Design Your Data Fabric for a Successful Data Culture

Noel covers big data, data warehouses, data fabric, data integration, data virtualization, Hadoop, Spark, in-memory, translytical, NoSQL, cloud, ETL, big data integration, data management, data tools, and data security for enterprise architecture professionals. His current focus is on new and emerging markets, modern data architectures, cloud and hybrid cloud deployments.

Karen Madera is a Senior Manager of Product Marketing at Tableau focused on driving storytelling for the platform across markets and bringing the analytics narrative to Salesforce. Her background in brand and corporate strategy span a variety of industries including IT, retail, sports, CPG, travel, financial services, and luxury goods. For the past 5+ years Karen has been living and breathing Data and AI, most recently driving Tableau's entrance into the Data Fabric conversation and leading marketing for data management solutions at Tableau. Karen received her M.B.A from the McCombs School of Business and her B.S. in Advertising and Political Science from The University of Nebraska.

Volker’s teams are responsible for the tools and services that customers rely on to connect to and manage all of their data to Tableau’s analytics platform. This includes Tableau’s broadest and deepest connectivity, Tableau Prep as well as the Tableau Catalog, and Virtual Connections to help customers manage and govern their implementation at scale.