KNIME DataConnect Budapest: Accelerating Finance Analytics and Productivity

Next edition of KNIME Data Connect: Budapest will be on June 4, 2024.

After the successful KNIME DataConnect in Budapest this April, we’re excited to announce our next event on June 4th!
Join us for an evening of insightful presentations, networking, and the opportunity to connect with fellow KNIME enthusiasts.

Agenda:

• 18:45 - 19:00: Gate Opens
• 19:00 - 19:15: Introduction to KNIME and the KNIME For Finance Collection - Claudia Strauss
• 19:15 - 19:45: Understanding Financial Performance: Mastering Bank Reconciliation with KNIME - Elisabeth Richter
• 19:45 - 20:00: Short Break
• 20:00 - 20:30: Enhancing Personal Effectiveness with KNIME Automations - Bertold Balázs
• 20:30 - onward: Networking

Presentations:

19:00 - 19:15
Claudia Strauss
Partner Manager for EMEA and APAC at KNIME

Introduction to KNIME and the KNIME For Finance Collection
Claudia will introduce KNIME and the "KNIME For Finance" collection, a suite of solutions designed to accelerate analytics transformations in finance departments.

Bio:
Claudia Strauss is a Partner Manager at KNIME with a focus on managing Partners in Europe as well as emerging markets in Southeast Asia. Besides that, she is in charge of recruiting, onboarding and enabling new partners to grow KNIME's footprint around the world.
On a personal side, she is a former collegiate tennis player who is now enjoying playing Padel and an air hockey enthusiast.

19:15 - 19:45
Elisabeth Richter
Data Scientist/Data Science Publisher a KNIME

Understanding Financial Performance: Mastering Bank Reconciliation with KNIME

Rule number one in accounting: Always be aware of your company’s financial performance. So, you basically want to understand precisely where your money is coming from and going to, and you need to make sure that the numbers in the respective records are correct and in agreement.
The process of comparing two sets of records is called Reconciliation and it is a common accounting procedure. This presentation focuses on one type of Reconciliation – Bank Reconciliation – which compares a company’s internally recorded transactions with the transactions recorded externally by the bank. You will learn:

• what bank reconciliation is and why it is important for businesses,
• how to create a bank reconciliation statement,
• how to semi-automate bank reconciliation with KNIME and how to transform it into a shareable Data App, and
• the advantages of using KNIME for financial tasks.

Bio:
Elisabeth Richter is part of the Evangelism team at KNIME and works as a Data Scientist with a particular focus on the books published under the KNIME Press. Besides that, she engages with the KNIME community on social media and in presentations, workshops, and events both online and onsite. She holds a master’s degree in Social and Economic Data Science from the University of Konstanz, Germany.

20:00 - 20:30
Bertold Balázs
Managing Consultant at IFUA Horváth Management Consultants

Enhancing Personal Effectiveness with KNIME Automations

Discover how KNIME automations can streamline and simplify everyday tasks, enhancing personal effectiveness. I'll share practical examples of how these tools have made my life easier, including:

• Scraping real estate prices daily and sending a PDF summary every Sunday
• Ensuring I record my daily work activities, essential for my consulting role
• Collecting local dental prices from online price lists
• Creating secure backups of my files
• Many more

Bio:

As a Managing Consultant at IFUA Horváth Management Consultants, Bertold is responsible for delivering enterprise-level BI solutions for various industries. Bertold has over seven years of experience in BI consulting, including SAP BO Business Intelligence, SAP Analytics Cloud, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Power BI, QlikView, QlikSense, Power Query and KNIME (other knowledge: SQL, VBA, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
His core competencies are BI architecture, data visualization, data modeling, and ETL tools. He has contributed to the implementation and support of several BI systems, the formation of future BI strategy and roadmap, and the holding of tool trainings for multiple clients.

If you’re interested in the direction KNIME is heading, exploring what’s possible with the platform, or meeting others who are using it, secure your place now!

Welcome drinks and beverages are on us again!
See you there!