Speaker



Eric Rousseau

Regional Sales Leader, Vertica

My background includes sales and account management for over 30 years in the ICT sector. My experience working with both startups/scale-ups as well as Fortune 500 companies cross-industry helps me work with clients at a strategic level to achieve superior business outcomes. As Regional Sales Leader for Vertica, I advise clients on the right tools to extract maximum value of their data. Vertica is an analytics platform designed for high-performance analytics and powers the world’s most data-driven companies.

Graduated from University of Ghent (Belgium) in 1983 as a civil engineer electronics, also holding an MBA degree in Business Administration and APICS Certified.

Worked for companies like IBM and HP in different sales roles, as a strategic accounts manager, as well as country manager for UK based software company.

Living in Leuven (near Brussels) and married. Hobbies include luxury travels, gastronomic dinners, and studying languages.

Eric Rousseau will be speaking on the following topic:

16:15
Why Change? Why Now? Building a Digital Data-Driven Enterprise

Eric’s presentation talks about the Point of View on how to become a data-driven company and how Vertica has been pivotal in this new economy. Topics covered in the presentation:

  • The New Economy – Enterprises must change or they will die!
  • Barriers to change – organizational and technology
  • Why many Digital Data-driven Initiatives are failing
  • What do new economy leaders do different in terms of data platforms: The Uber model
  • What is Vertica and why is it different
  • Sample customer cases

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