Press Release • November 19, 2020
Alation Announces New York Times Best-Selling Author David Epstein to Keynote RevAlation User Conference
Award-winning journalist and author of Range to discuss the power of network knowledge
Redwood City, Calif. – November 19, 2020 – Alation Inc., the data intelligence company, today announced award-winning journalist and best-selling New York Times author, David Epstein, will keynote its upcoming RevAlation virtual user conference, set to take place on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Epstein will discuss change management and the power of network knowledge.
Epstein has authored two New York Times best-sellers — “Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” and “The Sports Gene,” both of which have been translated to more than 20 languages. Epstein has given talks about performance science and the uses (and misuses) of data on five continents, and his TED Talks have been viewed more than nine million times. Previously, Epstein was a science and investigative reporter at ProPublica, and prior to that, a senior writer at Sports Illustrated. He holds a master’s degree in environmental science and journalism from Columbia University.
“We are excited to welcome David Epstein to our second RevAlation of 2020. Each RevAlation hosts an impressive bench of speakers and provides a forum for our customers to learn from one another and help them foster data-driven cultures,” said Satyen Sangani, CEO and co-founder, Alation. “Our goal is that this melding of minds spawns innovative new ideas and concepts that participants can bring back to their teams to further build and expand upon.”
RevAlation will kick off with presentations from Alation executives Satyen Sangani, co-founder and CEO; Aaron Kalb, co-founder and Chief Data & Analytics Officer; and Raj Gossain, Senior Vice President of Product. The user conference will include breakout tracks, optional Birds of a Feather networking sessions and three main content tracks – Business, Alation @ Work, and Product – where top data and analytics leaders and practitioners, across several industries, will discuss how they are driving data culture and leveraging Alation for faster time to insights, data governance, lineage, and data privacy.
About Alation
Alation delivers an agentic knowledge layer that enables enterprises to achieve business outcomes and grow their most critical asset, knowledge. Global enterprises, including hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies, and organizations like AbbVie, American Family, Cisco, Finnair, Nasdaq, and Sallie Mae partner with Alation to realize hard ROI and business outcomes from data and AI. Alation led the creation of the data catalog market, was named a 2019 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and has been named a five-time leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrants. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, Alation has been recognized five times by Inc. Magazine as one of the Best Workplaces. To learn more, visit https://www.alation.com.