Taking Business Agility to the Next Level with In-Memory Computing

Stephen Sabin has been with Deloitte for 12 years and is a senior manager in the Finance Business Process & Analysis group.  Stephen currently leads the Reporting & Analytics program within the Firm’s Finance Transformation. Prior to leading this program, Stephen led the Business Information Center of Excellence.  Stephen has extensive experience in data warehousing, business intelligence, enterprise systems, data transformation & management and analytics.  Stephen has led successful large scale data warehousing initiatives in retailing, financial services and health care at Wal-Mart, First American National Bank, and HCA.

John Irvin has been with Deloitte for 15 years and currently leads Deloitte’s Analytics and Reporting Studio.   The team of over 130 talented professionals provides business intelligence strategy, innovation & application delivery and support services to all functions within the Deloitte US Firm, which includes the Reporting and Analytics thread of the Firm’s Finance Transformation program.   John has extensive experience with a wide-range of business intelligence and data management technologies, including SAP HANA, Tableau, SAP Business Objects BI, SAP Business Objects Data Services, SAP Business Warehouse and QlikView. 

Angela is an Engagement Manager with Deloitte LP based in the greater Nashville area. Angela holds a bachelor of commerce with a major in international business and a minor in marketing. Angela has over 16 years’ of experience in the business intelligence segment specializing in reporting, dashboarding, and analytics. Some of the organizations she has worked for include Business Objects, SAP, Research in Motion and most recently Deloitte. Angela manages a development studio that is responsible for the development of business applications and the maintenance of several BI platforms including Tableau.

Robert joined Tableau in 2012 to drive product innovations that help the average business person visualize their data. Robert has always been fascinated by the art of visualization and organization of large data. He spent many years with Silicon Graphics creating large data visualization solutions and partnerships. Robert also worked for Intel (McAfee division), leading the product team¹s efforts to build consumer security software for PC manufacturers. In his spare time, Robert enjoys tinkering with new technologies (specifically around home automation), drinking good wine and discussing the "what-if" questions that spur innovation for visual analytics.

Ashish Sahu is Director of Product Marketing for SAP HANA Analytics & Advanced Analytics. He is a full-stack enterprise software marketer with more than 11 years of experience working in companies like SAP, Amazon, CheckPoint and Motorola. He has deep expertise in advanced analytics, in-memory computing and big data technologies. Prior to SAP, he launched a data science startup, Wazaap Inc. Ashish has an MBA from Haas, Berkeley and Masters in Information Systems from IIM India.