General Session

Gaining the Edge in the Information Economy

Join Informatica executives and industry experts as they discuss the trends, drivers, and technologies that power the Information Economy.

Tuesday, June 3

Gain insight into what the global economy demands of organizations and the part that information technology plays. Gain a glimpse into the future of data integration, the Informatica strategy, and new product releases designed to help organizations thrive in the face of complexity and change. Gain an understanding of the innovative ways organizations are using data to make smarter decisions, meet compliance requirements, find new value in existing systems, and take advantage of market opportunities. Gain the edge.

Thursday, June 5

Gaining the Edge. In Real Time.

Dive deep into the technology advancements that will help you meet the demands of your organization. Learn how organizations are extending their analytic data integration capabilities with operational data integration, allowing them to integrate data in batch or real time, to meet the full spectrum of information needs. Be the first to get an insider’s view into Informatica Version 9. Gain insight. Gain knowledge. Gain your edge.

Keynote Speakers:

A 22-year enterprise software industry veteran, Sohaib Abbasi joined Informatica as president and CEO of Informatica in July 2004. Prior to Informatica, Mr. Abbasi spent 20 years at Oracle Corporation where he was most recently a member of Oracle’s executive committee and was senior vice president of two major divisions, Oracle Tools and Oracle Education. Mr. Abbasi joined Oracle Corporation in 1982 when it was a 30-person startup and was instrumental in growing the business from $4 million in annual revenues to more than $9 billion in revenues and over 42,000 employees worldwide. As part of his contribution, Mr. Abbasi envisioned and launched the Oracle Tools business, which he grew from zero to $3.75 billion in cumulative license revenues. Mr. Abbasi graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1980, where he earned both a B.S. and an M.S. degree in computer science.

Chris Boorman is responsible for Informatica’s global voice to the market which includes corporate, partner, and field marketing. He joined Informatica with over 20 years of international marketing leadership experience at enterprise software category leaders including SDL, salesforce.com, VERITAS and Oracle. Most recently, Mr. Boorman was Chief Marketing Officer at SDL, a leading Global Information Management enterprise software vendor offering language translation technology and services. Prior to joining SDL, Mr. Boorman was vice president for EMEA marketing at salesforce.com, the worldwide leader in on-demand Customer Relationship Management services. Before salesforce.com, Mr. Boorman led EMEA marketing for nearly a decade at the leading enterprise software vendor, VERITAS. He also held various positions in Consulting, Pre-Sales Support and Product Marketing during his 10-year tenure at Oracle. Mr. Boorman attended Southampton University in the UK earning a doctorate in magnetism and engineering, a masters in cryogenics and applications and a First Class Honors bachelors degree in physics.

Royce Bell, Chief Executive Officer, Accenture Information Management Services
During his more than 23 years experience in management consulting, technology and outsourcing services, Royce Bell has worked with a range of large multinational companies, notably Shell and BP, and several government institutions. Royce sits on the board of the Oxford University Business Economic Programme.  He has lived and worked for extensive periods in the Far East and France.  Royce has a Bachelors and Masters in Natural Sciences and Law from Cambridge University.  A keen theatre supporter, he also sits on the corporate advisory group of the National theatre in the UK.

Ron Swift, Worldwide Vice President, Cross Industry Solutions, Teradata Corporation
Ronald S. Swift is an internationally known consultant, author, luminary, and strategist and has assisted hundreds of clients on six continents to achieve their strategies and goals. Swift is Vice-President, Cross Industry Solutions for Teradata Corporation. Prior to Teradata he enjoyed a successful tenure at NCR where he co-developed the process model for NCR's original "Data Warehouse Methodology" Model Process. Prior to joining NCR in 1996, Swift was a senior partner with an international consulting firm following a successful 22-year career at IBM where his contributions included field and headquarters responsibilities that spanned many customer implementation projects, marketing programs, education institutes, executive marketing, end-user computing, decision support systems, executive information systems, along with strategy and business development roles in the USA and Europe. Swift is the author of, "Accelerating Customer Relationships". He is currently working on another book about increasing business value and the economics of marketing through customer and financial management analytics using advanced analytical knowledge systems.  He has authored a wide variety of articles for business and technology publications and online forums.

Ivan Chong, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Data Quality Business Unit, Informatica
Ivan Chong is currently General Manager for Informatica’s Data Quality Business Unit. He has also headed up Informatica’s Product Marketing as well as worked in the Corporate Strategy group doing business development. For much of his career at Informatica, Mr. Chong served as Vice President of Product Management. Mr. Chong is also a 6-year veteran of Oracle Corporation, where he held various product management positions for the Oracle Tools division and was awarded a patent in the area of database visualization. His experience also includes two years with internet advertising startup, NetGravity, a company that developed mission-critical server products for high-traffic commercial web sites. Mr. Chong has spoken at numerous user conferences both in the U.S. and internationally. He graduated with undergraduate and graduate degrees from MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

An early employee of Informatica, Girish Pancha rejoined the company in 2000 as executive vice president of products to oversee the direction of Informatica’s award-winning enterprise data integration platform. Mr. Pancha has focused on developing innovative products that address the challenges of data integration as a mission-critical, enterprise-wide solution. Prior to assuming this role at Informatica, he co-founded and served as CEO of Zimba, a developer of mobile applications that provided integrated real-time access to corporate, personal, and external information. Earlier in his career, Mr. Pancha led the U.S. development of decision support products at Oracle Corporation. During his eight-year tenure at Oracle, he initiated and spearheaded the development of Browser and Discoverer, Oracle’s flagship query building and business intelligence tools. Mr. Pancha holds degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania.