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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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General Sessions

Time

Topic

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, President PXM

18:30 – 20:00h

Refresh & Free time or Time for meetings

20:00 – 23:00h

Partner Award Ceremony & Dinner

Breakout Sessions

Time

Sales & GTM – Room: Diocleziano

Execution – Room: Michelangelo

8:45 – 9:00h

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

9:00 – 9:30h

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

Build the business case for PIM/MDM – Dean Hannant, Principal

09:30 – 10:00h

Marketing: Campaigns in a box to drive your funnel & Syndigo brand in the market – Franziska Kliemann, Head of Marketing Europe

Grow your CoE to More Service Revenue – Pierre Magnet & Carlos Dafour, Partner Management

10:00 – 10:30h

Coffee Break - Time to Network, sponsored by ThoughtSpark

10:30 – 11:00h

Sales Win Stories - with & by Partners

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

11:00 – 11:30h

Why Syndigo: Positioning for the Win

Competitive Migration: Legacy to Syndigo with lower TCO

11:30 – 12:00h

TBA

How to Scope right – Vara Prasad Bolla, Solution Architect

12:00 – 13:00h

Lunch Break – Time to Network

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

13:00 – 13:30h

Hands-on Lab: PXM Demo – Ian Rendall, Global SVP of Solution Engineering

Hands-on Lab: Syndigo AI Capabilities – Nikhil Bhatia, SVP Product

13:30 – 14:00h

Hands-on Lab: MDM Demo – Ian Rendall, Global SVP of Solution Engineering

Hands-on Lab: Syndication, Lea Desesquelles, Director Customer Success

14:00 – 14:30h

Coffee Break – Time to Network

14:30 – 15:00h

Hands-on Lab: Compete & Win

Hands-on Lab: Integrations

15:00 – 15:30h

Hands-on Lab: Packaging & Pricing – Nikhil Bhatia & Karim Iskandar

Hands-on Lab: Workflows, Business Rules/ Data Model – Vara Prasad Bolla, Solution Architect

15:30 – 16:00h

Hands-on Lab: by Gold Partner Advellence

Hands-on Lab: by Silver Partner ThoughtSpark

16:00 – 16:15h

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.
Abhi Anantharaman

Abhi Anantharaman

Chief Technology Officer

Abhi Anantharaman

Chief Technology Officer
Abhi Anantharaman leads the global engineering, IT, InfoSec, and support teams responsible for building, securing, and delivering our portfolio of products. In this role, Abhi is responsible for technology strategy, innovation, transformation, and the R&D roadmap.

With over 20 years of software engineering experience in industries like Financial Services and Technology, Abhi has built various products including high-frequency trading systems and big data analytics suites. Previously, Abhi served as CTO at Poppulo, a Vista Equity Partners portfolio company, and held engineering leadership roles at Amazon and Morgan Stanley. Abhi is based in the New York metro area, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Bangalore University and a Master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Recommended arrival on Wednesday, 12th of February morning and departure Thursday, 13th evening. If you would like to extend your stay, please arrange with the hotel directly – special room rates are available (see below).

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