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
Speakers: 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
Speaker: 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Inside QAD's Latest Transformation 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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, President, Redzone

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 Reactive to Proactive: Turning Global Trade Complexity Into Competitive Advantage
Speaker: Roy Arguelles, President, Supply Chain Solutions

Global trade complexity is accelerating beyond what manufacturers can manage through manual processes alone. Discover how AI and human expertise can work together to transform reactive compliance into proactive trade intelligence. Learn how faster, better-informed decisions can protect revenue, margins, and customer relationships while creating a competitive advantage.

Start Now. Build Momentum. Deliver Results.
Speaker: Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO

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 where to start, and how to move forward with confidence.