Bridge the gap between data and the promise of AI

AI may be moving fast, but across MEA and Turkey, it’s also falling short of its promise. The organizations pulling ahead aren't the ones chasing the newest model; they're the ones who've invested in building a trusted data foundation that makes every AI initiative live up to its potential.

The AI Reality Tour 2026 — Online Edition is a must-attend event for data, analytics, and AI leaders who are serious about closing the gap between what AI promised and what’s actually happening. Whether you're in the early stages of your AI journey or scaling production workloads, you'll have an opportunity to:

  • Discover how to achieve enterprise AI success, starting with a trusted data foundation
  • Explore what’s possible with the latest agentic AI breakthroughs
  • Achieve the AI you were promised.


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Agenda

Agenda — The AI Reality Tour MEA — Online Edition

June 23, 2026 | 9:30 AM SAST | 11:30 AM GST | ON24
9:30 AM (SAST)
11:30 AM (GST)
KEYNOTE

Enterprise AI: From Reality To Execution

Dan Sommer, Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead, Qlik
Zoe Johnson, Chief Architect Data,Qlik
Finn Nordesjö, Principal Solution Architect, Qlik

Explore Qlik’s vision and latest innovations to move beyond AI experimentation by strengthening your data foundation—making AI accurate, connected, and efficient at scale in a fast-changing, cost-conscious environment. As organisations invest in platforms and models, the real challenge is orchestration: Qlik sits at the centre of your AI architecture, delivering the context, trust, and flexibility needed to power agents, models, and decisions at scale.

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BREAKOUT Analytics & AI

From Prediction to Proactive Action with AI

Finn Nordesjö, Principal Solution Architect, Qlik

Take dashboards further with AI that predicts what’s next and signals what needs attention now. See how Qlik Predict™ and Qlik Discovery Agent™ work together in Qlik Cloud to forecast outcomes, detect meaningful change at scale, and transform reactive reporting into proactive, confident action across your business.

BREAKOUT Analytics & AI

Extending Qlik Capabilities through an MCP Server

Finn Nordesjö, Principal Solution Architect, Qlik

Learn how external systems can extend Qlik’s differentiated data, analytics, automation, and AI capabilities through an MCP Server. This session explores how the MCP framework enables secure, governed connectivity between Qlik Cloud and third-party applications or AI systems. See examples such as LLMs like Claude using MCP to interact with Qlik data, generate insights, and trigger workflows, showcasing the next frontier of open, agentic integration across the Qlik ecosystem.

BREAKOUT Analytics & AI

Agentic AI, Right Now: Using agents in Qlik Answers to Optimize Productivity

Finn Nordesjö, Principal Solution Architect, Qlik

Speed up analytics content creation and unlock unstructured data with Qlik Answers! Learn natural language tips for dashboards, styling, and knowledge bases, plus a peek at the future of agentic AI and collaboration in Qlik. Walk away with a pocketful of tips and tricks for boosting productivity.

BREAKOUT Data

Modernizing Analytics: When to Add a Warehouse/Lakehouse

Zoe Johnson, Chief Architect Data, Qlik

Analytics customers gain speed and flexibility from Qlik’s in-memory exploration, but as data volumes, users, and use cases grow, a data lake or warehouse becomes essential to scale. This session explores when that tipping point occurs and how combining analytics with governed data pipelines using Qlik Talend Cloud creates a more resilient, enterprise-grade analytics stack.

BREAKOUT Data

Unfreezing the Value of Iceberg: From Ingest to Insight with Qlik

Zoe Johnson, Chief Architect Data, Qlik

See how Qlik Talend Cloud delivers end-to-end integration on Apache Iceberg through Open Lakehouse, Talend Studio, and data products. Watch a real use case showing how data is captured, transformed, and published with full lineage, and how Qlik Analytics turns Iceberg datasets into instant insight.

BREAKOUT Data

Meet the Agents: The Autonomous Future of Data Quality and Governance

Zoe Johnson, Chief Architect Data, Qlik

See how Qlik’s agentic AI turns data management from manual, reactive work into intelligent automation. Meet Qlik’s AI Assistant, Pipeline Agent, Data Quality Agent, and Stewardship Assistant, and see how MCP extends Qlik into tools like ChatGPT and Amazon Q to deliver trusted, AI-ready data faster.

BREAKOUT On-Prem

Success in Action: How Leading Organizations Turn Data into Competitive Advantage

Three customer success stories across Manufacturing, Retail, and Financial Services

BREAKOUT On-Prem

Unlocking More Value from SAP with Qlik Gold Client

Accelerate SAP Data Management, Testing, and Transformation

BREAKOUT On-Prem

Build Your Enterprise AI Factory: Customized AI & RAG Pipelines with Qlik

From Trusted Data to AI-Powered Decisions

Model vs Mastery: Predict the 2026 World Cup Champion and Win Big

In a World of AI, Don't Forget HI

Can AI predict the 2026 World Cup Champion better than human expertise?
Join the debate as Steve Palmer (33 years of Premier League experience) goes head-to-head with Qlik's AI prediction model, guided by Adam Mayer, in our exclusive World Cup Podcast Series.



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Choose Your Champion 2026 and Win Regional Prizes

  • 1st Place: Amazon Voucher $500
  • 2nd Place: Amazon Voucher $250
  • 3rd Place: Amazon Voucher $50 (up to 5 winners)
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MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Dan Sommer
Dan Sommer

Senior Director, Global Market Intelligence Lead, Qlik

Zoe Johnson
Zoe Johnson

Chief Architect Data,Qlik

Finn Nordesjö
Finn Nordesjö

Principal Solution Architect, Qlik

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