About the event

Olivia Duane Adams is one of the few female founders who have played a pivotal role in fostering female entrepreneurship within the tech sector. This special guest lecture will focus on Olivia’s journey in founding, growing, and taking Alteryx public, as well as trends in the analytics industry that are creating new careers.

About Olivia Duane Adams

Olivia is the Chief Advocacy Officer and co-founder of Alteryx. She is also one of only a handful of female founders to take a technology company public, along with her founding counterparts, Dean Stoecker and Ned Harding. Olivia's vision and leadership in the creation of the world’s leading data science and analytics community is a key factor in the company’s 20+ year success. Under Olivia's leadership, the Alteryx Community has grown both on- and offline, serving as an incubator for the workforce of the future and empowering women in business via the Alteryx Women of Analytics initiative.

About Alteryx

Alteryx is a computer software company that generated 495.3 million USD in 2020. The company has over 8300 customers and 2300 employees. Alteryx will be donating data licences to students and staff at Queen’s University Belfast with an estimated value of $15million.

Alteryx provides strategic analytics software for enterprise and SMB companies making critical decisions about how to expand and grow. For the past decade, Alteryx has empowered strategic planning executives to identify and seize market opportunities, outsmart their competitors, and drive more revenue from their current businesses. Alteryx is a desktop-to-cloud platform designed for data artisans and business leaders. It brings together the market insight, location analysis, and business intelligence today’s market requires. Customers such as Walmart, McDonald’s, and AT&T rely on Alteryx.