Agenda

Monday, September 9

7:30am - 6:00pm

Registration

7:45am - 8:30am

Continental Breakfast

8:30am - 10:00am

Tutorial: Introduction to ANALYTICS

(Pre-registration required; bring your own laptop)

Join us for a hands-on ANALYTICS training session from 8:30 am – 10:00 am where we provide you with an in depth overview of the ANALYTICS tool. This session is designed for new users to ANALYTICS who would like to understand how standard reports are created and disseminated. Additionally we will provide you with a tour of the Admin tools available to you to help you harness the full power of ANALYTICS.

Michele Scorza, Reporting Analytics Analyst, Chrome River #analytics

8:30am - 10:00am

Tutorial: Control your destiny through Configuration

(Pre-registration required; bring your own laptop)

Join us for an interactive training session from 8:30 am -12:00 pm designed to give you the tools you need to configure Chrome River to fit your business needs. We will cover how to maximize Message of the Day with new edit capabilities, create and change mosaic tiles with the Mosaic Editor and configure the business rules engine to properly enforce policy through the Compliance Rule Builder. Bring the scenarios you’d like to test out with experts in the room.

Matthew Melhuish, Product Mgr, Tools / Analytics, Chrome River
Terry Milligan, Business Analyst, Chrome River #admintools

10:00am - 10:30am

Morning Break

10:30am - 12:00pm

Tutorial: Advanced ANALYTICS

(Pre-registration required; bring your own laptop)

Join us for a hands-on ANALYTICS training session from 10:30 am - 12:00 pm where we step you through a deep dive of report design and creation. This session is designed for advanced ANALYTICS users who want to help their organization take insight to the next level by leveraging the power of the data in Chrome River.

Michele Scorza, Reporting Analytics Analyst, Chrome River #analytics

10:30am - 12:00pm

Tutorial: Control your destiny through Configuration (continued)

(Pre-registration required; bring your own laptop)

Join us for an interactive training session from 8:30 am -12:00 pm designed to give you to tools you need to configure Chrome River to fit your business needs. We will cover how to maximize Message of the Day with new edit capabilities, create and change mosaic tiles with the Mosaic Editor and configure the business rules engine to properly enforce policy through the Compliance Rule Builder. Bring the scenarios you’d like to test out with experts in the room.

Matthew Melhuish, Product Mgr, Tools / Analytics, Chrome River
Terry Milligan, Business Analyst, Chrome River #admintools

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch

1:00pm - 5:00pm

Special Interest Group: Higher Education

(Pre-registration required)

Join us for an interactive session with your peers and Chrome River's Higher Education team of experts. Discuss hot topics in higher education, share your insights, network with your peers, and gain key takeaways and best practices to bring back to campus.

Robin Hanselman, Managing Director, Higher Education & International Sales, Chrome River
Catherine Mallon, Travel Accountant, UNCA
sponsored by Ellucian

1:00pm - 5:00pm

Special Interest Group: Professional Services

(Pre-registration required)

Join us for an interactive session with your peers in legal, advertising, consulting, accounting and engineering. You will learn about opportunities to improve your processes for capturing, tracking and reconciling client billable T&E.

Karen DeLucia, VP of Sales, Chrome River
James Bourke, Partner, Withum
Maks Agamir, Chief Information Officer, Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Consultant's Corner: Book One-on-One Time with a Chrome River Expert

Spend time with a Chrome River Consultant face-to-face, one-on-one, to get your questions answered. Book early, space is limited.

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Chrome River Partner Summit

Exclusive for our participating partners: Meet with Chrome River Executives in an exclusive setting and hear about company updates, new product features and the roadmap ahead.

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Evening Welcome Reception

The evening networking reception will be held in a festive setting at The Beverly Hilton. This is an excellent opportunity to connect with peers, Chrome River teams and partners. All attendees are invited to join us for an evening of professional networking, cocktails & fun!

sponsored by U.S. Bank and Global Exchange

Tuesday, September 10

7:45am - 8:30am

Continental Breakfast + Registration

8:30am - 8:45am

Welcome to CASCADE 2019!

Make a splash at CASCADE with these conference highlights.

8:45am - 9:45am

General Session - What's Newly Cascading from The River

Learn about the latest news flowing from The River from our growing team to new initiatives. Learn about some of the latest innovations and corporate updates that will help let business flow for more than 1,000 Chrome River customers worldwide.

Chrome River Executive Team

9:45am - 10:30am

General Session - Future Ready with Chrome River

Join the Chrome River Chief Services Officer for a discussion around how you can continue to modernize your organization with automation to let business flow.

Ryan Plutnicki, Chief Services Officer, Chrome River

10:30am - 11:00am

Morning Coffee and Exhibit Hall Break

11:00am - 12:15pm

Fireside Chat with Anne Becknell

Settle in for a cozy fireside chat with finance leaders across industries who have leveraged Chrome River to let business flow with efficiency, insight and agility.

Moderator: Anne Becknell, Senior Vice President, Strategic Solutions, Chrome River
Panelists: Neil Ackley, Director of Global Accounting, Latham & Watkins LLP
Kenneth Koehn, Chief Financial Officer, Gould + Ratner,
Joanne Lupatkin, Director, Procurement, Travel, and Fleet, ABM Industries Incorporated
Adam Heller, Director, Finance & Accounting, West Virginia University Foundation
Rob Potter, Vice President Finance, Slalom
John Troscinski, Corporate Project Manager, ExxonMobil

12:15pm - 1:30pm

Lunch: Birds-of-a-Feather Group and Visit Exhibit Hall

1:30pm - 4:00pm

Consultant's Corner: Book One-on-One Time with a Chrome River Expert

Spend time with a Chrome River Consultant face-to-face, one-on-one, to get your questions answered. Book early, space is limited.

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Breakout 1: Become Future-Ready with Chrome River INVOICE

Learn how Chrome River INVOICE has evolved to meet your business needs with embedded OCR technology and integration capabilities to support two and three-way PO matching.

Michael Johnson, Product Manager, INVOICE, Chrome River
Matt Brodsky, Solutions Consultant, Chrome River #invoice

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Breakout 2: Data Exploration with TRAVEL 360

Become a data explorer with Chrome River’s new ANALYTICS travel reporting solution, TRAVEL 360. Get a 360 degree view of your travel spend using a suite of reports designed to determine your actual costs (including travel bookings), identify trends over time, and breakdown the analysis by different areas of your organization. TRAVEL 360 will answer key questions about the true cost of travel for your organization.

Rodrigo Cotelo, Solutions Consultant, Chrome River
Jeff Kurn, Global Travel Manager, Anaplan #analytics

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Breakout 1: Leverage Chrome River For All Your Card Processing

Corporate cards, travel cards, ghost cards, procurement cards, personal cards....the choices seem endless. Are you leveraging Chrome River fully to take advantage of efficiencies you can gain around data feeds, reconciliation and reporting? Join us to learn how you can ensure your card program is future-ready with Chrome River.

Jeremy Soto, Director, Solutions Consulting, Chrome River
Ron Botchan, Solutions Consultant, Chrome River #expense #efficiency

2:30pm - 3:30pm

Breakout 2: AP Automation and INVOICE Data Insight Trends

Interested in how you can move from a transaction-heavy organization to one that is focused on strategic thinking? Join us to learn about the latest trends in Accounts Payable automation and the ever-increasing importance of data-driven insights and intelligence. We would love your feedback on the concepts we are thinking about for INVOICE ANALYTICS. We also want your thoughts and ideas on what KPI’s and data insights would be most beneficial to you as we plan our 2020 ANALYTICS Roadmap.

Dan Humbert, Vice President, INVOICE Product Group, Chrome River
Carla Minsky, Vice President INVOICE Sales, Chrome River #insight #invoice #analytics

3:30pm - 4:00pm

Afternoon Snack and Exhibit Hall Break

4:00pm - 5:30pm

General Session: Chrome River EXPENSE - What's New and What's Next

What's new in EXPENSE? Join our Product Management team for an update on cool new features as well as get a sneak preview of what's to come on our roadmap.

Marcus Seuser, Vice President, Product Management, Chrome River #expense #efficiency

6:00pm - 10:00pm

"Chromie" Awards Dinner and Entertainment

Celebrate like a Hollywood luminary in The Beverly Hilton Golden Globes ballroom where Chrome River will recognize some of our customers for their exceptional work. Dress like a VIP and enjoy a program filled with entertainment and fun!

sponsored by U.S. Bank

Wednesday, September 11

7:45am - 8:30am

Continental Breakfast + Registration

8:30am - 9:30am

Keynote Session: Future-Ready Keynote

Enabling Future Readiness: Start with your WHY Why are some organizations able to sell more products even though their competitors are equally good? Why are some leaders more influential than others? Our keynote speaker Heath Slawner will give insights into the success of the world’s most influential leaders and why the key to success lies in the way these organization and leaders think, act and communicate. He will share a powerful and proven methodology for finding your organization’s purpose – a critical element for realizing business success.

Heath serves as an official Igniter on Simon Sinek's team. As one of the leaders of the Start With Why movement, Heath travels the world to deliver keynotes, workshops and leadership training.

Heath Slawner, Igniter, Simon Sinek Inc.

9:30am - 10:30am

General Session: Going Global with Chrome River at Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts onboarded over 20 countries onto Chrome River in under one year. This presentation will cover their roll-out strategy and take a deep-dive into the comprehensive adoption activities behind this successful global roll-out.

Howard Martin, Sr. Branch Manager in Finance, Electronic Arts #agility

10:30am - 12:00pm

Consultant's Corner: Book One-on-One Time with a Chrome River Expert

Spend time with a Chrome River Consultant face-to-face, one-on-one, to get your questions answered. Book early, space is limited.

10:30am - 11:00am

Morning Coffee and Exhibit Hall Break

11:00am - 12:00pm

Breakout 1: Embracing Agility through the Chrome River SAP and CLOUD CONNECTOR

You value a flexible open integration platform. Learn how you can modernize your integration strategy by leveraging the Chrome River CLOUD CONNECTOR. Hear success stories and gain best practices from your peers.

Felix Consbruch, Manager ERP Integration
Roopsi Gupta, Project Manager, Toyota #agility #dataintegration

11:00am - 12:00pm

Breakout 2: Risk, Fraud and Abuse, OH MY!

Don't let it happen to you. Join us for an interactive discussion of how you can safeguard your organization from waste, fraud and abuse using these tools.

Jeremy Soto, Director Solutions Consulting, Chrome River
Chris Elliott, Director of Sales, Oversight #audit #insight

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Lunch and Exhibit Hall Break

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Consultant's Corner: Book One-on-One Time with a Chrome River Expert

Spend time with a Chrome River Consultant face-to-face, one-on-one, to get your questions answered. Book early, space is limited.

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Breakout 1: Maximize Your Mobility

Are you leveraging all the tools available to take Chrome River with you on the go? Join us to learn best practices on rolling out mobile capability to your end users. Learn more about Chrome River SNAP and the upcoming hybrid app as well as how the Chrome River mobile strategy will evolve with our zero click initiative.

Marcus Seuser, Vice President, Product Management, Chrome River
Jeff Devier, Director, Customer Success Management, Chrome River #mobile #efficiency

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Breakout 2: Enhance Your Purchasing Power

Do your end users need an intuitive, modern solution to request goods and services? Get a preview of the newly transformed PURCHASE ORDER module in our Mercury platform. Learn about what's next on the roadmap to support your procurement needs.

Michael Johnson, Product Manager, INVOICE, Chrome River
Matt Brodsky, Solutions Consultant, Chrome River #purchaseorder

2:00pm - 3:00pm

General Session: Becoming Future Ready

How do you ensure long term success? Are you up-to-date on the latest industry trends? Join us for an interactive panel discussion with Chrome River experts around how you continue to leverage automation and innovation to become future-ready.

Frank Davis, VP, Sales Operations, Chrome River
& Chrome River Expert Panel

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Afternoon Snack and Exhibit Hall Break

3:30pm - 4:45pm

General Session: Innovation in Action

Over the years the Chrome River suite of solutions has been directly influenced by your ideas and feedback. We'd like to take this opportunity to highlight product features and innovations you helped shape. Additionally, we'll give you an opportunity to vote on future innovations. Will your organization be recognized? Will you learn about something new? Will you get to pick the next item on the roadmap? Join us to find out!

Marcus Seuser, Vice President, Product Management, Chrome River

4:45pm - 5:00pm

Closing Remarks

Conference wrap up and thank you!