Acumatica Summit 2023: Agenda, Early Bird Pricing, and More!
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Acumatica Summit 2023 is less than 3 months away! With time running out before the early bird price increase on December 3rd, we want to give you a comprehensive overview of the agenda to help you see the value in attending whatever portion of the event makes the most sense for you.
This year’s event has a lot to offer in both the Summit portion (Sunday night -Tuesday midday) as well as the training courses (Tuesday midday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday) with awesome social activities like a morning run through the city, morning yoga, parties, and more sprinkled throughout the week.
Read on to get a day-by-day schedule with industry-specific session tracks for construction, distribution, manufacturing, retail-commerce, and more.
Sunday, January 29th
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
The Summit experience kicks off with food & cocktails and the opportunity to network with your peers in the 2 Acumatica Marketplaces
Monday, January 30th
Kick-off the Summit on Monday morning with Yoga instructed by Justine Crowley from Cloud 9 ERP Solutions.
Justine is a yoga instructor, Reiki Practitioner, and nutrition enthusiast. Justine encourages her clients to not only enjoy their current fitness level and practice but also motivates them to seek spiritual growth and physical transformation. She has a passion for discovering techniques that create a sustainable mind, body, and soul connection. She weaves these techniques seamlessly into her practice.
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
Join Acumatica CEO John Case as he opens Summit 2023 with his Welcome Keynote presentation. From business highlights and news announcements to the future direction of the company, The Day 1 keynote is the single most highly anticipated Summit session.
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
Cristal Ballroom (2,4,6)
The Partner General Session will cover the key priorities, investments and improvements for how we are continuing to make the Acumatica partner ecosystem the best in the industry. We will also be recognizing and celebrating 2022 award winners.
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
In today’s world which is full of consumption overload, an ever-changing workforce, and constant navigation on how to communicate in this new remote world, the big question is how do you stand out? How do get the exposure needed to build your brand, your presence, and your leadership in a sustainable and effective way, especially through a screen in most cases? In this talk hosted by Nada Lena, Founder, and CEO of Rise Up For You, #1 Best Selling Author, and Leadership and Career Confidence Coach, we will break down the three critical factors of being seen, being heard, and being relevant as a professional for your personal success and to elevate the success of your organization. Participants will walk away with skills for building confidence, tips for public speaking and delivering strong messaging with their team, and strategies for being seen as the expert whether you are in a corporate environment or run your own business.
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
Every year, women of the Acumatica community come together to gain insight into how they can thrive within the technology industry. This year, participate in an interactive networking workshop hosted by Nada Lena, Founder and CEO of Rise Up For You, #1 Best Selling Author, and Leadership and Career Confidence Coach. During this cocktail hour, you will develop new skills to easily connect and build new relationships with Women in Tech peers. Soon, you will gain the confidence to form valuable business bonds that will help propel you to success.
XS Nightclub
Join us at the Celebration Party & Dinner for wonderful food, drink, and conversations. DJ Kara will be back again this year with her amazing talents in keeping the celebration hopping throughout the evening
Tuesday, January 31st
MEET: Main Entrance Lobby
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
Join Chief Product Officer Ali Jani and others for a technology-filled view of the year ahead. Product demonstrations and customer scenarios take center stage.
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
Marketplaces (Lafite & Latour Ballrooms)
Foyer Outside Marketplace
Closeout Summit with live music, cocktails, and food along with the opportunity for some last minute peer networking.
Wednesday, February 1st
Beth Kesser
Senior Product Manager financials
Acumatica
Jessica Pidgeon – Training Instructor
Partner Programs Manager
Acumatica
Donna Tapella – Training Instructor
Senior Partner Enablement Manager
Acumatica
Cesar Betances – Training Instructor
Developer Support Team Lead
Acumatica
In the role of Senior Technical Consultant, Cesar Betances helps partners and customers with the development of their Customization Project on the Acumatica framework. In his time working for Acumatica, Cesar has developed many Customization Projects for partners in the past and now helps them develop their own. Prior to joining Acumatica Cesar was part of multiple software development projects including web applications and mobile applications for small, mid-size and large clients based in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Mr. Betances holds a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo and a Master of Science in Information Technology degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Ilya Zhidkov – Training Instructor
Lead Software Developer
Acumatica
Omar Ghazi – Speakers
Senior Product Manager
Acumatica
Mahmoud Sabaa – Speakers
ERP Implementation Consultant
Acumatica
Mahmoud has been in the ERP industry for over than 15 years playing different roles from development to support to implementations. In the past 6 years was more focused on implementations mainly for distribution businesses helping them to expand their business on different commerce platforms. Mahmoud’s accounting knowledge together with his technical skills helped a lot of companies to take more control over their cost and revenue
Mahmoud has been in the ERP industry for over than 15 years playing different roles from development to support to implementations. In the past 6 years was more focused on implementations mainly for distribution businesses helping them to expand their business on different commerce platforms. Mahmoud’s accounting knowledge together with his technical skills helped a lot of companies to take more control over their cost and revenue
Johans Saavedra – Speakers
ERP Functional Consultant
Acumatica
In this role, Johans Saavedra is responsible of providing solutions in form of customizations using Acumatica Best Practices to makes Acumatica’s Cloud ERP software adaptable to any industry. He is also in charge to conduct Webinars for our valued Acumatica’s community in topics such as: Inventory Management, Data Retrievals and Report Designer and as part of his role he conducts onsite or online Acumatica Report Designer and Data Retrieval trainings to our partners and customer. Johans has over 26 years of experience in the ERP Software industry (Dynamics SL, Dynamics GP, Sage, and Acumatica). He worked 7 years at Solomon Venezuela where he gained a wide range of experiences implementing and overseeing 25+ Dynamics SL (formerly known as Solomon) implementations local and overseas (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico). Before joining Acumatica, Johans was the ERP Manager for Mohawk Group in NYC where he leaded the implementation of Acumatica including an integration with Amazon to process around 20,000 Sales Order daily. Before that he worked at a current Partner for 15 years combining all the consulting experience with technical skills to build complex reports in multiple platforms. Johans began his career as a COBOL and INFORMIX 4GL developer
In this role, Johans Saavedra is responsible of providing solutions in form of customizations using Acumatica Best Practices to makes Acumatica’s Cloud ERP software adaptable to any industry. He is also in charge to conduct Webinars for our valued Acumatica’s community in topics such as: Inventory Management, Data Retrievals and Report Designer and as part of his role he conducts onsite or online Acumatica Report Designer and Data Retrieval trainings to our partners and customer. Johans has over 26 years of experience in the ERP Software industry (Dynamics SL, Dynamics GP, Sage, and Acumatica). He worked 7 years at Solomon Venezuela where he gained a wide range of experiences implementing and overseeing 25+ Dynamics SL (formerly known as Solomon) implementations local and overseas (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico). Before joining Acumatica, Johans was the ERP Manager for Mohawk Group in NYC where he leaded the implementation of Acumatica including an integration with Amazon to process around 20,000 Sales Order daily. Before that he worked at a current Partner for 15 years combining all the consulting experience with technical skills to build complex reports in multiple platforms. Johans began his career as a COBOL and INFORMIX 4GL developer
Benjamin Rouger – Speakers
Partner Enablement Manager
Acumatica
Eric Moreau – Speakers
Director, Partner Enablement & Presales
Acumatica
Eric Moreau is the Director of Presales with Acumatica. An Accountant by trade, and a recovering CPA, in his current role he is responsible for helping to get Value Added Resellers (VAR’s) to be self-sufficient while also demonstrating Acumatica software on behalf of the VAR’s. He has had various partner rolls while in the Technology sector over the past 20 years. In addition, he has led several courses during those years. Eric is well versed in the concepts found in Project Accounting and specifically how Project Accounting works in Acumatica. Having worked both as an Implementation Consultant and a Project Manager in the past, he understands the types of things that a student is going to want to know as it relates to the Acumatica Project Accounting solution. Prior to entering the Technology industry, he was a Controller for four years and started his career with Coopers & Lybrand now PwC.
Jeff Spears – Speakers
ERP Implementation Consultant
Acumatica
Jeff graduated with an accounting degree from Marshall University and worked for several years in accounting before transitioning to ERP. That transition was approximately 24 years ago. Since then, he has had a variety of roles, responsibilities, and experiences with ERP solutions from training, consulting, presales, sales, report writing, data mining, system administration, and practice management. Jeff began working with Acumatica more than 3 years ago as a member of the Services Team where he focused on implementations and implementation assists. Today, Jeff is a member of the Partner Enablement team where he focuses on helping partners learn the implementation process. Jeff also helps the Presales team with demonstrations.
Jeff graduated with an accounting degree from Marshall University and worked for several years in accounting before transitioning to ERP. That transition was approximately 24 years ago. Since then, he has had a variety of roles, responsibilities, and experiences with ERP solutions from training, consulting, presales, sales, report writing, data mining, system administration, and practice management. Jeff began working with Acumatica more than 3 years ago as a member of the Services Team where he focused on implementations and implementation assists. Today, Jeff is a member of the Partner Enablement team where he focuses on helping partners learn the implementation process. Jeff also helps the Presales team with demonstrations.
Heidi Dempsey-Stickel – Speakers
ERP Solutions Consultant
Acumatica
In this role, Heidi Dempsey has successfully managed over 350 projects. She identifies customers specific challenges and recommends solutions and strategies for a successful deployment of our product. She ensures partners and customers are receiving the required support to ensure a timely and successful implementation. She keeps relationships with customer to collect insight and desired features for satisfying industry-oriented challenges with our solutions. She is an integral part of the implementations and customer success processes for our construction and field service customers. She has over 20 years of experience in Construction Accounting and as an instructor.
In this role, Heidi Dempsey has successfully managed over 350 projects. She identifies customers specific challenges and recommends solutions and strategies for a successful deployment of our product. She ensures partners and customers are receiving the required support to ensure a timely and successful implementation. She keeps relationships with customer to collect insight and desired features for satisfying industry-oriented challenges with our solutions. She is an integral part of the implementations and customer success processes for our construction and field service customers. She has over 20 years of experience in Construction Accounting and as an instructor.
Ekaterina Androsova – Speakers
Senior Content Developer
Acumatica
Debbie Baldwin – Speakers
Director Product Management (Manufacturing)
Acumatica
Debbie Baldwin is a Director of Product Management (Manufacturing). In this role, she draws upon over 35 years of industry experience to ensure that Acumatica meets the needs of internal and external stakeholders. She has been working in the software industry for 20 years and has both implemented and managed various software packages. Prior to this, Ms. Baldwin spent 15 years in Manufacturing working as an ERP User and Project Manager. Her other responsibilities varied from Application Support Specialist, Cost Accountant, Industrial Engineer, and Controller.
Debbie Baldwin is a Director of Product Management (Manufacturing). In this role, she draws upon over 35 years of industry experience to ensure that Acumatica meets the needs of internal and external stakeholders. She has been working in the software industry for 20 years and has both implemented and managed various software packages. Prior to this, Ms. Baldwin spent 15 years in Manufacturing working as an ERP User and Project Manager. Her other responsibilities varied from Application Support Specialist, Cost Accountant, Industrial Engineer, and Controller.
Maja Milenkovska – Speakers
ERP Support Consultant
Acumatica
Working as a Support Consultant has given Maja many opportunities to troubleshoot various Reports and Generic Inquiries in her daily work, covering a wide range of issue from basic how-to questions to complex reports that need insights into the structure of Database tables and the capabilities of the engines behind writing Reports and Generic Inquiries. Prior to joining Acumatica, she was a part of the Management Team of a Microsoft Distributor company and a Team Lead of the Product Marketing Team, in charge of Sales and Product Marketing of Microsoft products. As such, she has had the chance to work with diverse community of Partners/Customer and deliver many product and business related presentations and trainings. In her new role as a Functional Consultant, Maja is helping Customers bridge the gap between standard Acumatica features and their specific business needs. She is working with Partners/Customers to help identify Customer’s particular business requirements on one side and Developers on the other side, to ensure software created is accurately addressing identified Customer’s needs.
John Bonsall – Training Instructor
ERP Solutions Consultant
Acumatica
Benjamin Crisman – Training Instructor
Support Engineer
Acumatica
David Harris – Speakers
Product Support Team Lead
Acumatica
David has worked many years in hardware and software support including analyzing, testing, troubleshooting, and evaluating existing network systems, such as local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet systems or a segment of a network system. Perform network maintenance to ensure networks operate correctly with minimal interruption. Supported ticketing systems, MDM, Desktop/Laptop support, VPN connectivity, Intranet, Microsoft Office, Accounting, ERP, JDE, Kronos and several POS systems.
Tamara Mekhantseva – Speakers
Technical Product Manager
Acumatica
Tamara graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a master’s degree in Information Technologies. Before Acumatica Tamara worked as an ERP engineer-programmer at the biggest Russian Far-Eastern ship-repair yard. Then she became a software support analyst at Progresstech Group of Companies, part of Boeing Russia, which is the leading company in the Eastern Europe providing intellectual services to aerospace and aviation transport industries. Tamara continued her career as a business analyst with Integro Technologies system integrator, focused on customizing Sabre airline solutions for Aeroflot Russian Airlines. In Acumatica she started working as an analyst and came the way to a technical product manager gaining high competence in Acumatica ERP domain. As a technical product manager, Tamara cooperates with Acumatica business product managers and other stakeholders to specify the features needed in the product and work closely with the software engineering team to implement business requirements in the Acumatica cloud ERP product and perform product maintenance in the most effective way. Her current position responsibilities require extensive acquaintance with the core platform functionality and high expertise in all the business application modules such as Projects, Construction, Finance, Distribution, Payroll, Time and Expenses, Field Services, CRM, Platform, Manufacturing, Reporting as well as big picture overview of the object domain and business scenarios pursued by our clients, strong communication skills, and fluent English. This experience and competence qualify her as an appropriate speaker for Acumatica courses.
Emad Agha – Training Instructor
Sr. Project Manager
Acumatica
Emad has over 20 years of project management, business analysis, and process improvement experience focused on ERP, Business Intelligence, and Process Optimization. At Acumatica, Emad Agha manages Acumatica ERP Implementation Projects including defining project scope and schedule, performing delivery planning, and managing stakeholders’ expectations. In addition, Emad is working on designing and improving project management templates, tools, processes, and methodology. Prior to joining Acumatica, Emad was a Senior Manager at Centerra Gold from 2012 to 2019 where he implemented various IT projects including, but not limited to, ERP improvement, ERP implementation, and BI implementation projects. From 2004 to 2012 he was the Director of Wireless World where he managed all aspects and projects of the organization
Thursday, February 2nd
David Harris – Speakers
Product Support Team Lead
Acumatica
David has worked many years in hardware and software support including analyzing, testing, troubleshooting, and evaluating existing network systems, such as local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet systems or a segment of a network system. Perform network maintenance to ensure networks operate correctly with minimal interruption. Supported ticketing systems, MDM, Desktop/Laptop support, VPN connectivity, Intranet, Microsoft Office, Accounting, ERP, JDE, Kronos and several POS systems.
Tamara Mekhantseva – Speakers
Technical Product Manager
Acumatica
Tamara graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a master’s degree in Information Technologies. Before Acumatica Tamara worked as an ERP engineer-programmer at the biggest Russian Far-Eastern ship-repair yard. Then she became a software support analyst at Progresstech Group of Companies, part of Boeing Russia, which is the leading company in the Eastern Europe providing intellectual services to aerospace and aviation transport industries. Tamara continued her career as a business analyst with Integro Technologies system integrator, focused on customizing Sabre airline solutions for Aeroflot Russian Airlines. In Acumatica she started working as an analyst and came the way to a technical product manager gaining high competence in Acumatica ERP domain. As a technical product manager, Tamara cooperates with Acumatica business product managers and other stakeholders to specify the features needed in the product and work closely with the software engineering team to implement business requirements in the Acumatica cloud ERP product and perform product maintenance in the most effective way. Her current position responsibilities require extensive acquaintance with the core platform functionality and high expertise in all the business application modules such as Projects, Construction, Finance, Distribution, Payroll, Time and Expenses, Field Services, CRM, Platform, Manufacturing, Reporting as well as big picture overview of the object domain and business scenarios pursued by our clients, strong communication skills, and fluent English. This experience and competence qualify her as an appropriate speaker for Acumatica courses.
Heidi Dempsey-Stickel – Speakers
ERP Solutions Consultant
Acumatica
In this role, Heidi Dempsey has successfully managed over 350 projects. She identifies customers specific challenges and recommends solutions and strategies for a successful deployment of our product. She ensures partners and customers are receiving the required support to ensure a timely and successful implementation. She keeps relationships with customer to collect insight and desired features for satisfying industry-oriented challenges with our solutions. She is an integral part of the implementations and customer success processes for our construction and field service customers. She has over 20 years of experience in Construction Accounting and as an instructor.
Maja Milenkovska – Speakers
ERP Support Consultant
Acumatica
Working as a Support Consultant has given Maja many opportunities to troubleshoot various Reports and Generic Inquiries in her daily work, covering a wide range of issue from basic how-to questions to complex reports that need insights into the structure of Database tables and the capabilities of the engines behind writing Reports and Generic Inquiries. Prior to joining Acumatica, she was a part of the Management Team of a Microsoft Distributor company and a Team Lead of the Product Marketing Team, in charge of Sales and Product Marketing of Microsoft products. As such, she has had the chance to work with diverse community of Partners/Customer and deliver many product and business related presentations and trainings. In her new role as a Functional Consultant, Maja is helping Customers bridge the gap between standard Acumatica features and their specific business needs. She is working with Partners/Customers to help identify Customer’s particular business requirements on one side and Developers on the other side, to ensure software created is accurately addressing identified Customer’s needs.
Mahmoud Sabaa – Speakers
ERP Implementation Consultant
Acumatica
Mahmoud has been in the ERP industry for over than 15 years playing different roles from development to support to implementations. In the past 6 years was more focused on implementations mainly for distribution businesses helping them to expand their business on different commerce platforms. Mahmoud’s accounting knowledge together with his technical skills helped a lot of companies to take more control over their cost and revenue
Cesar Betances – Training Instructor
Developer Support Team Lead
Acumatica
In the role of Senior Technical Consultant, Cesar Betances helps partners and customers with the development of their Customization Project on the Acumatica framework. In his time working for Acumatica, Cesar has developed many Customization Projects for partners in the past and now helps them develop their own. Prior to joining Acumatica Cesar was part of multiple software development projects including web applications and mobile applications for small, mid-size and large clients based in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Mr. Betances holds a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo and a Master of Science in Information Technology degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Omar Ghazi – Speakers
Senior Product Manager
Acumatica
Benjamin Crisman – Training Instructor
Support Engineer
Acumatica
Jeff Spears – Speakers
ERP Implementation Consultant
Acumatica
Jeff graduated with an accounting degree from Marshall University and worked for several years in accounting before transitioning to ERP. That transition was approximately 24 years ago. Since then, he has had a variety of roles, responsibilities, and experiences with ERP solutions from training, consulting, presales, sales, report writing, data mining, system administration, and practice management. Jeff began working with Acumatica more than 3 years ago as a member of the Services Team where he focused on implementations and implementation assists. Today, Jeff is a member of the Partner Enablement team where he focuses on helping partners learn the implementation process. Jeff also helps the Presales team with demonstrations.
Beth Kesser – Training Instructor
Senior Product Manager financials
Acumatica
Debbie Baldwin – Speakers
Director Product Management (Manufacturing)
Acumatica
Debbie Baldwin is a Director of Product Management (Manufacturing). In this role, she draws upon over 35 years of industry experience to ensure that Acumatica meets the needs of internal and external stakeholders. She has been working in the software industry for 20 years and has both implemented and managed various software packages. Prior to this, Ms. Baldwin spent 15 years in Manufacturing working as an ERP User and Project Manager. Her other responsibilities varied from Application Support Specialist, Cost Accountant, Industrial Engineer, and Controller.
Johans Saavedra – Speakers
ERP Functional Consultant
Acumatica
In this role, Johans Saavedra is responsible of providing solutions in form of customizations using Acumatica Best Practices to makes Acumatica’s Cloud ERP software adaptable to any industry. He is also in charge to conduct Webinars for our valued Acumatica’s community in topics such as: Inventory Management, Data Retrievals and Report Designer and as part of his role he conducts onsite or online Acumatica Report Designer and Data Retrieval trainings to our partners and customer. Johans has over 26 years of experience in the ERP Software industry (Dynamics SL, Dynamics GP, Sage, and Acumatica). He worked 7 years at Solomon Venezuela where he gained a wide range of experiences implementing and overseeing 25+ Dynamics SL (formerly known as Solomon) implementations local and overseas (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico). Before joining Acumatica, Johans was the ERP Manager for Mohawk Group in NYC where he leaded the implementation of Acumatica including an integration with Amazon to process around 20,000 Sales Order daily. Before that he worked at a current Partner for 15 years combining all the consulting experience with technical skills to build complex reports in multiple platforms. Johans began his career as a COBOL and INFORMIX 4GL developer
Friday, February 3rd
Elaine Warren – Training Instructor
ERP Implementation Consultant
Acumatica
David Harris – Speakers
Product Support Team Lead
Acumatica
David has worked many years in hardware and software support including analyzing, testing, troubleshooting, and evaluating existing network systems, such as local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet systems or a segment of a network system. Perform network maintenance to ensure networks operate correctly with minimal interruption. Supported ticketing systems, MDM, Desktop/Laptop support, VPN connectivity, Intranet, Microsoft Office, Accounting, ERP, JDE, Kronos and several POS systems.
Alexandre Favre – Training Instructor
Technical Product Manager
Acumatica
Tamara Mekhantseva – Speakers
Technical Product Manager
Acumatica
Tamara graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a master’s degree in Information Technologies. Before Acumatica Tamara worked as an ERP engineer-programmer at the biggest Russian Far-Eastern ship-repair yard. Then she became a software support analyst at Progresstech Group of Companies, part of Boeing Russia, which is the leading company in the Eastern Europe providing intellectual services to aerospace and aviation transport industries. Tamara continued her career as a business analyst with Integro Technologies system integrator, focused on customizing Sabre airline solutions for Aeroflot Russian Airlines. In Acumatica she started working as an analyst and came the way to a technical product manager gaining high competence in Acumatica ERP domain. As a technical product manager, Tamara cooperates with Acumatica business product managers and other stakeholders to specify the features needed in the product and work closely with the software engineering team to implement business requirements in the Acumatica cloud ERP product and perform product maintenance in the most effective way. Her current position responsibilities require extensive acquaintance with the core platform functionality and high expertise in all the business application modules such as Projects, Construction, Finance, Distribution, Payroll, Time and Expenses, Field Services, CRM, Platform, Manufacturing, Reporting as well as big picture overview of the object domain and business scenarios pursued by our clients, strong communication skills, and fluent English. This experience and competence qualify her as an appropriate speaker for Acumatica courses.
Cesar Betances – Training Instructor
Developer Support Team Lead
Acumatica
In the role of Senior Technical Consultant, Cesar Betances helps partners and customers with the development of their Customization Project on the Acumatica framework. In his time working for Acumatica, Cesar has developed many Customization Projects for partners in the past and now helps them develop their own. Prior to joining Acumatica Cesar was part of multiple software development projects including web applications and mobile applications for small, mid-size and large clients based in the United States, Latin America, and Europe. Mr. Betances holds a bachelor’s degree in systems engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo and a Master of Science in Information Technology degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.
Anna Devyatko – Training Instructor
Product Support Specialist
Acumatica
Thomas Martin – Training Instructor
Product Manager-construction
Acumatica
Benjamin Crisman – Training Instructor
Support Engineer
Acumatica
Mahmoud Sabaa – Speakers
ERP Implementation Consultant
Acumatica
Mahmoud has been in the ERP industry for over than 15 years playing different roles from development to support to implementations. In the past 6 years was more focused on implementations mainly for distribution businesses helping them to expand their business on different commerce platforms. Mahmoud’s accounting knowledge together with his technical skills helped a lot of companies to take more control over their cost and revenue
Beth Kesser – Training Instructor
Senior Product Manager financials
Acumatica
Jeff Spears – Speakers
ERP Implementation Consultant
Acumatica
Jeff graduated with an accounting degree from Marshall University and worked for several years in accounting before transitioning to ERP. That transition was approximately 24 years ago. Since then, he has had a variety of roles, responsibilities, and experiences with ERP solutions from training, consulting, presales, sales, report writing, data mining, system administration, and practice management. Jeff began working with Acumatica more than 3 years ago as a member of the Services Team where he focused on implementations and implementation assists. Today, Jeff is a member of the Partner Enablement team where he focuses on helping partners learn the implementation process. Jeff also helps the Presales team with demonstrations.
Johans Saavedra – Speakers
ERP Functional Consultant
Acumatica
In this role, Johans Saavedra is responsible of providing solutions in form of customizations using Acumatica Best Practices to makes Acumatica’s Cloud ERP software adaptable to any industry. He is also in charge to conduct Webinars for our valued Acumatica’s community in topics such as: Inventory Management, Data Retrievals and Report Designer and as part of his role he conducts onsite or online Acumatica Report Designer and Data Retrieval trainings to our partners and customer. Johans has over 26 years of experience in the ERP Software industry (Dynamics SL, Dynamics GP, Sage, and Acumatica). He worked 7 years at Solomon Venezuela where he gained a wide range of experiences implementing and overseeing 25+ Dynamics SL (formerly known as Solomon) implementations local and overseas (Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Mexico). Before joining Acumatica, Johans was the ERP Manager for Mohawk Group in NYC where he leaded the implementation of Acumatica including an integration with Amazon to process around 20,000 Sales Order daily. Before that he worked at a current Partner for 15 years combining all the consulting experience with technical skills to build complex reports in multiple platforms. Johans began his career as a COBOL and INFORMIX 4GL developer
Early Bird Pricing Ends December 2nd!
Early Bird Pricing ends December 2nd at 11:59 PM PST. Take advantage while you can and experience everything Acumatica Summit 2023 has to offer for a cheaper price!
