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Take your data journey to the next level

What is a KNIME DataHop?

DataHop is KNIME’s roadshow event where data teams spotlight real, large-scale data and AI use cases that they brought to their organizations. Each DataHop includes AI workshops and networking.

This is an in-person event only.

 

About KNIME

 

KNIME makes data and AI accessible to everyone through its free analytics platform. Organizations use KNIME’s cloud and enterprise tools to collaborate, automate, and scale data science and AI—securely, transparently, and efficiently. Trusted by 400+ companies and half a million users, KNIME supports the full analytics lifecycle as well as predictive and agentic AI.


 
Speakers

 

At DataHop Dallas, you will hear from an impressive lineup of speakers coming from a variety of industries, occupations, and expertise. These data professionals will share how low-code data science with KNIME has allowed them to gain more insight from their data and work more efficiently.
More speakers to be announced soon.
 
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Mohd Iqbal Wani

Mckinsey & Company
Product Manager
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Arpit Shah

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
Executive Director - Data Analytics - Internal Audit
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Deepshikha Shekhawat

AMD
Business Intelligence Program Manager
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Cory Massey

Greene Tweed & Co
Senior Manager of Product Engineering and Simulation
Michael Berthold

Michael Berthold

KNIME
CEO & Co-Founder
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Mohd Iqbal Wani

Mckinsey & Company

Mohd (Mohammad) Iqbal Wani is a Product Manager at McKinsey & Company, with experience from infrastructure management to product management, leading KNIME and other BI platforms. He brings the same teamwork he shows on the soccer field to driving data innovation.
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Arpit Shah

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

Arpit Shah heads Data Analytics and Innovation in Internal Audit at DTCC, where he leads a dynamic team in driving audit excellence through innovative methodologies and forward-thinking strategies. With 20+ years of experience in audit analytics and technology at Fortune 500 companies, Arpit has helped redefine audit processes to achieve impactful results and meaningful change. His expertise in creative problem-solving and actionable strategies has set new benchmarks in the field, earning recognition for his contributions to audit innovation. Arpit is passionate about empowering audit professionals to elevate their functions and drive excellence, making him a valuable voice in the industry. 
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Deepshikha Shekhawat

AMD

Deepshikha Shekhawat, Business Intelligence Program Manager at AMD, FIETE, journal/technical research paper reviewer and IEEE Senior Member, is a renowned data strategy speaker and recognized expert in semiconductor supply chain & operations, manufacturing, and business intelligence. Holding a Master’s degree in Information Technology and Management from The University of Texas at Dallas (with a 3.97 GPA and double Dean’s Excellence Scholarship), she is also PMP-certified.

With over 14 years of experience at Fortune 500 companies like AMD, Applied Materials, and Accenture, she has driven major efficiencies via strategic automation, reducing manual reporting, component search time, and accelerating product development. Her predictive analytics initiatives have delivered upto10% procurement savings and implemented a supplier collaboration vault to enable one-off critical file transfers with vendors, under heightened security to maintain data security and integrity.
Her leadership in business continuity, supplier performance, and operational data integration has transformed decision-making across the semiconductor industry into a real-time, insight-driven process, paving the way for resilien tsupply chains. 
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Cory Massey

Greene Tweed & Co

Cory Massey has been using KNIME AP for 8 years and driving KNIME Business Hub integrations at Greene Tweed for 4 years as the Operational Technologies Manager and as the Manager of Product Engineering and Simulation. As the operational technologies manager, Cory was responsible for the engineering team integrating the company’s industrial controls, SCADA, and MES applications where KNIME played a critical role in blending and transforming machine data becoming a cornerstone of the company’s Smart Factory strategy. 
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Michael Berthold

Michael Berthold

KNIME

Michael Berthold is co-founder and CEO of KNIME, the open analytics platform used by thousands of data experts around the world. Michael has co-authored two successful data analysis text books and is a frequent speaker at both academic and industrial conferences. If time permits he still builds workflows.
What to expect

Hear from the KNIME Team to learn about the latest product offerings and enhancements.

Hear customer use cases, the challenges and opportunities others are experiencing, and important industry trends in data science, analytics, GenAI, and more.

Join this hands-on workshop to explore GenAI and Agentic systems by building a KNIME-based “Ask me Anything” Agent—with paths for all skill levels.

End the day by mingling with peers and unwinding with hors d'oeuvres.

Previous Events

Visit our on-demand video page to explore a wide range of talks from our previous DataHop events.

Amsterdam, Toronto, Singapore, Boston, London, Frankfurt, Munich, New York, Cincinnati 

 
Workshop: Agentic AI

 

Attend the Workshop during the morning session.
Save your seat when registering.

During this hands-on workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of GenAI and Agentic systems and how to implement an “Ask me Anything” Agent in KNIME. You will work with workflow-based low-code tool KNIME Analytics Platform, and LLMs using the KNIME AI Extension.
 
Without any coding experience, you’ll be able to take part in this workshop by choosing the path that best matches your skill level:
  • Build a simple data analytics tool (without AI) - for beginners
  • Build an intelligent tool (with AI) - for intermediate users
  • Implement an AI agentic system that dynamically uses the tools - for advanced users
Please bring your laptop with KNIME Analytics Platform and the KNIME AI Extension already installed. Access to an LLM will be provided.
 

Agenda: 

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Location
 
The location of KNIME DataHop Dallas will be Sandman Signature Plano Frisco Texas Hotel.
 
Address: 8451 Parkwood Boulevard, Plano TX 75024 USA.
 
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Jennifer Ostyn

Senior VP Revenue US at KNIME

Michael Berthold is co-founder of KNIME, the open analytics platform used by thousands of data experts around the world. He is currently president of KNIME.com AG and a professor at Konstanz University, where his research interests include bisociative data analysis and widening of mining algorithms. Previously he held positions in both academia (Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley) and industry (Intel, Tripos). Michael has co-authored two successful data analysis text books and is a frequent speaker at both academic and industrial conferences. If time permits he still writes code.

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Kyle Thompson

Scientific Content Engineer at CAS

Kyle Thompson is a Scientific Content Engineer at CAS, a Division of the American Chemical Society. As a trained biochemist, he has spent 11 years at CAS building databases, creating custom solutions for customers, and performing data analysis. He has been using KNIME since 2019, and in that time he has become KNIME L1-L3 Certified as well as being part of the inaugural Train the Trainer program. He lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and 2 kids.

 
Speakers

 

Each DataHop features a lineup of KNIME users presenting their use cases, challenges, and/or initiatives. Speakers have a range of domain expertise and come from a variety of professions. Internal KNIME experts will also be at these events, presenting their own use cases, sharing industry insights, running workshops, and more.
 
Below are some speakers from recent DataHops. You can also check out the on-demand pages to view presentations from the events in Munich and New York.
Michael Berthold

Michael Berthold

KNIME
CEO & Co-Founder
Margaux Borgmann

Margaux Borgmann

AUDI
Data Analyst
Simon Herzog

Simon Herzog

AUDI
Data Analyst
Maxim Rube

Maxim Rube

Siemens Healthineers
Service Owner / Product Owner
Sandra Baumann

Sandra Baumann

Siemens Healthineers
Data Scientist
Philipp Kowalski

Philipp Kowalski

SIEMENS
Digital Enablement Agent
Ulrich Wagner

Ulrich Wagner

WIMEX
CEO
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Dr. Michael Wolff

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Partner thaltegos
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Michael Berthold

Michael Berthold

KNIME
Michael Berthold is co-founder and CEO of KNIME, the open analytics platform used by thousands of data experts around the world. Michael has co-authored two successful data analysis text books and is a frequent speaker at both academic and industrial conferences. If time permits he still builds workflows.
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Margaux Borgmann

Margaux Borgmann

AUDI
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Simon Herzog

Simon Herzog

AUDI

Current Position: Data Analyst in Production & Logistics at Audi Neckarsulm


Education: Bachelor Business Informatics DHBW Mosbach, Master Big Data & Business Analytics FOM Stuttgart.


Experience: Dual Studies at Audi Neckarsulm, Audi Global Intern in Beijing, Supply Chain Manager during Covid and semiconductor-crisis, project management, Data Science, applied AI and Machine Learning for supply chain use-cases”
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Maxim Rube

Maxim Rube

Siemens Healthineers

Maxim Rube: Driving Data-Driven Automation and Analytics at Siemens Healthineers AG with KNIME

Leading the Global Automation & Analytics Service with KNIME at Siemens Healthineers AG, I'm passionate about revolutionizing how businesses harness data for transformative growth. With a track record of success in consulting diverse business stakeholders across Siemens, I bring a wealth of expertise to the table.

In my role, I spearhead initiatives aimed at democratizing data-driven Automations and Analytics, empowering businesses to thrive in the digital age. From consultation to execution, my team and I are committed to delivering impactful solutions tailored to specific business needs.

With multiple years of experience under my belt, I understand the intricate dynamics of navigating data projects, ensuring seamless project management and delivery every step of the way.

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Sandra Baumann

Sandra Baumann

Siemens Healthineers

Sandra Baumann: Excited to embark on my journey as a Trainee in Data Science!

As a part of the global KNIME initiative at Siemens Healthineers AG, I'm leveraging my passion for analytics and problem-solving to drive insights and innovations through data-driven projects in different business areas.

Equipped with a solid foundation in marketing, data analysis and machine learning, as well as experience in handling various datasets - from medical images to business data - I'm working hands-on on our internal customer’s challenges to uncover actionable insights that drive business growth and transformation.

As a Trainee in Data Science, I'm committed to continuous learning and growth, staying abreast of the latest trends and technologies in the field to deliver cutting-edge solutions that make a difference for healthcare delivery
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Philipp Kowalski

Philipp Kowalski

SIEMENS

Philipp is a Digital Enablement Agent at Siemens, optimizing procurement through digitization, using no-code/low-code tools. With over 20 years of experience in this field, he is also an experienced trainer. He runs ProcurementZen, a blog and YouTube channel about best practices in digitization for finance professionals
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Ulrich Wagner

Ulrich Wagner

WIMEX

Studied economics in Regensburg, Germany. Starts the career after the reunification of East-Germany with a farm business near Leipzig. Build up the WIMEX group together with his father and a CEO college. Shareholder and CEO of the WIMEX group. The group works in the field of poultry breeding, vegetable farming and trading, arable farming, feed production, renewable Energy with biogas, PV and wind, IT-Solutions and Start-ups in Smart farming and Food-tech

Honorary work:

Chairman of the DLG Committee on Farm Management

Member of DLG-Main Committee Agriculture

Workgroup member of the Committee Banks and Insurances

Senator in the Senate of economy

Chairman of the Board Banat Agro Romania
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Dr. Michael Wolff

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Michael is co-founder and partner of thaltegos, a Munich-based management consultancy focusing on Data Analytics & AI. thaltegos combines strategic expertise and analytical methodology to create integrated solutions and innovative business models along the data value chain.
 
thaltegos is a KNIME certified business partner and co-host of the KNIME DataHop. 
 
Workshops

 

Each DataHop will have the following workshops as part of the agenda.

 

Workshop 1: Discover KNIME Analytics Platform 5.2: An introductory workshop

What to expect:

  • Explore KNIME: Familiarize yourself with the interface and navigation of the KNIME Analytics Platform.
  • Data Literacy Basics: Extract and share significant insights from data.
  • First KNIME Workflow: Build your own workflow hands-on, with data access, cleaning, transformation, and visualization.

What to bring:

  • Laptop with KNIME AP 5.2 installed

Workshop 2: Automating & productionizing your first workflow with KNIME Business Hub

What to expect:

  • Explore KNIME Business Hub: Getting to know the concepts and features of KNIME Business Hub.
  • Deployments: Put your first workflow into production.
  • Collaboration: Share your work with colleagues.

What to bring:

  • Laptop with KNIME AP 5.2 installed
 
 Agenda

 

DataHop agendas are designed to make it easy for attendees to join for the day, and all have a similar structure as follows. Detailed, location-specific agendas can be found on the actual registration page.
 
9:30 - 10:15 AM: Check-in and morning tea
 
10:30 - 12:00 PM: Workshops
 
12:00 - 1:15 PM: Lunch, networking, workflow doctor
 
1:15 - 2:45 PM: First round of presentations
 
2:45 - 3:00 PM: Afternoon tea break
 
3:00 - 4:50 PM: Second round of presentations, panel session, closing remarks
 
4:50 - 6:00 PM: Networking reception (and workflow doctor)
 

 

 

 
Frequently Asked Questions

 

Here’s everything you need to know.
Who should attend this event?

Whether you're experienced with KNIME and data science or just starting to think about an enhanced analytical journey for your team, KNIME DataHop is perfect for anyone who wants to take their data journey to the next level.

Is this an in-person event only?

Yes, the KNIME DataHop is an on-site event only and won't be streamed. This is great way to meet your peers, stay up to date on the latest software news, learn about inspiring KNIME stories, and exchange ideas with the KNIME team and community.

Will the sessions be recorded?

Yes, we will be recording selected sessions. Videos and materials will be sent to all registered attendees a few days after the event.

Can I purchase multiple tickets?

There is a limit of 10 tickets per registrant. If you would like to register a larger group, please email events@knime.com.

In which language will the event be held?

The entire event will be held in English.