QAD Explore 2018
Call For Speakers
Share Your Story with Us
As part of QAD’s growing global community of leading manufacturers we want to invite you to share your story at QAD Explore 2018. We’d love to learn more about experiences you’ve had with QAD solutions as well as how you’ve used technology to address your burning business issues as they relate to APICS body of knowledge. If you’d like to present your story at Explore, we want to hear from you! To sweeten the deal, primary speakers in sessions will receive complimentary admission to the conference!
We welcome joint presentations with multiple speakers, such as a QAD Services or R&D team members, or individual customer presenters.
Please review submission requirements and topic ideas below, then click “Share Your Story” to complete the submission form.
Submission Requirements
Presentations should be original contributions to the QAD experience and body of knowledge and present results, benefits and conclusions. Submissions should include some or all of the following:
QAD will not consider previously presented presentations, whether used at Explore or any other venue. QAD will notify all parties of the status of their submission no later than January 15, 2018.
QAD partners should encourage their customers to present, but customers must apply directly. Partners who are interested in participating in Explore must contact Tracy Doyle at [email protected] for sponsorship details.
Topic Ideas
Topics of interest for the conference include (but are not limited to) the following:
As part of QAD’s growing global community of leading manufacturers we want to invite you to share your story at QAD Explore 2018. We’d love to learn more about experiences you’ve had with QAD solutions as well as how you’ve used technology to address your burning business issues as they relate to APICS body of knowledge. If you’d like to present your story at Explore, we want to hear from you! To sweeten the deal, primary speakers in sessions will receive complimentary admission to the conference!
We welcome joint presentations with multiple speakers, such as a QAD Services or R&D team members, or individual customer presenters.
Please review submission requirements and topic ideas below, then click “Share Your Story” to complete the submission form.
Submission Requirements
Presentations should be original contributions to the QAD experience and body of knowledge and present results, benefits and conclusions. Submissions should include some or all of the following:
- The business value of the work, method or approach used
- Outcomes, benefits or KPI improvements
- Lessons learned (positive as well as negative)
- Tips and tricks
- Abstracts should be no more than 150 words
QAD will not consider previously presented presentations, whether used at Explore or any other venue. QAD will notify all parties of the status of their submission no later than January 15, 2018.
QAD partners should encourage their customers to present, but customers must apply directly. Partners who are interested in participating in Explore must contact Tracy Doyle at [email protected] for sponsorship details.
Topic Ideas
Topics of interest for the conference include (but are not limited to) the following:
- QAD Cloud ERP upgrades and conversions
- New implementations
- Using or implementing new modules or capabilities in QAD Enterprise Applications
- Integration to partner or third party apps using QAD Boomi AtomSphere
- QAD QMS implementations
- QAD DSCP implementations
- Channel Islands experience
- Early adopter experiences
- Managing compliance and risk
- IoT implementations
- Global operations
- Cultural, social, economic, business, managerial and environmental aspects of ERP implementation or usage
- BYOD and mobility experiences
- MES integrations
- Analytics
- Case studies
- Industry best practices
Important Dates:
- Abstract submission deadline extended to December 15, 2017
- Notifications to authors: January 15, 2018
- Final presentations due: March 30, 2018
Explore 2018 Venue
Sheraton Dallas Hotel
May 7-10, 2018
Dallas, TX
Registration for QAD Explore opens in January 2018. To stay up-to-date with announcements and deadlines, please subscribe to the QAD blog.