Argano | AI Ignite: EPM Edition

Picture your Finance team no longer buried in reconciliations, late-night consolidations, or endless spreadsheet versions. Oracle Cloud EPM with its AI works with them. It automates reconciliations, manages the financial close, and creates reports that are ready for the board.

At Houston's AI Ignite EPM event, see these capabilities come together: AI Agent Studio and embedded AI that streamline planning; trusted data foundations through EDM; intelligent FX automation that reduces risk; and an AI-ready strategy that turns volatility into competitive advantage.

Join educational sessions, expert speakers, and an executive networking cocktail hour for any level of Oracle EPM users. Walk away with a clear path to equip Finance with the speed, insight, and strategic edge that only AI-enabled EPM can deliver.

8:00 – 9:00am

Check-In & Networking Breakfast NETWORKING

9:00 – 9:20am

Chris Muli, Group VP, EPM Solution Engineering (Oracle) KEYNOTE SPEAKER

9:30 – 10:20am

Breakout Session 1 · Choose one

Users

Simplify Your Financial Consolidation and Close with Oracle FCC

Thought Leadership

Build the Future of Finance with AI Agent Studio in Oracle EPM

Hands-on Lab

How Oracle EPM AI Drives a Continuous Financial Close

Own laptop needed

10:30 – 11:20am

Breakout Session 2 · Choose one

users

Al Starts with Trusted Data: Modern Integration Strategies with Oracle EPM and Snowflake

Thought Leadership

From Volatility to Value: Modernizing Oil & Gas Planning with Oracle EPM

Hands-on Lab

How Oracle EPM Al Drives Streamlined Planning Processes

Own laptop needed

11:20 – 12:20pm

Lunch and Fireside Chat with Kaci Coble (Oracle), Glen Lambert (Dave & Buster's) & Terrance Walker (Argano) FIRESIDE CHAT

12:30 – 1:20pm

Breakout Session 3 · Choose one

Users

Improve Your FX Management with Al and Automation

Thought Leadership

Al-Powered Finance: Elevating Executive Decision-Making Through Narrative Intelligence

Hands-on Lab

How Oracle EPM Al Helps Drive Reporting Insights

Own laptop needed

1:30 – 2:20pm

Breakout Session 4 · Choose one

Users

Unify Your ERP and EPM Data with Enterprise Data Management

Thought Leadership

From Features to Advantage: Leveraging EPM Innovation to Drive Strategic Outcomes

Hands-on Lab

Configure Embedded Al in EPM

Own laptop needed

2:30 – 3:20pm

Breakout Session 5 · Choose one

Users

Turn Reconciliation into Actionable Insights with Oracle ARC, Powered by Oracle Al

Thought Leadership

Modernizing Performance Management: An Al-Ready EPM Strategy for the Enterprise

Hands-on Lab

Building a Strong Data Foundation for Al with Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM)

Own laptop needed

3:30 – 5:00pm

Executive Networking Cocktail Hour Networking

Where AI Ignites EPM Transformation

AI Agent Studio and embedded AI that streamline planning

Tusted data foundations through EDM

Intelligent FX automation that reduces risk

AI-ready strategy that turns volatility into competitive advantage.

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Breakout Session 1

9:30 – 10:20am

Simplify Your Financial Consolidation and Close with Oracle FCC (Users)
Build the Future of Finance with AI Agent Studio in Oracle EPM (Thought Leadership)
How Oracle EPM AI Drives a Continuous Financial Close (Hands-on Lab)
Blake Williams

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Breakout Session 2

10:30 – 11:20am

AI Starts with Trusted Data: Modern Integration Strategies with Oracle EPM and Snowflake (Users)
From Volatility to Value: Modernizing Oil & Gas Planning with Oracle EPM (Thought Leadership)
How Oracle EPM AI Drives Streamlined Planning Processes (Hands-on Lab)
Lori Hahn

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Breakout Session 3

12:30 – 1:20pm

Improve Your FX Management with AI and Automation (Users)
AI-Powered Finance: Elevating Executive Decision-Making Through Narrative Intelligence (Thought Leadership)
How Oracle EPM AI Helps Drive Reporting Insights (Hands-on Lab)
Lori Hahn

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Breakout Session 4

1:30 – 2:20pm

Unify Your ERP and EPM Data with Enterprise Data Management (Users)
From Features to Advantage: Leveraging EPM Innovation to Drive Strategic Outcomes (Thought Leadership)
Configure Embedded AI in EPM (Hands-on Lab)
Lori Hahn

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Breakout Session 5

2:30 – 3:20pm

Turn Reconciliation into Actionable Insights with Oracle ARC, Powered by Oracle AI (Users)
Modernizing Performance Management: An AI-Ready EPM Strategy for the Enterprise (Thought Leadership)
Building a Strong Data Foundation for AI with Oracle Enterprise Data Management (EDM) (Hands-on Lab)
Lori Hahn

Complex consolidations can quickly challenge even the most experienced finance and accounting Teams, especially when organizations are managing partial ownership, changing entity structures, joint ventures, equity investments, intercompany activity, and multi-currency reporting. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle EPM Financial Consolidation and Close helps bring structure, automation, and transparency to these advanced consolidation scenarios.

Through practical examples and lessons learned, the session will explore how consolidation methods, ownership percentages, non-controlling interest, equity pickup, eliminations, and configuration decisions work together to drive consolidated results. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of how to design, validate, and troubleshoot complex consolidation models in FCC while improving close confidence, auditability, and reporting consistency.

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As organizations modernize their finance and analytics architecture, the need to connect Oracle EPM with cloud data platforms like Snowflake has become increasingly important. In this session, attendees will learn practical strategies for designing reliable, scalable, and transparent data integrations that support planning, consolidation, reporting, and analytics across the enterprise.

Through real-world integration patterns and lessons learned, the session will explore how Teams can simplify data movement, improve data quality, reduce manual file-based processes, and strengthen governance between Oracle EPM and Snowflake. Participants will gain insight into key design considerations such as source-to-target mapping, metadata alignment, load automation, validation, drill-through, performance, and ownership between finance and IT Teams.

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Foreign currency translation is one of the most critical—and often misunderstood—areas of the financial consolidation process. In this session, attendees will learn how Oracle EPM Financial Consolidation and Close supports multi-currency consolidation, including translation to parent and reporting currencies, exchange rate application, currency translation adjustment, and the relationship between FX results and the broader close process.

Through practical examples and implementation lessons learned, the session will help finance, accounting, and consolidation Teams understand what drives FX outcomes in FCC, how metadata and rate configuration influence results, and where common issues typically arise. Participants will leave with a clearer framework for validating FX, explaining translation impacts, improving close confidence, and reducing avoidable rework during period-end reporting.

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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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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.

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Oracle EPM Planning Cloud never stands still — each release delivers smarter, faster, and more intuitive ways to plan, analyze, and act. In this session, we’ll count down our five favorite features that are reshaping what’s possible for today’s EPM teams.

Experience the agility of Flex Forms, the seamless integration of Cross Pod Smart Push and Data Maps powered by Groovy automation, and the intelligence of Insights and Predictions that bring AI directly into your planning workflows. We’ll also highlight the new Forms 2.0 experience, packed with modern design updates that make building and using forms easier and more engaging than ever.

And because we all love a showstopper, we’ll end with a “listening party” for 2026 release feature — a groundbreaking enhancement that’s poised to be another game changer for EPM Planning.
You’ll walk away with practical tips, configuration ideas, and plenty of inspiration to level up your own Oracle EPM environment.

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Every organization approaches performance management from a different starting point, whether the priority is planning, consolidation, account reconciliation, profitability, tax, reporting, data integration, or enterprise data governance. In this session, attendees will explore how Oracle EPM Cloud can meet organizations where they are today while providing a connected platform for future transformation.

Through a guided platform exploration, the session will highlight how Oracle EPM Cloud business processes and common platform capabilities can support finance modernization across close, planning, reporting, analytics, workflow, integration, security, and governance. Participants will gain a practical understanding of where to begin, how to expand over time, and how to connect multiple EPM capabilities into a scalable roadmap that aligns with business maturity, priorities, and value realization.

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8:00 – 9:00am	Check-In & Networking Breakfast	Networking
9:00 – 9:20am	Keynote Chris Muli, Group VP, EPM Solution Engineering, Oracle	Keynote
9:30 – 10:20am	Breakout Session 1	Breakout
10:30 – 11:20am	Breakout Session 2	Breakout
11:20 – 12:00pm	Lunch & Networking	Networking
12:00 – 12:20pm	Fireside Chat Kaci Coble (Oracle) & Glen Lambert (Dave & Buster's)	Fireside
12:30 – 1:20pm	Breakout Session 3	Breakout
1:30 – 2:20pm	Breakout Session 4	Breakout
2:30 – 3:20pm	Breakout Session 5	Breakout
3:30 – 5:00pm	Executive Networking Cocktail Hour	Networking

Argano AI Ignite:EPM Edition

Chris Muli

Group Vice President, EPM Solution Engineering | OraclePassionate and infinitely curious Pre Sales Leader

Chris Muli

Group Vice President, EPM Solution Engineering | OraclePassionate and infinitely curious Pre Sales Leader

Kaci Coble

Group Vice President, EPM Sales | Oracle

Glen Lambert

Director, EPM Financial Systems | Dave & Buster’s Inc

Terrance Walker

Vice President, EPM Delivery | Argano

John Harding

Director, EPM Delivery | Argano

Brian Dandeneau

Director, EPM Delivery | Argano

Josie Manzano-Stettler

Vice President, EPM Delivery | Argano

Veronica Tafoya

Director, EPM Delivery | Argano

Caroline Faeth

Principal Solutions Architect | Argano

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Users

The Unified Data FoundationAgentic AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Discover how unified, real-time data turns fragmented systems into a single source of truth, the foundation every autonomous decision depends on.

The Unified Data FoundationAgentic AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Discover how unified, real-time data turns fragmented systems into a single source of truth, the foundation every autonomous decision depends on.

The Unified Data FoundationAgentic AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Discover how unified, real-time data turns fragmented systems into a single source of truth, the foundation every autonomous decision depends on.

The Unified Data FoundationAgentic AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Discover how unified, real-time data turns fragmented systems into a single source of truth, the foundation every autonomous decision depends on.

Jennifer Stango

Vice President of Strategic Growth, Argano

Scott Gardner

Principal Consultant, Argano

Jennifer Stango

Vice President of Strategic Growth, Argano

Cracking the Code on Complex Consolidations in Oracle EPM FCC

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

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

Ignite ERP & EPM with Enterprise Data Management

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

EPM Unplugged: 5 Game-Changing Features (and One Future Hit) in Oracle Planning Cloud

Meet You Where You Are with Oracle EPM Cloud - Oracle EPM Platform Exploration

Join Houston's EPM Community on September 17

Argano AI Ignite:
EPM Edition

Group Vice President, EPM Solution Engineering | Oracle

Passionate and infinitely curious Pre Sales Leader

Group Vice President, EPM Solution Engineering | Oracle

Passionate and infinitely curious Pre Sales Leader

The Unified Data Foundation
Agentic AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Discover how unified, real-time data turns fragmented systems into a single source of truth, the foundation every autonomous decision depends on.

The Unified Data Foundation
Agentic AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Discover how unified, real-time data turns fragmented systems into a single source of truth, the foundation every autonomous decision depends on.

The Unified Data Foundation
Agentic AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Discover how unified, real-time data turns fragmented systems into a single source of truth, the foundation every autonomous decision depends on.

The Unified Data Foundation
Agentic AI is only as good as the data beneath it. Discover how unified, real-time data turns fragmented systems into a single source of truth, the foundation every autonomous decision depends on.