Stronger Together: ERP Upgrade Insights Powered by the QAD Community
Moderator: Scott Dulecki, Autokiniton

ERP transformation doesn’t happen in isolation. In this highly interactive session, customer panelists share how engagement with the QAD User Group community helped them navigate complex upgrade challenges, leverage best practices, and avoid common pitfalls. Featuring both on-stage and audience discussion, this session brings forward the collective intelligence of the community—delivering actionable insights you can take back to your organization.

Session Details

Session Details

AI Is Real. It’s Working. And It’s Changing the Game Now.
Speaker: Sanjay Brahmawar

Kick off the event with a showcase of our Champion Trailblazers—manufacturers that have migrated to Adaptive ERP or implemented ChampionAI to drive real results. This session proves AI is practical, easier to deploy than expected, and delivering measurable financial impact today.

The Exponential Shift: Why AI Is Changing Manufacturing Faster Than You Think
Speaker: Dr. Peter H. Diamandis, Founder of XPRIZE and Executive Founder of Singularity University

This high-impact session unpacks how AI and exponential technologies are rapidly reshaping manufacturing and outpacing traditional planning cycles. As cost pressures, disruption, and performance demands converge, incremental improvement is no longer enough. This session reframes the pace of change, creates urgency, and challenges leaders to adopt real-time, adaptive operating models to stay competitive.

Champions in Action: From Workflow to Outcome
Speakers: Sanjay Brahmawar, Ron Davis, Anam Rahman

This session shows how AI can be embedded directly into existing workflows to deliver immediate, practical value—without disruption. Through real-world examples, you’ll see how AI supports day-to-day operations and how it can be scaled over time within your current environment, making it easier to apply where it matters most.

From Complexity to Results: A Real Manufacturing Story
Speaker: QAD Customer

Hear directly from a manufacturer applying AI within live operations to drive measurable business results—without a large-scale, disruptive transformation. This session walks through the full journey, from the need for change to implementation, challenges faced, and the outcomes achieved post go-live.

Insight Isn’t Enough. Execution Is What Matters.
Speaker: Sanjay Brahmawar

This session explores why AI investments often fall short—and how to fix it. Learn why true performance and financial impact come not from insight alone, but from how AI is applied within day-to-day execution. By reframing the role of AI from analysis to action, this session shows what needs to change to unlock meaningful results.

Speed, Visibility, and Winning
Speaker: Scottie Pippen, Six-time NBA Champion and Hall of Famer

This Q&A discussion will explore the leadership principles that separate good organizations from championship organizations, and why sustained success ultimately depends on helping people perform at their best.

Adaptive ERP: The Intelligent Backbone | How Manufacturers Modernize, Operationalize AI, and Build Systems of Action
Speaker: Amit Sharma

Many organizations have delayed modernization efforts because they believe the cost, complexity, and disruption outweigh the benefits. Others worry that modernization requires abandoning the business logic, workflows, and processes that make their organizations unique.

This session directly addresses those concerns by providing a practical modernization story built around real customer experiences, implementation lessons, partner expertise, and one of the most important innovations introduced during the event: Lynx Champion.

The session demonstrates what manufacturers can do today, how organizations are modernizing successfully, how customizations can be preserved, and how AI becomes operationalized within day-to-day execution and provides visibility into where the platform is headed so attendees understand both the immediate opportunity and the longer-term vision.

• Architecture & Integration
• Implementation & Modernization
• Connected Workforce Excellence
• AI Strategy & Workflow Design
• Product & Platform Roadmaps
• Theater: Speed to Value
• Theater: AI in Action
• Theater: Execution at Scale

Unwind after a full day of sessions with an evening at Wrigley Field as the Chicago Cubs take on the Miami Marlins. This is an opportunity to experience one of Chicago’s most iconic settings while continuing conversations beyond the conference floor.

From Proof to Action: Here’s How to Do It
Speaker: Sanjay Brahmawar

This session turns possibility into practicality—showing manufacturers how to apply what they’ve seen throughout the event within their own operations starting now. Attendees will leave with a clear, actionable path forward, connecting real-world examples and proven outcomes to the next steps they can take to drive impact quickly.

The Frontline: Where Results Actually Change | AI, People, and Performance in Practice
Speaker: Ken Fisher

Learn how better decision-making and execution on the frontline drive measurable gains in plant performance. Through a real-world implementation journey, attendees will see how frontline teams are using technology in practice to improve productivity, responsiveness and execution. Grounded entirely in real experience, this session connects frontline change directly to business results.

From First Use Case to Financial Results
Speakers: Patrick Min, Aphena Pharma Solutions, and Kevin Davis, AmSafe Aviation

See how AI translates into real financial outomes, not just insight. Patrick Min and Kevin Davis will show how prioritizing the “vital few” use cases and applying AI within execution—such as automating procurement workflows or reducing decision latency across planning and production—drives measurable impact. With expectations for results in as little as 8 to 12 weeks and examples of AI taking on a significant portion of transactional work, the session makes clear how to start small, prove value quickly, and scale with confidence.

The Cost of Waiting and the Opportunity to Move Now
Speaker: Sanjay Brahmawar

Close out the event with a session that showcases ways to achieve quick wins with AI, and build momentum over time without unnecessary risk or disruption. Attendees will leave with a clearer understanding of the impact on growth and performance and how to move forward with confidence.