JD Edwards – Go 9!
Gary Grieshaber, Sr. Director, Oracle JD Edwards Product Management

At Quest West you'll hear about the continuing success and growth in the JD Edwards products for World and EnterpriseOne customers, partners and prospects. You will also learn about Oracle’s ongoing commitment to the JD Edwards product with the announcement of the New Premier Support Timeline for latest releases of Oracle’s JD Edwards as well as the new Upgrade Tools that are available.  Look for updates on achieving high ROI and low TCO by upgrading to new releases, adding new modules and applications such as Apparel and Fulfillment. Finally, Oracle will share the ongoing roadmap taking JD Edwards World and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne forward through the decade and beyond.

IBM Keynote - Information Governance 

Gary Brunell, Senior Solutions Architect

Today more than ever, organizations need to make faster decisions based on the information at hand while dealing with increasing privacy risks and the ever growing requirements to comply with regulations.  All of this is driving organizations to recognize the need to take a more strategic approach to managing information.   For these reasons, information governance is an increasingly important area that is directly tied to an organization’s ability to enhance the quality, protect, audit, manage and ultimately increase the value of your organization’s enterprise information throughout its lifecycle — into Trusted Information.  Join Gary Brunell, Senior Solutions Architect at IBM, as he discusses the core information governance disciplines that can help enhance your organization’s capabilities by leveraging people, process and technology to ensure your enterprise information is of highest quality,  protected and managed throughout its life-cycle.

Closing Keynote Leadership in Challenging Times with Grand Prize and Exhibitor Giveaways
Dan Mulhern, Expert on Leadership and Changing Roles of Men and Women

Feel like you’re constantly putting out fires? Has the return to prosperity not generated easy times? We remain in an environment of tremendous uncertainty. The current conditions test a leader’s mettle. Budgets remain tight, payrolls haven’t recovered, and people are still doing more with less. Challenging times require changing the way you operate, for the better. From his experience with working in Michigan, one of the most tumultuous economies, Dan Mulhern offers tested methods for getting your people to live in the moment and to lead in it. Mulhern will inspire your audience to move beyond their fear of change and instead welcome the challenges before them. He will help individuals and organization develop a new mindset of “hardiness” and creative energy necessary to sustain business in chronically tight times.

Dan Mulhern is a nationally recognized expert in the fields of leadership, gender and organizational culture. As a senior advisor to Families and Work Institute, Mulhern is dedicated to helping individuals, businesses and organizations vigilantly work to mutually promote the strength of family and the productivity of work. Now teaching courses on leadership, gender and work at the Haas School of Business and Boalt Law School at the University of California, Berkeley, Mulhern leverages his experience to offer valuable insight on cultural changes happening in today’s workplaces. Through his work as a public speaker, radio personality, writer, leadership coach, and consultant in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, Mulhern has inspired thousands to lead with their best self.

Mulhern has written two books on leadership, Everyday Leadership: Getting Results in Business, Politics and Life and Be Real: Inspiring Stories For Leading At Home And Work. He is co-writing A Governor’s Story with his wife, Jennifer Granholm. The book, which is scheduled for release this year, discusses leadership during difficult times and periods of intense change, focusing in particular on how Granholm led Michigan out of its major economic meltdown. For more than ten years, Mulhern has been writing an acclaimed blog, “Reading for Leading,” which is received directly by a growing list of 13,000 readers. In addition, he hosts a weekly talk radio show, “Everyday Leadership: Making Work Work,” which is broadcast across the state of Michigan on the Michigan Talk Network.

All customers should plan to stay through this session, as there are typically more than 10 chances to win great prizes from AMEX gift cards (up to $400) and other great techy prizes.  Many are must be present to win, including the grand prizes from Quest.

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