THE DATA CLOUD WORLD TOUR – stockholm

Henrik is an experienced leader within the area of Data & Analytics with special interest for how to utilize data for value creation, no matter if it’s on the cost or revenue side or through improved customer experience. He has been through various journeys in several different industries addressing everything from people, processes and technologies to make data work as it’s supposed to.

20 years of experience within Analytics and Data Warehouse field. Since 2008 been at Ericsson and have had central roles in establishing, evolving and being accountable for; Analytics solution and portfolios, Analytics Center of Excellence, Analytics and Platform Architecture, definition of Analytics Target Architecture and Analytics technology stacks, data strategy and data architectural principles.

Tomas Dersjö is heading the Data and Information Management function at Scania which
spearheads the overall objective to make Scania data driven. His department is
responsible for Data Platforms, Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics/Machine
Learning and Master Data Management at Scania.

Tomas started his career as a consultant working in various industry segments in 2004. He
joined Scania group as Industrial PhD student in 2006 and took up several roles and
successful challenges for the last 16 years. His early years were spent in R&D whereas
more recent assignments included working across both the industrial and commercial
domains within Scania’s Indian business unit and subsequently within shared IT.

Tomas holds a Ph.D in Solid Mechanics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology & pursued
his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Retail Analytics Lead @SOK​. Has a background in data and analytics development for more than 15 years​. Currently leading the data and analytics platform transformation for SOK Retail business.
MSc. in Economics​
Working for S-group since 2015​
Career: SAS Institute, consulting

Data Engineering Lead @SOK​ creating value with data for ​ 5 years​
Currently leading the development of Retail Data Warehouse in SOK​
MSc. in Mathematics​
Working for S-group since 2021​
Career: Aktia Pankki Oyj, data engineer

Alison is the SVP of EMEA at Snowflake, where she is focused on building the team and strategy to accelerate Snowflake’s hyper-growth in EMEA. Alison is an experienced sales leader with 20 years of experience in the software and enterprise applications industry. Her sales experience spans from start-ups like AppDynamics to acclaimed large enterprise companies like IBM, HP, and Oracle. Across her past roles, she has sold into hundreds of new accounts, developed sales growth strategies, and led major teams of professional salespeople. Ali is passionate about developing sales organizations that are deeply focused on customer value; the business always comes easily when the customer understands the impact the product can have. Outside of her career accomplishments, Ali is a mother of two teenagers, a wife, a cook, a fitness enthusiast and a strong advocate for the advancement of women in sales careers. Ali has a Criminal Justice degree with a focus on Sociology and Political Science from Washington State University.

Mats Stellwall is working at Snowflake as a Field CTO where he advises customers on Data Science with Snowflake. He has been working with analytics and information centric systems since the mid nineties in various roles.

Jennifer Belissent joined Snowflake in 2021 as Principal Data Strategist after over a decade as an analyst at Forrester Research. She is passionate about encouraging data collaboration, ensuring proper data governance, developing data literacy, and building organizations that thrive in the data economy. Over her 30 year career, Jennifer has also held management positions in sales and marketing in Silicon Valley; designed urban policy programs in Eastern Europe and Russia; and taught math as a Peace Corps volunteer in Central Africa. Jennifer earned a Ph.D. and an M.A. in organizational theory and comparative politics from Stanford University and a B.A. in econometrics from the University of Virginia. She currently lives in the French Alps, and is an alpine enthusiast and intrepid world traveler.

Henrik Nielsen joined Snowflake in February 2019, with focus on building the Danish market in his role as a Sales Engineer. Henrik is now focusing on working with strategic customers in the Nordics, and is a frequent speaker at events, focusing on topics relevant to Snowflake: Data Architecture topics like Data Vault, Data Modeling, Data Mesh, Data Collaboration, as well as general Snowflake Product Innovations. Prior to joining Snowflake, Henrik has worked at different vendors since 2001 in the Data Management and Analytics field, ranging fron a niche startup in the oil & gas, energy, and utilities sector to implementing large data warehouse projects in various industries as an implementation consultant at Oracle.

Johannes supports customers in the automotive and manufacturing industries with their data challenges and Snowflake usage. He has a long background in data analytics and cyber security across consulting and sales engineering roles with several companies in the industry.

Sami Rouhe joined Snowflake in December 2020 as a Sales Engineer, with focus on the key media, gaming and digital native customers in Finland and Sweden. Sami has experience on all the workloads of Snowflake with the main focus being on Data Engineering and Python. Prior to joining Snowflake Sami has worked as a consultant / data engineer at a Snowflake partner building cloud native architectures hands on using the latest technologies and frameworks.

Seth has over 20 years experience in the field of Cybersecurity and is based in Paris, France. He has previously worked as cybersecurity and networking subject matter expert with Cisco, Fortinet, and Cyberprood, in which he covered both public sector, large customer accounts, and built security operation centers across EMEA. In August 2020, Seth joined Snowflake and is currently working as Security Field CTO EMEA, focussing on the security, security data lake, and data governance capabilities of Snowflake Data Cloud. In July 2021, Seth completed Executive MBA From HEC Paris Business School, where he pursued his passion for positioning data and security as a business enabler.

Field CTO at Snowflake, connecting Product Strategy and Customers demands.
Applying the “art of the possible with Snowflake” to digital transformation plans.
Good guy.

Fawad is Technology Leader with a blend of business, analytical, technical, and financial knowledge. He has more than two decades of experience in the entire value chain of Analytics solutions including, but not limited to, Cloud Solution Architectures, Information Management, BI, Data warehouse & Big Data solution design and implementation covering, over time, multiple phases of the Analytics sales cycle including Business Development, Pre-Sales, Solution Engineering, and Delivery.

He is a Global Field CTO for Telecom at Snowflake helping telcos all around the world on building net new business models. He has worked with telcos in more than 40 countries in both emerging and developed markets.

Will Cage is Snowflake’s Global Head of Telecommunications and is based in Lugano, Switzerland. He is responsible for ensuring that Snowflake delivers business value and strategic industry consulting capabilities to Telco customers across all three regions. Will’s core focus is to develop Snowflake’s vision & direction for the industry in order to ensure that market leading propositions, such as the Telco Data Cloud, provide competitive advantage for Snowflake’s customers, whilst also providing market insights, best practice and business focus to all strategic customer engagements. Will is a DnA (Data & Analytics) thought leader with deep and rich Telco industry knowledge, He joined Snowflake from Teradata where he held various leadership roles during his tenure and most recently he was the Vice President of the Americas Industry Consulting team. Prior to that he fulfilled several leadership roles ranging from Senior Director of Corporate & GTM Strategy to the International Customer Management Applications Centre of Excellence. Part of the original team at the start-up of MFS (MCI-Worldcom) in EMEA, Will was a key contributor to the strategic business plan, which grew the business from an original team of 20 to over 2,000 employees and 1,000 new B2B customers in less than 2 years. Will has also held various executive and strategic consulting positions at The London Stock Exchange, BT, Vodafone-Celfocus (Novabase), GTE and Sky.

Technical leader with education and experience practicing advanced analytical methods including machine learning, data mining, optimization, simulation, natural language processing, small and big data warehousing, and the creation of compelling data visualizations. Analytics leader presenting at big data, data science, and analytics conferences. Results of my analytics leadership have been recognized by Forbes, TDWI, CIO100, Brandon Hall Group, Stevie Awards, Wall Street Journal, and others.

Leif Engdell is supporting the Finance and Manufacturing industries utilizing Snowflake in Norway and Sweden. Leif has background in Data architecture and analytics and joined Snowflake from Tableau earlier this year.

Nithya Rangarajan joined Snowflake as a solutions Architect in November 2021 with over 18 years of experience in the Data management, Architecture and Analytics. Her field focus areas include Data mesh, Data Sharing & Performance Optimization.