John Thompson is an international technology executive with over 30 years of experience in building and growing technology companies. Most recently, John led the advanced analytics business unit of the Dell Software Group. Mr. Thompson's technology expertise includes all aspects of advanced analytics and information management, including descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics, analytical applications, deep learning, cognitive computing, big data, data warehousing, business intelligence systems, and high performance computing. John has built start-up organizations from the ground up, and he has reengineered business units of Fortune 500 firms to reach their potential. He has directly managed and run sales, marketing, consulting, support and product development organizations.

Shawn Rogers is Director of Global Marketing and Channels at Statistica software. Shawn is an internationally recognized thought leader, speaker, author and instructor on the topics of IoT, big data, analytics, cloud, data integration, data warehousing and social analytics. Shawn has more than 20 years of hands-on IT experience. Prior to joining Statistica he was Chief Research Officer at Dell's Information Management Group, and was formerly Vice President of Research for Business Intelligence and Analytics at Enterprise Management Associates, a leading analyst firm. He co-founded the BeyeNETWORK, a global online publication covering business intelligence, data warehousing, and analytics. He was also a partner at DMReview magazine.