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  • Ingo Hilgefort
    Expert since 2019

    Ingo is an experienced product manager working in the analytics & BI software industry for over 15 years now. He always has been focusing on cross-product solutions and focusing on the "big picture" scenarios by keeping the customer experience and requirements in mind. In addition to his experience in product management and engineering, Ingo has been involved in architecting , deploying, and delivering Enterprise BI wide solutions by combining SAP BusinessObjects BI and SAP Analytics products with SAP landscapes (like SAP ERP, SAP BW, SAP HANA) for a number of worldwide customers. He has also been recognized by the SAP communities as an SAP Mentor for SAP BI and SAP landscape integration-related topics for several years now. In addition Ingo is a very active member in the overall SAP community focusing on the SAP BI portfolio and helping customers and partners successfully deploy this as part of their overall SAP landscape. He is also the author of several additional SAP PRESS and Kindle books focusing on combining SAP Analytics and SAP Data Warehousing Technologies.

  • Akash Kumar

    Akash Kumar is an author, speaker, and techie for emerging and disruptive technology topics with a focus on Intelligent Enterprise. He is currently working as Solution Architect with HCL and supporting new products, services, and offerings on the Industry Cloud. He has supported multiple customers in digital transformation by creating business use cases and technology roadmaps, migrating from old to new technology such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform, and SAP Analytics, implementing new business model on artificial intelligence/machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and blockchain, and enabling business process simplification with Celonis and task automation with robotic process automation. He is the author of PlanViz: Improving SAP HANA Performance (SAP Press) and Building and Extending SAP HANA Live Views (SAP Press). He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and holds numerous certifications, including Scrum Master, Agile, IoT, Devops, SAP HANA, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Activate, and SAP S/4HANA.