Sasha Pasulka

Each year, every conference, we are amazed at the caliber and breadth of customer speakers, and this year is no exception. From Hollywood to Vegas, from next-gen cars to disruptive wine distributors, from a one-woman marketing agency to an energy conglomerate, this year's TCC has a customer speaker for every story.

If you don't have your ticket yet for the Tableau Customer Conference in Washington D.C., you're gonna want to pick it up before Friday, when the early bird discount expires. In addition to keynotes by Nate Silver, Charles Wheelan and Tableau's co-founders, we can finally announce some of the Tableau customers who will be speaking at TCC about how they use Tableau in their own companies. Alongside household names like LinkedIn and Wells Fargo, you'll have the chance to hear from small- and medium-sized companies and agencies, including AudienceAudit, Manpower Group and the Broad Institute. Read more for a full list of confirmed customer speakers.

Wow! What an incredible roadshow it's been. While we still have Tableau 8 Tour dates coming up in Europe and Asia-Pacific, we've officially wrapped our North America tour after visiting over 60 cities in two months. In every city, our customers reminded us why we all love working at Tableau -- because we're building great products for brilliant, passionate users. Thanks to everyone who made it out to one of these tour dates. One of the most popular sessions on the tour was the Visual Analytics Best Practices breakout. So many of you requested the slide deck for this session that we decided to just put it online. Keep reading for all the session materials.

At Tableau, we're passionate about helping people see and understand their data -- and that means all people, not just specialists, the IT team or a centralized business intelligence group. It turns out, lots of our customers share that passion, and leaders at organizations across industries have used Tableau as a way to empower self-service business intelligence and data analysis. When subject-matter experts have the tools to directly interact with and explore their data, the results can change a business and inspire a workforce. "People have rekindled their interest in asking questions," says Rishi Kumar from Unilever. Click inside to watch 11 Tableau customers talk about how self-service analytics has changed the way they do business.

Earlier this week, you met the first half of our customer speakers for TCC London. Today, we're excited to announce the rest of them. Read on to "meet" the second half of the TCC London customer speakers.

Tableau is excited to bring our third annual European Tableau Customer Conference to London this June. The conference will be packed with great speakers, hands-on training and networking opportunities, but our customers consistently tell us some of their favorite sessions are the customer speaking sessions. This year will be no exception, as we have a fantastic line-up of Tableau customers who will present sessions on how their teams and their companies are leveraging the power of Tableau. Read on to learn more about some of our great customer speakers. We'll be announcing the rest of the list next week in part 2.

It's been such a great week at Tableau, as we celebrated releasing Tableau 8 out to our customers. We asked you tell us all about your #datewith8, and, as usual, our customers came up with all sorts of ways to share what they were building with Tableau. Read on to see some of our favorite #datewith8 posts.

We're excited to be launching Tableau 8, and we can't wait for all our customers to get their hands on it. With brand-new visualizations, blazing fast speed and, of course, mobile web authoring, Tableau 8 can go everywhere and anywhere. Where will you go with it? What will you do? Give us the scoop on your #DateWith8 on Twitter or on our Facebook page ... we can't wait to hear about it.

It's only mid-February, but we're excited about the customer stories we've seen so far in 2013. It's shaping up to be a great year for people who want to see and understand their data! We've posted lots of new customer stories this year, with plenty more to come in the months ahead. If you're curious to learn how other customers are using Tableau to revolutionize the way their companies -- and their industries -- do business, here are some videos (new in 2013!) that you'll want to check out.