CONNECTED ENTERPRISE EXECUTIVE DINNER

Unlock High-Performance Operations at Community Summit NA

Gaylord Opryland, Nashville | October 11-15, 2026
Meet us at booth #701 (Ryman Hall)

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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

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6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

 

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Private Executive Dining Venue, Gold Coast Area, Chicago
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Discover how leading organizations are unlocking high-performance operations through connected business applications, trusted data foundations, and AI-powered insights.

At Community Summit NA, learn from real customer experiences, gain practical insights from industry experts, and explore strategies that help organizations improve performance and prepare for what's next.

Visit Argano at Booth #701, attend our expert-led sessions, and connect with our team to see how leading organizations are using Dynamics365, Microsoft Fabric, and AI-powered solutions to turn strategy into results. 

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Planning to attend Community Summit NA? Complete the form to receive a 15% registration discount and connect with the Argano team before or during the conference.

Learn from real-world transformation stories, explore new possibilities with Microsoft Business Applications and AI-powered solutions, and gain insights from Argano experts.  

Whether you're looking to learn from real-world transformation stories, explore new capabilities across the Microsoft Business Applications ecosystem, or exchange ideas with experienced practitioners, we'd welcome the opportunity to connect.
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Join a select group of manufacturing executives, Microsoft leaders, and industry peers for a private executive discussion during IMTS 2026.

Leading manufacturers are creating Connected Enterprises by aligning ERP, operations, supply chain, and data to improve visibility, agility, and business performance across the manufacturing value chain. This private executive dinner is designed to foster candid peer-to-peer discussion among a select group of manufacturing leaders, Microsoft leaders, and industry peers.

By Invitation  Only
This private executive dinner is designed to foster candid peer-to-peer discussion among a select group of manufacturing leaders, Microsoft executives, and industry peers. Attendance is limited. Venue details and arrival instructions will be provided to confirmed attendees.

By Invitation Only

This private executive dinner is designed to foster candid peer-to-peer discussion among a select group of manufacturing leaders, Microsoft executives, and industry peers. Attendance is limited. Venue details and arrival instructions will be provided to confirmed attendees.

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Agenda
  • Check-In & Networking Breakfast - 8:00-9:00 AM
  • Keynote Speaker - 9:00-9:20 AM
  • Breakout 1 (All 3 Tracks) - 9:30-10:20 AM
  • Breakout 2 (All 3 Tracks) - 10:30-11:20 AM
  • Lunch and Networking - 11:20 AM-12:00 PM
  • Fireside Chat - 12:00-12:20 PM
  • Breakout 3 (All 3 Tracks) - 12:30-1:20 PM
  • Breakout 4 (All 3 Tracks) - 1:30-2:20 PM
  • Breakout 5 (All 3 Tracks) - 2:30-3:20 PM
  • Happy Hour - 3:30-5:00 PM

Sessions and Speakers

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Lorenc Koka
Senior Director - Solution Architecture, MD, MCP, 

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Drew Lencsak
Director of Delivery, MVP

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Charlotte McCormick
President, Chief Client Officer

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Carol Sikes
Principal Consultant

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Tanya Todd
Vice President Delivery, Managed Services

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Jessica Vaughn
Director of Delivery

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Sienna Wagner
Principal Engagement Manager/Architect

Track A
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Track B
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Track C
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Track A Session List

01.
Cracking the Code on Complex Consolidations in Oracle EPM FCC

John Harding | Director, EPM Delivery

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02.
From Complexity to Clarity: Strategies for Oracle EPM Data Integrations with Snowflake

Brian Dandeneau | Director, EPM Delivery

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03.
Mastering FX in Oracle EPM FCC: What Every Team Needs to Know

Terrance Walker | Vice President, EPM Delivery

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04.
Ignite ERP & EPM with Enterprise Data Management

Brian Dandeneau | Director, EPM Delivery

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05.
From Manual Effort to Strategic Control: Reimagining Reconciliations with Oracle ARC

Terrance Walker | Vice President, EPM Delivery

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Academy: Production with Advanced Warehousing

Carol Sikes | Principal Consultant & Jessica Vaughn | Director of Delivery 
Sunday, October 11 | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
Session Location: TBA 
This class provides a hands-on introduction to Warehouse Management (WMS) and Production Control in Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, designed for  functional professionals and end users who want to understand how warehousing and manufacturing processes connect end-to-end.
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Academy: Bridging the Gap: D365 F/SCM (FO) to Fabric Data Integration 

Sienna Wagner | Principal Engagement Manager/Architect 
Sunday, October 11 | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM CT
Session Location: TBA
You've got D365 F/SCM running—now you need to put that centralized ERP data to work in Microsoft Fabric. Easy, right? Not when your toughest challenges fall into the no-man's land between D365 system managers and Fabric data specialists.
 
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Email to Case on Autopilot: Building an AI-Powered Intake Pipeline with Power Automate, AI Builder, and D365 Customer Service

Lorenc Koka | Senior Director - Solution Architecture, MD, MCP, 5X Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect D365 F&O
Tuesday, October 13 | 8:00 AM - 09:30 AM CT
Magnolia Mezzanine 12, Level M
Your D365 Customer Service team still manually triages incoming emails, copy-pastes contact details, and writes the first case description by hand. This session shows you how to eliminate that work entirely — with a real, working architecture built in Power Automate.
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Women in IT: Beyond Implementation – Implement. Integrate. Lead.

Charlotte McCormick | President, Chief Client Officer
Tuesday, October 13 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CT
Volunteer A, Level 2
As women in IT we often focus on the features, functionality and technology. Join us for an insightful panel discussion featuring Charlotte McCormick from Argano, Crystal Ahrens from HEICO, and Kellie Righini from Aras Corporation. This session is tailored to learn from experience from women executives who have been implementing ERP/CE and build some ‘muscles’ around emotional intelligence.
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E-Invoicing in D365: Real-world lessons from Poland and Germany

Tanya Todd | Vice President Delivery, Managed Services
Tuesday, October 13 | 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM CT
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E-invoicing mandates are rolling out across the globe at pace - and for organizations running D365 F&SC, getting compliant in multiple countries at once is no small task.  In this session, we share a candid, customer-led story of implementing D365 e-invoicing across two distinct regulatory environments:  Poland's KSeF framework, and Germany's XRechnung standard.
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Adaptive Cards as Your Agent's Front Door: Intake Forms, Structured Capture, and Variable Injection in Copilot Studio 

Lorenc Koka | Senior Director - Solution Architecture, MD, MCP, 5X Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect D365 F&O
Wednesday, October 14 | 8:00 AM - 09:30 AM CT
Magnolia Mezzanine 5/6, Level M
Copilot Studio agents that accept free-text input are harder to govern, harder to test, and harder to make consistent. Replacing free-text with a structured Adaptive Card intake form — with choice fields, required validation, and proper variable capture — is the single highest-leverage UX improvement you can make to a production agent. This session shows you exactly how to build it.
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Sit Down, Be Humble: What I Have Learned in Almost 20 Years of Dynamics

Drew Lencsak | Director of Delivery, MVP
Wednesday, October 14 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CT
Ryman C, Level 0 
After over 18 years of working with Dynamics as an end user, consultant, consultant manager, Director of Delivery, Microsoft MVP, and Community Summit Legend, there are many things I have learned and relearned. This session will share insights on what's important as you navigate Dynamics. What's important for a career in tech, specifically, D365? What are some of the "gotchas" in D365 ERP implementations and optimization projects?
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Building a Community and Paying it Forward - How We Help Make Space for Women

Sienna Wagner | Principal Engagement Manager/Architect 
Wednesday, October 14 | 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM CT
Volunteer Mezzanine 5, Level M 
For women thinking of entering the technology landscape, it can be hard to know where to start.  In this session two veterans of the Microsoft ecosystem are joined by two recent entrants to the tech world to discuss how they got into the space, the hard lessons learned, and the best ways we, as women leaders, can pay it forward to those just venturing in. Because the best way to achieve more women in tech is for all of us here to make the space!
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The Hidden Abandon: Why 10–20% of Your Contact Center Calls Don't Exist in D365 - and How to Find Them

Lorenc Koka | Senior Director - Solution Architecture, MD, MCP, 5X Microsoft FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect D365 F&O
Tuesday, October 15 | 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM CT
Magnolia Mezzanine 8, Level M
If your D365 Omnichannel abandon rate is 57%, your real abandon rate might be 70% — and you'd have no idea, because D365 conversation records are created after workstream routing assigns a call to a queue. Every customer who hangs up during IVR interaction, bot handling, or pre-queue processing is simply never recorded in Dataverse.

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If you're planning on attending Community Summit and are interested in joining the discussion, complete the form to receive a 15% registration discount and connect with our team during the conference.

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Ignite ERP & EPM with Enterprise Data Management

Brian Dandeneau | Director, EPM Delivery
Modern finance transformation depends on trusted, connected enterprise data that can move seamlessly across ERP, EPM, and analytics processes. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle Enterprise Data Management can help unify and govern master data across ERP and EPM landscapes, enabling better alignment between financial reporting, planning, consolidation, account reconciliation, and operational processes.

Through practical examples and transformation strategies, the session will explore how Teams can move beyond spreadsheet-based hierarchy maintenance and fragmented change processes toward a governed, collaborative, and auditable data management model. Participants will gain insight into how EDM supports application connectivity, hierarchy management, mappings, requests, approvals, validations, subscriptions, and downstream synchronization across Oracle and non-Oracle systems.
 
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From Manual Effort to Strategic Control: Reimagining Reconciliations with Oracle ARC

Terrance Walker | Vice President, EPM Delivery
Account reconciliations remain one of the most time-consuming and control-sensitive activities in the financial close, often burdened by spreadsheets, manual follow-up, inconsistent documentation, and limited visibility. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle Account Reconciliation can help organizations transform reconciliation from a reactive close task into a governed, automated, and insight-driven process.

Through practical examples and transformation strategies, the session will explore how Teams can standardize reconciliation formats, automate assignments and approvals, load balances from source systems, apply rules and thresholds, manage supporting documentation, and improve exception visibility. Participants will gain insight into how Oracle ARC supports reconciliation compliance, transaction matching, dashboards, workflow, audit readiness, and stronger accountability across the close process.
 

Schedule

Time

8:00-9:00 AM

9:00-9:30 AM

9:30-10:20 AM

10:30-11:20 AM

11:20 AM -12:00 PM

12:00-12:30 PM

12:30-1:20 PM

1:30-2:20 PM

2:30-3:20 PM

3:30-5:00 PM

Topic

Registration and Breakfast

Keynote Speaker

Breakout 1 (All 3 Tracks)

Breakout 2 (All 3 Tracks)

Lunch and Networking

Fireside Chat

Breakout 3 (All 3 Tracks)

Breakout 4 (All 3 Tracks)

Breakout 5 (All 3 Tracks)

Reception and Networking

Networking Reception at the NEST Rooftop at the Thompson Seattle

Schedule and Happy Hour

Starting at 8:00 AM CDT for check-in and breakfast, the day will be broken into 3 tracks consisting of 15 sessions. Each session is 50 minutes. Attendees are invited to go between tracks at the conclusion of each session.

Breakfast and Lunch with be provided alongside refreshments as well.

Afterwards, please accept our invitation to stay with us for happy hour in the pre-conference area from 3:30 PM and 5:00 PM.

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