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Watch all the best keynotes, panels and workshops from Excelerate Summit 2023.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Plan For Anything

Discover how your business can build the agility and resilience needed to plan for anything in today's increasingly complex business environment.

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Episode 2

What Makes a Winning Team

Learn from Mitch Holthus, Voice of the Kansas City Chiefs (Super Bowl LIV Champions), on how to create winning teams on and off the field.

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Episode 3

Strategies for High-Functioning Finance Teams

Learn how to unlock your finance team's power as a strategic business partner with agile FP&A methods, automation and tactics for data-driven decision making.

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Episode 4

Introduction to Vena Complete Planning and Insights

Explore the transformation of finance as a strategic business partner across the business through the power of people, process and technology.

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Episode 5

Managing Cash Flow in Complex Business Conditions

Learn strategies for leveraging technology, mitigating risks and optimizing cash flow for financial stability and long-term success in a dynamic business environment.

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Episode 6

Training: Data Mapping Fundamentals

Explore data model fundamentals of the Vena Modeler. Master basic data model terminology and maintenance to ensure accurate data consolidation and financial reporting.

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Episode 7

Vena for Workforce Planning

Explore best practices for headcount planning, labor expense planning and more that will ensure your people leaders—and business—are ready for any scenario.

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Episode 8

Vena for Budget Owners

See how to drive agile planning across your organization by extending the Vena platform beyond finance to budget owners and business leaders in different departments

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Episode 9

Agile Revenue Forecasting Best Practices

Learn how to align finance, marketing and sales teams for flexible revenue forecasting that will help your business quickly adapt to rapidly changing business conditions.

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Episode 10

Accelerate Your Financial Close with Fluence

Discover how you can bridge the gap between FP&A and accounting, while also accelerating your financial close with Fluence. See how leveraging a best-of-breed approach to the office of finance by combining Vena Solutions with Fluence’s financial close, consolidation, and report management platform.

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Episode 11

How To Excelerate Personally and Professionally With Vena

Join us to discover how to power your personal, professional and business growth that goes beyond the Vena product in our Customer Exclusive Excelerators Program.

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Episode 12

Unlocking Opportunities with Finance Systems and Operations

Find out how the emerging field of finance systems and operations is leveraging technology to modernize financial processes and drive business transformation.

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Episode 13

Financial Modeling in Excel Using Dynamic Arrays

Learn how to build models with dynamic arrays that are easy to audit, hard to break and contain fewer formulas.

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Episode 14

Vena for Franchise Powered by Citrin Cooperman

Don't settle for guesswork when it comes to your franchise financial performance. Join Vena Partner Citrin Cooperman's specialized franchise team and elevate your operations.

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Episode 15

Vena for Legal Firms By ProLytics Consulting Group

Join Vena Partner Prolytics to learn how modern planning methods and data analysis can enhance your legal reporting on timekeeper costs and profitability.

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Episode 16

Plan For Anything With Technology and Innovation

Join us as we recap Day 1 and look ahead into how technology and innovation are revolutionizing the strategic office of finance in Day 2.

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Episode 17

The New Tech Empowering Finance-led Innovation

Discover the latest developments in AI, machine learning and other technology empowering finance teams to lead strategic innovation, improve productivity and drive business transformation.

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Episode 18

Vena Product Roadmap & Spring '23 Release

See how Vena empowers the office of finance with innovations around productivity, access to deeper strategic insights and more. Plus, get a special preview into Vena's Spring '23 Release.

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Episode 19

Vena Insights

See how Vena can surface accurate, action-oriented financial insights in minutes and empower you to lead your organization with data-driven decision making.

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Episode 20

Technology and Innovation with Vena and Microsoft

Explore the ways in which innovations in technology from Vena and Microsoft are helping finance teams enable and accelerate digital transformation, integrate tools and modernize their operations.

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Episode 21

Vena for Banking and Credit Unions

Learn why banks and credit unions choose Vena to minimize risk, maximize profitability and plan with agility through pre-configured data models and enhanced dashboards.

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Episode 22

Vena for Manufacturing

Learn why leading manufacturers choose Vena to manage their financial and operational planning and deep dive into how you can spend less time integrating your different data points and more time focusing on growing your product demand.

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Episode 23

Plan for Anything With Vena

Take a deep dive into scenario analysis, rolling forecasts, reporting, analytics and more with native Excel, Microsoft 365 and powerful strategic insights in Vena.

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Episode 24

Practical Applications of AI and Automation in FP&A

See how leaders in the finance and planning space are harnessing emerging technologies in AI and automation to power their plan for anything.

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Episode 25

How to Model Inflation Impact With Power BI

Learn how to model the impact of inflation on business outcomes using Power BI in this workshop.

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Episode 26

Future Proof Your Vena Solution

Learn how to get ready for your next business cycle in Vena and empower your organization to plan for anything.

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Episode 27

Beyond the Product & Implementing

Discover how Vena partners with you to drive beyond the product and into an agile planning, finance-first culture through our customer experience organization.

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Episode 28

Latest Trends in FP&A, AI, Extended Planning and Performance Management

Hear from Howard Dresner, a leading industry analyst, who will provide you with insights on the latest trends in FP&A, AI, extended planning and performance management.

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Episode 29

The Power of Connected Systems in Vena

Learn about Vena's native integrations and APIs to quickly integrate your technology stack, unlock productivity and source business insights with the power of connected data.

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Episode 30

How Vena Experts Can Bring Your Planning Vision to Life

Join a Vena Expert to learn how you can bring your planning strategy into Vena, from connecting your Excel workbook to creating and maintaining a net new template.

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Episode 31

Closing Remarks + Save the Date

Get a recap of Excelerate Summit 2023 and a first look at next year's conference.

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