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Syndigo Partner Kickoff Europe​ 2025 – Welcome to Rome​

February 12 & 13 , 2025

Anantara Palazzo Naiadi Rome Hotel

Maximize Your Success in 2025: Unlock the Full Potential of Your Partnership with Syndigo 

As we step into an exciting 2025, Syndigo is unlocking exceptional opportunities to help you deliver even more value to your clients and drive growth for your business. We invite you to join us for an exclusive Syndigo Europe Partner Kick-off 2025 in Rome where we will showcase our latest innovations, explore new ways to strengthen our collaboration, and give you a first look at our future roadmap. Together, we will continue to build on our Partner-First Strategy and achieve even greater success in the year ahead!

Event Sponsors

Thought Spark

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Day 1 – February 12, 2025

Time

Topic – Room: Diocleziano

Speakers

12:00 – 14:00h

Joint Lunch with Syndigo

15:00 – 16:00h

Registration open

16:30 – 16:45h

Introduction & Welcome

Karim Iskandar, Managing Director International & Ben Rund, VP Alliances EMEA 

16:45 – 17:15h

The Opportunity for Syndigo and its Partners

Simon Angove, CEO

17:15 – 17:30h

Break

17:30 – 18:30h

Platform Update: PXM Roadmap & AI Innovations

Tarun Chandrasekhar, CPO

18:30 – 19:30h

Refresh & Free time or Time for meetings

19:30 – 20:00h

Partner Award Ceremony

20:00 – 23:00h

Dinner

Day 2 – February 13, 2025 in Breakout Sessions

Time

Sales & GTM – Room: Diocleziano

Execution – Room: Michelangelo

9:00 – 9:30h

Welcome Day 2 – Karim Iskandar, Managing Director International & Ben Rund, VP Alliances EMEA

09:30 – 10:00h

Syndigo Alliances Update: Make Life Easy & Sell More – Ben Rund, VP Alliances EMEA

Build the Business Case for PIM/MDM – Dean Hannant, Principal

10:00 – 10:30h

Syndigo Marketing: Building Pipeline and Drive Demand – Franziska Kliemann, Head of Marketing Europe

Grow your Syndigo CoE to More Service Revenue – Pierre Magnet & Carlos Dufour, Syndigo Alliances

10:30 – 11:00h

Coffee Break - Time to Network, sponsored by ThoughtSpark

11:00 – 12:00h

Sales Win Stories - with & by Partners, Sales Team Syndigo with Partners

Implementation success stories - with & by Partners – Sachin Kumar, SVP International – CS, PS & Ops & Team

12:00 – 12:30h

Sales Meetings: Meet your Syndigo Sales to align on key opportunities – Sales RVPs of Syndigo are available for you

How to Scope Right – Vara Prasad Bolla, Sr. Director Solutions

12:30 – 13:30h

Lunch Break – Time to Network

Time to Learn in our Hands-on Labs – Benefit from Best Practices and Valuable Insights on different topics

13:30 – 14:00h

Hands-on Lab: Becoming a Syndigo Demo Expert: Pre-Sales Excellence – Ian Rendall, Global SVP of Solution Engineering

Hands-on Lab: Syndigo AI Capabilities: Details, roadmap & Q+A – Tarun Chandrasekhar, CPO

14:00 – 14:30h

Hands-on Lab: Putting AI GoPilots in Action in your Demo – Ian Rendall, Global SVP of Solution Engineering

Hands-on Lab: From PIM to Syndication – Lea Desesquelles, Director Customer Success

14:30 – 15:00h

Coffee Break – Time to Network

15:00 – 15:30h

Hands-on-Lab: Compete & Win – Henrik Pahlsson, Eric Weston, Temel Kahyaoglu, Ben Rund

Hands-on Lab: SnapLogic & Syndigo Integration – Dominic Wellington, Field CTO, Snaplogic

15:30 – 16:00h

Hands-on Lab: Packaging & Pricing – Karim Iskandar, Managing Director International

Hands-on Lab: Workflows, Business Rules/ Data Model – Vara Prasad Bolla, Sr. Director Solutions

16:00 – 16:30h

Hands-on Lab: by Gold Partner Advellence: Leveraging Syndigo PIM and Sharedien DAM together – Stefan Gander, Advellence

Hands-on Lab: Competitive Migration – Legacy to Syndigo at fast TCO – Samarth Mehta, ThoughtSpark

16:30 – 16:45h

Wrap-up – Ben Rund, VP Alliances EMEA

Meet the Executive Team

Simon Angove

Simon Angove

Chief Executive Officer

Simon Angove

Chief Executive Officer
Simon has over 25 years of leadership experience in technology, having both launched innovative start-ups and run large companies and divisions, in industries such as retail, financial services, and the public sector. Recently, Simon was CEO of Superion, a software provider to local government. Simon led a comprehensive transformation establishing product innovation, go-to-market execution, operational excellence, and a high-performing organization, which led to a multi-company merger that created CentralSquare, with #1 market share in public safety software. Before Superion, Simon led global business units at Verint, an omni-channel customer engagement software provider, and was a serial entrepreneur starting companies in cloud computing, retail in-store video analytics, and workforce optimization.
Tarun Chandrasekhar

Tarun Chandrasekhar

Chief Product Officer

Tarun Chandrasekhar

Chief Product Officer
Tarun is responsible for all functional and regional teams delivering PIM and MDM products and services, globally. Previously Tarun was Managing Direction for Enterprise PIM/MDM Operations, leading customer success, implementation consulting, project delivery, cloud operations, and technical support teams for Syndigo. Tarun has also served as SVP of Product and Engineering for Riversand. With a career spanning Product Strategy and Development, M&A strategy, Data Management Solution Consulting, Operations and Customer Success for cloud-native SaaS MDM solutions, Tarun has developed data management strategy and implemented data management solutions for large multinational corporations across multiple verticals in multiple regions of the world.
Karim Iskandar

Karim Iskandar

Managing Director, International

Karim Iskandar

Managing Director, International
Karim heads the International business for Syndigo with responsibility for go-to-market strategy, sales, finance, operations, product strategy and partnerships. Prior to Syndigo, Karim worked for JRNI, a customer engagement platform that drive shoppers to in-store experiences from digital channels; launching their business in both Europe and the USA. Karim thrives in hyper-growth environments starting his formative career at Forrester Research as it grew from $30M to $170M as part of its European launch team and ultimately help the position, UK General Manager. He has since held a variety of software, technology and research businesses both launch, scale and grow rapidly internationally.

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