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Syndigo Partner Kickoff Europe​ 2026 – Welcome to Vienna​

February 11 & 12 , 2026

Hotel Almanac Palais Vienna

Empowering Your Growth in 2026: Join Us for the Syndigo European Partner Kick-Off

As we step into an exciting 2026, Syndigo is building on a transformational 2025. With our Partner-First strategy at the core, we strengthened our portfolio of best-in-class solutions, completed our unmatched PXM and MDM offerings through the acquisition of 1WorldSync, and fueled innovation with AI—helping our partners deliver exceptional commerce experiences worldwide.

Join us at the Syndigo Europe Partner Kick-Off 2026 to explore the next chapter of collaboration. Discover our latest innovations, gain a front-row view of our product and go-to-market strategy, and unlock new ways to grow your business. Together, we’ll make 2026 our biggest year yet.

What is new 2026: You will experience Syndigo University Live with deep classroom sessions and immediate certificates for attendees of the different trainings. Check out the agenda now!

Who Should Attend

This event is built for:

  • Partner Sales & Alliance Leaders
  • Pre-Sales / Solution Consultants
  • Implementation & Delivery Leads
  • Practice Heads & Competency Center Leadership
  • Marketing and Customer Success Leadership focused on joint GTM

Sponsors

Cloudinary

Agenda Preview

Day 1 – February 11, 2026

Time

Topic

Speakers

12:30 – 14:00h

Joint Lunch with Syndigo & Partners

15:00 – 16:00h

Registration open

16:00 – 16:10h

Introduction & Welcome

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

16:10 – 16:45h

The Opportunity for Syndigo and its Partners

Simon Angove, CEO

16:45 – 17:10h

Partner First – Our 2026 Program for your Groth with Syndigo

Ben Rund, VP Alliances EMEA & ANZ

17:10 – 17:30h

Break

17:30 – 18:30h

Platform Update: PXM & MDM Roadmap in the Era of Agentic AI & Commerce

Tarun Chandrasekhar, CPO

18:30 – 19:30h

Refresh & Free time or Time for meetings

19:30 – 23:00h

Get Together, Dinner & Awards Ceremony

Day 2 – February 12, 2026

Time

Sales & Growth

Delivery & Service

8:00 – 9:00h

Breakfast Sales Meetings - Meet your Syndigo Sales to align on key opportunities. Pre-booked regional sales meetings

9:00 – 9:30h

Selling with Syndigo: Refresh in ideal customer profile, qualification & packaging

Build the Business Case for and ROI of PIM/MDM

09:30 – 10:00h

Sales Win Stories – MDM, PIM & Syndication

Grow your Syndigo CoE to More Service Revenue – Pierre Magnet, Partner Success

10:00 – 10:30h

Coffee Break - Time to Network

SYNDIGO UNIVERSITY LIVE - Benefit from best practices and valuable insigths and gain a direct certificate.

10:30 – 11:30h

Competitive Deep Dive & Analyst Perspectives on MDM & PXM – Helen Grimster, Director Product Marketing

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

11:30 – 12:15h

Sales Meetings: Meet your Syndigo Sales to align on key opportunities – Pre-Booked regional sales meetings

How to Scope & Staff right – Vara Prasad Bolla, Sr. Director Solutions

12:15 – 13:15h

Lunch Break – Time to Network

13:15 – 14:00h

Besoming a Syndigo Expert: Pre-Sales Excellence – Ian Rendall, Global SVP of Solution Engineering

Syndigo AI Capabilities - How to implement right & functional Q&A

14:00 – 14:45h

Putting AI GoPilots in Action in your Demo - Ian Rendall, Global SVP of Solution Engineering

From PIM to Syndication - Setting up for Success

14:45 – 15:15h

Coffee Break – Time to Network

15:15 – 16:00h

The World's Largest Data Pool: The Value and Power of Syndigo

Vendor Portal: Up-sell to PIM and partner services potential

16:00 – 16:45h

Power Couple IPaaS & MDM - the SnapLogic & Syndigo Integration

Deep Dive on Power Reviews: User Generated Content & Product Ratings

16:45 – 17:30h

Power Couple PXM & DAM - Position & Grow with Cloundinary & Syndigo

Sustainability: Syndigo for ESG & Digital Product Passport

17:30 – 17:45h

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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