Ieva Iesalniece-Lessing
Sales Director, EMEA at KNIME
Speaking at TFEST26: Tuesday, December 1 2026 at 14:45–15:15 on the Innovation Stage: “Resilience Starts with Data Everyone Trusts: Empowering Supply Chain Teams with Knime”.
Speaking at TFEST26: Wednesday, December 2 2026 at 16:45–17:05 on the Main Stage: “TFEST26 Grand Closing: The Transformation Scorecard and the Transformer Challenge Prizes”. With Maria Villablanca (Future Insights Network).
About Ieva
Ieva Iesalniece-Lessing is Sales Director, EMEA at KNIME, where she leads enterprise sales across Europe and the Middle East. Together with her team, she helps large organizations in the public sector, financial services and life sciences to scale governed, self-service analytics and AI. Before joining KNIME, she spent 15 years at Oracle, most recently as Sales Director Tech Cloud for Enterprise Sales in Germany.
Session Overview
Supply chain teams don't lack tools. They lack numbers everyone agrees on. Planning, procurement, and logistics each run on their own systems, and each system tells its own story. When disruption hits, decisions slow down while teams debate whose forecast is right. Every day of delay shows up in margin, customer commitments, and production. In this session, a data platform leader shares how their organization unified data, people, and technology in one transparent operating model. Supply chain experts solve problems directly. The data team governs every step. Leadership can trace any number back to its source. When the work is visible, decisions move faster. Certainty becomes momentum. You will leave with: - Why resilience depends on seeing the work behind every number, not just the number. - How data teams and supply chain experts can build on the same transparent workflows, with governance built in. - What it takes to make high-stakes decisions you can defend to the board.
About TFEST26
TFEST26 is Europe's most senior supply chain conference, taking place December 1–2 2026 at Colosseum Berlin. It brings together 400+ Director-level and above leaders (Chief Supply Chain Officers, VPs, and senior directors from Cisco, Henkel, Estée Lauder, Diageo, Schneider Electric, Novartis, Mars, and others) for two days of peer benchmarking, candid practitioner firesides, themed roundtables, and pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings.