Agenda at-a-glance

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October 8
October 9
Tuesday
8 October, 2024

11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Registration & Industry Peer-to-Peer Networking Lunch for Pre-Conference Training Attendees

1:00 pm – 5:00  pm

Pre-Conference Training:

Boomi Integration Basics
Are you ready to dive into building integrations with the Boomi Enterprise Platform? Join our expert instructor to explore the fundamentals of integration, discover the platform’s powerful building blocks, and engage in hands-on activities designed to accelerate your journey to productivity.

Enabling AI RAG with Boomi
As AI continues to evolve, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become essential for Large Language Models (LLMs) to deliver the most relevant answers in business applications. Discover how Boomi seamlessly integrates with LLMs to enable RAG within your business, optimizing the effectiveness of your AI initiatives.

Boomi API Management Basics
Curious about how API Management (APIM) can empower your business? This course explores the APIM capabilities on the Boomi Enterprise Platform, offering practical guidance, detailed explanations, and best practices. You’ll gain insights into the new Control Plane, treating APIs as products, and ensuring security, and more!

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Pre-Conference Training Drinks Reception

6:00 pm

Regional Dinners (Off-site)

Wednesday
9 October, 2024

8:00 am

Registration & Connections Expo Open

9:15 am – 9:30 am

Welcome with Lucy Hedges – Host and Event MC

9:30 am – 10:30 am

Connecting Everything for an AI-Driven Future: Overcoming Fragmentation in the Digital Age with Steve Lucas, Boomi Chairman & CEO

Most organizations find themselves unprepared and unsure of where to begin their AI journey. With an average of over 360 applications, countless databases, and tens of thousands of APIs, enterprises face a hyper-fragmented IT landscape filled with disconnected data silos. And now, with the rise of the AI economy, the urgency to solve digital complexity has never been more critical.

In his keynote address, Boomi CEO Steve Lucas will unveil a transformative vision for overcoming digital fragmentation and laying a robust foundation for AI adoption. Attendees will discover how to bridge applications, APIs, data, and AI models through intelligent integration and automation, ultimately accelerating their digital transformation and unleashing the full potential of the AI economy. Join us to explore how to connect everything, everywhere, and pave the way for future innovation.

10:30 am – 11:15 am

Ground Control: How Connectivity Will Enable Better AI Outcomes with Shari Lava – Senior Research Director, AI and Automation, IDC

In this session, IDC’s Shari Lava, Senior Director, AI and Automation will walk through new research on the importance of a unified and modern connectivity platform to unlock even more business value than traditional iPaaS or API management alone. Integration and API management are not new technologies, but companies are asking these technologies to do more as they embark on their AI journey. It’s time to reset your expectations on what value these tools should deliver.

11:15 am – 11:30 am

Diamond Partner Spotlight with Cognizant

11:30 am – 11:50 am

Break

11:50 am – 12:45 pm

Unveiling Innovation: The Future of Boomi and the Power of AI Integration with Ed Macosky, Chief Product & Technology Officer, Boomi

Join Boomi Chief Product and Technology Officer, Ed Macosky as he unveils the latest enhancements and innovative offerings in the Boomi platform. Discover how Boomi is seamlessly integrating AI capabilities to empower organizations in their journey towards efficiency and digital transformation.

Ed will share insights into Boomi’s product roadmap, highlighting the exciting developments that lie ahead not only around AI, but for API management and data management, and how they will equip businesses to navigate the evolving landscape of modern integration. Don’t miss this opportunity to gain exclusive knowledge about the future of the Boomi platform and how our industry-leading solutions can drive your success!

12:45 pm – 1:00 pm

Diamond Partner Spotlight with Infosys

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Lunch & Connections Expo Open

Platinum Sponsor ‘Lunch n Learn’ Sessions:

We are Beebay
Solace
United Techno
Yenlo

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Breakout Sessions:

Hands-On Labs: The Full Boomi – Product Experience
Get hands-on and explore how to solve your business problems and democratize your innovation. Play with early access and production Boomi platform features. Anyone is welcome in this session!

Product Strategy Deep Dive: The Power of Practical AI – Patterns, Perspectives, and Use Cases that Make AI Real, Now
Hype around Generative AI has confused business leaders and operators. Most organizations feel unprepared to use Gen AI in production now. How can businesses practically use AI without falling victim to market hype? Join Michael Bachman from Boomi to understand how to make AI practical for the enterprise now, so that decisions made today become the foundation for tomorrow.

By the end of this session, participants will have a clear intuition of what practical AI is, the necessary tools to orchestrate it, and concrete use cases to generate their own business ideas, regardless of industry. This session will NOT be a sales pitch. It will, however, provide leaders with practical steps to understand AI innovation for now and into the future.

Customer Best Practices with Kieran Seeburn, Head of Data at Lightsource bp and Divya Shree, Integration Lead at Lightsource bp

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Breakout Sessions:

Hands-On Labs: Boomi Innovation Lab – Build More Accurate AI Part 1 of 2
Attention Boomi builders! Join platform experts in this two-part workshop to first interact with Generative AI using Boomi, and then enhance its capabilities, reliability, and accuracy by adding business specific context from DataHub. This sort of orchestration design is called Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). In this workshop, you’ll learn how to harness the power of Boomi to improve your AI readiness and take advantage of current AI developments in a practical, real-world, and actionable way. Help your business work smarter, not harder.

NOTE: Previous Boomi experience is required and you must be able to login in to your Boomi account. We will have a limited number of computers available, but you are welcome to bring your own laptop to work off of, and power strips will be provided.

Product Strategy Deep Dive: API Management
Boomi’s Markus Müller, Global Field CTO, API Management will discuss the current state of API management and provide solutions to manage the explosive growth of APIs through a federated approach.

He’ll delve into essential topics such as dynamic API discovery and API sprawl, as well as the importance of API management in the era of AI. You’ll hear valuable insights into how you can improve API visibility, security, and governance — leveraging your existing API management investments. And as an added bonus, you’ll learn what new developments to watch for and the approaches you can take to ensure your API ecosystem remains robust and secure.

Join this session to discover the latest updates to API Gateway, API Control Plane, and Cloud API Management, as well as a look into their future.

Customer Best Practices with Eric Fosdike, Principal Engineer and Architecture Practice Lead at Thomson Reuters

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Breakout Sessions:

Hands-On Labs: Boomi Innovation Lab – Build More Accurate AI Part 2 of 2
Attention Boomi builders! Join platform experts in this two-part workshop to first interact with Generative AI using Boomi, and then enhance its capabilities, reliability, and accuracy by adding business specific context from DataHub. This sort of orchestration design is called Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). In this workshop, you’ll learn how to harness the power of Boomi to improve your AI readiness and take advantage of current AI developments in a practical, real-world, and actionable way. Help your business work smarter, not harder.

NOTE: Previous Boomi experience is required and you must be able to login in to your Boomi account. We will have a limited number of computers available, but you are welcome to bring your own laptop to work off of, and power strips will be provided.

Product Strategy Deep Dive: DataHub – Golden Record Stewardship: The Fuel for Trusted AI
Trusted AI hinges on trusted data. This presentation explores how Boomi DataHub helps organizations establish that foundation with robust data quality & governance, enabling them to unlock the full potential of AI. DataHub secures sensitive data, reduces fragmentation across systems, and empowers AI-driven data stewardship to accelerate trusted decision-making.

Customer Best Practices with Abdullah AbuSido, Group CIO at Abudawood

5:00 pm – 5:10 pm

Customer Innovation Awards

5:10 pm – 5:45 pm

Panel Discussion – Technology for Good

Moderated by Lucy Hedges and featuring the following panelists:

  • Abhinav Gaur, Integration Specialist, Tony’s Chocolonely
  • Janine Pearce, Senior Database Manager, Great Ormond Street Hospital
  • Jonathan Neale, Honorary Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
  • Steve Lucas, Boomi Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

This panel will explore how Boomi customers are utilizing the Boomi Platform and other key technologies, in support of their respective missions. At Great Ormond Street Hospital, their mission is to give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhoods, possible, while Tony’s Chocolonely are working to end exploitation in cocoa production, and with it, the need for child and forced labour.

The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, The University of Edinburgh are addressing critical needs in neurodegenerative disease research and patient care with efforts to develop scalable and sustainable digital solutions.

5:45 pm – 6:00 pm

Closing Remarks from Steve Lucas, Boomi Chairman & CEO

6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Networking Drinks Reception & Connections Expo