An IBM Planning Analytics and Cognos Community Event
November 18, 2020 | 10am-2pm (ET)
Thank you for participating in our live event on November 18th. All sessions are available for replay until February 2021 and can be viewed on demand HERE. We're looking forward to seeing you at our next IBM Planning Analytics and Cognos Community Event!
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In a time of uncertainty, only resilient businesses will emerge from disruption even stronger. Join this one-day virtual event to learn how AI-infused planning and analytics solutions can help enhance business continuity, reduce risk from emerging threats, and help you prepare for and manage disruption.
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Register today and discover how to:
· Improve accuracy with predictive forecasting
· Breathe new life into data with powerful visualizations
· Accelerate data prep and data exploration with AI capabilities
· Evaluate potential impact with what-if scenario modeling
10 Expert speakers
8 Sessions
1:1 Executive meetings
Analytics help desk
Who Should Attend
Use IBM Planning Analytics or Cognos
Use spreadsheets for planning & analysis
Manage plans, budgets, or forecasts
Provide insights on business performance
Want to get more from your organization’s data
If you...
...then this event is for you
Whether you’re spending your time reconciling spreadsheets or using a more advanced tool for planning and analytics, this event will help you learn about the latest IBM analytics software that takes advantage of AI and Natural Language Processing.
Why Attend?
Learning platform for
developers and business users
1-Day virtual
conference
Engaging Content Eight 30-Min Sessions
No Cost Free to attend
See the latest product roadmaps
Excellent value for developers and business users
10 industry speakers
Speakers
Keynote Speaker
David Marmer
Vice President, IBM Planning Analytics, Cognos and Regtech
IBM
Expert Talks
Chris McPherson
Program Director, Offering Management, IBM Cognos Analytics
IBM
Mike McGeein
Program Director, Offering Management, IBM Planning Analytics
IBM
Brad D. Molzen
Data and AI Technical Consultant
IBM
Rikke Jacobsen
Chief Executive Officer & Partner at CogniTech A/S
CogniTech A/S
Bill Primerano
Data Science & Business Analytics Technical Solution Lead
IBM
Arthur Sitaramayya
Program Director - Enterprise Performance Management, Finance and Operations
IBM
Rachel Su
Senior Offering Manager, IBM Cognos Analytics
IBM
Yasmine Taha
User Experience Designer, Cognos Analytics
IBM
Sandeep Dessai
Lead Offering Manager, Enterprise Performance Management,
David Marmer is the Vice President, Offering Management, Analytics Solutions responsible for developing new analytics applications for the areas of assets & operations, customer and finance. In this role Dave leads product and portfolio management and the go-to-market strategy through IBM’s various channels.
Mike McGeein
Michael McGeein is a Program Director, leading the Planning Analytics Offering Management Team. Currently he is focused on delivering the Planning Analytics offering, both in the cloud and on-premises. His 10+ years’ experience as a product manager, heavily involved in end user reporting and analytics, and FP&A. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA), and has worked in analytics product development for more than 20 years.
Arthur Sitaramayya
Aruthur is the Program Director for Enterprise Performance Management, Finance and Operations with IBM.
Sandeep Dessai
Software Business Leader, Innovator, Strategist, Brand Advocate with a passion for launching and commercializing software products and offerings via Direct and Channel Partner routes.
Chris McPherson
Chris leads a team of Offering Managers responsible for the Cognos Analytics product. Chris joined Cognos in 2005 and held a number of senior technical roles in Customer Support before joining IBM through the acquisition of Cognos in 2008. Shortly after the acquisition, he joined the Offering Management team to lead the metadata and modelling tools group and over the years has had responsibility for many areas of the product and business, including Data Access, ETL, APIs, Dynamic Cubes, and the Business Partner Channel. He is based in Ottawa, Canada, the R&D headquarters for Cognos Analytics.
Bill Primerano
Bill is a Data Science & Business Analytics Technical Solution Lead with IBM.
Brad D. Molzen
Brad is the Worldwide Technical Sales Leader for Data & AI at IBM, specializing in AI infused offerings such as Cognos Analytics. His breadth of analytic skills started early in his career due to his learning trajectory that focused around two concepts: How businesses use data to affect positive change, and the platforms and solutions that support that use across the organization. By leveraging capabilities from Business Analytics, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence his primary passion at IBM is to help corporations with their own innovative data and analysis strategies during their journey to AI, where success can be measured by the positive impact to the business.
Rachel Su
Rachel Su is a Senior Offering Manager for Cognos Analytics. She has over 10 years of experience in different areas of Cognos. She is passionate about analyzing the market landscape, as well as transforming and modernizing Business Intelligence. She also has proven track record of delivering advance product features.
Rikke Jacobsen
Rikke is the CEO of CogniTech A/S, a Danish consulting company offering solutions for data warehousing, business intelligence, budgeting and forecasting, financial consolidation, AI, and machine learning. Rikke has worked with IBM Cognos Analytics and other products in IBM’s Analytics Portfolio for more than 20 years, and she still gets excited about the prospect of helping her clients make sense of their data.
Yasmine Taha
Yasmine is a User Experieince Designer for Cognos Analytics with IBM.
