7:30 - 9:00 AM

Conference Check-In and Group Breakfast

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9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

General Session

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

Kick off the event with a showcase of our Champion Pioneers—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 Change Tsunami: Thriving in Disruption
Speaker: Aidan McCullen, Author, Founder of the Reinvention Summit, and Host of The Innovation Show Podcast

Change rarely arrives without warning. Change Tsunami explores how leaders can recognise the signals of disruption, understand why people and organisations resist change, and act before the wave becomes impossible to ignore. Through powerful stories and practical frameworks, Aidan McCullen shows how to challenge assumptions, overcome inertia and build the capability for Permanent Reinvention.

Champions in Action: From Workflow to Outcome
Speaker: Anam Rahman, VP of GTM - ChampionAI

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
Speakers: JoAnne Evans, Executive Director of IT, Tenneco; Tim Jackson, Transformation Director, Pukka Pies

Hear directly from manufacturers 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.

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12:00 - 1:00 PM

Networking Lunch

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1:00 - 3:00 PM

General Session

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

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.

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3:30 - 5:00 PM

Breakout Sessions

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Champion Assist for SRM
Speaker: Can Koku, Product Manager - SRM

Explore how Champion Assist brings a natural language interface to QAD SRM, helping users query, navigate, and take action inside the system without switching tools or breaking their workflow.

Speed to Value: Real Deployment Stories and the Operational Pace to Move Fast
Speaker: Sumit Sinha, Head of Applied AI

Learn how organizations are accelerating deployment timelines by aligning stakeholders, reducing complexity, and cutting through internal friction. This session covers the leadership decisions, operating models, and implementation approaches that help manufacturers skip the slow handoffs and deliver measurable outcomes in months, not years.

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Champions at Work: How Role-Based AI Agents Optimize Execution and Drive Decision Velocity
Speaker: Izu Rahman, Solutions Consultant - ChampionAI

See how live, in-market Champions are running in production today, including Procurement, Sourcing, Sales, and the new Accounts Payable. This session puts AI in action, walking through how each Champion connects fragmented data, cuts manual handoffs, and accelerates the path from insight to automated action.

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Driving Future-Ready Manufacturing: From ERP to AI-Driven Decisioning

Speaker: Amol Karandikar, Head - Manufacturing Innovation & Transformation, Europe, Tata Consultancy Services

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Manufacturing advantage increasingly depends on turning signals into decisions and decisions into action. This discussion will explore how modern ERP, AI, advanced analytics, Agentic AI, and Physical AI are enabling real-time decisioning and adaptive operations, helping manufacturers accelerate execution, strengthen resilience, and deliver measurable outcomes at scale.

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What if your ERP could finally understand how your business really runs and talk to you about it?

Speaker: Simon Pioche, Director, Data Science & Process Intelligence

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Across critical processes - Order to Cash, Accounts Payable, Production, and Maintenance - imagine simply asking what’s slowing down, where compliance is breaking, or why rework keeps happening. Instead of navigating ERP screens and Process Mining dashboards, an AI agent investigates your QAD ERP data, identifies the root causes, predicts what could happen next, and explains it in a conversation. This is where ERP stops just recording your processes and starts understanding them with you.

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The Future of Procurement is Still Human. AI Just Makes it Smarter.

Speakers: Kay Werner, Director of Product Marketing, Industry Verticals; Daniel Windisch, Sr. Business Process Expert - Purchasing, AVL List; Martina Winkler, Head of Digital Transformation, Process Management & Contract Governance, Kromberg & Schubert; Marie Bendova, Team Leader for Purchasing Processes and Tools, Mubea

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AI is changing procurement fast, but the fundamentals haven't disappeared. In this panel, experienced procurement leaders share how they've navigated supplier risk, digitalized their processes, and are thinking about AI's role going forward. The conversation covers what's already changed, what still requires human judgment, and what's coming next. No predictions, just real experience from teams who've lived it.

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ChampionAI Architecture, Governance & Secure Enterprise Integration
Speaker: Rajeev Purohit, Head of Engineering - ERP & Supply Chain

Understand how ChampionAI operates across workflows, systems, and operational environments to create a connected system of action across the business.

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From Signal to Action: How QAD is Rethinking Manufacturing Intelligence
Speakers: Chaitanya Josyula, Head of Product, Platform - ERP; Rajeev Purohit, Head of Engineering - ERP & Supply Chain

Every manufacturer has the same gap: the data is in the ERP, but the understanding isn't. This session covers the vision of how ChampionAI's capabilities work together as a platform, what makes it different from the AI your teams use today, and where it's going.

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What's Next: The QAD Roadmap for Adaptive ERP, ChampionAI, and SRM
Speakers: Nancy Majure, Head of Product - Adaptive ERP; Sumit Sinha, Head of Applied AI; Can Koku, Product Manager - SRM

The best manufacturing platforms don't just keep pace with change, they anticipate it. This session walks through the strategic direction for QAD's three core pillars: Adaptive ERP, the ChampionAI platform, and SRM. See what's coming, understand how the pieces connect, and hear directly from QAD on the investments being made to help manufacturers move faster, operate smarter, and modernize without disruption.

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Redzone, The Connected AI Platform for the Frontline

Speakers: Ryan Marshall, Regional Director, Redzone; Jean-Pierre Chalhoub, Solutions Director, Redzone

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If you are new to Redzone, this session will introduce you to the number one connected AI platform for the frontline, built around four modules: Productivity, Quality, Maintenance, and Learning. If you are already a Redzone user, this session is your benchmark, a look at how other plants, and our community of more than 2,000 plants globally, are putting Redzone to work every day, so you can compare notes and walk away with ideas. Either way, this session comes with a twist, a first look at Redzone Scheduling. We will also cover the results ChampionAI is already driving across all modules. Come with questions, and bring them straight to the Redzone demo zone afterward, where we will show you live demos.

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Redzone ChampionAI: Shop Floor Agents That Solve Real Problems

Speakers: Ron Davis, SVP, Engineering, Redzone; Ken Fisher, President, Redzone; Jean-Pierre Chalhoub, Solutions Director, Redzone

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This session is where we separate the signal from the noise. We go deeper into what ChampionAI actually does, why it's grounded in your own plant data rather than generic model guesswork, and why that distinction is what lets leaders defend it internally, not just admire it.  You will see results from factories that have deployed ChampionAI and how their frontline teams are now solving problems 10X faster and getting a head of them before problems even occur.  You will be among the first anywhere to see new Redzone Champions and capabilities we're unveiling in Munich.

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Record Results in Record Time: Proof from the Shop Floor in 90 Days

Speaker: Zack Sosebee, SVP, Operations, Redzone

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This is the benchmark, made real. Zack Sosebee brought the receipts, real production lines, real numbers, a 26% productivity uplift on average, an 81% engagement increase, a 35% turnover reduction, and a 90-day clock instead of a 12-month project plan. If session one showed you the platform and session two showed you where the AI is headed, this is where you see what happens when it all lands on an actual shop floor, and how quickly it gets there. Whether you sign the budget, run the plant, or have to explain the return to someone who does, this is the session that answers the only question that matters, how fast, and how sure. Walk straight from here to the demo zone and see the same platform running on today's data.

Inside Lynx Champion
Speaker: Chaitanya Josyula, Head of Product, Platform - ERP

Every manufacturer has years of ERP customizations that made perfect sense at the time, but they lack a clear picture of the cost to abandon them. That uncertainty doesn't just slow modernization down. It stops it entirely. Migration isn't the risk. Not knowing what you built is. This session shows what it looks like when a transformation Champion finally makes the invisible visible.

Scaling Trade Compliance With AI: Every Champion Needs a Champion
Speaker: Joshua Guy, VP of Global Trade Compliance Strategy

Tariffs move, sanctions lists grow, origin claims get challenged — and the answer has never been more headcount. The manufacturers winning here aren't out-hiring the complexity; they're giving their trade experts leverage. This session shows how QAD Global Trade Compliance brings ChampionAI into daily compliance work through our Trade Compliance Champion: classification recommendations that arrive with their rationale, trade documents read and validated automatically, and continuous screening against maintained lists.

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6:30 PM

International Community Awards and Group Dinner

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Join us for the inaugural QAD | Redzone International Community Awards, honoring outstanding teams and individual contributors from around the world. Guests are invited to celebrate this year's award winners and their achievements in operational excellence and continuous improvement.

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