Jason Thompson
Jason is father, chef, bass, piano, uke, and aspiring guitar player.
Jason, along with his business partner Hila Dahan, are the owners of 33 Sticks, a boutique analytics agency that advises some of the largest and most recognizable brands in the world on how to use data to create immensely positive customer experiences. Jason is the author of the analytics children’s book ‘A is for Analytics’, he is an Industry Fellow at East Tennessee State University’s Research Corporation, and is a vocal advocate for creating sustainable analytics solutions.
Iuliana Jackson
I’ve transitioned to digital analytics after working as a product manager for the last 10+ years growing SaaS (Analytics, BI, Cloud, EdTech) and eCommerce businesses. I am passionate about data creation, product ops, and building efficient systems that solve complex problems. Also, I’m a Google Women Techmakers ambassador #WTMAmbassador.
In my spare time, I run a society and culture podcast: Standard Deviation Podcast, and speak at international marketing and analytics conferences or events.
Jim Sterne
Jim Sterne sold business computers to companies that had never owned one in the 1980’s, consulted and keynoted about online marketing in the 1990’s, founded the Marketing Analytics Summit in 2002 and co-founded the Digital Analytics Association in 2004. His twelfth book is Artificial Intelligence for Marketing: Practical Applications.
He is now advising companies managing analysts and teaching the ins and outs of AI and ML to marketers.
Ben Gaines
Ben Gaines is a Director of Product Management for Customer Journey Analytics, part of Adobe Analytics. In this role, he works closely with Adobe customers to understand their needs around cross-channel data and insights, helps guide the product strategy and roadmap, and mentors a team of product managers and technical writers. Along with Blair Reeves, he is the co-author of Building Products for the Enterprise: Product Management in Enterprise Software, available now from O’Reilly Media.
In his spare time, he loves basketball, sushi, and running a Mastodon server. He lives near Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife and four children.
John Cutler
John Cutler is currently a product evangelist at Amplitude where he interacts with diverse product teams and product leaders from around the world. There are few people in the world that have this kind of exposure, and if you follow John’s writing over the last couple of years, I’m sure you can see the influence of this perspective. He has a background in product management and UX research, including B2B SaaS companies Zendesk, Pendo, and AppFolio, and before that B2C, ad-tech, banking, and media. John is a prolific (or some might say obsessive) writer, with almost a thousand posts spread across various newsletters, blogs, and Medium.
His current newsletter is called The Beautiful Mess, and this title captures what John often focuses on the messy overlaps and patterns of product.
Simo Ahava
Simo Ahava is a recognized expert on customizing web analytics and tag management solutions to improve the entire “life cycle” of data collection, processing, and reporting. His main areas of expertise lie with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, and Google has appointed him as a Google Developer Expert in these fields. He is especially interested in communication structures within organizations, as he firmly believes that communication breakdowns are the underlying cause to practically all data-related problems.
Simo is particularly invested in demystifying analytics development work, and his main focus is on increasing awareness, skills, and critical thinking around data and development. Simo is a partner and co-founder at 8-bit-sheep, a digital services boutique. He’s also co-founder (together with Mari Ahava) of Simmer, an online learning platform for technical marketers.
Among other things, Simo writes a popular blog on all things Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager development at www.simoahava.com. An experienced speaker and prolific blogger, Simo can be seen and heard in conferences, product forums, support communities, and developer meet-ups alike.
Doug Hall
Hi, I’m Doug, VP of Data Services and Technology at Media.Monks in EMEA.
Formerly of ConversionWorks, after a decade of growth and excellence, ConversionWorks merged with MightyHive to continue as Senior Director of Analytics for MightyHive in EMEA, currently as VP of Data Services and Technology. Now, with one unified brand, we all fly under the same flag – one team one dream Media.Monks.
My mission is to inform and to entertain.
I’m just one shiny pixel in the bigger picture trying to make a difference.
“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.”
“Never measure the depth of a river using both feet.”
Specialities: Data Strategy, Privacy, Digital Marketing, Google Marketing Platform, public speaking, vegan cuisine. I can still code a bit, but my SQL is lousy and always has been…
Bhavik Patel
Bhav is the Director of Analytics at Hopin, a virtual conferencing platform. In the past, Bhav has managed product analytics and optimisation teams at Gousto, Moo, PhotoBox, News UK and Ladbrokes. Bhav also runs London’s biggest conversion rate optimisation, analytics and product meetup called CRAP Talks.
Tim Ceuppens
Tim is a Data Raconteur. You can take three things from that: He’s all about telling stories with data. He’s very continental (who uses the word Raconteur?). And he’s highly opinionated (Like seriously: who uses the word Raconteur?). Tim writes & speaks about how to be more effective in talking data.
Yehoshua Coren
Yehoshua Coren is the Founder of Analytics Ninja LLC, a digital analytics consultancy which provides implementation, reporting, analysis, conversion optimization, and corporate training services to organizations of all sizes. Yehoshua is looked up to as a subject matter expert by a diverse mix of friends, family, and strangers, and leads a badass team of analytics industry professionals that specializes in helping organizations strategically determine their digital measurement needs and create best in class implementations.
Yehoshua brings to the table a unique mix of advanced technical acumen, deep understanding of business requirements, project management capabilities, and a very amiable personality. While some 3rd party vendors are scared of Yehoshua’s military grade bullshit meter, most people are quickly wooed by his tremendous charm. Yehoshua has been an active member of the digital analytics industry since 2009, and has spoken at a range of different marketing and analytics conferences throughout Europe, North America, and the Middle East including Marketing Analytics Summit, Superweek, CXL Live, SMX, Digital Elite Camp, Marketing Festival, and Google Analytics User’s Conference. An ordained Orthodox Rabbi, husband, and father of 5 children, Yehoshua prefers to use DHL exclusively when shipping items overseas from his permanent residence in holy city of Jerusalem, Israel.
Aurélie Pols
Aurélie Pols designs data privacy best practices: documenting data flows, minimising risk related to data uses, solving for data quality. She spent 18 years optimising digital data-based decision making processes. She co-founded and sold her start-up to Digital LBi (Publicis). Used to following the money to optimise data trails, she follows data to minimise risks, touching upon security practices and ethical data uses. She leads her own consultancy, serves ad DPO for NY based CDP mParticle, was part of the EDPS’ Ethics Advisory Group and today serves the European Commission as one of the experts working on the Observatory of the Online Platform Economy.
Rob Lowe in the West Wing made her move to privacy. The following sequence actually also mentions abortion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnu07o6TtfA
Rick Dronkers
Rick is a Digital Analytics Consultant who has been helping companies turn marketing data into business value for over 15 years. He is the founder of consultancy agency Data to Value and the host of the Life after GDPR podcast about Digital Marketing in a post-GDPR world.
Jim Gordon
Jim Gordon is an industry award-winning consultant with over a decade of experience in analytics. Early in his career, he worked on Satellite (acquired by Adobe) and has since built products used by thousands of practitioners and consultants. While he still practices consulting, his passion has lately revolved around exposing fraud that undermines trust in digital data.
In his spare time he closely follows college football, enjoys grilling, and spending time with his wife and 2 kids.
Penelope Bellegarde
Penelope has 17 year’s digital analytics experience across multiple sectors, including client side and consultancy roles. She
- holds a recent (2018) Machine Learning certification from General Assembly and now builds machine learning prototypes
- is passionate about adding value through delivering actionable data insights and about empowering people through data training programs.
- is highly experienced in the following digital analytics tools: Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Hitwise, Comscore, Google Ads, Google Data Studio, Quid, Python.
Her Day-to-day work includes: data strategy, digital measurement, digital marketing analysis, customer journey analysis, KPIs and measurement frameworks, data coaching/training, data story telling and predictive analytics wit Python.
Tim Wilson
Tim has been working with digital data full-time since 2001 in a variety of roles: from managing a web analytics platform migration and developing analytics processes as the head of the business intelligence department at a $500 million high tech B2B company; to creating and growing the analytics practices at three different agencies that worked with a range of large consumer brands; to consulting with the digital analytics teams at Fortune 500 companies on their strategies, processes, and tactics for effectively putting their digital data to actionable use. Tim is a long-time creator of pragmatic content for analysts and marketers, including co-hosting the bi-weekly Digital Analytics Power Hour podcast (analyticshour.io) and co-creating dartistics.com — a site dedicated to encouraging analysts to learn the R programming language and apply statistical methods to their data.
Tim is physically based in Columbus, Ohio, while his heart and soul maintain joint custody with Austin, Texas.