For 25 years Kevin has deciphered what technology means to business leaders and practitioners, as an industry analyst, writer, instructor, product marketer, and services leader. He launched, built and led a profitable data services team for EMC Pivotal in the Americas and EMEA, implementing data warehouse and data lake platforms for Fortune 2000 enterprises. More recently he ran field training at the data integration software provider Attunity, now part of Qlik.

Peter Boncz has been active in the database community during the past four decades, making him a veteran. He leads the Database Architectures research group of research institute CWI in Amsterdam and has been involved in six startup companies so far.

Antoine Stelma co-founded Connected Data Group and is responsible for business innovation with Data & Analytic architectures. Antoine has an extensive background of 20 years in Enterprise Data Warehousing, specialising in Data Vault modeling, Data Virtualization and designing Data & Analytics platforms.

Jeroen Vermunt brings over 25 years of experience in several fields of IT and data. He held multiple positions in the field of business intelligence and data analytics, ranging from developer, consultant and architecture roles to managing Business Intelligence Competence Centers.

Tim Schulteis implemented various initiatives in datawarehousing, Business Intelligence and analytics, initially mainly focusing on concepts and processes. Observing that the quality of concepts is only a minor success factor in digital transformation he focused on change management and leadership styles. Schulteis built a new and energetic unit at APG covering the total datamanagement playing field, therewith conceiving a new data architecture. Since August 2019 Schulteis is director Group Data Office at APG.

Egge van der Poel is working as a Clinical Data Scientist at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam. He holds a BA in Philosophy and a PhD in Elementary Particle Physics. He searched for (and found) the Higgs particle at the Large Hadron Collider of CERN, in Geneva. After his PhD at CERN he trained to be a Medical Physicist and was a Big Data consultant at KPMG before his job at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam.

Piethein Strengholt is a Lead Data Architect with a passion for technology. He is responsible for setting and driving the strategical agenda for ABN AMRO for topics such as Data Management, Data Integration and Cloud. Engineering experienced in Data Management, Data Integration & Cloud (AWS & Azure). Piethein is commercially skilled, with more than ten years consultancy background.

Dave Wells is the Data Management Practice Director at Eckerson Group, a data analytics research and consulting organization. He brings a unique perspective to data management based on five decades of working with data in both technical and business roles. Dave works at the intersection of information management and business management, where real value is derived from data assets. He is an industry analyst, consultant, and educator dedicated to building meaningful and enduring connections throughout the path from data to business value.