Birds of a Feather
Network with attendees from your industry or phase of cloud transformation
At Modern Finance Experience, take the opportunity to expand your network with peers in your same industry, or in the same phase of cloud transformation, during breakfast on Wednesday or Thursday morning. These are informal roundtables designed to facilitate relevant conversations with like-minded attendees. Table occupancy is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Get there early!
Below are a few samples of what will be available and sample topics.
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Wednesday, February 14 | 7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Financial Services
- Security of financial data
- Compliance regulations
- Need for business agility
- Real-time data to be competitive
Healthcare
- Compliance, security, and reform
- Competition for talent
- Provider economies of scale
- Emerging technologies (Blockchain for secure medication, electronic medical records; IoT for patient monitoring; AI/ML for fraud detection, standards of care)
Higher Ed
- Consumerization of IT (mobile, social, cloud)
- Decreased funding
- Increased pressure to rationalize costs
- Deluge of data
HiTech
- Accelerating innovation
- Growth pressure creating need for new revenue streams
- Product lifecycles shrinking, making first-to-market more critical
- Relentless margin pressure
Manufacturing
- Leveraging data visibility
- Pressure around accelerated growth and increased profitability
- Shift to service business models
- Reducing cost and having a connected supply chain
Retail
- Increasing customer demands and experiences
- Supply chain disruptions
- Talent pool
- Changing competitive landscape
- Explosion of consumer data
Travel/Transportation
- Economic factors
- Consumer expectation of personalized experience
- Realize benefits of scaling across travel experience
- M&A activity and strategic partnerships
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Thursday, February 15 | 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Live on Oracle Finance Cloud Solution(s)
- Suggested KPI Metrics
- Customer Reference Program
- Strategies to get the most out of investments
- Maximizing training opportunities
- Community Forum and Resources
Purchased a Cloud Solution
- Enacting Change Management program
- How to make ‘go-live to productivity’ faster and easier
Exploring Cloud Solutions
- Transformation triggers
- Move to cloud justification
- Customer to cloud program
- Customer success stories
Expand Cloud with Emerging Technologies
- Disruptive technologies supporting the intelligent finance function