Johannes Mellenthin promovierte in Teilchenphysik an der Universität Göttingen und am CERN. Er hat langjährige Erfahrung im Consulting im Bereich Data Science. Neben der technischen Implementierung von End-to-End-Machine-Learning-Lösungen konzentriert er sich auf die Identifizierung von Möglichkeiten für Unternehmen, langfristig den größten Nutzen aus ihren Daten zu ziehen.

Johannes Mellenthin completed his doctorate in Particle Physics at the University of Göttingen and CERN. He has several years of experience in consulting in the Data Science sector. Besides the technical implementation of end-to-end Machine Learning solutions, he focuses on identifying opportunities for businesses to get the most value out of their data.

Dieter works in Vertica presales engineering for the German speaking countries.
His mission is to analyze our customer’s goals and infrastructure to make their Big Data Analytics projects successful through the Vertica Unified Analytics Platform.

With over 35 years of experience in presales, project management and consulting in the database industry, Dieter brings a deep understanding of data and organizations. He leads his customers to success during the entire project lifecycle from discovery to successful project launches.
Prior to Vertica, Dieter worked as project manager and consultant at Teradata and in the R&D organization at IBM as presales and software engineer. Dieter graduated with two master degrees in computer science and organizational psychology.

In his free time Dieter is a chess player and runner.

Paul leads the Collibra Field Teams for the Nordics and DACH region. He joined Collibra in early 2019 after eight years with Salesforce.com where he built teams for different regions in Germany. Prior to that, he held international Enterprise Sales and Business Development roles at Gartner (CEB) and BBDO. He is passionate about helping Collibra customers to use data as a shared language to drive empathy, understanding, and successful business outcomes.

Sibel is an experienced data leader with a demonstrated history of working in technology companies in various industries, including Frontify, Ava Women, eBay and PayPal. She has a deep understanding of the data technology space and analytics methodologies. She is passionate about building powerful data capabilities, has a deep focus on data quality, and is a strong advocate for data literacy.

In case you don't know Cindi, she is a fantastic data analytics thought leader and expert with a flair for bridging business needs with technology.   As Chief Data Strategy Officer at ThoughtSpot, she advises top clients and partners on data strategy and best practices to become data-driven. Cindi is also host of the Data Chief Podcast, a top 10 podcast in the data and analytics category. Cindi was previously a Gartner research Vice President, as the lead author for the data and analytics maturity model and analytics and BI Magic Quadrant, and a popular keynote speaker.  She introduced new research in data and AI for good, NLP/BI Search, and augmented analytics and brought both the BI bake-offs and innovation panels to Gartner globally. She’s rated a top 12 influencer in big data and analytics by Onalytca, Solutions Review, Humans of Data.  Prior to joining Gartner, she was the founder of BI Scorecard, a resource for in-depth product reviews based on exclusive hands-on testing, a contributor to Information Week, and the author of several books including Successful Business Intelligence: Unlock the Value of BI & Big Data and SAP BusinessObjects BI 4.0: The Complete Reference.  She served as The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) faculty member for more than a decade.  Prior to founding BI Scorecard, Howson was a manager at Deloitte & Touche and a BI standards leader for Dow Chemical in Switzerland.

Shamim works as a Senior Data Engineer at Data Reply. He specializes in building Data Pipelines, Data Lakes and  Kubernetes architecture and development. He has also worked on building end to end Machine Learning pipelines for production-grade machine learning applications.
 

Timm Grosser is a Senior Analyst Data & Analytics at the Business Application Research Center (BARC) with a focus on Data & Analytics.

His core competencies are the definition of data & analytics strategies, data governance, organization, architecture and tool selection. He is a well-known speaker at conferences and seminars and author of numerous BARC market studies and professional articles.

Ramesh Shurma is the founder and CEO of Orion Governance Inc.  Prior to starting Orion, Ramesh developed his expertise by working in very data intensive environments as an enterprise architect, application architect, and senior consultant and programmer with a very strong business and technology focus.  His vertical market experience spans across Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail and Electronic Design Automation.  His Silicon Valley roots taught him the valuable lesson of innovation and customer service.  The motivation behind Orion was to solve a real-world need that most of the other companies had overlooked in favor of an unreliable manual approach.  The road less traveled, where people dared to tread, but was taken in the spirit of innovation, that is Orion Governance today.  Under his hard work, the team has grown to multiple millions in revenue in a short period of time.  He is fluent in multiple languages including French, Hindi and English.  His hobbies include aviation, traveling and having his three dogs take him on daily walks.

Data science lead with over 10 years’ experience helping global corporations extract business value by making decisions based on data.
Wide-ranging experience covering consumer analytics, digital marketing, personalized customer experiences, data management and machine learning.

In my current role leading a team of data scientists at Sappi, I am particularly interested in applying data science to optimize the papermaking process by reducing costs & waste, improving product quality, optimizing tasks and prolonging equipment lifespans.