Topic: BI or DIE by reportingimpulse - Podcast, Video, Training & Consulting

Kai-Uwe Stahl (Managing Director) I am managing director of reportingimpulse. In more than 500 workshops, I and my team have advised corporations and medium-sized businesses on the topics of dashboarding, self-service, data visualization and change. I am also host of the podcast BI or DIE and author and editor of numerous books and articles. In my private life I like to do sports in nature and live with my wife and our two girls near Stuttgart.

Topic: How we visualized the global supply chain in 6 weeks

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.

Topic: From spreadsheets to dashboards - should we just replicate Excel in Tableau

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/

Topic: What makes your data project win a grant. I'll share best practises on how to make award-winning data journalism projects

Jacopo Ottaviani is a computer scientist and senior strategist who works as Code for Africa’s Chief Data Officer. As an ICFJ Knight Fellow and a data journalist, his projects were published by, among others, Der Spiegel, El País and Internazionale. He worked on projects supported by the World Bank, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting and the EJC. He is a member of the European Press Prize preparatory committee and works as a trainer with BBC Media Action.

Topic: A: Tableau tips & tricks B: Visual Analytics best practices
Textarea: As discussed in the meeting + LinkedIn, I can do a session on tips & tricks for Tableau (but that might be to specific, for users of other tools). Or a session on Visual Analytics best practices, with some good and bad examples

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.

Topic: Modern BI dashboards are not just reports but analytical products

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.

Topic: Data Art vs Business Dashboards

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.

Topic: How curiosity leads to creativity in data visualisation

Neil Richards is a data visualization specialist and enthusiast from the United Kingdom with over twenty-five years of experience in the data industry. He has been awarded the title of Tableau Visionary (formerly Tableau Zen Master) a total of four times and is a regular speaker at data visualization conferences and user groups. He has also been on the Board of Directors of the Data Visualization Society and non-profit Viz for Social Good. Neil also blogs regularly at questionsindataviz.com, and his first book, Questions in Dataviz, was released in November 2022.

Topic: How to design dashboards that drive action and deliver value

Sarah is a Tableau Visionary, Tableau Public Ambassador, speaker and leader of the Iron Quest data visualization project

Topic: Make it sound. Transforming sound data into visual art

Tiziana Alocci is an award-winning Italian information designer, data artist, and lecturer. Alongside her art production,Tiziana works from her studio, a London-based laboratory for data-driven storytelling and audio-visual experiences where she regularly collaborates with various clients from all industries to bring data to life, including The British Library, BBC, The Open Data Institute, Wired UK, RCS MediaGroup, Thomson Reuters Foundation and some of the biggest creative agencies worldwide.

Since 2018, Tiziana has been an Associate Lecturer at the University of the Arts London, amongst other international lecturing positions at Ravensbourne University London, Chelsea College of Arts, Hyper Island (Sweden), Winchester School of Art, ArtEZ University of the Arts (The Netherlands), The Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Hungary). In 2017, Tiziana co-founded Market Cafe Magazine, the world’s first independent magazine about data visualization.

Workshop: Incremental improvements, an easy-to-follow rules to make your message pop-out better

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.

Topic: The Journey from Data to Viz: An African Case Study

Tricia is the Senior Data Product Manager for Africa’s largest civic technology and data journalism initiative, Code for Africa (CfA). Tricia manages CfA’s DataLab which supports data journalism projects by sourcing data, cleaning and analysing it, and designing novel data visualisation techniques. She is also a coordinator for Africa’s largest network of female data scientists, journalists and technologists, WanaData, and she creates content and trains data literacy as part of academy AFRICA.

Topic: Survey data in compelling visualizations, for ESG related topics and campaigns (especially around the Middle East)

I'm an award-winning information designer, passionate about visualizing data for organizations, brands, and agencies. I have a decade of experience creating compelling visualizations for creative studios like Information is Beautiful, Signal Noise, and Beyond Words. I currently work as an independent designer from my studio in Amsterdam.

Topic: The Needs for Semantic Notations in Analytics and Business Communication

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.