MEDIA ALERT: Tableau Conference on Tour London Marks Fifth Annual Customer Event for Europe

Tableau today kicked off its fifth annual customer conference in Europe with Tableau Conference on Tour London. More than 600 data enthusiasts will gather for two days of keynote presentations, hands-on training sessions, and more than 70 presentations from Tableau customers, partners, and leadership.

Tableau’s Vice President for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, James Eiloart, and Vice President of Product Management, Francois Ajenstat, will deliver an opening keynote session including a sneak peek at the company’s upcoming product release, Tableau 9.1, and announce its intentions to open a data centre in the EU to support its ongoing efforts to expand globally and help customers do analytics in the cloud.

“We’re thrilled to bring Tableau Conference on Tour to London, marking our fifth annual customer event in Europe,” said Eiloart. “This event brings together analytically minded people from every industry and corner of Europe. We’re especially excited to debut some of the features that will be included in Tableau 9.1 and announce our plans to open a data centre to support our cloud customers in the EU.”

Tableau 9.1 will be available later in Q3 and will include new features for the enterprise to more easily manage deployments, to help people connect to data whether it’s on premises or in the cloud, make drag and drop analytics even easier and a completely redesigned mobile app.

Other featured keynote speakers include:

• Dr. Hannah Fry, Mathematician, University College London Centre for Advanced Spacial Analysis
• Dr. Ben Goldacre, Doctor, academic, campaigner, and writer, Bad Science
• Dr. John Medina, molecular biologist and author of “Brain Rules”

More than 5,000 companies and organizations in the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region use Tableau for fast, visual analytics, in industries including government, retail, education, healthcare, and more. The UK represents Tableau’s second-largest number of customer accounts in the EMEA region.

View the full agenda for Tableau Conference on Tour: London, at http://ontour15.tableau.com/London and join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #data15.

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