RSA Fellow. TED Speaker. Design Lead and Startup Mentor. Instructor and Educator. ex-Nokia, ex-MSFT, ex-Google. Author of 3 bestseller books: Visual Complexity, The Book of Trees, and The Book of Circles

Leonardo is a data visualization reporter within the Graphics team at Bloomberg News. He uses data, code, and visual storytelling to report on issues of social and global importance. Prior to becoming a journalist, Leonardo was an Affiliate Researcher at both the MIT Senseable City Lab and Delft University of Technology's Computational Urban Science and Policy Lab (CUSP). While at CUSP he developed CityAccessMap, an open source interactive web-application intended to aid urban accessibility planning worldwide. He has also worked as a freelance data journalist with the award winning newsroom, The Pudding, where he investigated women's representation in news headlines. Leonardo is a big fan of open source data, data journalism, and all things Svelte.

Paulina is an experienced business analyst, passionate about leveraging data to support people’s and organizations’ growth. She uses her strengths in delivering high quality Business Intelligence products and promotes data as fuel for better strategy planning and execution. She worked for HSBC, T-Mobile, RBS, Cisco as Data and Business Analyst. Later on she started her journey as external consultant and she helped clients in their Business Intelligence transformation. Currently, as a Product Owner she ensures that the delivered data products meet clients’ expectations. Moreover, she willingly shares her knowledge. She lectures Data Storytelling at postgraduate studies at Warsaw University of Technology and occasionally speaks at conferences on the practical use of data in organizational processes.

Data Visualization Lead at QIMA, India.
3x Tableau Public Ambassador, Information is Beautiful Awards'22 shortlist, Iron Viz'21 finalist and Top 5 authors on Tableau Public with the most favourited vizzes.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pradeep_zen

PhD student at La Salle Ramon Llull University in Data viz & data literacy and member of the DS4DS (Data Science for the Digital Society) research group.
Associate Professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and ie University in the Master's Degree in Business Intelligence and Big Data Analytics, teaching Data Visualization adn data storytelling.
Data trainer accredited by the Open Data Institute UK and community award 2018 at the Information is Beautiful Awards.
Ignasi is the author of the book: Information visualization: from data to knowledge published by the UOC publishing house ( only in spanish)

Koen Van den Eeckhout is a physics PhD in love with visual communication. He is the founder of Belgian information design agency Baryon, creating online and offline infographics, innovative data visualizations and engaging visual stories.

Co-founder of My Online Training Hub, Microsoft MVP and Excel and Power BI trainer with a background in accounting

Andy Kirk is an independent data visualisation expert: design consultant, trainer, lecturer, author, speaker, and researcher. He is editor of visualisingdata.com and host of the ‘Explore Explain’ video and podcast series. He’s worked with clients including Apple, Arsenal FC, Google, EU Council, and Pfizer, and has conducted over 350 training courses. Andy is an adjunct lecturer at UCL (UK) and author, the most recent title was published in 2019: ‘Visualising Data: A Handbook for Data Driven Design (2nd edition)’.

Tainá Tissot has expertise as a consultant in big companies solving problems in several segments. A year ago, she participated in competitions and challenges that led her to the podium and gained recognition with Power BI projects. Leader of multidisciplinary teams, she spent 6 years at Globo and recently received an invitation to join the Telecom Company, TIM. Specialist in BI, she also works in companies around Brazil and abroad as a partner at Bee Simples (beesimple.com.br) and with a focus on training, at ProgramaDados (programadados.com.br). Her goal is to help new professionals on answering business questions, analyzing data and communicating insights effectively.

Noah Iliinsky believes in the power of intentionally crafted communication. He has spent over a 15 years researching, writing, and speaking about best practices for designing visualizations and diagrams. He is a frequent speaker in both industry and academic contexts.

Noah was the first designer and PM for the AWS visualization tool QuickSight. He is the co-author of Designing Data Visualizations and technical editor of, and a contributor to, Beautiful Visualization, published By O’Reilly Media. He was the first designer and PM for AWS QuickSight. He has a master’s in Technical Communication from the University of Washington, and a bachelor’s in Physics from Reed College.

Alicia Rabadan has over 10 years of experience working in Data Analytics and Business Intelligence in international companies from different industries, ranging from manufacturing, to construction: coworking, digital services and e-commerce and consulting. She is now working for HCL, one of India’s largest companies as well one of the world’s most important IT consulting services companies. She is in the Data & Analytics team, where she helps develop and implement all kinds of data projects. She is a digital nomad, who now works from Mexico City. One of her main goals is to advocate for the inclusion of Women in Data together with promoting Data Projects in Latin American communities. When she is not working, she writes about different topics in Medium (https://medium.com/@aliceintechland); does yoga and is learning to surf.

He leads the Data Analytics team for Cognizant MBG in the EMEA region, helps his team of analysts, developers, and architects deliver successful data projects to some of the largest companies.
He develops Power BI training and learning plans and love to help people advance their skills to take the next career step.

Power BI trainer and Excel trainer. He is involved in Power BI Training in London, offering both public and private in-person, UK Power BI classes.

He is a Data Platform MVP. Blogger on PowerBI.tips, Speaker.

DataViz Community Lead for South Europe @ Cognizant. DataViz evangelist and Qlik Partner Ambassador

Freelance Data Visualization Designer & Trainer. I’m a sociologist passionate about aesthetics and usability. My 8-year career journey has led me to the intersection of user-centered design and data visualization. I focus on helping clients make sense of their data and embrace a new analytical culture. You can find my articles on Towards Data Science.

Vivek is a Microsoft MVP (Data Platform) and has 20 years of Business Intelligence experience working on Microsoft Data platform projects.
He is Sr. Director North America at Stridely Solution and Founder at Insight2Actions Inc., User group Community leader-Toronto Microsoft Power Platform, Power Apps All-star award winner, Dynamic community Granite award winner, Member of Global Power Platform Bootcamp team, Power Platform world Tour/ Power Platform Summit-organizing committee
He has successfully completed many small to large scale Process automation projects using the latest technology, such as Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Virtual Agent, Office 365, SharePoint, SQL Server, Azure, Excel, SAP, SAP HANA, Oracle. He has Implemented Power Platform Application enterprise wide, developing applications and business intelligence solutions tailored to unique and complex business challenges. He is passionate about saving businesses time and resources by doing things right the first time and getting rid of bottlenecks.
Vivek is capable of handling end to end engagements through different phases as solution design, planning development activities, customer expectations with technology solutions, proof of concepts, project planning, leading team to develop & deliver solution on time with zero defects. Being a trusted advisor, he advises each of his customers to follow the recommended and best practices in technology and business domain solutions.

Deniz Aksoy has graduated from Istanbul Technical University Industrial Engineering Department in 2006. He started business life with internships at Koç Group, and transferred to Divan for a full-time position as a Human Resources Specialist. Then he worked as a Project Engineer in the automotive industry for 4 years. On the one hand, Mr. Aksoy carried out the projects in London, UK on site, on the other hand, he completed MBA degree. Then he worked as a Software Analyst, Educational Technologies Specialist and Senior Art Director at Turkcell. As of the end of 2020, he ended his 15-year corporate life and switched to full-time teaching. Deniz Aksoy started teaching career at the Education Volunteers Foundation of Turkey when he was a universite student and continued as an Internal Trainer at Turkcell. For 12 years, he has been organizing trainings on Data Visualization, Dashboard Design, Presentation Skills and Data Analytics 101 and consulting on Data Visualization and Management Reporting.

KAREN FIGUEIREDO ABECIA

Brazil
osasco, sao paulo

I'm a Excel Lover, but first, a people lover. It's amazing could transform lives throw Office tools.

Biografia
For 19 years, I've shared knowledge about Excel and the Office Programs, to help people have the power to solve problems and reduce time in day-to-day tasks.

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Working for years with data analytics, data vizualization and data engineering.
After delivering projects for over 50 companies, across 10+ industries and with hundreds of people, Igor started training others to enable them in their Business Intelligence journey.
Big fan of Tableau, Snowflake and AWS - Igor leads Data Dune on the mission to popularise data driven decision making.

Website: https://datadune.io/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/igorgarlowski/

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Lucia started her career studying Business, Marketing and Neuroscience. She has always wanted to discover the “why” and found a way through analyzing data (facts and quantitative investigation) plus understanding how the mind works (behavior and qualitative research). Later she discovered the importance of storytelling to communicate data efficiently, and expanded her knowledge into Data Science, Big Data, and Machine Learning.
She has more than fifteen years of experience in data analysis and visualization. A featured author at Tableau Public that every day tries to outdo herself in developing simple graphs that are easy to understand by everyone.

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The founder of Resagratia - an EdTech building data analytics learning resources to support the future workforce.
Before that he was an analytics product manager at a German Edtech and a data consultant for a number of home and international organisations.
At his very core, he's a tireless problem solver, visual artist and an information architect. He loves using Tableau to design data products that
unify both form and function. An ardent learner, he believes in the future of data democratization in the form of data literacy and
data analytics upskilling. He has a BSc in Electronic Engineering (UK) and a MSc in Renewable Energy (UK, Spain).

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Mara is the Founder of Data Pears. You might know her from her blog and YouTube channel, where she regularly posts blogs and videos about Power BI, Data Visualisation and Data Analytics. Mara loves everything around data visualisation and her main goal is to change the world of reporting, one report at a time. She believes that effective reporting solutions are more than just data and charts, they are a beautiful combination of data, insights, design and user experience.

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Asanka is an experienced data engineer who is currently performing the role of Principal Engineer in ClearPoint. He has been working more than 12 years in BI and data analytics field and has implemented BI solutions for different industries. He is also Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Data Platform category. As a technology enthusiastic, he enjoys conducting technical presentations both locally and internationally.. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/asankapadmakumara/ Twitter: asanka_e Blog: https://asankap.wordpress.com/

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Michalis is currently the Head of BI & Insights at efood of Delivery Hero.
He has more than 10 years of accumulated knowledge working as an analytics professional & mentor. Michalis has designed and developed analytical solutions in a wide variety of businesses across 7 different industries and really enjoys working with people with diverse backgrounds.
His core interests lie in helping teams analyse their data and communicate insights effectively using stories

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Alan is an Excel & Power BI instructor, freelance writer, and Microsoft MVP. He has been training for over 20 years and loves learning and helping make peoples working lives easier.
Alan runs his own blog - Computergaga and write for multiple other websites.
He runs a monthly Excel & Power Platform meetup in London where people learn, share and enjoy each other’s company.
Alan has a YouTube channel with over 600 videos on Excel and Power BI with over 35 million views.

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Marcelo Has is a Tableau Tech Lead at Dataside with two years of experience with Tableau and specialized in Design, where he's responsible for supporting his team with Tableau, developign projects combining Tableau and Databricks and helping businesses building data driven solutions. In addition, he's the Director at iTech Talents Solutions, a consultancy company of tech professional recruitment. Marcelo is the creator of Tableauzando Youtube channel, where he publishes free content (basic and advanced) of Tableau and Design within Tableau, he also obtained a #VOTD in his project "Superstore Dashboard - Business Dashboard". He's a data lover and passionate about helping people with their careers.

Nomination: Business Analytics & Data Art and Storytelling

Tore Levinsen is a Tableau Jedi with experience since version 7.0 back in 2011. He is based in Bergen, Norway, and is one of Europe's most merited Tableau Trainers, with over 2.300 people trained in 15 countries. He's also the leader of TUG Norway and a 2x Tableau Ambassador. He has over 20 years of experience as a consultant, advisor, and as a trainer. He's been working with Tableau since filled maps and area charts were introduced and are an advocate for visual best practice. He has over 50 Tableau t-shirts/hoodies and a growing swag compilation! On his spare time, he supports Liverpool FC and are a handball and soccer coach for kids.

Nomination: Business Analytics & Data Art and Storytelling

Prasann Prem is a Tableau Social Ambassador and a Tableau Public Featured Author currently working with American Express GBT as a Product Engineer within their BI innovation team.
He loves creating data visualisations and has built an expertise in building BI products.
Apart from his love for creating data visualisations, he also found his passion in mentoring and is the founder of Tableau Buddy. Through this program, he has successfully mentored over 250+ data professionals all across the globe spanning companies like Bank Of America, JPMorgan&Chase, Wells Fargo and many more.
Do give him a nudge on LinkedIn if you are eager to make a successful career with Data.

Nomination: Business Analytics & Data Art and Storytelling

Nir is a senior data visualization engineer and analytics Center Of Excellence lead at Zoominfo. He is passionate about data and he creates public data visualizations about things he cares about and about things he loves, especially music. Nir is a Tableau public ambassador , Tableau featured author and has five Vizzes of the Day. It's Nir's goal to spread the passion he has for data visualization to the people around him.He consults and teaches Tableau and data visualization best practices. Nir provides Freelance data visualization services for the Israeli government, media channels, and private companies.

Nomination: Business Analytics & Data Art and Storytelling

Ricardo Tranquilli Navarro is an Italian-Spanish visualization and data storytelling specialist certified in Power BI and Tableau who currently works as Project Manager at Hiberus Tecnologia (Spain). He has also won visualization competitions and has been a finalist in the Data Visualization Competition organized by the Wharthon Business School of Pennsylvania.

Nomination: Data-art and Storytelling

Dr. Jonathan Schwabish is an economist, writer, and teacher. He is considered a leading voice for clarity and accessibility in how researchers communicate their findings. His book Better Presentations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks helps people improve the way they prepare, design, and deliver data-rich content and his edited book, Elevate the Debate: A Multilayered Approach to Communicating Your Research, helps people develop a strategic plan to communicating their work across multiple platforms and channels. His latest book, Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations.

Nomination: Data-art and Storytelling

Tarigulu Khasizada works as Business Insights SME at bp and he is located in Budapest, Hungary. His main tasks include creating automating various tasks and visualizing data using Power BI. He is also usin Tableau, as it is his main inspiration to deliver messages using data visualization.
At the same time he is the founder of Zen Analytics which is providing data and analytics services in Azerbaijan. Tarigulu writes tech blogs and contributes data community continuously.

Nomination: Data-art and Storytelling

Julia is a data journalist and a data visualization designer/developer with a focus on environmental issues such as biodiversity conservation and climate change, though her works covers topics anywhere from breaking news to culture to tech. Julia is from the U.S. and Taiwan, and currently lives in Paris, where she recently started working as a data journalist, at AFP. She is also working on Taiwan Data Stories as a side passion project.

Nomination: Data-art and Storytelling

Mohamad is an award winning data visualization designer and a freelance data journalist with a background in data science and mechanical design engineering. His focus is on the more creative and experimental aspects of data visualization. Examples of his work can be found on his website (alhadaqa.com). He received a medal at Malofiej International Award in 2020, the Pudding Cup in 2019, an award from the Center for Global Data Visualization in 2019 and others. Mohamad: “I explore data, looking for its hidden secrets and its mysterious stories. I discover those secrets, then reveal them in a beautiful, innovative and insightful data visualization. Simply, I turn mist-full data into insightful art.”

Nomination: Data-art and Storytelling

Kavita Behera is a product manager and the creator of #TheWeeklyChart. She is an active member of the Power BI community and an ambassador for the #dataDNA challenges. Her goal is to simplify the art of storytelling and educate everyone about charts. Aside from being an analyst, she is a proud paw parent who loves training her dog.

Nomination: Business Analytics & Data-art and Storytelling

Adewale Yusuf is the Team Lead Business Intelligence Analyst and Senior Trainer at dbrownconsulting. He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Data Platform, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Data Analyst, and Microsoft Certified Solution Associate.
He is a corporate trainer and international speaker with a deep understanding of various adult learning methodologies and instructional design. He trained tailored courses in Power Apps, Power BI, Azure Synapse, SQL, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agent, Microsoft Excel, Azure, and Office 365.

Nomination: Data art and Storytelling

Marlene Dorgny has been a French data designer for 7 years. Before breaking into data visualization, she used to be a fashion and graphic designer for 15 years. She works for private companies and public institutions, mostly on environmental subjects. She's also a data visualization instructor at Gobelins Paris. Her main interests in data viz are network visualization and she enjoys mapping themes around music for her side projects.

Nomination: Data Art Storytelling

Duncan Geere is an information designer living in Sweden. He’s the founder of the Elevate Dataviz Learning Community, and the co-host of the Loud Numbers data sonification podcast and studio

Nomination: Data-art and Storytelling

IWith over 25 thousand students worldwide, Leonardo is a Power BI Specialist and a Microsoft Certified Trainer with experience in Business Intelligence and Data Storytelling.

Nomination: Data Art Storytelling

Greg is one of the better-known database consultants in the world. He leads a boutique data consultancy firm called SQL Down Under. He is a long-term Data Platform MVP and considered one of the foremost consultants in the world on SQL Server and Microsoft data-related technologies. Microsoft uses him to train their own staff.
Greg is regularly invited to present at top level tier-1 conferences around the world. Greg's SQL Down Under podcast has a regular audience of over 40,000 listeners.

Nomination: Business Analytics & Data Art and Storytelling

Vani loves to investigate data and develop stories using it in her profession as a Data Visualization Engineer at Expedia Group. She has been a contributing member of the tableau community for some time and has been voted as a Tableau Social Ambassador twice. She is also currently co-leading the Tableau Buddy Talks user group. She also likes to write about new things she learns at work and post them on her blog site. In addition to her job, she enjoys mentoring students and teaching tableau and data storytelling.

Nomination: Data Art Storytelling

Anibal is a self-taught learner infographics designer. He worked as an infographics designer at the Agence France-Presse and as the head of the Web Design Department of Mexico's Presidency. Anibal was a freelance infographic data visualization designer in Visual.ly and worked with companies such as National Geographics, Delos, Dell, Carter Center, Lancôme, UNICEF, Bosch, Lynda, and even Visa. Also, he worked with Le Point, the French 'Newsweek' magazine. This year, he has been doing infographics on complex subjects for Your-Comics.

Nomination: Business Analytics

Attila Bátorfy is a data visualization expert with a journalistic background from Hungary. He is currently head of visual journalism project ATLO. He also serves as master teacher of data journalism, information design and theory at the Media Department of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Website: https://attilabatorfy.com/
twitter: https://twitter.com/attilabatorfy