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#data20

Get ready to get inspired.

Check out this year's lineup of all-star speakers.

Join the world’s largest data community for this can’t-miss event.

Americas
October 6-8, 2020
9am - 3pm PDT

Europe
October 7-9, 2020
9am - 3pm BST

Asia Pacific
October 7-9, 2020
9am - 3pm SGT

Presented in English with captioning for non-English languages.

Adam Selipsky

President & CEO, Tableau

Opening Keynote

2020 has been a year like none other. And throughout this year, data has played a role in driving impact like never before. Join Tableau’s CEO, Adam Selipsky and special guests to hear more about how data has driven our response to crisis—and hear what this means for the role of data in the years to come.

Vision

Kelly Jin

Chief Analytics Officer, City of New York

In addition to her role as Chief Analytics Officer, Kelly is Director of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics, where she leads a team of data scientists, policy advisors, and program managers to deliver insights for a more equitable and efficient New York City.

Dr. Michael McAfee

President and CEO, PolicyLink

The President and CEO of PolicyLink, Michael is known for his results-driven leadership and devotion to serving the nation’s most underserved populations. He is the catalyst for a new and growing body of work—corporate racial equity.

Joe Atkinson

Vice Chair, Chief Products and Technology Officer, PwC US

Joe is responsible for leading PwC US through the next wave of digital transformation. This includes accelerating the firm’s growth in go-to-market products and digital solutions, as well as firmwide technology capabilities.

Francois Ajenstat

Chief Product Officer, Tableau

Product Keynote

Innovation is at the core of Tableau. Join Tableau Chief Product Officer, Francois Ajenstat to learn more about how we’re adding vital capabilities to bring you even more speed, power, and a complete picture of your data—all in our flexible and trusted analytics platform that people love to use. We’ll also share more about how we’re making analytics smarter with Salesforce, bringing the power of Tableau and Einstein together, so anyone can truly use any data, anywhere.

Product

Ellie Fields

Tableau Vice President, Product Development

Maraki Ketema

Tableau Senior Manager, Product Development

Robert Brill

Director of Product Management, Einstein Analytics at Salesforce

Featured Speakers

John Legend

Musician and Philanthropist

Fireside Chat

Join us for a fireside chat with Ebony Beckwith, CEO of the Salesforce Foundation and Chief Philanthropy Officer at Salesforce, who will interview award winning singer-songwriter, actor, producer, and global humanitarian John Legend. John Legend has for years shown us through music and activism, the importance of taking action and standing up for the rights of all. Come hear them talk about philanthropy, the power of education, and the importance of data being a key asset in understanding where we’re at and inform how we move forward.

Guest

Neil deGrasse Tyson, Ph.D

Astrophysicist, Author, and Head of Hayden Planetarium

Building a Data Culture

Known for bringing science to life for fans worldwide, Tyson is the recipient of 20 honorary doctorates, has written 13 books, hosted several TV series including NOVA ScienceNOW, and created the wildly popular program StarTalk.

Guest

Heather McGowan

Speaker, Writer, Advisor

Heather is an internationally known speaker, writer, and advisor. She prepares leaders to most-effectively react to rapid and disruptive changes in education, work, and society.

Nate Silver

Founder, FiveThirtyEight.com

A leading statistician, Nate is the Founder and Editor In Chief of FiveThirtyEight.com. He is the author of the bestseller The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — But Some Don’t.

Marc Randolph

Co-founder and former CEO, Netflix

Marc is a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur, advisor, and investor. He co-founded Netflix, serving as its founding CEO. He’s also founded or co-founded several other successful start-ups.

Alex "Sandy" Pentland

Data Scientist, Professor at MIT

Professor Alex “Sandy” Pentland holds a triple appointment at MIT in the Media Lab (SA+P), School of Engineering, and School of Management. He has distilled remarkable discoveries significant enough to become the bedrock of a whole new scientific field: social physics. In 2012, Forbes named Sandy one of the seven most powerful data scientists in the world.

Emily Oster

Economist, Best-selling author

A Professor of Economics at Brown University, Emily’s work focuses on health economics and statistical methods. She’s also written two bestsellers on data-driven parenting, Expecting Better and Cribsheet. Emily’s work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, CNBC, Slate, and more.

Wade Davis

VP of Inclusion & Product at Netflix, Former NFL Player, Corporate Inclusion Advisor & Educator

Former NFL Player Wade Davis is a thought leader, public speaker, and writer on gender, race, and orientation equality. He is the VP of Inclusion Strategy for Product at Netflix and works with leading companies to build inclusive corporate cultures.

Komal Ahmad

Founder and President of Copia

Hell-bent on “Solving the World’s Dumbest Problem” Komal founded Copia, a for-profit tech company dramatically reducing food waste and hunger. Copia has already diverted over 3M pounds of perfectly edible food from landfills to feed people in need.

Ebony Beckwith

Chief Philanthropy Officer, Salesforce

As CPO of Salesforce and CEO of the Salesforce Foundation, Ebony applies a data-driven approach and ops mindset to efforts in Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG); Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I); and Philanthropy.

Iron Viz 2020

Watch our fan-favorite data visualization competition LIVE.

Nothing ignites and showcases the power of the Tableau Community like Iron Viz, the world’s largest data visualization competition. Three finalists (determined by the Iron Viz qualifier contest earlier this year) will go head-to-head, vying to be this year’s champion. Join us for this live broadcast to see dynamic data storytelling in action.

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Iron Viz Contestants

Simon Beaumont, Liss, UK

Tableau Zen Master

A Tableau Zen Master and Social Ambassador, Simon is Director of the BI Centre of Excellence at Jones Lang LaSalle, a world leader in real estate services. He also co-runs #SportsVizSunday.

Alex Jones, London, UK

Business Intelligence Specialist

The Business Intelligence Specialist at Jones Lang LaSalle, Alex likes to bring users along on the journey as he develops dashboards in Tableau to show real estate management insights.

Christian Felix, Marana, AZ, USA

Data Visualization Specialist

A Data Visualization Specialist for Roche Tissue Diagnostics, Christian uses Tableau on a daily basis to help the company in its mission to improve the lives of all patients afflicted with cancer.

Expert Speakers

Megan J. Oertel

Director of Product Analytics, Sysco LABS

Megan Oertel is the Director of Product Analytics at Sysco LABS. She focuses on making customer behavior data accessible and useful for answering large business questions using risk management, data analysis, business intelligence, and process improvement philosophies and techniques.

Customer

John McClelland

Director of Business Intelligence and Analytics, Apex Tool Group, LLC

Mary Palazzo

Data Analyst, CoverMyMeds

Joshua Smith

Analytics Manager, CoverMyMeds

Sabih Khan

Deputy Chief, Strategic Initiatives Division, Office of Operations, Chicago Police Department

David Gibbons

Sr. Director of Product Marketing, Einstein Analytics

David leads Product Marketing for Einstein Analytics and has over 20 years' experience with technology products. Prior to Salesforce, David held senior marketing and product roles at several high-tech software companies, including Domo (NASDAQ).

Avishek Ghosh

Senior Systems Analyst, American Airlines

Sameer Shah

Enterprise Business Analytics, KeyBank

Sameer Shah leads a team of business analysts at KeyBank tasked with finding new ways to leverage data to drive business growth.

Customer

Bob Zimmer

Supply Chain Fleet Technology Senior Manager A.S.E. Certified World Class Master Technician, Pepsico Inc.

Von Clark McClendon

Analytics Cloud Director, Ph.D., Einstein Analytics

Von is an ACE Program Architect experienced in CRM/Analytics/AI engineering designs, analytics, and systems integration using major integration platform patterns. She works across verticals such as Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, and Consumer Products.

Amanda Krauth

Senior BI Analyst, United States Cold Storage

Andrew Graf

Director, Global Data Democratization, Starbucks

Kelsey Shannon

Senior Manager, CRM Business Strategy, Indeed

Kelsey is a 6-times certified Salesforce Solutions Architect and works at Indeed refining their global CRM and reporting strategies. She specializes in transforming process issues into elegant solutions.

Customer

Cesar Picco

Senior Engineer Software, T-Mobile

Kedar Doshi

EVP of Engineering, Einstein Analytics

Kedar leads the Product and Engineering teams for Einstein Analytics and has been with Salesforce for 17 years. He built key parts of the core platform including Forecasting, Territory Management, Sharing, Chatter, Communities, and Einstein.

Olivia Butler

Data Management Liaison, State of Wisconsin, Department of Health Services

Jenny Smolen

Tableau Manager, Office of Population Health, NYC Health + Hospitals

Jenny is the Tableau Manager for the Data Core team within NYC Health + Hospitals’ Office of Population Health, where she supports sharing data through clear, engaging dashboards that facilitate proactive patient care.

Customer

Philip Cooper

VP of Product Management, Einstein Analytics

Phil is responsible for EA’s artificial intelligence capabilities and leading Tableau’s broader data science strategy. Leveraging his machine learning and data management expertise, Phil helped launch the Analytics Cloud and build its engineering team.

Keith Krut

Branch Chief, People Analytics, NASA

Quiron Aguiar

Sr. Strategy Manager, Zalora.com

Larry Gowen

Chief Performance Officer, Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles

Larry Gowen is a state government innovator who partners with executive leadership and front-line data analysts to inspire improvements through data. Larry is a part-time Tableau data ninja who enjoys getting lost in the discovery of data’s story.

Customer

Tim Bezold

Sr. Director of Product Management, Einstein Analytics

Tim is a product leader in the Salesforce Analytics Data Platform looking after Connectors and Data Prep. He’s been with Salesforce for 5 years, has a background in Data Management, and is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Ben Tallman

CTO, M Science

Ashwini Zenooz, MD

Chief Medical Officer, Salesforce

Eduardo Santos

VP of Enterprise Analytics, United Federal Credit Union

Eduardo is an executive leader and enterprise data champion who has produced revenue-generating products and intellectual property for credit unions and Fortune 500 companies. At United FCU, he focuses on data management, analytics, and data science to solve business needs.

Customer

Svetlana Kuzmekova

Product Owner, Einstein Analytics, Telstra

Svetlana helps organizations with digital transformations and led one of the largest implementations of Einstein Analytics in Australia with 3000 active users. At Telstra, she continues to shape and drive the embedded analytics roadmap for its core CRM.