Welcome
Christian Geckeis - General Manager DACH, Informatica
Greg Hanson - Vice President EMEA-LA Sales Specialists, Informatica

We are rapidly moving to a data-driven economy, where digital transformation and the journey to the cloud has been greatly accelerated. To succeed in this new landscape, you need to become an intelligent data enterprise by leveraging the power of cloud and AI to manage and govern data at scale. In this session, you’ll be inspired to treat data as your platform for innovation, analytics, and operational excellence.

In today’s fast-moving and consumer-demanding world, data empowers enterprises to automate complex business processes and thrive in this digitally connected ecosystem. Join product experts as they take you on a journey to the cloud by sharing market-leading innovations on Informatica’s Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC). You’ll hear about how AI-powered 360 apps, hyperautomation, cloud analytics, and intelligent data governance can power your most critical business initiatives at scale.

The Data Expert Talk
Moderator: Greg Hanson - Vice President EMEA-LA Sales Specialists, Informatica

Join us for an interesting and entertaining panel discussion with our platinum partners and customers about industry trends, customer use cases for data innovation and intelligence.

Deloitte and Snowflake with Zalando
Andre Hellwig - Senior Principal Engineer, Zalando
Tatjana Wiebusch - Partner, Lead Data Modernization & Analytics, Deloitte
Harald Erb - Principal Sales Engineer, Snowflake

Accenture and Microsoft
Alexej Freund - Head of Data Architecture and Management ASG Region, Accenture
Andrey Zaychikov - CTO Data & AI EMEA, Microsoft

Women in Data Lunch with Panelists from Carl Zeiss, DEKRA & Zalando
Moderation: Amber Hamilton - Global GVP Industry Sales & GTM, Informatica
Lara Sophie Bothur - Voice for Innovation, Deloitte
Elena Boshkovska - Product Owner Data Cataloging and Metadata Operations, Carl Zeiss
Mapi García - Head of MDM, DEKRA
Cheri Julian - Senior Data Product Manager, Zalando

Digital business proved its value during the pandemic, and now companies want to accelerate digitalization to ensure their enterprises can thrive in a volatile business climate. Hear from Informatica product experts about market trends and best practices for these critical data management initiatives to empower digital business including a live demo of our latest MDM portfolio offerings.

Breakout 2: Modern Data Architectures
Dr. Martin Hebach - Senior Solutions Architect, Informatica

Explore the best approaches to data architecture, including data fabric and data mesh, that address your organization’s current and future needs.
Customer Panelist: Martin Ebert - Engineering Lead, Zalando

Breakout 3: Mapping The Journey from PowerCenter to Cloud
Lars Platzek - Data Expert Data Management, Capgemini
Michael Menzel - Data Expert Data Management, Capgemini

For nearly two decades, Informatica’s PowerCenter enterprise data platform has been a trusted solution for on-premises data integration and management, enabling the shift to data warehouses, improving master data management while setting the stage for more robust analytics and rigorous data governance. As data gravity shifts to the cloud, PowerCenter’s role as the backbone of an enterprise analytics environment is supplanted by something even more powerful. Customers are now migrating their data estates to cloud native, Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services (IICS). Join this session to learn how together Informatica and Capgemini can offer a flexible and comprehensive cloud modernization solution for PowerCenter that ensures successful cloud migration while lowering costs and risks.

Hear how the latest innovations in cloud integration, hyperautomation, and analytics empower developers, data scientists and data analysts to reduce complexities and modernize to the cloud.

Breakout 2: MDM Customer Best Practices
Join product experts to learn how cloud-native MDM delivers trusted views of your most critical data assets with enterprise scale and agility.

Featured Customers:
ALDI SOUTH: Delivering One of the Largest PIM Projects in Retail
Christoph Tembrink - Global Product Information Management Service, ALDI SOUTH Group
Katharina Auinger - Global Product Information Management Service, ALDI SOUTH Group

ALDI SOUTH is going to be one step AHEAD in future. In our global transformation project an international team is developing the overarching umbrella of high quality product information to bring customer experience to the next level.

Hoffmann Group: First data homework, then data-driven decisions.
Stefan Kurz - Senior Director Digital Transformation, Hoffmann Group

In his first-hand experience report, Stefan Kurz, Senior Director Digital Transformation at the Hoffmann Group, highlights the essential steps that make credible and data-driven decisions possible. Along the disciplines of data quality, data governance and master data, Stefan Kurz illustrates how Hoffmann is approaching its journey to ultimately make decisions in real time in the future.

Meier Tobler
Andreas Drees - CIO, Meier Tobler AG

Breakout 3: Retail Industry Think-Tank with Google
Greg Hanson - Vice President EMEA-LA Sales Specialists, Informatica
Erik Mueller - Industry Lead Retail & CPG, Google
Dino Bukvic - Customer Engineer, Data Specialist, Google

Join your peers in the retail industry for an interactive discussion on cloud data management best practices, pitfalls to avoid and key business drivers.
Customer Panelist: Daniel Lubos - Group Head of Data & Science, SIGNA Sports United GmbH

Hear how the latest innovations in data governance empower data consumers to find, understand, trust and access relevant data for their business priorities.

Breakout 2: Customer Best Practices
Hear how leading organizations are recognizing value from cloud data management.

Featured Customer: enercity's fast track to the cloud: MetaKraftwerk - DWH Automation for Informatica
Dr. Frank Kurp - Project Manager Digital Business Engineering, enercity AG
Daniel Feidieker - BI Architect, integration-factory
Til Sander - Lead Developer, MetaKraftwerk

Rapid changes in the energy markets and regulations make implementation speed for projects a crucial issue.
Learn how enercity takes advantage of Informatica Data Management Cloud, radically reduces implementation effort and gets new applications up and running in record time.

Future Cloud Masking Strategies
Yuan Gao - Senior Consultant, Informatica
Thom Schulte - Solution Architect, Archive Solution Providers GmbH

In context of the IDMC platform customers want to leverage the capabilities of IDMC as Informatica Intelligent „Masking“ Cloud. With this approach customers can retain context, form and integrity while ensuring data security and privacy on on-premise and Cloud Test Environments to cover GDPR / EUDSG-VO requirements.

Breakout 3: Accelerate your B2B to D2C shift with the MDM Customer Golden Record
Dominik Nägele - Industry Lead Automotive, Informatica
Martina Deffner - CEO, Striped Giraffe Innovation & Strategy

In this session we will discuss how companies can accelerate their shift from Business-to-Business to Direct-to-consumer with a customer golden record, based on examples from the automotive Industry.

Inspirational Keynote: AI Ecosystems, Quantum Computing and Data – Current Status and Impact for Tomorrow
Olly Salzmann - Chief Strategy & Growth Officer, KI Park
Georg Gesek - CTO, QMware

The impact of AI Ecosystems and Quantum Technology will be huge for all industries. In their captivating keynote, Olly Salzmann from KI Park and Georg Gesek from QMware will share great insights about future trends and how companies are already using Quantum Machine Learning for competitive advantage.