Agenda
April 26-29, Las Vegas
Sunday April 26th
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12:00 pm
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7:30 pm
Welcome Reception at Lakeside Restaurant, Wynn Hotel
Monday April 27th
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7:00 am
Registration
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7:00 am
Breakfast
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9:00 am
Opening Keynote
Giovanni Grossi – Chief Executive Office at Board International
Dominic Policella – Chief Revenue Office at Board International -
9:30 am
Guest keynote
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10:30 am
Coffee break & Expo
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11:00 am
Keynote speaker
Pietro Ferrari – Chief Technology Officer at Board International
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11:30 am
FP&A Transformation at Honda of the UK Manufacturing: the Value of Integrated Planning
William Howell – Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Manager at Honda of the UK Manufacturing
A case study from the field giving a view into the integrated planning capabilities of Board beyond the traditional FP&A boundaries. Learn about Honda’s Board experience from product selection, implementation, benefits and ongoing usage in a fast paced & highly complex manufacturing environment.
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12:00 pm
Keynote Speaker
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12:30 pm
Keynote Speaker
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1:00 pm
Networking Lunch & Expo
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2:15 pm3:15 pm
Business Track
Board Digital Boardroom: transform C-Level and enterprise reportingUnderstand how digital transformation has revolutionized the preparation of traditional Board and Management reporting. Learn how Board can give senior decision makers a 360-degree view of the enterprise spanning across legal entities, departments, and organizational levels. See how real-time insight into the business can help them to more readily monitor, simulate, and support business change to meet the expectations of key stakeholders.
Business Track
Extending Board to the Supply Chain: how to create a demand-driven, end-to-end S&OP processSee from Toolsgroup, a Supply Chain specialised Board partner, how to effectively align your supply with demand, safeguarding service levels and profitability while rapidly transforming insights into operational actions.
Academy
Go Live Strategy: Board Performance Stress TestWhat’s your strategy for a successful Go Live? How to position and plan a Performance Stress Test as part of the delivery of a Board Solution.
Academy
Project Life Cycle: Transporter 2.0Discover the new Transporter 2.0. Leverage the two distinct layers, the data model snapshot, and the transporter package to break up roles and responsibilities.
Hands-on Basic
Explore your data and run effective analysisBecome self-sufficient in reporting and data analysis. Learn how to create an effective report to visualize and navigate your data from the highest aggregation to the lowest detail, leveraging drill down, select, and filtering options.
Hands-on Advanced
Create an Administration Capsule to manage and maintain your planning processNeed to manage your application from a single point? Learn how to create an administration capsule to administer your process. Build all the screens you need to manage the calendar options, insert new occurrences, and maintain all the hierarchies and parameters needed to run your planning process.
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4:00 pm
Coffee Break & Expo
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4:30 pm
Peer2Peer
Meet the Management
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8:00 pm
Dinner and DJ Set at XS Nightclub, Encore Hotel
Tuesday April 28th
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7:00 am
Breakfast
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9:00 am
Guest Keynote
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10:00 am
Keynote Speaker
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10:30 am
Keynote Speaker
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11:00 am
Coffee Break & Expo
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11:30 am
Customer Panel
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12:30 pm
Partner Session
Partner Sessions -
1:15 pm
Networking Lunch & Expo
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2:15 pm3:15 pm
Business Track
The benefit of a platform approach to Financial ConsolidationDiscover how to streamline the Financial Consolidation process and make it more effective through Board’s reporting, analysis, and planning capabilities.
Business Track
Integrated Business Planning: how to to build an end-to-end planning workflow across your enterpriseDiscover how to make your decision-making more effective, busting data silos, eliminating cross-functional disconnects, and improving collaboration. Learn how the IBP approach can deliver an end-to-end workflow that ensures full coordination of operational departments, complete financial alignment, the removal of bottlenecks, and the promotion of efficiency and business partnering.
Academy
Data Audit & logs: keep your process under controlTake advantage of the main Board logs to monitor data entry actions and user activities. Learn how to integrate this auditing process within your planning process.
Academy
Data Visualization walkthroughBe inspired by the new Board objects and enhancements to enable the creation of beautiful, more effective capsules and better visualize your data.
Hands-on Basic
Create interactive dashboards and impactful reportsTurn data into results! Visualize your business performance using powerful dashboards. Thanks to a wide selection of gauges, dataviews, charts, widgets, and other data-aware objects, learn how to build appealing screens and provide a visual overview of Corporate Performance and the main trends & KPIs.
Hands-on Advanced
Simulate different scenarios, enhancing advanced data entry options and keeping your plan under controlAnticipate future outcomes by simulating different business assumptions. Learn how to use advanced data entry functionalities such as cell-freezing, calculated fields, and suggested values. Prevent data entry errors using alerts and dataflows.
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4:00 pm
Coffee Break & Expo
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4:30 pm5:30 pm
Business Track
Driving Sales and Marketing Performance through Unified Planning and AnalyticsLearn how to use Board to boost your sales and marketing processes, making the most of your CRM data.
See how the unified Board decision-making platform can help connect people, data, and processes in a single environment to support territory and quota planning, account scoring and segmentation, incentives and compensation management, and sales forecasting and analytics.Business Track
HR Planning and Performance Management with BoardEver considered Board for your HR function? Discover how Board empowers HR professionals with a collaborative environment to effectively run workforce planning, budgeting, and forecasting; manage personnel costs; and govern the employee performance management process.
Academy
The New Data LockerBe inspired by the Split & Splat function and learn how to combine it with the new Data Locker. Discover how to leverage this new functionality for allocation, budgeting, and forecasting processes.
Academy
Board Identity ProviderChange your perspective and discover the new access management platform. Learn how to take advantage of powerful new properties, manage user privileges, and securely connect all your environments & applications.
Hands-on Basic
Streamline your process flowSimplify the navigation path, guiding the users across the different areas of your application. Learn how to create a navigation flow using the menu object, relying on presentations or creating a customized screen using labels and buttons.
Hands-on Advanced
Adopt BEAM predictive capabilities to enhance your budgeting and forecastingEmbed advanced analytical and predictive capabilities into your company’s processes. Learn how to produce powerful forecasts and insightful analysis to accelerate your planning process.
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8:00 pm
Gala Dinner & Entertainment at Encore Ballroom
Wednesday April 29th
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7:00 am
Breakfast
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9:15 am10:15 am
Business Track
Easing Disclosure Management and iXBRL reportingStreamline the way you disclose and present financials to stakeholders, complying with the latest rules set by Regulators.
Business Track
Make your Sales Forecasting predictive: a data-driven model to improve accuracy and reliabilityDiscover how to use Board Machine Learning and predictive analytics to improve the accuracy and reliability of your sales forecasting process. See how to create full transparency of the quality of the predicted results to convince business users to effectively make use of advanced data science.
Academy
Board Office Add-inNeed to integrate Board with Microsoft Office? Discover the new Office Add-In functionalities and learn how to effectively integrate your Board application with your Excel data sheets.
Academy
Expander Object & User ExperienceDrive your decision-making process using the new expander object. Learn how to guide the user step-by-step in a controlled process with an engaging user experience.
Hands-on Basic
Move from Analytics to PlanningSwitch from analytics to planning. Build your process and interact easily with your data. Learn how to use the fundamentals of data entry and the powerful Split & Splat function to interact with and modify your data.
Hands-on Advanced
Monitor your Planning Process with a WorkflowSynchronize all your planning activities across the organization to reveal the full picture and drive integrated plans. Learn how to create and configure your workflow, establish roles and responsibilities, and keep all your deadlines under control. Set up all the needed parameters to enrich your application with powerful process management.
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11:00 am
Coffee break & Expo
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11:30 am12:30 pm
Business Track
Streamlining Simulation, Analysis, and Reporting in the Lease Accounting processEnsure Lease Accounting compliance & accountability and instill simulation & analysis capabilities throughout the process to enhance enterprise decision-making.
Business Track
Project Planning and Workforce Management: use cases from real lifeWalk through real applications to see how Board effectively supports workforce planning and enables full control of project phases, resources, and economics.
Academy
Multi-level allocation best practicesNeed to implement a complex allocation? The increase of business complexity is one of the top challenges as models become sophisticated and processes evolve. Learn how to build a multi-level allocation, leveraging Board best practices to implement a consistent model.
Academy
Intercompany Elimination & Group resultsIntegrate flexible intercompany elimination into your business process. Learn how to enrich your current application and merge your group results, keeping all the subsidiaries’ transactions under control.
Hands-on Basic
Keep your data model aligned with new business requirementsMonitor your rapidly-evolving business and adapt your applications to changes. Learn how to handle transformation and enhance your data model, adapting the main Board structures to new requirements. Fine-tune your hierarchies and keep your business logic up-to-date.
Hands-on Advanced
Discover hidden insights and trends in your business through variance analysisAnalyze how your business is performing. Investigate the difference between current and planned behavior and leverage the cause-effect logic to disaggregate the analysis into different layers and explain your financial results.
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1:15 pm
Networking Lunch & Expo