PeopleSoft and Cloud Applications Webinar Series
You are invited to attend the PeopleSoft and Cloud Applications Webinar Series – a collection of free webinars designed to specifically educate and prepare customers to move to Oracle Cloud Applications. We’ll provide information and answer questions about the topics PeopleSoft HR customers are most interested in when exploring Cloud HCM. Hear from PeopleSoft and Cloud product experts as they take a deep-dive into the world of PeopleSoft and Cloud HCM migration. All sessions will be hosted by long-time PeopleSoft guru Robbin Velayedam.
You can find details and registration links for all webinars in this series below in the Live Webinars tab. All sessions will be recorded and posted to the On-Demand Webinars tab after the live webinar date.
Live attendance is encouraged so that you can participate in the conversation!
Register below now!
On-Demand Webinars
Overview:
Title: How is running payroll in the cloud different than how you run payroll in PeopleSoft?
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
There is nothing more critical to your organization’s operations than making sure paychecks are issued on time with 100% accuracy. With PeopleSoft you have familiarity and a long history of success running Payroll for all types of employees. In this session, we will review Oracle Cloud Payroll functionality, what happens when local/state/Federal tax laws change, and how it can work with your PeopleSoft HR. We will review examples of how your typical PeopleSoft customizations may be handled in Oracle Cloud Payroll, as well as the features that are not available in PeopleSoft today.
Learn:
- • The basic functions of Oracle Cloud Payroll
- • How tax law and compliance changes are made in Oracle Cloud Payroll
- • Some of the similarities and differences between PeopleSoft Payroll and Oracle Cloud Payroll
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Felicia Cheek
Director, Product Strategy
Oracle
Felicia Cheek has been an active citizen of the payroll community for more than 25 years. She enjoys being an advocate and advisor for payroll professionals around the world. Over the last 14 years she’s had the pleasure of advising large multinational companies on how to optimize best practices and technology to create a comprehensive global payroll strategy. Felicia has recently joined Oracle where she is responsible for the Global Oracle Cloud Payroll strategy. She is a member of the Global Payroll Association and the APA, where she received their prestigious Meritorious Award in 2009 and was inducted into the Payroll Hall of Fame. She also earned the Global Payroll Management Certificate in 2011. Felicia believes at the end of the day, it’s all about payroll!
https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicia-cheek-13b9815/
Deneen Burrows
Senior Director, Product Management
Oracle
Deneen has been working in the Payroll Industry for over 30 years. Some say it is in her DNA as her mother was a Payroll Manager. During the 30 years, she has been a Payroll Manager for a global parts and industrial equipment company, and also worked for a Payroll service bureau. For the last 12 years, her focus has been Oracle Cloud Global Payroll and Country Extensions where she leads a dynamic and diverse international team of Product Managers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deneen-burrows-4087131/
Overview:
Title: A day in the life: supporting Oracle Cloud HCM
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
As a long-time PeopleSoft customer, you are aware of the time commitment required to maintain your on-premise PeopleSoft system, but how would all that change if your organization were to transition to Oracle Cloud HCM? In this session, we will walk you through the ‘day in the life’ of both a technical and functional person so you understand how the commitment to supporting the system is similar and different than that of your PeopleSoft system. We will cover what configuration options you have at your disposal, what capabilities you will need to set up, and what type of training you and your users will need. To do this, we will touch on some important areas of Oracle Cloud HCM including approvals and notifications, mobile capabilities, the Experience Design Studio, and personalization and implementation options.
Learn:
- • The basic processes and tools used for maintaining changes and fixes in Oracle Cloud HCM
- • The different implementation and configuration options available in Oracle Cloud HCM
- • About the Experience Design Studio – an easy to use integrated design environment that helps users deploy changes quickly
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Heather Mcaninch
Sr. Principal Product Advisor, HCM Cloud Customer Connect
Oracle
Heather has a combination of 20 years SaaS application management internet-based e-business survey software and 11 years extensive retail background. She has been with Oracle for 7 years, focusing on customer transformation and implementation best practices for successful Cloud adoption.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathermcaninch/
Deneen Burrows
Senior Director, Product Management
Oracle
Deneen has been working in the Payroll Industry for over 30 years. Some say it is in her DNA as her mother was a Payroll Manager. During the 30 years, she has been a Payroll Manager for a global parts and industrial equipment company, and also worked for a Payroll service bureau. For the last 12 years, her focus has been Oracle Cloud Global Payroll and Country Extensions where she leads a dynamic and diverse international team of Product Managers.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/deneen-burrows-4087131/
Overview:
Title: Data management – what happens to your PeopleSoft HCM data when you transition to Oracle Cloud HCM?
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
PeopleSoft customers have spent years maintaining, cleaning, and updating their HCM data to ensure that PeopleSoft accurately represents their system of record. That high standard is also an important foundation for when you transition to Oracle Cloud HCM. In this session, we will review the process and best practices for migrating your data from PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud HCM, whether you do it yourself or with assistance. We will review the data model at a high level so you understand the data structure for the core HR fields, as well as the organization and person hierarchy. We will discuss proven strategies for data migration and mapping that have been successful with other PeopleSoft customers.
Learn:
- • The basic data model for Oracle Cloud HCM
- • Best practices for managing data migration and mapping
- • The data migration experiences of PeopleSoft customers that have already transitioned to Oracle Cloud HCM
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Greg Zankowski
GVP, HCM Growth & Strategy
Oracle
Greg Zanowski has over 20 years of experience working with Fortune 500 clients to transform their business through enabling HR technologies in the cloud. Greg’s background includes full lifecycle cloud implementations through all phases including project management, global design, functional configuration, technical development, testing, change management, and release planning. Today Greg is responsible for Oracle’s HCM Consulting organization for North America including Go-To-Market strategy, delivery, P&L, and customer outcomes. Greg also serves as Executive Sponsor and advisor for numerous clients during their HR transformation in the cloud. Prior to joining Oracle, Greg has served in several executive consulting positions at Human Capital consulting firms and technology vendors.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-zanowski-48073a2/
Sundar Krishnaswamy
RVP Consulting
Oracle
Sundar has 32+ years’ experience in enterprise software
implementation, including program management, delivery leadership,
practice management, sales enablement and customer management.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundarkrishnaswamy/
Overview:
Title: Change management – what will it realistically take to transition from PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud HCM?
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
Most PeopleSoft customers have been running PeopleSoft for decades and their staff, employees, and managers are well accustomed to its’ navigation, nomenclature, and processes. Transitioning to a new system like Oracle Cloud HCM will likely take time and diligent change management to be successful. In this session, people who have gone through this transition will share with you their journeys from PeopleSoft HCM to Oracle Cloud HCM including: what worked well, what challenges they encountered, what to expect, and how to prepare to be successful. We will review best practices for handling change management for all levels of your organization.
Learn:
- • How to prepare for transitioning to Oracle Cloud HCM
- • Best practices for handling change management when transitioning to Oracle Cloud HCM
- • What other PeopleSoft customers experienced with their journey to Oracle Cloud HCM
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Erica C. Lutrick
Senior Manager, Human Capital Strategy and Transformation
Accenture
Issam Alanqar
Senior Manager, Talent & Organization Strategy and Consulting
Accenture
Jennifer Bowman
Managing Director
Accenture
Overview:
Title: Applying updates and taking regular maintenance in Oracle Cloud HCM
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
As a PeopleSoft customer, you are accustomed to a regular, published cadence of image updates for PeopleSoft HCM, ELM, and HR HelpDesk which allows you to execute your selective adoption strategy for taking on new product features and updates. This session will cover what you can expect with Oracle Cloud HCM with how new features are made available, what your responsibilities are for testing those new features, how fixes are provided, and the regular quarterly update schedule. We will also cover what impact, if any, there is to users during those updates.
Learn:
- • How updates are made available to customers on a regular basis in Oracle Cloud HCM
- • What responsibilities customers have for testing new features once they become available in Oracle Cloud HCM
- • What customers need to do to prepare for regular updates and what the impact is to users in Oracle Cloud HCM
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Heather Mcaninch
Sr. Principal Product Advisor, HCM Cloud Customer Connect
Oracle
Heather has a combination of 20 years SaaS application management internet-based e-business survey software and 11 years extensive retail background. She has been with Oracle for 7 years, focusing on customer transformation and implementation best practices for successful Cloud adoption.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathermcaninch/
Randy Messer
Senior Principal Product Manager
Oracle
Over thirty years diverse high technology experience in the software development, product management, marketing and customer support and consulting roles for major companies, including Digital Equipment, Compaq Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle Corporation, IBM, SAP and other firms. Experience in customer development, product management, marketing, consulting, support and pre-sales and sales consulting with particular focus on new product introduction, early customer adoption and strategic customer support programs.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/randy-messer-97448b34/
Overview:
Title: Configuration vs. customization - what can, or can't I control in Oracle Cloud HCM?
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
One of the biggest customer values of PeopleSoft is that you own PeopleTools and can customize PeopleSoft to meet your unique or strategic business requirements as necessary. Transitioning to Oracle Cloud HCM does not mean that you lose control over your HR system of record. In this session, we will cover the many options you have to configure and personalize your system to meet your business requirements. This session will start to explore the tools and processes you control in Oracle Cloud HCM, using the Experience Design Studio, what changes are optional vs. required, and how often are these controls managed. We will also provide examples of how former PeopleSoft customers removed or replaced their PeopleSoft customizations once they transitioned to Oracle Cloud HCM.
Learn:
- • What controls and configuration options customers have with Oracle Cloud HCM
- • About the Experience Design Studio in Oracle Cloud HCM
- • How PeopleSoft customers can replace their existing customizations when transitioning to Oracle Cloud HCM
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Heather Mcaninch
Sr. Principal Product Advisor, HCM Cloud Customer Connect
Oracle
Heather has a combination of 20 years SaaS application management internet-based e-business survey software and 11 years extensive retail background. She has been with Oracle for 7 years, focusing on customer transformation and implementation best practices for successful Cloud adoption.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathermcaninch/
Overview:
Title: What you get with Oracle Cloud HCM that you cannot get with PeopleSoft
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
PeopleSoft HCM has over 25 years of functionality built into the system with a healthy roadmap of chatbots, analytics, and modernization projects. However, Oracle Cloud HCM has all that, plus offers built-in features, technologies, and a more rapid pace of innovation that allows your organization to re-imagine your HR business processes to meet the expectations of your employees and needs of your HR administrators. This session will introduce you to Oracle’s innovations with the cloud product line and highlights of functionality available in the cloud that is not, and will not be, available in PeopleSoft HCM.
Learn:
- • What key features are available in Oracle Cloud HCM that are not in PeopleSoft HCM
- • How Oracle Cloud HCM offers integrated technologies to provide new and better ways to address HR processes
- • How new features and technologies are made available at a faster pace than what is provided in PeopleSoft
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Heather Mcaninch
Sr. Principal Product Advisor, HCM Cloud Customer Connect
Oracle
Experienced HCM professional with over 22 years experience implementing, designing, developing and defining strategy for Human Capital Management software applications. Deep process and technology expertise spanning global human resources, talent management, analytics and security as well as broad industry and country knowledge and experience. Specialties: Global Human Resources, Compensation, Reporting and Analytics, Data Privacy, Global Deployments, Product Strategy and Development.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-estell-zoder-9b0648/
Overview:
Title: Oracle Cloud Compensation – A modern, comprehensive, and intuitive application for handling merit, bonus, and stock cycles at your organization
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
Oracle Cloud Compensation is one of the very first applications developed by the Cloud applications team and deployed by customers. This session will review how Compensation changes are handled in the Cloud through self-service and by the Compensation Administrator. We will also share customer success stories where PeopleSoft customers transitioned to Oracle Cloud Compensation to handle their merit, bonus, and stock cycles.
Learning Objectives:
- • To learn how the Oracle Cloud Compensation application works
- • To learn how the Oracle Cloud Compensation application is different from PeopleSoft
- • To learn about the experiences of PeopleSoft customers transitioning to Oracle Cloud Compensation
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Dave O’Meara
Director, Product Strategy
Oracle
Strategy Director for HCM Cloud Compensation and Cloud Benefits, planning the future direction for both products and working with the Product Management and Development teams to achieve it. Previously Oracle UK HR Consulting, specializing in Oracle Compensation, business analysis and HR implementations.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-o-meara-8b01715/
Paolo Zulato
Director Fusion HMC Product Management
Oracle
Product Management Director responsible for the Compensation portfolio in HCM Cloud. More than 20 years experience in HCM ERP applications. I joined Oracle in 1999 and worked 8 years in Consulting before joining Product Development in 2007.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/paolozulato/
Overview:
Title: How are integrations between third party vendors and agencies handled in Oracle Cloud HCM?
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
As a long-time PeopleSoft customer, you likely have many important external systems and providers that depend on data from your PeopleSoft system of record on a regular basis. How would that change if your organization were to transition to Oracle Cloud HCM? In this session, we will start with the overall integration strategy for Oracle Cloud HCM. Then we will explore specific examples of how Oracle Cloud HCM customers integrate with third-party payroll systems, benefits providers, time clocks, and learning systems. We will review the native integration capabilities including APIs, extracts, event-based integration, data disposal capabilities, and payroll interface. We will also cover how you can build custom integrations to various cloud and on-premise solutions.
Learning Objectives:
- • To learn what integrations are delivered with Cloud HCM and the tools available to configure them
- • To learn best practices for handling data migration, imports/exports, and real-time integrations
- • To learn what other PeopleSoft customers experienced with their journey to the Cloud when integrating with third parties
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Prabu Iyer
Director, Product Strategy
Oracle
Prabu Iyer is a strategy lead for Oracle Cloud HCM Technology capabilities. Prabu has spent over 20 years in Technology Consulting, Product Management and Strategy roles at Oracle.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/prabuiyer/
Overview:
Title: Reporting in Oracle Cloud HCM
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
Explore the reporting options available in Cloud HCM to help you understand the strengths of each option. We will visit the resources available to you on Customer Connect which help you get started using OTBI and BI Publisher. Finally, we will demonstrate the ease of building an OTBI report.
Learning:
- • About the different reporting options available in Cloud HCM
- • About the resources available to customers to help with reporting in Cloud HCM
- • How easy report creation can be using OTBI
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Julian Challenger
Product Manager, HCM Cloud and OTBI
Oracle
Product Manager Director for HCM Cloud Global HR OTBI with almost 20 years working in BI within Oracle.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julianchallenger/
Raghavendra Raghunath
Senior Principal Product Manager, BI Applications
Oracle
HCM Analytics Product Manager. Working on OTBI, covering the full suite of Cloud HCM. In the team since 2011.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/raghavendra-wr-ba90aa8/
Overview:
Title: Performance Management in Oracle Cloud
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
Performance Management is an integral part of managing your talent and ensuring you invest in the right people who contribute the most to your organization’s bottom line. In this session, we will discuss key components of the Oracle Cloud Performance Management application including how you can flexibly manage goals, make continuous Performance Management a reality, and connect across your talent and compensation processes. We will also demonstrate product highlights and answer your questions.
Learning Objectives:
- • To understand the key areas of Oracle Cloud Performance Management
- • To learn about some of the similarities and differences between PeopleSoft ePerformance and Oracle Cloud Performance Management
- • To see short demos of how Oracle Cloud Performance Management works
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Christine Yokoi
Senior Director, Product Strategy, Oracle Cloud HCM
Oracle
Christine Yokoi is responsible for Human Capital Management product strategy for Oracle Cloud HCM applications, with a focus on talent management. She works with customers, partners, and industry experts to shape the product direction for the talent management suite. Christine has 20 years of industry expertise in various roles including product development, product marketing, and sales support for Oracle and PeopleSoft. Part of this time she was based in Japan and she has traveled globally to meet with customer organizations and understand their human capital management business needs. Prior to PeopleSoft, Christine consulted financial institution clients in Asia and the U.S. at financial risk management software firm Kamakura Corporation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Keio University in Japan.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yumiko-christine-yokoi/
Neeraj Narang
Director- HCM Product Strategy
Oracle
Neeraj Narang is a Senior Human Resources evangelist with diversified experience in HCM. He has reengineered & digitized various HCM processes at major growth brands. He helps organizations employ robust quality and development programs in HR and enable them attract, grow and retain high potential talent. It results in HR transformation to provide more than expected ROI. He is envisioning the future needs of HR & instrumental in devising the HCM product Strategy. He is also an avid speaker at various HCM events and Management Institutes.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/neerajnarang/
Overview:
Title: Mythbusting: “Is the Cloud nimble enough to support our dynamic requirements?”
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
One of the biggest myths about cloud technology is that it is not adaptive to the needs of your business. However, customers have found Oracle Cloud HCM to be incredibly responsive and configurable. Join Oracle and IBM PeopleSoft and Cloud experts for a discussion about how Cloud HCM is supporting the dynamic workforce environments of customers who have upgraded from on-premises systems to Oracle Cloud HCM. This includes customers with highly mobile and remote workforces, and with continuous responsive requirements for things like changing schedules, updating skills and personalizing experiences.
Learning Objectives:
- • Hear about customer challenges, and how Cloud HCM solved them
- • Gain and understanding of how Cloud HCM can adapt to your business requirements
- • Explore the remote access and security available to you with Cloud HCM
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Floyd Teter
Senior Director, Cloud HCM Services
Oracle
Floyd Teter is a Sr. Director in the Oracle Cloud HCM Development organization’s Center of Excellence, where he recently led the rollout of Responsive User Experience for Cloud HCM customers. Floyd has been with Oracle for over six years and has over 25 years of experience with Oracle Applications. He is a former Vice-President of the Oracle Applications and Technology Users Group, and his Twitter feed was once named as one of 50 that every Oracle user should follow.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/fteter/
Heather Mcaninch
Sr. Principal Product Advisor, HCM Cloud Customer Connect
Oracle
Heather has a combination of 20 years SaaS application management internet-based e-business survey software and 11 years extensive retail background. She has been with Oracle for 7 years, focusing on customer transformation and implementation best practices for successful Cloud adoption.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathermcaninch/
Overview:
Title: Mythbusting: “Is the Cloud secure enough for Government HR Systems?”
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
PeopleSoft is used by an extensive number of customers in the U.S. Federal government. A key concern customers’ have in moving to the cloud is keeping control of their data, or ensuring the data structure meets their requirements. Yet many government agencies are making the move, while others are asking how and why? Join us for a discussion about structuring the information governments require, and supporting the layers of security governments are demanding.
Gain and understanding of how Oracle Cloud HCM Security:
- • is built-in from the core
- • is multi-layered to support customer needs
- • for Government organizations goes even deeper
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Nancy Estell-Zoder
VP, Product Strategy
Oracle
Experienced HCM professional with over 22 years experience implementing, designing, developing and defining strategy for Human Capital Management software applications. Deep process and technology expertise spanning global human resources, talent management, analytics and security as well as broad industry and country knowledge and experience. Specialties: Global Human Resources, Compensation, Reporting and Analytics, Data Privacy, Global Deployments, Product Strategy and Development.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-estell-zoder-9b0648/
Overview:
Title: Mythbusting: “Is the cost benefit of the Cloud proven?”
Duration: 45 mins
Description:
Putting a business case together to rationalize a cloud migration strategy can be daunting. Many customers have had to do exactly that, and have the results to prove why it makes great business sense to invest in the move to Oracle Cloud HCM. Join Robbin Velayedam, Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management, Oracle and Snehal Chaniyara, Senior Vice President, Customer Success for Oracle Cloud Applications, Evosys, to hear about Sensient Technologies success with moving from PeopleSoft to Oracle Cloud HCM.
Learn About Sensient Technologies:
- • Business case for moving to cloud
- • Cloud HCM adoption
- • Benefits experienced from their cloud migration
Speakers:
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, PeopleSoft HCM Product Management
Oracle
Robbin has spent most of his professional career designing and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in product management since release 7.0. He has worked as an analyst in a variety of functional areas including Approvals & Delegations, Analytics, Self Service, and Fluid. As Senior Director of PeopleSoft HCM Product Strategy, he and his team serve as a conduit between customers, partners, and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new PeopleSoft functionality. Robbin maintains a strong relationship with PeopleSoft customers and the partner ecosystem through customer visits, webinars, partner summits, customer advisory boards, special interest groups, user groups, and user conferences.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rvelayedam/
Nancy Estell-Zoder
VP, Product Strategy
Oracle
14+ years’ experience in the world of Oracle applications; starting from consulting to solution architect, project management, program management, sales consulting, practice management, owning P&L for a country and speaking at public events. Snehal has worked with a variety of customers from different industries and regions globally to help them either evaluate the best-fit solution, implementing and/or
supporting Oracle Cloud and/or Oracle on-premise applications. Currently his focus is on helping customers evaluate and implement Oracle Cloud Applications.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/snehalchaniyara/