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Qonnections Global User and Partner Conference Brings Together the Best of Qlik
Qlik®,
a leader in visual analytics, today announced that the Company is
expecting a record number of attendees to be on hand for Qonnections
2017, its worldwide user and partner conference, being held May
15-18 at The Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando,
Florida. The conference brings together Qlik customers, partners, and
data enthusiasts to help users better capitalize on data to transform
their organizations.
Qonnections 2017 is being headlined by Jason Silva, the Emmy-nominated
host of National Geographic's Brain Games. In addition, Jake
Porway, Founder of DataKind and former New York Times Data Scientist,
will discuss how humanity can benefit from the gains of big data.
Featured speakers include a customer panel moderated by R "Ray" Wang and
best practices from visualization specialists Alberto Cairo and Randy
Olson (News - Alert), with hundreds of customer
and partner presenters from companies like T. Rowe Price, Raymond
James, KitchenAid, and Virgin Mobile (News - Alert) MEA. The complete list can be
viewed at the following link: http://www.qlikqonnections.com/sessions/breakout-sessions/.
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What:
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Qonnections 2017 focuses on providing customers and partners with
the knowledge and best practices they need to transform their
business and support the Qlik visual analytics platform.
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Attendees will discover how they play a transformational role in
Qlik's 2020 strategic vision and roadmap, and will hear how Qlik
is addressing customers' key challenges today while driving future
trends in the market tomorrow. Keynote presentations will
highlight how hybrid cloud analytics will deliver greater option
value to customers,how associative big data indexing will change
how customers drive insight from greater combinations of data, and
how Qlik will advance our portfolio leveraging the latest
technology innovations to drive greater insight from smart
intuitive analytics. Qlik
Sense® and QlikView®
certification exams will also be offered.
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Back by popular demand is the 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 "Change
Our World" partner the United Nations. 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.
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Qlik will also host a Late
Night Lunacy contest to discover 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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The Qonnections Discovery Expo will feature more than 40 sponsoring
partners and exhibitors that will showcase their value-add
solutions and services for Qlik products. Diamond sponsors
include: Arrow
and Cognizant.
Platinum sponsors include: Accenture
Analytics, Analytics8,
Axis
Group, Jedox,
SDG
Group, TimeXtender,
and Wipro.
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When:
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May 15-18, 2017
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The Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center
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Orlando, Florida
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About Qlik
Qlik® is the leading visual 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
40,000 customers globally.
© 2017 QlikTech International AB. All rights reserved. Qlik®, Qlik
Sense®, QlikView®, QlikTech®, Qlik Cloud®, Qlik DataMarket®, Qlik
Analytics Platform®, Qlik NPrinting®, Qlik Connectors®, Qlik
GeoAnalytics™ 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.
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