments - Sayali Patil, Gilead Sciences Inc., R&D Info Systems Manager

This session will provide a live demo of how Spotfire operational efficiency is optimized through Spotfire library metadata analysis. This analysis is effective for enterprise reporting on Spotfire information link usage across dashboards and for tracking details on schedule updates. It can also help improve the environment's scalability and provide a great and adaptable monitoring tool. The dashboards are intended to enhance data governance of company standards, policies, and procedures. Join us to see how Gilead Life Sciences built Spotfire analyses for large-scale reporting of information link usage across hundreds of dashboards and supplied effective monitoring of schedule updates.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/_1O2WuMWzbs

City of Brampton

Journey to the Center: From raw data to analytical insights - Gustavo Espinosa; City of Brampton; BI, MDM, Integration PM

Learn how the City of Brampton successfully deployed data solutions including analytics, master data, and data integration to enable business units to make informed decisions and improve service delivery while everything around kept changing. You will experience some of the analytical solutions deployed in the Cloud by the City for council, transit, enforcement, and other business units and hear about a 10+ year data journey using TIBCO tools with outstanding results.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/CKyjoL10yiw

Birchcliff Energy

Efficiency Gains using Spotfire Software in Spatial and Analytics Workflows - Monica Brookwell, Birchcliff Energy, Analytics Engineer

An under-the-hood look at the Spotfire applications built to address key pinch points and data issues in our well development planning and machine learning workflows. Building guided, interactive, and visual Spotfire workflows empowered our development team to perform rapid prototyping of development, responsive on-the-fly spatial adjustments of well trajectories, and write out designs to a database. By consolidating all inputs into a single interface, the app addresses version control issues and ensures clear communication of the various scenarios. The data written out from this app feeds many downstream spatial, analytic, and ML workflows including geo-extractions, spatial metric calculations, and ultimately ML-based well performance predictions.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/lBOUJZmHTRc

Taylor University

Leveraging WebFOCUS to optimize scholarship awards - Mark Lora, Taylor University, Director Enterprise Data Systems

Taylor University uses its TIBCO solution as an enterprise standard for BI and analytics. This approach helps foster a culture of 'data-informed decision-making' for faculty, staff, and students. Through the various easy-to-use, self-service applications, users can visualize and easily explore data assets through charts, graphs, reports, and other interactive content.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/8o7ggPPlUUg

Robert Bosch Semiconductor Manufacturing Dresden GmbH

Understanding Spatial Variability in Semiconductor Products with Spotfire Map Charts - Mark Herrmann, Robert Bosch Semiconductor Manufacturing Dresden GmbH, Engineer Data Analysis | Dennis Thießen, Robert Bosch Semiconductor Manufacturing Dresden GmbH, Engineer Data Analysis

Bosch Semiconductor uses Spotfire software to visualize and analyze semiconductor wafer map spatial test data. Spotfire multi-layered, trellised map charts allow engineers to examine wafer maps at any level of detail, grouping and binning wafers at will. Also, custom functions have been developed for creating smoothed 2-D contour plots to visualize spatial and parametric variations. These advanced visualizations and analytics are used by engineers to understand the process and product variability to drive improved product quality and reliability across Bosch development and manufacturing groups. Come to be inspired to apply these techniques to your spatial and mapping use cases in all industries.

Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti

Hospital Staff Collaboration to Improve Patient Treatments Using Process Mining - David Baltar Boilève, Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti, Data Scientist, and Business Analyst

Process mining in the healthcare industry is notoriously complex. It is impossible to find common journeys; each patient has their own. In this session, learn how TIBCO LABS' Project Discover helped improve patient journeys by comparing the ideal 'theoretical' clinical pathway with protocols of real activities. Reviews and collaboration among analysts and medical staff resulted in actionable insights into patient diagnoses and treatment processes. Results were made possible with intuitive filter techniques and novel visualizations, such as the journey viewer and the Spotfire Zoomable Hierarchy Navigator Mod.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/hl2Yjt10G_Q

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Solving Environmental Data Challenges Using Spotfire - Claire Neil, Senior Specialist Scientist, Roisin Murray-Williams, Senior Data Scientist, Lauren Fuller, Data Scientist at the Informatics Unit of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency

As longstanding users of Spotfire analytics, the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) has found that the last 18 months provided a unique set of circumstances. The agency needed to tackle data challenges such as helping inform Scotland's response to COVID and developing interim systems in the wake of a cyberattack, all while protecting the environment. Learn how SEPA is building an environmental digital twin and taking advantage of analytics using Spotfire developments such as visual mods, NLP, and Python integration to solve these data challenges.

View this session here: https://youtu.be/VNf0ejxVwjM

5. Spotfire and TIBCO Breakout Sessions

Spotfire Mods

The latest and greatest graphics and visualizations

See how the Spotfire Mods framework enables visualizing any data in new and exciting ways. Take advantage of mods developed by TIBCO, our customers, and partners—and develop your own innovative visualizations! We'll review currently available mods and show you how to get started, where to get best practice information, and how to create your own custom Spotfire analytics applications.

Jose Leviaguirre, TIBCO Software, Inc., Senior Lead Data Scientist | Neil Kanungo, TIBCO Software, Inc., Dr. Spotfire

View this session here: https://youtu.be/eqyYpxw_4Fo

Spotfire Cloud Actions

Bridging the Gap between Insight and Action

Learn how you can connect insight and action with Spotfire Cloud Actions, a powerful new feature in the Spotfire product line. Spotfire Cloud Actions lets users act on insights generated directly from visualizations. With deep and secure integration with TIBCO Cloud Integration/Flogo apps, it allows you to create tickets, enrich or correct data, trigger business process workflows, etc., in common applications, databases, messaging services, and collaboration platforms including TIBCO Cloud Live Apps, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, email, Slack, and IoT systems with MQTT, REST and Websockets. The solution provides a no-code / low-code experience for building analytic applications.

Magnus Rylander, TIBCO Software, Inc., Senior Product Manager | Bruno Souleres, TIBCO Software, Inc. Senior Solutions Architect, Glenn Hoskins, TIBCO Software, Inc., Principal Solutions Engineer

View this session here: https://youtu.be/xQ_AAPtXzOs

What's New in Spotfire Spatial Analytics

We've been busy creating new spatial tools for Spotfire analytics, and can't wait to show you! This year's session builds on past year’s "top tips." We'll cover new location analytics tips with real-world examples spanning tools for spatial statistics, transforms, calculations, visuals, and much more.

Neil Kanungo, TIBCO Software, Inc. Dr. Spotfire | Arnaud Varin, TIBCO Software, Inc., Senior Product Manager

View this session here: https://youtu.be/gdrjWlm3IhE

Spotfire & ModelOps

Predict Using Governed, Data Science Models

New Spotfire data science capabilities powered by TIBCO ModelOps improves scalability, flexibility, and control when bringing machine learning features to your analysis. Discover how, as part of the Spotfire immersive visual analytics experience, you can run governed analytics models from PMML, TensorFlow, Python, and Spark. Learn how you can prepare data, detect anomalies, and classify, predict, forecast, and deliver revised models to your analysis without requiring an analysis update.

Arnaud Varin, TIBCO Software, Inc., Senior Product Manager

View this session here: https://youtu.be/ghJnwTBOpuk

Digital Twins to Predict Manufacturing Events with Spotfire and Data Science

Turning big hardware processes into software equivalents greatly improves efficiency in manufacturing. For example, instead of designing physical prototypes, lightweight digital avatars fill the bill. Using digital twins, the same can be done for process control, efficiency monitoring, and measurement. A digital twin — an algorithmic model of a machine or process — continuously updates to closely mimic its physical twin, providing a test bed for optimizations and preemptive actions. In this session, learn how TIBCO technology helps build and deploy digital twins in complex manufacturing environments.

Ahmad Fattahi, TIBCO Software, Inc., Director, Data Science | Mike Alperin, TIBCO Software, Inc., Principal Data Scientist

View this session here: https://youtu.be/1Pz5rATnUyo

Innovating with Data, Analytics, and TIBCO LABS

The TIBCO LABS customer- and partner-facing program supports open collaboration and innovation in a number of technology areas, including IoT, edge analytics, process mining, data tracking, synthetic data generation, and data fabrics. Run by the Data Science and Office of the CTO organizations, TIBCO LABS allows organizations to work with TIBCO on new ideas, technology exploration, and solution creation. Join this session to hear about ongoing work in data and analytics, and how customers have used the program to create innovative solutions to difficult problems in several verticals.

Nelson Petracek, TIBCO Software, Inc., Chief Technology Officer

View this session here: https://youtu.be/F2Dh6By3pxA

Build End-to-end Spotfire Applications with Spotfire Data Functions

Get ready to be blown away by the power of Spotfire analytics and TIBCO Enterprise Runtime for R (TERR) & Python data functions! Python is closing the gap with Java, remaining #3 in the world’s most popular programming languages. Using Python and TERR data functions, Spotfire analytics provides native support for machine learning with tight integration between advanced and visual analytics. We will cover how to build end-to-end applications (data exploration, model building, and model evaluation) using the new Fx flyout to configure point-and-click Python and TERR data functions for analyzing data and gathering insights that inform recommendations.

Vaibhav Gedigeri, TIBCO Software, Inc., Lead Data Scientist

View this session here: https://youtu.be/SuY-17Yfhsg

Explore Text with Natural Language Processing Algorithms and Visuals in Spotfire

Text is one of the most prevalent forms of data. It’s in organizational notes, logs, transcribed calls, etc. Natural Language Processing has become increasingly popular for deciphering and engineering text into structured formats that can be analyzed. The NLP Python Toolkit for Spotfire provides exploratory analysis of any text data. This includes cleaning the text and extracting basic numeric features and performing tasks like sentiment analysis and entity recognition. In this session you will not only learn how to run NLP algorithms, but how to interpret results with the latest Spotfire Mod visuals.

Sweta Kotha, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr Data Scientist

View this session here: https://youtu.be/Ps0PgGlf2dQ

Enterprise-scale Data Science: TIBCO Data Science and Spotfire

TIBCO Connected Intelligence provides the ability to deploy production standard data science at scale, for any data volume. We will show an example of the full data science lifecycle, using model building, optimization, evaluation, and explainability techniques to deploy real-time models into production use. The use case, a pricing optimization engine for insurance, applies to many service and retail industry needs. We will demonstrate and discuss the architecture used to achieve the solution and new TIBCO Data Science and Spotfire tool enhancements to further enable your business.

Colin Gray, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr Lead Data Scientist | Ian Pestell, TIBCO Software, Inc. Principal Data Scientist

View this session here: https://youtu.be/AQlj4tkfM2U

Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing with Spotfire & Data Science

Anomaly detection is a step towards resilience that can be used across the enterprise. Manufacturers with mature anomaly detection achieve substantial cost reductions from lower defect and scrap rates, better quality and reliability, prevention of unplanned equipment downtime, identification of process bottlenecks, and even optimized energy consumption. Most data streams simply confirm normal operations and provide no new actionable information; However, data anomalies often indicate a changed or abnormal behavior, leading to insights into how to correct issues before they become widespread or costly. This session will cover a variety of flexible, extensible solutions built on the TIBCO platform to automate the detection of failure patterns, unstable processes, and abnormal equipment behavior.

Mike Alperin, TIBCO Software, Inc., Principal Data Scientist | Adam Faskowitz, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr Data Scientist | Tomáš Jurczyk, TIBCO Software, Inc, Lead Data Scientist

View this session here: https://youtu.be/wNQv8NkJCFg

What’s New and What’s Next in TIBCO WebFOCUS

Learn about the latest TIBCO WebFOCUS v9.0 release, which includes exciting changes to Designer, data science features, and integration. We are introducing cloud-native abilities with containerized deployments, plus a new natural language query engine that lets you ask questions of your data as if in conversation. We also have an enhanced user experience via the WebFOCUS Hub.

Vijay Ramen, TIBCO Software, Inc., Senior Director, Product Management | Porter Thorndike, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr Product Mgr | Angie Hildack, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr Assoc Product Mgr

View this session here: https://youtu.be/VUyEwa_QUe0

WebFOCUS Hub and the User Experience

Learn about the new TIBCO WebFOCUS Hub, designed to deliver a responsive user experience by putting more control in the hands of the users. We will unveil new areas of the Hub that allow users to seamlessly experience data science features like Instant Insights and NLQ for content creation. We also have a completely new search capability along with revamped favorites and a centralized home screen for faster access.

Ann Flanigan, TIBCO Software, Inc., Senior Lead, UX Research and Design | Dave Pfeiffer, TIBCO Software, Inc., Dir, User Experience

View this session here: https://youtu.be/M3bToqnG1YA

Data Science Capabilities in TIBCO WebFOCUS

Join us to learn more about the data science capabilities in TIBCO WebFOCUS software, and see how it can help you quickly develop insights. Also learn how to run machine learning models and train them to continually improve outcomes. We will also show how data science can help with data preparation tasks and how you can interact with data using natural language.

Marcus Horbach, TIBCO Software, Inc., Lead Data Scientist | Guohua Hao, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr Mgr, Data Science | Robert Wojciechowski, TIBCO Software, Inc., Sr Product Mgr

View this session here: https://youtu.be/WSZL9aTRYaI

6. Hackathon

This year's Hackathon, sponsored by Amazon Web Services, Inc., focused on sustainable energy.

Developed in close collaboration with i2 Enabled, Inc. and Industrial Info Resources, hackers employed multiple data sets on power plants, cooling technologies, drought, and related sources. Their deployment of spatial patterns and temporal trends unlocked insights that can lead to actionable sustainability improvements.

The screenshot above is from the first-place winner, Jon Henderson. For more details and to view all the winning submissions, see the blogs in the next section.

7. Blogs

Event Coverage:

Hackathon:

8. Keynote and Customer Speaker Bios

Ben A. Shneiderman, Emeritus Distinguished University Professor, Department of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland

Ben Shneiderman is an Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://hcil.umd.edu) at the University of Maryland. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, IEEE, NAI, and the Visualization Academy and a Member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, in recognition of his pioneering contributions to human-computer interaction and information visualization. Shneiderman's information visualization innovations include dynamic query sliders and multiple coordinated windows for Spotfire, development of treemaps for viewing hierarchical data, and novel network visualizations for NodeXL. He has received six honorary doctorates for his contributions. Ben is the lead author of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (6th ed., 2016). His new book on Human-Centered AI was published by Oxford University Press in February 2022.

Nadieh Bremer, Data Visualization Artist, Visual Cinnamon

Nadieh Bremer is a data visualization artist. She graduated as an astronomer, started working as a data scientist before finding her true passion in the visualization of data. As 2017's "Best Individual" in the Information is Beautiful Awards, she focuses on visuals that are uniquely crafted for each specific dataset, often using large and complex datasets while employing vibrant color palettes. She's made visualizations and art for companies such as Google News Lab, Sony Music, UNICEF, the New York Times and UNESCO.

Christophe Verdon, IT Database and BI Product Leader, Groupe Renault

Christophe Verdon has worked for more than 30 years in the IT department of the Renault group. A graduate in Software Engineering, he spent 20 years leading business application development, responsible for development environments, frameworks, tools, components, and standards. He then switched to data architecture where he oversees the strategy, implementation, and lifecycle of database and business intelligence software for the group's IT department. Among his responsibilities are selection, deployment, and maintenance of operations supporting both on-premises and multiple public cloud environments. In 2013, Christophe led the selection process for a new BI tool and adoption of Spotfire® analytics.

Christophe Aubignac, Head of Solution Architects, Groupe Renault

Christophe has been with Renault for 15 years, first responsible for the business intelligence platform, then for commercial applications such as lead management and CRM, followed by a role as IT architect for Sales & Marketing. In his current role, he supports the digitalization strategy and manages a team of 35 that work on different types of applications required across the organization. Christophe has an engineering degree and more than 20 years' experience in data, business solutions, and architecture.

Michael O'Connell, Chief Analytics Officer, TIBCO Software, Inc.

Michael O'Connell is the Chief Analytics Officer at TIBCO Software, where he manages the TIBCO Data Science team, a group of data science experts and practitioners. Michael works closely with his team to deliver an evolving set of AI apps and tech tools across a number of industries. These solutions span the worlds of science and engineering through customer and marketing analytics. Michael received his Ph.D. in Statistics at North Carolina State University. He has been working on statistical software applications for the past 30 years and has published many statistics services, patents, and publications. His book, 'A Picture is Worth a Thousand Tables' is devoted to best practices in visual analytics, with a focus on data from life sciences.

Matt Quinn, Chief Operating Officer, TIBCO Software, Inc.

Matt Quinn manages TIBCO's day-to-day operations and is instrumental in the growth and development of TIBCO's products and technologies, including the TIBCO Connected Intelligence Cloud. Formerly serving in executive roles including Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President, Products and Technology, Matt has spent more than 20 years with TIBCO leading large-scale transformations to organizational structure and product strategy. He received his BA in Computer Science and Masters of Applied Science Information Technology from RMIT University Melbourne.

Fred Studer, Chief Marketing Officer, TIBCO Software Inc.

Fred Studer is the Chief Marketing Officer of TIBCO. He's had a distinguished career in marketing, creative, and product management, with more than 25 years in the high tech industry. Previously, as the CMO of FinancialForce, he led the modernization of the brand, defined a targeted go-to-market model, and helped to dramatically improve marketing ROI and efficiency. Studer has also led worldwide marketing as the CMO of Gigamon and NetSuite, and before that, spent several years at Microsoft and Oracle. Originally from Denver, Colo., Studer received his B.S. in accounting and finance from the University of Colorado Boulder and is a board member of the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business.

Tobias Lehtipalo, Vice President Product Management, TIBCO Software, Inc.

Tobias Lehtipalo is the Vice President of Product Management for Analytics and Data Management at TIBCO Software. Tobias has a Master of Science degree in Engineering Molecular Biotechnology from Uppsala University in Sweden. He joined Spotfire in 1999 as a software engineer and helped build it into a leader in Business Intelligence and Analytics holding roles in engineering management, marketing and product management until Spotfire was acquired by TIBCO in 2007. Tobias is currently the head of Product Management and Product Strategy for TIBCO's flagship analytics and data management products that includes Spotfire, TIBCO Data Virtualization and TIBCO EBX.

Vijay Raman, Senior Director, Product Management, TIBCO Software, Inc.

Vijay Raman is Senior Director, Product Management and User Experience at TIBCO Software. Vijay leads WebFOCUS product management & design and is responsible for working cross-functionally throughout the organization, building the product and user strategy with our customers and partners' engagements.

Vijay came to TIBCO software via the Information Builders' acquisition. Vijay has served in various product management leadership roles at AIR Worldwide, DigitalOcean, Qlik, and Hitachi Vantara, defining strategy & roadmaps for consumer and enterprise products. Most recently, Vijay was at AIR Worldwide (Part of Verisk Analytics). He led the Product Management for a broad portfolio of products and oversaw their organization's cloud transformation. Vijay has a background in Data ScienceML, Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Storage, and Networking.

Vijay graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Master's in Computer Science and also has an MBA from Babson College. Vijay resides in Bedford, MA with his wife and daughter.

Neil Kanungo, Senior Data Scientist, TIBCO Software, Inc.

Neil specializes in data visualization, real-time analytics, IoT, and geoanalytics. Using the full suite of TIBCO's Analytics portfolio, he helps organizations deliver on the industry's biggest challenges. Outside of the software itself, Neil takes a special interest in operationalizing analytics across organizations at multiple levels, and in building analytics adoption across teams. In his free time, Neil enjoys outdoor sports, hiking with his dog, live music, and playing pinball!

Holger Schimanski, Bayer AG, Head of Data Review and Operational insights

In 2003, Holger Schimanski began his career as an IT project manager in research and development at Bayer AG. In 2013, he became an IT business partner for data analytics and data integration for the company's pharma R&D initiatives. Since 2019, he has been head of data review and operational insights for Bayer's clinical operations supporting ongoing clinical trials through activities such as data management review, medical review, performance/quality/risk indicators, trend analysis, and pattern/outlier detection. Holger holds a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the University of Munster in Germany.

Monica Brookwell, Birchcliff Energy, Analytics Engineer

Monica Brookwell is a petroleum engineer and IT professional in the oil & energy industry and is knowledgeable about gas, petroleum, computer literacy, the oilfield, data analysis, R programming, and Spotfire analytics. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering and a minor in Petroleum Engineering.

Mark Hermann, Robert Bosch Semiconductor Manufacturing Dresden GmbH, Engineer Data Analysis

Since November 2019, Mark Herrmann has been a data analyst and Spotfire application owner at Robert Bosch Semiconductor Manufacturing, Dresden, Bosch's newest wafer fab. Before becoming a full-time data analyst and introducing the company to Spotfire software, he was a senior process engineer with a soft spot for analytics. He has vast experience with data analysis and using the Spotfire tool in various high-tech manufacturing companies and countries. His current responsibilities are coordinating Spotfire customization for Bosch's semiconductor use cases and rolling them out to other sites in the company's worldwide semiconductor network.

Dennis Thießen, Robert Bosch Semiconductor Manufacturing Dresden GmbH, Engineer Data Analysis

Dennis Thießen's deep experience in software engineering and machine learning spans companies, countries (Germany, Norway, and Austria), and market sectors (Finance, Insurance, Logistics, Media, and Semiconductor Manufacturing). He has been a data engineer at Robert Bosch Semiconductor Manufacturing, Dresden, since February 2020. His responsibilities include ownership of Spotfire applications and the semiconductor-specific Defect Management System, the development and integration of related software components into Bosch's software production landscape, and the evaluation and integration of machine learning components for 24/7 use.

Gustavo Espinosa , City of Brampton, BI, MDM, Integration PM

Gustavo Espinosa has 30+ years IT experience implementing leading-edge technology in various industries. He has been with the City of Brampton, Ontario for 15+ years, implemented ibi technology 14 years ago, and lead business intelligence, master data management, and data integration with great success. Gustavo presented City technology achievements at several international summits: Gartner in Las Vegas; MDM and Data Governance Institute in Toronto; SAP in Toronto; MISA in Hamilton; Infonex Big Data and Analytics; and ibi in Orlando, Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Hockey Valley. He holds a Master's in Software Engineering and a Bachelor's in Systems Engineering and Computing.

Sayali Patil, Gilead Sciences Inc, R&D Info Systems Mgr

Sayali Patil is an R&D manager at Gilead Sciences where she leads the Spotfire Data Analytics team in the Global Patient Safety Group. She is responsible for Spotfire dashboards used by more than 100 users for regulatory and audit purposes. Previously at TIBCO, she supported Spotfire use-cases for several domains. A TIBCO Certified Spotfire professional and proficient in both dashboards and server-side, Sayali is also active in the TIBCO Community. She has written several Community articles on how to automate and extend Spotfire functionalities with Python scripting and is exploring possibilities for predictive analytics and NLP for patient case processing and lifecycle.

David Baltar Boilève, Hospital Universitario Lucus Augusti (HULA), Data Analyst

With extensive expertise in healthcare, David Bolivar is a data scientist and business analyst at Lucus Augusti University Hospital in Spain. Before this current position, he was with the Galicia Sur Health Research Institute (Spain) where he held roles as a data science researcher, economist, and specialist in process mining, data engineering, big data, and business intelligence systems.

Lauren Fuller, Data Scientist, Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Lauren Fuller is a data scientist in the Informatics Unit of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). She develops tools for visualizing and analyzing data for internal users, as well as public tools, including those for collaboration with external partners. Project areas include bathing water quality, river basin management, classification of the environment, and pharmaceutical pollution. She has worked in roles spanning academia, industry, and the public sector on statistical and spatial modeling of environmental and ecological data.

Róisín Murray-Williams, Senior Data Scientist, Scottish Environment Protection Agency

Róisín Murray-Williams is a senior data scientist on SEPA's Informatics team. She has worked on various data modeling, analysis, and visualization projects using tools such as Spotfire, R, and Python, among others. As a member of the Informatics team, she helps other parts of the organization make the best use of their environmental, regulatory, and organizational data.

Julie Sebby, SM Energy, Lead Developer - Automation

Julie Sebby currently works on SM Energy's Advanced Analytics and Emerging Technology team. She has 17 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, working with and for operators of all sizes, and in departments including business, IT, and finance. She specializes in using data to problem-solve, ask and answer questions, and tell stories. She also writes a professional blog and hosts a YouTube channel on analytics and data engineering with Alteryx and the Spotfire solution.

Mark Lora, Taylor University, Director Enterprise Data Systems

Mark Lora has worked in IT for 22 years in a development, consulting, and leadership role for industry and multiple universities. He is the director of Taylor University's IT Enterprise Data Systems

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