Hello from the Mile High City where we just wrapped day one of #BoomiWorld 2024! We kicked off the day with the the Women in Tech breakfast where I moderated an enlightening panel featuring five female tech leaders. We covered important topics that women in the workforce face such as gender bias, a huge salary gap, and imposter syndrome. The panelists shared their real world experiences of being rejected, passed over for promotions that went to men, and told they should be in administrative or planning roles.
But they also shared what has long inspired each of them to keep moving forward. The audience really related to it.
From the panel we headed to the main stage where I had the pleasure of kicking off the event. The audience of over 1,000 live attendees was engaged, excited, and interactive. Boomi also streamed Chairman and CEO Steve Lucas' keynote on LinkedIn, so they were able to reach thousands more.
As the theme of Boomi World 2024 is "Connection", Steve kicked of his keynote talking about how connections have evolved over tens of thousands of years. The way we connect has evolved. The way we communicate connection has evolved, and, many times, the way we communicate has been reinvented.
Speaking of evolution, Steve talked about the number of current Boomi customers: >20,000. When I started covering Boomi in 2018, that number was 9,000. So not only have I had witnessed mega customer growth, but also the evolution of Boomi's partner ecosystem, which has nearly doubled in five years. Also, five years ago the Boomi Community had about 65,000 members and today it's 250,000. Wow!
Speaking of a "Wow" factor, Steve then laid out Boomi's ambitious strategic vision, which included key announcements, such as the acquisitions of both APIIDA (federated API management business) and API management assets from Cloud Software Group (formerly TIBCO Mashery) and new product features.
The product features include next-generation API management for the AI economy, an AI agent framework that provides out-of-the-box AI agents, pluggability for 3rd party AI agents, as well as the ability to automate AI orchestration workflows, and enhanced data management to support data quality, data lineage, and metadata management.
Another really special part of the event was when Steve sat down with Coach Prime himself, the sports legend Deion Sanders. Steve and Deion quickly became the dynamic duo I never knew I needed in my life! Coach Prime is one of the most confident and positive people I've ever had the pleasure of hearing speak. He and Steve lit up the stage, shared incredibly motivating and poignant life advice, and ended their fireside chat to thunderous applause.
See you on stage tomorrow for day two where Boomi execs, like my colleague Ed Macosky, will unpack and demonstrate the new features of the Boomi enterprise iPaaS platform.
Alison Biggan Delia Vallejo Greg Schneider Amy Skubi
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Global Events Lead
2moLove this Hilal and so great seeing you!