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Qonnections Global User and Partner Conference Brings the Qlik World TogetherQlik®, a leader in data analytics, today announced that the company is expecting a record number of attendees to be on hand for Qonnections 2018, its worldwide user and partner conference, being held April 23-26 at The Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida. The conference brings together Qlik customers, partners, and data enthusiasts to help users better capitalize on data to transform their organizations.
What: Freakonomics authors Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt will focus on unconventional analysis tactics that business leaders can use to think more rationally, more creatively, and more productively, based on data-driven insights. Data Literacy experts Valerie Logan, Research Director at Gartner (News - Alert) Research and Rahul Bhargava, MIT Media Lab Research Scientist, will speak on the importance of data literacy and the ability of knowledge workers to be able to read, work with, understand and argue with data. Customer and partner presenters will appear from companies like AbbVie, Citigroup, Cloudera, PwC Canada, Raymond James and Shire. The complete list can be viewed at the following link: https://www.qlikqonnections.com/sessions/2018-sessions/. The Qonnections Discovery Expo will feature more than 30 sponsoring partners and exhibitors that will showcase their value-add solutions and services for Qlik products. Diamond sponsors include Cognizant and Jedox. Qlik Hackathon. To allow developers the time to build world-changing apps, Qlik has opened the competition prior to Qonnections. Teams have been presented with several challenges involving Qlik Corporate Responsibility partner C40 Cites to tackle climate change with data from the world's megacities. Developers must use web skills, data and Qlik Sense to achieve new insights and visualizations that best address the challenge. Every Hackathon participant will have access to Qlik® Branch, a collaborative workspace and open exchange, and support from internal Qlik experts moderating the event. Qlik Late Night Lunacy. This contest uncovers the very best app building skills and development talent using Qlik Sense capabilities and functionalities. Contestants will form teams of two, three, or four developer fanatics, demo experts, or app magicians that are ready to push the boundaries on a user adoption business scenario. Each team will be provided access to a set of data and the challenge to create the ultimate self-service data visualization and discovery application app - all within the Late Night Lunacy timeframe.
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Where: Follow the conference as it unfolds on Twitter (News - Alert) via @Qlik and #Qonnections. About Qlik Qlik® is the leading data analytics platform and the pioneer of user-driven business intelligence. Its portfolio of cloud-based and on-premise solutions meets customers' growing needs from reporting and self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics, regardless of where data is located. Customers using Qlik Sense®, QlikView® and Qlik® Cloud, gain meaning out of information from multiple sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania, Qlik does business in more than 100 countries with over 45,000 customers globally. ### © 2018 QlikTech International AB. All rights reserved. Qlik®, Qlik Sense®, QlikView®, QlikTech®, Qlik Cloud®, Qlik DataMarket®, Qlik Analytics Platform®, Qlik NPrinting®, Qlik Connectors®, Qlik GeoAnalytics®, Qlik Core™ and the QlikTech logos are trademarks of QlikTech International AB which have been registered in multiple countries. Other marks and logos mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180319005389/en/ |