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Executive Welcome
Jim Kruger, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Informatica

Every organization believes they are ready for AI — but is your data ready? In today’s rapidly evolving frontier of generative AI and predictive analytics, your organization’s readiness to achieve reliable outcomes from AI depends upon building a solid foundation of trusted data that delivers expected business results. 

At the Data and AI Market Insights Summit, you will learn why integrated and unified data management on the Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) is critical to achieving your data and AI strategy at the speed your business demands. Informatica Chief Product Officer, Jitesh Ghai, will kick off the summit and introduce leaders who will share their insights on data management trends. Featured IDMC solutions include Data Integration, iPaaS, Master Data Management and Data Governance along with guests from today’s leading organizations, strategic partners and industry analysts who are defining how a modern data strategy enables you to accelerate business growth and success.

State of Data Management: Convergence, Inversion and Hallucinations
Robert Thanaraj, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner

The current state of data management can be summarized as “getting ready for AI”.. 

 To succeed in this new era, organizations should take advantage of three critical factors. 

1. External market factor: Convergence of capabilities
2. Internal organizational factor: Inversion of metadata practices
3. GenAI as a catalyst and managing AI risks around hallucinations

 Join us to learn how your organization should respond to the current state of data management.

AI-Powered Data Engineering and Integration: Easy, Efficient, Cost-Effective. For Everyone, Everywhere
Chris Eldredge, Vice President, Data Office, Paycor
Jose Tamayo, Vice President, Enterprise Data Analytics & Governance, Televisa Univision
Pratik Parekh, Senior Vice President, Products, and General Manager, Cloud Integration, Informatica
Amol Dongre, Senior Director of Product Management, Informatica

As a data owner, you aim to:

• boost innovation by connecting data at scale.
• make better decisions faster with AI-powered data engineering.
• modernize legacy data.
• develop/deploy predictive AI and GenAI applications swiftly and easily.

Your team of business users, analysts, ETL developers and data engineers require comprehensive coverage for data integration patterns including ELT/ETL, replication, CDC, etc., and support for DataOps/MLOps. You need a highly scalable platform supporting trillions of transactions and millions of API calls daily, serving tens of thousands of users, all at a reasonable cost.

Join our data integration experts and customer leaders to learn how to manage integration lifecycles effortlessly with enterprise-class features, leveraging GenAI copilot for productivity and AI-driven FinOps tools for cloud spend control.

AI-Powered iPaaS to Drive Innovation With No-Code, Enterprise GenAI Apps
Justin Glatz, Chief Information Officer, Petmate
Mo Mirza, Director, Omers
Pratik Parekh, Senior Vice President, Products, and General Manager, Cloud Integration, Informatica
Sumeet Kumar Agrawal, Vice President of Product Management, Informatica

Informatica's AI-powered iPaaS is revolutionizing the landscape of API and app integration, making it easy, efficient and enterprise-grade for everyone, everywhere.

As an application owner, you strive to accelerate innovation by seamlessly connecting data, apps, and people, while also streamlining business processes and modernizing legacy applications in the cloud. Join us as we delve into the world of GenAI-driven integration and automation, where simple, no/low code tools with out-of-the-box connectors empower business users, analysts and developers alike. Learn how unleash the full potential of predictive AI and GenAI applications and integrations by leveraging our scalable platform that can handle billions of events, hundreds of thousands of process runs and millions of API calls daily.

MDM & 360 Applications: Operationalizing GenAI with Master Data Management
Kelly Burling, Vice President of Supply Chain Solutions, Fortune Fish and Gourmet
Carlos Merida, Vice President of Engineering, Architecture and Data, Holiday Inn Club Vacations Inc.
Manouj Shankar Tahiliani, Senior Vice President and General Manager, MDM & 360 Applications, Informatica

Realizing the potential of AI requires a modern master data solution. We’ll explore the value of AI in MDM. You’ll hear about the latest features of Informatica MDM & 360 Applications. A customer panel will talk about how they use AI-driven MDM to boost customer experience, drive digital commerce and streamline the supply chain. You’ll leave with an understanding of how a modern, all-in-one intelligent MDM solution delivers greater efficiency, increased productivity and worry-free management so you can more easily navigate to a future of cloud, data and AI.

Get Trusted Data for AI with Data Governance and Privacy
Richard Leaton, Data Advisor, Office of the CDAO, Deloitte
Brett Roscoe, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Governance and Cloud Ops, Informatica
Chris Phillips, Vice President, Product Management, Informatica

Readiness for AI depends on whether you can trust your data to deliver reliable outcomes. Your ability to accelerate Generative AI initiatives depends on a data access and sharing strategy that prioritizes trusted, high-quality data. Join data experts and customer leaders for insights on why modern, AI-powered data governance in the cloud is critical for optimizing productivity, reducing risk exposure and achieving AI readiness that drives growth and innovation. Seamlessly integrated services on IDMC — including data governance, cataloging, quality, access management and marketplace — provide the foundation you need to successfully adopt AI and empower analytics, drive data-driven decision-making and propel your business.

Ecosystem Innovations and Generative AI
Rik Tamm-Daniels, Group Vice President, Ecosystems and Technology, Informatica

No matter which cloud ecosystem or cloud platform you choose, Informatica is here to support you with up-to-date integrations and innovations with our partners. We are hard at work continually looking for ways to improve the customer experience and deliver high-value, validated solutions. Learn about our ecosystem innovation program, private and public preview opportunities and the latest innovations with AWS, Microsoft, Google, Oracle Cloud, Snowflake and Databricks. This includes how to leverage the Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) as a trusted data foundation for your generative AI applications built on Azure Open AI, Amazon Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Oracle AI, Databricks DBRX and Snowflake Cortex.

Closing Comments
Jim Kruger, Executive Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Informatica