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Mike Capone

Former Chief Executive Officer, Qlik Technologies Inc. (QlikTech)

Search every verified Mike Capone interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Qlik CEO Mike Capone, who is set to depart the company on July 31, 2026, has given interviews and made public appearances discussing the company's strategy. At the Qlik Connect 2025 conference in Orlando, he outlined the company's vision for AI, which he contrasted with competitors. Capone stated that effective AI implementation requires high-quality data integration, governance, and analytics, and that Qlik's new agentic framework provides end-to-end capabilities across its platform. He said the Qlik Open Lakehouse uses Apache Iceberg technology to deliver AI at a better cost point. In a 2023 interview, Capone discussed the integration of Talend's data quality and transformation capabilities following that acquisition. He has also emphasized the importance of data in navigating "Black Swan events" and has said that the private sector should play a role in governing AI, while acknowledging that a regulatory landscape is needed.

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“AI used to be a novelty, but now, it's really around value creation. Companies are spending a lot of money on AI, and it's a lot of experimentation. And that was fun in the beginning, but now, CFOs are weighing in, and they're saying, 'Where is all this money going? How am I getting value?' So what I hear from customers a lot is, 'Help me achieve value with AI. Help me show some real business results.'”

“I don't believe that, you know, so let's be clear like everything else I think there's degrees of things and I think the world how we interact with technology and software of course it's going to change but you know are cloud software companies like Salesforce like ServiceNow like others be are they going to become irrelevant no I don't I don't believe that but there are investors that are saying you the terminal val”

“The harsh reality is that the advancement of technology, the innovation is always going to outstrip society's ability to regulate it, right? That's just the nature of innovation... So now it falls upon the private sector. It falls upon Qlik honestly and and others, you know, others in the space to be able to actually help our customers grapple with those issues, give them the capabilities and tools to actually govern”

“AI is getting expensive right I think companies are starting to see the uh you know 12 months worth of bills of trying to build out their AI infrastructure and they're saying wow like this is unsustainable and so we have to find the right technology for the right the right use cases.”

“We want customers to really understand what they're paying for and never pay for something they're not using, right? And that's really what capacity pricing is about is getting customers to a place where you pay for what you use.”

“a billion dollars was where SaaS companies go to die and you know, we broken through that and uh and it is because we've been able to stay on top of innovation and really it's everybody's job in the company.”

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