EDA Summit 2024 Agenda

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 | 9:00AM – 5:30PM EST

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9:00 – 9:45AM EST Keynote Panel

Mark Jeffries | Denis King, CEO, Solace | Matt McLarty, CTO & VP, Boomi Innovation Group | Rory Blundell, CEO, Gravitee | Jeff Pollock, Vice President Product Development, Oracle | Param Kahlon, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Automation & Integration, Salesforce | Steffen Pietsch, Head of BTP Product Management, SAP | Isael Pelletier, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

11:15AM – 12:00PM EST Keynote with Sol Rashidi

Sol Rashidi, Best Selling Author in AI & Former C-Suite to Fortune 500s

EDA in Action

  • 10:00 – 10:30AM A Model for Maturing Your EDA Program
    Speaker: David Mooter, Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
  • 10:30 – 11:00AM Be Event-Driven: A Proven Methodology to Succeed with EDA at Scale
    Speaker: Sumeet Puri, Chief Technology Solutions Officer, Solace
  • 12:00 – 12:30PM Swiftcare Revolutionary Digital Transformation for Healthcare
    Speaker: Bob Hundal, CTO, Kinseed Limited
  • 12:30 – 1:00PM Cruising into the Future: Singapore Cruise Centre’s EDA-Powered Digital Transformation
    Speaker: Siew Kit Lee, VP of Technology and IT, Singapore Cruise Center
  • 1:00 – 1:30PM EDA in Foreign Exchange eTrading – Our 10-Year journey
    Speaker: Gregory Foden, FX Infrastructure Lead, Citigroup
  • 1:30 – 2:00PM Jet Streams & Market Streams: Navigating EDA in Aviation and Proprietary Trading
    Speakers: Thomas Kunnumpurath, VP Systems Engineering Americas, Solace | Kiran Manchikanti, Director of Applications, United Airlines | David McCue, Principal Engineer, Chicago Trading Company
  • 2:00 – 2:30PM How EDA and AI Help TD Securities Enhance Regulatory Reporting Effectiveness
    Speaker: Kaushik Mody, Director, Technology Delivery, TD Securities
  • 2:30 – 3:00PM The Lisbon Affair – How Solace made managing the next generation of public transport service in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area possible
    Speaker: Frederico Dionisio, Senior Integration Consultant, Link Consulting
  • 3:00 – 3:30PM Navigating out of a monolith into an EDA
    Speaker: Malik Badaruddin, CTO, GetGo Technologies
  • 3:30 – 4:00PM Taming the Torrent: EDA for Ultra-Low Latency Market Data
    Speaker: Eric Deshayes, Managing Director Platforms Product Business Group, smartTrade
  • 4:00 – 4:30PM Navigating the Digital Revolution: HDFC Bank’s Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) Journey with Solace
    Speaker: Gopakumar Panicker, Senior VP of IT, Head Enterprise Architecture, HDFC Bank

Redefining Integration with EDA

  • 10:00 – 10:30AM Unlocking Real-Time Insights: Integrating EDA, Data Fabrics, and GenAI in a Multicloud World
    Speaker: Jeff Pollock, VP, Product Development, Oracle
  • 10:30 – 11:00AM How Amadeus Uses a Global Event Mesh to Make Travel Work Better
    Speaker: Serge Beuzit, Senior Architect, Amadeus | Nuno Gaspar, Sr. Software Engineer, Amadeus
  • 12:00 – 12:30PM EDA Powering Digital Modernization of Natural Gas distribution
    Speaker: Stefano Passaro, IT and Business Process Management, Naturgy
  • 12:30 – 1:00PM Event & API Management Unite!
    Speaker: Shawn McAllister, Chief Technology & Chief Product Officer, Solace | Linus Hakansson, Chief Product Officer, Gravitee
  • 1:00 – 1:30PM Event-Driven Integration: Real-time Execution Across Hybrid IT Architectures
    Speaker: Carl F. Lehmann, Senior Research Analyst, S&P Global Market Intelligence
  • 1:30 – 2:00PM Event-Driven Integration: Capabilities You Need for Real-Time Business
    Speaker: Jonathan Schabowsky, FIeld CTO, Solace
  • 2:00 – 2:30PM Brewing Real-Time Success: How JDE Peet’s Redefined Integration with EDA
    Speaker: Roberto Acevedo, Global Integration & Automation CoE Manager, JDE Peet’s (Jacobs Douwe Egberts)
  • 2:30 – 3:00PM Empowering real-time Enterprise with EDA @ Genentech
    Speaker: Yalkin Yanik, Principal Solutions Architect, Genentech
  • 3:00 – 3:30PM Revolutionizing Rail: KAI’s Journey to Event-driven Architecture (EDA)
    Speaker: Albertus Indarko Wiyogo, Executive VP of Information Systems, PT Kereta Api Indonesia (Persero) KAI
  • 3:30 – 4:00PM Unlocking Data-Driven Innovation with a Composable Mesh
    Speaker: Stéphane Goudeau, Principal IT Architect, BCG
  • 4:00 – 4:30PM Embrace Event-Driven Integration with SAP
    Speaker: Karsten Strothmann, Lead Product Manager Event Driven Integration, SAP

The Power of AI + EDA

  • 10:00 – 10:30AM Why Agentic AI Needs EDA
    Speaker: Edward Funnekotter, Chief AI Officer, Solace
  • 10:30 – 11:00AM Event-Driven AI Mesh: Enhancing AI Agents with Solace PubSub+
    Speaker: Marc Pierne, Engineering Excellence Architect, F5 inc
  • 12:00 – 12:30PM EDA, The Key to AI-Enabled Operations
    Speaker: David Menninger, Executive Director, ISG Software Research
  • 12:30 – 1:00PM EDA as the enabler of AI in industry
    Speaker: Bertrand Hasnier, Aeroline Data Leader, Sopra Steria
  • 1:00 – 1:30PM What’s Next in Enterprise AI
    Speaker: Conor Twomey, Co-Founder & CEO, AI One
  • 1:30 – 2:00PM Leveraging AWS Services and Generative AI in EDA
    Speaker: Sarah Aamir, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS – Amazon
  • 2:00 – 2:30PM Building Interesting Integrations with AI and EDA
    Speaker: Cyrus Mobini, AI Integration Software Engineer, Solace
  • 2:30 – 3:00PM Harnessing Events for Reactive and AI-powered Frontends
    Speaker: Dev Agrawal, Software Engineer, Smart Data
  • 3:00 – 3:30PM Harnessing Event-Driven and Multi-Agent Architectures for Complex Workflows in Generative AI System
    Speaker: Mary Grygleski, AI Practice Lead, Callibrity
  • 3:30 – 4:00PM Leveraging Boomi GPT to Accelerate Event-Driven Integration with AI-Powered Natural Language Process Generation
    Speakers: Ayush Parashar, VP, Engineering – AI and Data, Boomi | Madhav SBSS, Director Product Management – AI

EDA Ecosystem & Use Cases

  • 10:00 – 10:30AM Cloud-Native Eventing and Messaging in Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric
    Speaker: Clemens Vasters, Principal Architect, Microsoft
  • 10:30 – 11:00AM EDA as a Communication Backbone
    Speaker: Craig Campbell, Lead Architect, eProcess360, a division of West Coast Code Consultants, Inc.
  • 12:00 – 12:30PM Observability in an Asynchronous World
    Speaker: James Eastham, Serverless Developer Advocate, Datadog
  • 12:30 – 1:00PM Enabling Unified Streaming with Asynchronous APIs and Event Brokers
    Speaker: Budhaditya Bhattacharya, Developer Advocate, Tyk
  • 1:00 – 1:30PM Unify Your Middleware with Event-Driven Architecture
    Speaker: Francois Rivard, CEO, Astrakhan
  • 1:30 – 2:00PM The Ultimate SAP Engine: Solace, INT4 Suite & ngrok
    Speaker: Lynton Grice, SAP Integration & Development Architect, ERPCREW (Kamoeba Canada Inc T/A ERPCREW)
  • 2:00 – 2:30PM Empowering Resilient Systems: Error Handling Strategies with MuleSoft and Solace
    Speaker: Aaron Wentzell, VP, Solution Delivery, Bits In Glass | Eric Carsted, Principal Architect, Bits in Glass
  • 2:30 – 3:00PM Event Driven in Banking Modernization
    Speaker: Alessandro Petroni, CEO – Executive Advisor, BusinessMesh
  • 3:00 – 3:30PM Edge AI and Anomaly Detection
    Speaker: Gang Tao, CTO, Timeplus
  • 3:30 – 4:00PM Learn how RealCore navigates you through your EDA journey by providing best practices approaches in complex IT architectures
    Speaker: Tom Hillebrand, Head of SAP Technology, RealCore Group
  • 4:00 – 4:30PM Automating Processes and Enriching Customer Experience with EDA
    Speaker: Santosh Ojha, Architect, NTTDS

5:00 – 5:30PM Closing