Event times
Wednesday, April 26th
12:00 pm – Registration open
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm – Day 1 of Event Sessions
7:00 pm -9:30 pm – Let's Celebrate! Social Evening
Thursday, April 27th
8:00 am - 8:45 am – Breakfast
8:45 am - 5:00 pm – Day 2 of Event Sessions
Friday, April 28th
8:00 am - 8:45 am – Breakfast
8:45 am - 12:00 pm – Day 3 of Event Sessions
Meet our Panel and Speakers
We are delighted to introduce our innovative panelists for the Unimarket NOW Headline Panel Session and our speakers for the sessions.
Wednesday April 26, 2023
Welcome to Unimarket NOW
Darren Blakely, President, Unimarket
Darren will welcome all attendees and provide an update on the progress Unimarket has made since our last NOW event in 2019.
Next level procurement panel
Randy Gentzler, John Mercer and Snow Rutkowske, with moderator Amy McWhirter
Our panelists will share their insights on how procurement teams can elevate the strategic value they provide to their organizations. This panel will include a 20-minute Q&A session with the audience.
Say hello to the Collaboration Station
Julie Wetzel, Account Manager & Solution Consultant, Unimarket
Afternoon break
Refreshments provided
Game Show – Family Feud
Hosted by Gourmet Dining
What comes next?
Dan Mackay, Head of US Operations & Hayley Kudra, Head of ANZ Operations, Unimarket
Are you making the most out of your eProcurement platform? In this session Dan and Hayley will highlight how to push for more value out of an eProcurement solution.
Free time
Let’s Celebrate!
Join us for a fun-filled evening of food, drink, music and casino games.
Thursday April 27, 2023
Looking back on Day 1
Brian Sweeney, Head of US Project Office
#WhatJulieDidntKnow
Julie Wetzel, Account Manager & Solution Consultant, Unimarket
A list of 20 helpful features in the Unimarket platform that Julie has uncovered since joining the Unimarket team.
Morning break
Refreshments provided
Services: - To share or not to share?
Chase Loper, Assistant Vice President for Business Services, Duquesne University
Chase will provide an overview of Shared Services and how it can be implemented. He will discuss how it was implemented at Duquesne University, and how Unimarket has supported and facilitated the shift to a centralized Shared Services model. There will be time for a Q&A session with the audience.
Make it rain with strategic sourcing
Tony Shala, Procurement Manager, Teachers College
Tony will provide insights on how he helps Teachers College achieve significant cost savings through strategically sourced suppliers.
Lunch
Sponsored by Civic Initiatives
Game Show – Last Man Standing
Hosted by ABC Stone
Roundtables Intro
Ed Maurer, Implementation Manager, Unimarket
Roundtable rendezvous
Choose a topic and meet with a subject-matter expert and your peers to ask questions, share your experiences and learn at one of the available roundtables. Three 25-minute sessions.
Afternoon break
Refreshments provided
Roundtable rendezvous deux
Choose a topic and meet with a subject-matter expert and your peers to ask questions, share your experiences and learn at one of the available roundtables. Three 25-minute sessions.
Closing remarks
Ed Maurer, Implementation, Unimarket
Free evening in Annapolis
Friday April 28, 2023
Looking back on Day 2
Brian Sweeney, Head of US Project Office, Unimarket
Payment fraud – Avoid these traps
Bill Fox, Chief Commercial Officer, Finexio
Bill Fox, the former Deputy Chief of Economic and Cyber Crime at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office and Special Assistant US Attorney, will share the types of fraud that can occur in accounts payable, common red flags, best practices, and the best solutions for preventing enterprise AP fraud in 2023.
Map to the Future
Justin Gillion, Head of Product, Unimarket
Justin will provide an overview of recent Unimarket development and provide a glimpse into the roadmap for the future.
And the award goes to...
The Unimarket team will be nominating attendees for special awards this year. Will you be among the winners?
Lunch
Boxed lunch
Thank you to our sponsors
We'd like to extend a big thank you to our Unimarket NOW sponsors. This event would not be able to happen without their generous support.
Finexio is the leading AP Payments as a Service company focused on enabling end-to-end business payment capabilities in mid-market and enterprise organizations.
This fully managed AP Payments as a Service solution represents a powerful disruption to traditional, disjointed manual-based AP processes. Finexio’s modern, efficient service model, robust API, SSO capabilities, and differentiated service capabilities allows companies to eliminate manual processes, lower payment costs, and prevent payments fraud. Founded in 2015 by Payments Industry veterans, Finexio has grown rapidly by working with hundreds of CFO’s across the country, moving billions of dollars securely and efficiently.
Finexio alleviates manual work for financial teams AND drives more value from accounts payable. Finexio powers B2B payments infrastructure for some of the world’s largest accounts payable and procurement software platforms. Finexio’s investors and partners include some of the largest banks and financial institutions in the United States, including J.P. Morgan, the largest bank in the USA
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Need more information?
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