380 million workflows & counting: How Alteryx is powering enterprise AI

**Tony Clark** (0:03)
This is the London Fintech Podcast, bringing you practical insights and approaches, stories and inspiration from the innovators who are building the new world of financial services.
I'm Tony Clark, I'm a founder CEO of NextWave. I'm also the host of the London Fintech Podcast. So this is a London Fintech Podcast First, streaming live from Money 2020 in Amsterdam in a glass cube. My podcast advisors tell me this should be like a conversation in the pub, but this is the strangest pub I've ever been in, but really looking forward to it. So if you joined us for this session, this is under the AI and the agentic age theme. We're going to be talking about the billion dollar business of AI ready data. And I'm here with Remco den Heijer, who is VP International Channels for Alteryx. Hey Remco.

**Remco den Heijer** (0:50)
Hey Tony, glad to be here.

**Tony Clark** (0:51)
It's good to be here with you. So Alteryx, if anyone doesn't know them, are exhibiting over in the corner of the hall behind us actually. There's somewhere behind a couple of stands. Alteryx is a billion dollar revenue company that's enabling the data foundations that the AI revolution relies on. Alteryx is extensively used to replace legacy data processes with governed version scalable and visible data workflows, which we're going to be talking all about in the next 20 or 30 minutes. And the platform operates seamlessly with the major cloud data platforms. So we're talking Snowflake, Databricks, et cetera, to serve and source AI ready data for the agentic workforce. So there's going to be lots to talk about, but just before we get into it. Remco, good to see you. Is this your first Money 2020?

**Remco den Heijer** (1:35)
It is my first Money 2020, correct. But not my first podcast.

**Tony Clark** (1:40)
Good. Well, we both made it. So I came over from London yesterday and what was supposed to be a three hour trip took the whole day because of cancelled flights. And I know you've been dealing with cancelled trains and things today as well.

**Remco den Heijer** (1:49)
Yes, I was.

**Tony Clark** (1:51)
In the nick of time. So what do you make of it so far? I mean, I've got my 10,000 steps in just doing two laps so far.

**Remco den Heijer** (1:57)
Absolutely massive.
This event is so big. I'm hearing that there's 8,000, 9,000 people here. And yes, I'm trying to speak to a good proportion of them in the next two days.

**Tony Clark** (2:09)
Let's see how we get on. You and me both. And this is in your hometown, so great to be here, right?

**Remco den Heijer** (2:14)
I'm so happy it's here. And it's weird that I haven't been here before at Money2020, even though it's in my hometown.

**Tony Clark** (2:20)
Well, we haven't been to any parties yet, but I haven't. Maybe there's a chance this evening. There's 2,000 firms represented at Money2020, and I was over with the press folks a bit earlier, hearing some of the releases and news updates, and there's so much going on around the floor. So we're doing our bit here to add to all of that, and really want to talk about...

**Remco den Heijer** (2:40)
I guess there's big money in money.

**Tony Clark** (2:42)
There is. There is. So Remco, just before we get into it, a little bit about you, your journey to date, your career journey to date. I know you've come up through big tech and international enterprise prior to taking up the role with Alteryx.

**Remco den Heijer** (2:56)
Yeah. So thanks for asking that. Yeah. My background is indeed data and AI. Been in that business for I think about 30 years now, about nine years at Oracle. I'm a well-known company, of course, and I've been at SAS Institute for about 19 years. Company very well known for advanced analytics, and being kind of the trailblazers in that area.
Recently, the last year and a half, I've been at Alteryx as a VP of International Channels. International Channels means Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific and Japan. So everything but America is kind of like my remit with regards to all the partnerships, the alliances, the ecosystem that we manage that help us grow our business and delight our customers.

**Tony Clark** (3:39)
Yeah, so you're fully in the ecosystem, and you spend much of your time talking to Alteryx's customer base, which is probably no surprise. And that includes many Fortune 500 corporations and many of the firms that are actually at Money 2020, this event as well. How has the conversation with your customers changed with the accelerating pace of AI adoption and really the movement from strategy and buzzword to practical border and priority now?