A 20-year marketing veteran, Dan Potter is VP of Product Marketing at Qlik. In this role, Dan is responsible for product marketing and go-to-market strategies related to modern Data Architectures, Data Integration and DataOps. Prior, he held executive positions at Datawatch, IBM, Oracle and Progress Software where he was responsible for identifying and launching solutions across a variety of emerging markets including cloud computing, real-time data streaming, federated data and e-commerce.

Chandana Gopal is Research Director for IDC's Future of Intelligence market research and advisory practice. Her core research coverage includes factors that influence enterprise intelligence such as technologies such as artificial intelligence, business intelligence, and data intelligence and cultural elements such as data literacy and knowledge sharing. Based on her background in integration and analytics, her research includes a particular emphasis on how organizations can build enterprise intelligence and use it as a competitive differentiator and growth accelerator.

Sharad is a data & analytics thought leader, strategic thinker, and technologist specializing in GenAI, Data Products / Data Mesh, Data Integration, Data Governance and Cloud. In his current role as Field CTO for Data in Americas at Qlik, Sharad Kumar is responsible for technical leadership, customer engagement, sales support, and providing input and feedback to product development around Qlik’s diverse portfolio of data integration and data quality products. Sharad brings over three decades of extensive experience in the technology sector, with a predominant focus on Data and Cloud solutions. Prior to joining Qlik, Sharad was the founder of Mozaic Data, pioneering the development of an innovative Data Product Experience platform designed to enable organizations to build, secure, govern, deploy, and manage domain-centric data products in the cloud. Prior to that, as Global CTO of Accenture’s Data & AI group, Sharad worked with some of the largest data-driven customers assisting them with their data strategy and transformation to Cloud.