Informatica World 2024

What a brilliant week of learning, inspiration, comradery, and fun at #informaticaworld in Las Vegas. Everyone walked away with the key action that it’s time to get your data ready for AI.

 Here are a few highlights from the week:

Amit Walia's Keynote

OK - I'm a little partial here because he is my boss, but this was one of the best keynotes I have ever seen throughout my career. Amit was truly amazing with his visionary content and his delivery. Awesome job by our product teams as well: Brett Roscoe, Manouj Tahiliani, Sumeet Agrawal, Gaurav Pathak, and Pratik Parekh. Fantastic AI demos showcasing actual transformative use cases for insurance claims and marketing campaigns. You can check out the keynote here.

Solution Announcements

• AI Product Innovation Announcement: Informatica’s Generative AI Technology Embedded in Cloud Data Management Platform Transforms Access to Data by Putting Technology in the Hands of Every Business User  

• Snowflake Integration Announcement: Informatica Unveils Blueprint for Enterprise Generative AI Applications for Snowflake Cortex AI

• Microsoft Partnership Announcement: Informatica Deepens Integration with Microsoft, Becomes One of the First Data Management Partners Integrated as an Azure Native ISV Service

Check out the press releases here.

Women in Data & AI Panel

It was incredible to hear about the career progression and powerful impact these trailblazers are having on their organizations. Truly inspiring! Thank you to Kelly Tuggle from Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), Avishan Bodjnoud from the United Nations and Denise Rogers from Chubb for sharing, and thank you to Amy McNee for being a wonderful host/facilitator! #diversityandinclusion

The Executive AI Summit

We had 130 CDOs/CIOs attend our dedicated AI summit. Great roundtable discussions, and a special thank you to Ben Ellencweig, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, for the insightful presentation on the state of AI.

LeVar Burton's Keynote and Interview

LeVar Burton (Roots, Star Trek, Reading Rainbow) was awesome! It was so inspiring to hear his stories and key learnings throughout his career. Jennifer Meyer, you were equally amazing as the interviewer. Your in-depth research and presence on stage are world-class. LaVar was quite surprised by some of the insights you had about his journey! I loved the messages about just taking one step forward, then the rest will follow, and the optimism about the transformative power of AI and the trust that humans will point it in the right direction. 

Augmented Reality in the Solutions Expo

We had three interactive stories featured about how Informatica solutions can transform industries. It was such a creative, fun way to learn and have some fun while doing it. Thank you Keegan Hooks for this great idea!

Roundtables

We had a non-stop flow of attendees in our roundtable sessions led by our experts. These roundtables are one of the top reasons customers come to Informatica World to get in-depth overviews of Informatica solutions. 

The 2024 Innovation Award Winners

It was an honor and privilege to announce our winners in our afternoon keynote on Tuesday. We had a record 60 submissions and recognized 20 organizations with awards. A special call out to Barbara Latulippe, CDO Takeda (and team), for winning the 2024 Informatica Innovator of the Year Award. You can check out the winners in my post here  or my blog here.

Speakers

We had well over 100 customer and partner speakers throughout the conference sharing their success stories. I'm so thankful we have such a strong community of supporters! THANK YOU to all who took their valuable time to prep the content and deliver it in your sessions. That's what makes IW so special! 

Sponsors

Thank you to all of our partner sponsors for your support. We sincerely appreciate it! We could not put on such a great conference without you.

SiliconANGLE & theCUBE

There were some very insightful interviews on The Cube about what organizations need to do to get their data ready for AI among other key data management topics. You can check them out here.

Finally, I would like to thank the entire Informatica team for their hard work, creativity, passion and collaboration to make the event a huge success. Special call out to Keegan Hooks, Sarah Mahmoud-Bseiso, and Jennifer McGinn for your leadership! I'm so proud to be a part of the amazing INFA team!

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