Talend, the global integration software leader, today announced an impressive lineup of speakers at its user, customer and partner conference, Talend Connect, which will be held March 12, 2013 at the Clift Hotel in San Francisco. This year’s Talend Connect will feature networking opportunities and more than 20 presentations from Talend’s executives and technologists, industry innovators, customers and partners under the theme “Scale Your Business with Big Data.”

Keynote Sessions
Talend Connect provides business executives and IT users with the most up-to-date information on integration and big data best practices, industry trends, and Talend’s product vision for 2013 and beyond. Talend Connect will feature special keynote presentations from Bertrand Diard, CEO and co-founder of Talend; Jeff Kelly, contributing editor at SiliconANGLE and principal research contributor at Wikibon.org; and Mark Jeffries, author and trusted adviser to some of the world’s most successful corporations and a regular contributor on NBC’s Today Show, CNBC, BBC News, Sky News and Fox Business.

Attendees can expect additional presentations from Talend customers and partners, including Bank of America, Google, InfoGroup and Accenture.

“We are excited to have a truly exemplary group of professionals participate as presenters at Talend Connect,” said Bertrand Diard of Talend. “Their knowledge as executives and industry experts from such leading-edge organizations will be an invaluable asset to the customers, partners, employees and other industry experts that will attend this event.”

Talend Connect will showcase recent innovations including Talend v5.2, Talend’s next-generation integration platform, which now includes big data profiling for Apache Hadoop and support for NoSQL. Additional highlights that will be part of the Talend Connect events include:

• Roundtable discussion with leading experts on the business benefits of big data
• Case studies from leading customers on their use of Talend's integration solutions

For more information about Talend Connect and to register, please visit http://info.talend.com/2013_TalendConnect_SanFrancisco_Registration.html. Additional information and regular updates can be found by following Talend on Twitter at @Talend or via the hashtag #TalendConnect, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/talend.

About Talend
Talend provides integration that truly scales. From small projects to enterprise-wide implementations, Talend’s highly scalable data, application and business process integration platform maximizes the value of an organization’s information assets and optimizes return on investment through a usage-based subscription model. Ready for big data environments, Talend’s flexible architecture easily adapts to future IT platforms. And a common set of easy-to-use tools implemented across all Talend products enable teams to scale developer skillsets, too.

More than 4,000 enterprise customers worldwide leverage Talend’s solutions and services. The company has major offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and a global network of technical and services partners. For more information, please visit www.talend.com.