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Ep 119 – Getting Ready for INFOCUS
Episode 1191st September 2026 • The JDE Connection • Chandra Wobschall and Paul Houtkooper
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Chandra and Paul team up for a walkthrough of the INFOCUS conference agenda. The episode features a rapid-fire preview of keynotes, educational sessions, hands-on workshops, SIG meetups, with plenty of tips for newcomers and regulars alike. Highlights include practical advice for navigating session choices, spotlights on hot topics like AI and automation in JD Edwards.

02:54 Midwesternism of the Day

10:00 Sunday Agenda

10:39 Monday Agenda

16:16 Tuesday Agenda

24:00 Wednesday Agenda

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Quest Oracle Community proudly presents The

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JDE Connection, a Quest on-air podcast

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production. This podcast explores and showcases how JDE

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customers are harnessing specific functionality and capabilities to

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drive business success. This

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episode is brought to you by RST Solutions,

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accelerating digital transformation with AI-driven

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business efficiency. Hello, JDE Connection

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listeners. Welcome back. I'm Chandra Wobschall, one

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of your podcast hosts, and I'm the Business Solutions Lead

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at Coloss IS Support. Back with me this week

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is my friend and podcast partner, Paul Hautkooper.

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Vice President of JD Edwards Product Development at Oracle.

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Hey, Paul, how are you today? Boy. That's a

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loaded question, isn't it? Yeah. You know, we don't do video, thank God

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for that, because they'd have to see what I'm

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wearing. As my friends have asked, did I lose a bet?

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No, I didn't. But I have on something

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my father would be very proud of me for, but God, it's god-awful

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purple. Anyway, I feel sorry for those folks up in

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Minnesota because they either got the Minnesota Gophers, which is

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some version of crimson and yellow that we won't go into

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what that is. And then that crimson looks like a stain of some sort,

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or you've got the Vikings and that's purple,

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right? So I don't know. You just don't have any good options up there. But

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anyway, how's it going? Well, we're heading to the Bronco game

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tonight, Vikings-Broncos, and I've got a Vikings

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shirt on. So how good could it possibly be going? It must be going

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very good. That's what I'm saying. Uh, yes.

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Yes, it is. Yes. Wow. You have your colors there. Uh,

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doing some shots. All right. Well, well, you know, this is just

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my way of venting. I mean, I've been called a traitor already today.

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Oh, you had your feelings hurt. Sit there. I have no

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No pride. So there you go. Yeah. Well, you

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know what? Last week I had to don packer gear. So,

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well, that's true. It's time for, for it to be fair. You know,

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it's one thing to upgrade and go to packer gear. It's another thing to have

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to— I don't think that's an upgrade. Wow.

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All right. So how are you? Switching gears

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real quick. Switching gears real quick. Yeah. Nice.

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How did the marathon go? Or wait, maybe that's not the right topic either.

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Boy, you know me well. Well, let's just say it was a

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doozy of a marathon. A doozy, eh? Oh, wow.

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All right. Slipping the Midwesternisms in early, are we?

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Yes. I think we're going to switch it up since, well, I'm going to use

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the term. We might as well explain the term. That's fair. Okay. So

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we can't end an episode without one, but maybe we can start one with one.

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I don't know. Go ahead. We're going to switch things up. So the

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Midwesternism, the term doozy, was actually first

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recorded in eastern Ohio in

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1916. While it's evolved kind of a

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general piece of American slang, it still

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remains a staple of Midwestern vernacular.

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My favorite word. Vernacular. Anyway, it refers to something

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extraordinary, unusual, or outstanding.

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In my case, it's not going to be outstanding, but it can be used

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positively. So maybe it was a doozy of a sunset,

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or negatively, as I have said, that was a doozy

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of a snowstorm. So yes, yes, yes,

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yes. So the marathon was a bit of a doozy.

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So got there on time, relatively early.

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They had sent off the buses. the buses didn't make it back to

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pick up us runners. Well, 2 busloads of us,

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actually. Wow. So by the time the buses finally made it

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back, we're like, we're not going to make this start, knowing that I had

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driven the course the day before. So I knew how long it was going to

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take to get from the start area, well, to the parking area to the

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start line. I was like, math says this isn't going to work.

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My math says. So anyway, We finally get up to

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the start line. As we're driving up there, I should say first, we're passing

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runners. So clearly they've started said race and we're not at the

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start line yet. It's fabulous. So we get up there, get off the bus, and

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they're like, okay, you can start. And we're like, we kind of need an official

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starting. Hey, guess what? No timing mat, no start

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area. Don't even know where to start. The lady's like, oh, you just start here

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at this post. We're like, we still need start time. Just

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some random post on the side of the road in the backwoods

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of Montana. Yeah. There wasn't much up there. So it's not like you

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had a lot of posts to choose from. There was one. Wow. Yeah.

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So anyway, one of the other runners was like, listen, some

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people are here to like officially race this for Boston

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qualifier, for a PR, whatever. They need an official

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start time. So why don't you take all of our bib numbers and start

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us at 7:10? That was the first supposed to be

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start time. Yeah. But then it took a while to get everybody's bib numbers. So

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they decided 7:15. The lady starts the countdown and then

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realizes she doesn't have seconds on her phone that she was using.

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So, yeah. Well, we got off at 7:15,

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supposedly. Every phone has seconds, but we probably don't know how

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to put it into a format that it has seconds. And of course, we

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don't have watches anymore that has seconds.

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Mine does. Well, that's, yeah, we're a different generation.

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That's true. Good point. We're different. So yeah,

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started the race 45 minutes after it was supposed to have

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started. So of course your nutrition's off, you're stressed,

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you're bothered, you're angry. Some people were quite

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angry. And then you're going to be exposed to elements that you

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maybe hadn't anticipated being exposed to, i.e., warmer temps.

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You know, 45 minutes, I could have been done 45 minutes earlier, would have been

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a little bit cooler. But you know what? My A goal went

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out the door at like mile 13 because, oh, and by the way,

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even though the website said it was 70% pavement,

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my math says it was closer to 60%

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pavement. Wow. And gravel in the mountains is not

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country road Midwest gravel. This was very much

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rocky, very uneven washboard type. So trying to

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find a good path on the roads was A little bit of a

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challenge. So picking your line was, yeah, a little bit difficult. Yeah,

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my feet were tired. My feet were like, what is this?

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What are we doing? You know, I guess had I known that, I would have

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trained more on the gravel around here in Colorado, and I

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probably would have worn a hybrid or a trail shoe for this

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race. That's fair. Yeah, just because it really does beat your body up a little

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bit differently. You're using a lot of different muscles in your feet and ankles to

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stabilize that maybe you wouldn't necessarily do on a road.

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So, right, right, for sure. So eagle went out the door

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maybe at like mile 10, 11. Eagle went

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out the door probably about mile 15. It just

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became seagull finish, not don't wreck yourself. Yeah,

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finish and don't wreck yourself. So that's what I did. I focused

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on the beauty of the area around me. The

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views were actually quite beautiful. My goal was just to

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get across that finish line. So, which you, I assume,

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succeeded at. I did. So check off another state.

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We're done with that one. Moving on. Moving on. All right.

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Not soon enough. Wow. What an experience. I mean, the delay

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causes mental issues. The course causes a

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physical issue. The heat as well. The lack of a

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timing mat. I mean, that's just All of that, I mean, everything just kind of

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sets you up for, let's just say, not for success. You got to deal with

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the adversity, which of course you were planning on dealing with because, hey, guess what?

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Running a marathon, you always deal with some level of adversity and you always have

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to problem solve in some way, shape, or form. But— Yes.

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This just threw more variables at you in different ways than you would've

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expected, but you still managed to get through it, which hats off.

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Congratulations. Checked off another state. Yep. We don't have time

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to go in it right now, but I'm sure there are plenty of lessons you

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still— everything's a learning experience, right? Every one of these is a learning

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experience in some way, shape, or form. And I'm sure you pulled out some nuggets

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from this one. Sure did. Absolutely.

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That's what life is, full of learning. So, yep, learned some things and

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I can carry that forward. So I wasn't upset. I mean, I

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was a little upset and disappointed. Yes. But I wasn't

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angry, angry. Things are often out of your control

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and you need to learn what you can control and what you can

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control is how you react. So try to stay positive. For me,

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that included focusing on the beautiful surroundings and

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just, you know, enjoying the time outside. So.

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All right. Like you said, it's always an opportunity to learn. And so is today.

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Yes, we are here to learn. And we'll get into our

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detailed rapid fire, if you will, of all the

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sessions that we thought kind of caught our eye in just one

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moment. Yeah, but then you highlighted like every

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session in the agenda. So

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it is truly going to be rapid fire to get through all 200 sessions.

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It's, it's going to take us a while. So, um, yeah, I guess

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everybody should grab their popcorn and their favorite beverage and just sit back and

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relax and we'll fire at you. Yep. Here we go. Starting Sunday,

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join us for early registration happy hour from 5 to 7

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PM. Yeah, there you go. After that, partner events. So

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if you haven't signed up for those, find your favorite vendor online. Maybe you've

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already gotten emails from them, or maybe you've seen a lot of them

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have posted links to their events on LinkedIn. So hop out there and come

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network. Yeah, be sure to do that because we're not going to go through all

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the ones that we know about because maybe we know about ones that Others don't,

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and they feel guilty. Anyway, we're not gonna go there. Exactly. Moving on. We don't

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wanna hurt anyone's feelings. Yeah. So then it

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starts early on Monday, but before we get into that,

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what's the agenda look like Monday? Just high level. High level, we got

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coffee from 8 o'clock to 8:45. We have

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some sort of welcome and product update or keynote. I don't know, some

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guy's doing that weird— Boring. Boring. Skip it. Yeah, exactly.

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Drink a lot of coffee prior. Then we have from 10:15

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15, we have kickoff networking sessions. From 11:30 to

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30, we have a networking lunch. And then we have

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educational breakout sessions starting from 12:45 all the

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way through 4:15. At 4:30 to 5:30, we

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have a power hour. And then we have a welcome

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reception in the exhibitor showcase from 5:30 to

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7:30 PM. That's high level what Monday looks like. So we'll,

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let's break down what those education sessions. So other than the

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8:45 product update from yours truly, which you guys are

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going to skip, or at least make sure you have enough coffee to get through,

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you know, that's the keynote. That's, you know, we'll have a fun factor. We'll have

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some high-level product updates, try to tee up some of the roadmaps that are happening

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later, pull up some customers, all that fun stuff. So please do show up

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for that. And then I'm not sure what the fun factor is going to be

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yet this year, but we'll figure it out. But then the education sessions, like you

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said, they start in the afternoon, right? 12:45. They do. 12:45.

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A couple of the ones that I wanted to highlight: Automating Employee Lifecycle

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Management in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne. Definitely something I feel

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like every organization struggles with. So I

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think this will be a good session topic at 12:45 on Monday

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with Sunil Swain. And then at 12:45

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as well, It's not you, it's the network. How we stopped

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blaming the scanners and built a scanner wireless foundation for our

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warehouse running JDE with Varun

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Vijayakumar of Aktor. This is something I know

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I've struggled with at organizations I've worked for in the past

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where their manufacturing plants are in smaller communities or out

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kind of in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes you have problems with

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your scanners and the Wi-Fi just not being as fast or

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as reliable. So this one will be interesting to hear how they

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And Varun, just so you know, you came in a close second on the most

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creative name, but you definitely got the longest. Okay.

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So then also at 12:45, there are workshops

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this week. So hopefully when you signed up, you saw some of those workshops that

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you could sign up for. We've got vendors like Denovo and others putting

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these on. I'll mention each one as we go, but the first one is with

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Paul Scheer from Denovo, now part of Argonaut, and he's putting

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on a workshop for AI in Action. So he's going to show you how to

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transform your financials management. with Intelligent Enterprise

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Solutions. So I know AI, we didn't make it very far,

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only 10, 15 minutes into our episode and we're already talking about AI. But

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anyway, check that out, get some hands-on experience using AI. And then

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at the same time, we have JDE 101 with Oracle.

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So what all new users of JD Edwards should

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know. So I wanted to call this one out just because my team likes to

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welcome all the folks that come to these conferences for the first time and maybe

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new to JD Edwards. They may not know the history. They may not know just

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that much about JD Edwards in general. And so this is a great session to

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get kind of the history of JDE and get yourself up to speed.

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So swing by, check it out. Absolutely. At 2:00 PM,

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we have a session called 5 Problems, 1 Pattern: Saving

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1,500 Hours a Month with JDE

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Orchestrations by Jason Foster with Central

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National Gottsman, Inc. This focuses, it looks like, around

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the order to cash, OTC, and procure to pay transactions, which I'm

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sure many customers have a lot of. And then

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at 2 PM, we also have our favorite word, AI-enabled

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sales order automation in JD Edwards, from proof of concept to

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enterprise scale. Vishal Vishkorma with Worthington

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Enterprises. So, we're always looking for those

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AI-enabled ideas. So, here's one to come listen to.

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And then at that 2 o'clock hour, competing with all the other customer

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sessions, comes in Oracle. Talking about visualizing and improving

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business processes using our process modeler, our Enterprise Process Modeler.

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So for those of you curious about how that can help you

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understand some of the roadblocks and blind spots in your

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business process, swing by and Haiyan will give you the latest and

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greatest on that. And then of course, Clayton at the same time will

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provide the updates from product engineering for system

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administration. So that's basically the roadmap for system admin.

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Then at 3:15, we have our first SIG meetup to call out,

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and that is the E1 Tech SIG. Then also at 3:15,

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we have the Business Analyst 101 with Linda Sloan

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Compton of Pinal County Government. So if you're new to JD

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Edwards, this is a great one to hit. Even if you're maybe not

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brand new, it's a good one to go to. You always learn from others in

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the room, I feel like. Well, we usually try to swing by, I believe,

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that one or the Business Analyst SIG, one of the two. So. And then we

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have Mark Coedje. He's from Oracle Pre-Sales Europe, and

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he's flying all the way over to put on a couple sessions. This particular

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one is AI in Action: Real-World Innovation for JD

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Edwards Customers. So Mark has the pleasure of going in front of

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customers all the time and getting to demo the software, right? So he's

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constantly looking at real-world application and what he can show customers

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from a practical standpoint they can do with JDE. So if you're interested in

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Some of those practical use cases for AI with JDE, swing

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by Mark's session. All right. Moving on to Tuesday.

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Guess what? You have exhibitor showcase being open from

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7:30 to 2:00 that day. Continental

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breakfast from 7:30 to 8:00 AM in the exhibitor showcase.

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And then we have our education breakouts from 8:00 to 9:00. And

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then we have some deep dive breakouts from 9:15 to

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45. Followed by a little recharge with a morning

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coffee break in the exhibitor showcase from 10:45 to

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45, followed immediately by

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networking luncheon from 11:45 to 12:45.

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More education breakouts from 1:00 to 2:00 PM. We have some

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spotlight sessions from 2:00 PM to 3:15.

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Afternoon coffee, if you need a little pick-me-up, Mm-hmm. from 3:15 to

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3:30, and more educational sessions from

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3:30 to 5:45 PM. And

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an InFocus party from 5:45 to

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7:15 PM. Sweet. InFocus

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party. Did they give us a theme this year? Do I have to bring all

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my Packer gear again? Come on, come on, come on. Please, please. I think that

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was already one and done. I think people seeing you in your

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Packer getup was one and done. We're good. Moving on.

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Epic failure. I know. Wah wah.

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But 8 o'clock session, From Ambiguous to

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How Dealer Tire Uses Claude AI

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to Transform JDE Development. So who doesn't want

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to try and maybe create some efficiencies with

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AI? You can do it on the development side as well.

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Develop in a new way. Joe Davis from Dealer Tire. That'll be an interesting session.

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And then of course, starting off with the BASIG. Oof. AM.

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Dang. I know. So if you didn't catch Linda the day before

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with the Business Analyst 101 session, by all means swing by the BA SIG. We'll

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probably be there. Yeah. And also at that same time, the

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HCM or Human Capital Management SIG meeting with

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Carla Pappas from Hinkles and McCoy. And then we

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have our next workshop. So again, I think we have

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3 this week. Correct. And this one will be

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put on by Mahesh over at Syntax. He's going to take you

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through, well, the title is Stop Guessing, Start Measuring: A Hands-on

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introduction to Process Modeler and widgets. So if you saw Haiyan the day

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before and you didn't sign up for that workshop, well, you

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should sign up right after that because you're going to be motivated. But otherwise,

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again, this is going to be a hands-on session for how you can actually use

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Process Modeler and widgets to help you monitor and

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improve your business processes. Awesome. And then right after

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that, or no, around the same time. So now we're just competing. We've got some

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competing Oracle sessions. So we've got the Digital Platform Product

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Updates from Engineering, which of course is kind of our roadmap for Digital

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Platform. And then you got E1 Administration

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as an Agent. So beyond just automation, but leveraging

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the MCP with AIS Server and JD Edwards Orchestrator

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to automate some of your system admin SaaS. My team will be

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putting those 2 on. And at 9:15 AM,

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we have Transforming Purchase Order Approvals at Scale:

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Brightview's Journey to a mobile-first digital approval

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process. So this is Kavitha Kumasari with Brightview

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that's presenting on that one. I'm sure many companies are using purchase

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orders and want to be able to approve them in the field on the fly.

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So this will be a good one. Oh, very cool. Thanks to

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Kavitha for coming and showing that. And then we also at the same

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time, 9:15, we've been foreshadowing Redwood and the

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changes to our UI now for several months. So we've got a session

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dedicated to what the Redwood experience is going to like, so check us

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out at 9:15. Also at 9:15, we've also

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been foreshadowing the end of 32-bit. We

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switched over from 32-bit to 64-bit with tools over 5 years

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ago, actually started 8 years ago, and now we're

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ending 32-bit on application ESUs. Come to that session

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and find out more if that is of interest or a concern for

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you. Yes, and I believe we just talked about that in a

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very recent podcast episode, so people can listen to that before they go.

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Yep. And then at 1 PM, we have the E1

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MDAC SIG meetup. That is the E1

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Manufacturing Distribution and CAM User Group meeting. Always a

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good one to attend. And at 3:30

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PM, we have Enhancing JD Edwards User Experience

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with Smart E1 Pages Using Oracle JET Orchestrations and

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REST APIs. John Giesen from, uh,

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Wepa Hygiene Product GmbH. So must be

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making a hop from somewhere. Yes, this would be Italy.

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Another paper products company for JDF, which we're very popular with

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paper companies, and especially in Italy. Matter of fact, I think Massimiliano

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will be on our docket here as well. We'll get to him when his

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session comes up. 3:30. Yeah. JDE Construction SIG.

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Pete Cotton will help lead that SIG discussion. And then also

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30 on Tuesday, I think we have our third And final

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workshop, which is Curious About JDE and AI?

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Take It for a Test Drive. Arvind from Astute Business Solutions will

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take you on a hands-on journey to test drive how you

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use AI with JDE. That should be a good one as well. So, hopefully folks

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have signed up for the workshops and get a lot of benefit

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from seeing how you use these tools. Absolutely. At

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4:45, we have the Oracle Guided Learning, or

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OGL, for JD Edwards SIG Group with Alicia McDermott.

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So excited she's making the trek all the way here from New Zealand.

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New Zealand, yes. Awesome. Again. That's amazing. I know.

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This is great. Twice in a year. Very cool.

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And then also at 4:45 on Tuesday, the

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Modern JDE Toolbox, Choosing the Right UDO for

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the Job. Pete Cotton with Erwatt

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Rexis Services. I thought this was a good one to highlight just

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because There are so many UDOs out there and so many companies really

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haven't adopted a lot of them. So I think this will be good to give

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people some ideas to help make your system

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a little bit better. Also at 4:45, we

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have Taming the Multi-Branch Cost Rollout,

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Automating Standard Cost Updates Across Business Units.

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Uh, what did you— I'm sorry, I fell asleep there for a second. I'm

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sorry. You love standard cost. I know it. You were a

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manufacturing developer at one point, so. Yeah, probably know a

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little bit too much about that process. So. Yes. This is— This one

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caught your eye, huh? Yeah. John Howe with Dober Group.

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And then also at 4:45, we have Heather

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Phillips of Little Rapids Corporation. 30 years

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on IBM i. Why move to OCI now?

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That's a big move, moving from the AS/400 after

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30 years to OCI. So come find out all about

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that transformation almost. That's awesome. I'll be curious to

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hear her story because obviously that's something we encourage.

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So appreciate her coming to InFocus to share her

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experience. Also at 4:45. Wow, we've picked a lot at the

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4:45 session, or on it. It's going to be a popular, you know, it's a

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popular time. Well, there's also the AI SIG

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meetup. So this is a newly launched SIG within Quest.

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So obviously AI's hot, and this is going to be

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your place to connect and share and explore the future of AI and

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JD Edwards. I think that takes us to Wednesday,

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does it not? I think you're right. Wednesday, September 30th—

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23rd. 33rd. Wow, I'm putting an extra couple days

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there into September. Exhibitor Showcase is open from

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7:30 to 11:15. We have a continental breakfast

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again in the Exhibitor Showcase from 7:30 to 8 o'clock.

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We have education breakouts from 8 o'clock to 9 o'clock

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and from 9:15 to 10:15. Then we have an

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Exhibitor Showcase morning break from 10:15 to

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15, followed by more education breakout sessions

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15 to 12:15, and a networking

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lunch from 12:15 to 1:15. Followed by

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more education breakout sessions from 1:30

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30. Wow. It's going to be busy.

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Education rich. And we're going to kick off Wednesday morning,

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8:00 AM with a couple SIGs. First with the E1 Tech SIG

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Innovation Roundtable. So talking about orchestrations, automation,

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and extensibility, as well as a

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financial SIG. Talk about needing coffee, but

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that's getting led by Chandra. Uh, yours truly.

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Yes. This is awesome. I'm sure you'll bring the energy,

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uh, first thing in the morning. And so come talk

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financials, 8:00 AM on Wednesday. Absolutely.

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But you're going to compete with Shruti because Shruti's got a

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sustainability framework session also at 8 o'clock. So if

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your company is interested, or almost every company

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right now has some sort of sustainability goals, regulation.

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And you can come to this session and find out how JD Edwards solves

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those problems. And then we move to 9:15, the 9:15

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block, and this is where Massimo Iliano, I mentioned him before from

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Lucart Group over in Italy, he's going to talk about

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AI-generated dashboard for JD Edwards and how they're using AI

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over there at Lucart to improve visibility

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to what's happening and how to optimize their operations. So looking

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forward to hearing about that. And at 9:15, we have the

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UDO SIG meetup with Shannon Allred from Brown and Root.

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Also at 9:15, we have, I think

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this is our winning name, isn't it? It is. It is our winning name, yes.

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Okay. You're still building packages manually? Oh,

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honey. This is a joint BACNC session being

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put on by Matthias Freitag From H&R Group.

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And yeah, we should also have a competition for who could

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say that title and how many different ways you could actually say it. But

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anyway, very cool. Thank you, Matthias. Looking forward to that

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session. Now we're skipping to the 11:15 block.

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110 locations, 11 languages, one standard? Really?

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Mastering JD Edwards 9.2 Continuous Adoption.

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Remco. Hi, Kurt. From Darling Ingredients, is going to talk

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about how they have come up with a method of

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basically continuous adoption as well as continuous

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rollout. So, their company is heavy into acquisitions and

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they constantly have to onboard new companies,

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and they've figured out how to not only stay current,

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but continuously onboard new companies. So, very good session. Yeah.

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Over 110 global locations with 11

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different languages. Yeah. Wow. That's complicated.

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All right. Then I think we have— Oh

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yeah. Also at 11:15. Yes. By popular demand, we are talking

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about an MCP server for Server Manager. So

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come listen to Clayton tell you all about what we're doing in that space.

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And then I wanted to highlight. At 1:30, Joe Hebner has been

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around quite a long time. He's over at Tretigar Corporation, but

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I loved his title because we've already mentioned AI however

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many times. Heck, I just mentioned the MCP server, which is an

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AI-related requirement. And here's Joe coming in

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with, you don't need AI to deliver value

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to the enterprise. So kind of being a contrarian here and reminding

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everybody that automation was possible even before

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AI. And there's a lot of ways in which you can deliver value and

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improve And modernize your experience. And you

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don't need an LLM in the picture to do it. So

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thank you, Joe, for being a contrarian. Had to call out your session.

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Love it. At 1:30 PM, we have a TechSIG

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Operations Roundtable, Infrastructure, CNC,

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Administration, and Security. Always a fun one.

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Next up we have, oh, look at that, 1:30

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PM. The JDE Connection podcast,

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live from InFocus. With Chandra Wapshaw.

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Awesome. I guess you're doing this one solo. Fantastic. No, I'm not. I

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think they did— they did not put you on there, but I am going to

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have to send them a note to say I'm not flying solo on this one.

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Hey, we know who the real draw is here. I don't know, but there might

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be something fun that also may occur in

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said podcast. Maybe, possibly.

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So I think you just want to plan on being there. That's all I

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can say, right? Yeah, that's, I think all you can say is you

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should probably plan on being there. We might actually focus on

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something that the community really cares about.

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Wow. Wow. So grab your

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hot dish, pull up a chair, and I guess

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join us as we sort through whatever that is. Okay. Moving on.

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Moving on. We also have a couple sessions yet that they

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haven't finalized time on. One is the Real Estate User Group meeting.

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That's an important one. And then— Orchestrator product

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updates from engineering. So obviously this is one of the most

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popular sessions that we have. Everybody comes and wants to understand what's going on with

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Orchestrator and what's next. We just haven't figured out when to slot that.

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There's just too much demand on some of our presenters and

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it's hard sometimes to figure that out. So some of this is still fluid. So

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by all means, check your app out when get to in Focus and

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see when those sessions are. And then finally, we gave a plug for this,

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right? We had an episode earlier talking about this

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and you graduated. Alumni. You're an alumni. Yes. As

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my program leader. Past participant. Yeah. Past participant and alumni

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and whatnot. So why don't you talk about this one? Yeah. John Vaughn will do

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an informational session on the Quest Emerging Leaders

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Program. So he'll be talking about the program that

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probably would kick off in 2027 as the one that kicks

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off at, well, it is actually kicking off kind of as we speak for

:

2026. So if you're looking to maybe

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help hone some skills within your organizational leadership

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drawer, this is a great program. And obviously

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come learn more about the program from John. It's a

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9-month intensive, but somewhat flexible because it's not all in

:

person. And it'll just help you with mastering some

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core leadership competencies. So. Yeah. I mean,

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if you're interested in this and this is the first time you're hearing about it,

:

I'd strongly encourage you to go back and listen to our episode

:

with Ken Pennington on this. They do such a great job with this

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program. They really do. Yeah. It's an amazing program and

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one I would definitely advocate for my staff as well as maybe

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myself. So anyway. And that episode is

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actually episode 110. We covered the ELP with Ken Pittington in

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episode 110. All right. I mean, that pretty much covers

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everything that we at least had tagged. If we didn't highlight your session, well,

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come up to us at InFocus and log your complaint. Complaint.

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Your official complaint. We apologize. And then we'll instruct you on how to

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use ChatGPT to come up with a better title next time. I'm just kidding.

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Totally joking. Or generate a better abstract. I'm

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just Just kidding. No, but it is kind of funny to see all the em

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dashes that are suddenly showing up, but we'll move on. I know those are

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your favorite. Yeah, I appreciate it. But yeah, truly, if we didn't highlight your

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session, we apologize. We try to just do a subset. We can't

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obviously take the time to go through every single session that's out there.

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Many are very, very interesting, we know. And apologies if we didn't

:

highlight you this time. And as Paul said earlier, make sure

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to check your InFocus app. As sessions can

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change. Oh yeah, whatever time and date we have listed here

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could change. So definitely make sure you are checking your app

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for the most accurate schedule. Yep. All right,

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until next time, let's keep learning, sharing, and most

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importantly, laughing together. Toodles!

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See ya! Thank you for tuning in for today's episode

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of the JDE Connection, a Quest on-air podcast production.

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Show notes and links can be found at

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questoraclecommunity.org/jdeconnection.

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To learn more about what's happening in the Quest JD Edwards community,

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visit our website at questoraclecommunity.org/jdedwards.

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