FACT 2018 – Feith Annual Conference & Training

About The Event

We’d like to invite you to join us for this year’s all-new-and-improved Feith Annual User Conference and Training, our annual educational get-together in Philadelphia PA for everyone at every Feith customer and partner organization. Come learn theory, methodology, technology, real-world application, and best practices, all geared to giving you and your organization a better Feith experience for the next 12 months and beyond.

WHERE

Science History Institute
Philadelphia, PA

WHEN

Monday to Wednesday
September 30th – October 1st, 2019

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Hands on consultation with Feith Executives

Drawing technology leaders from across the Feith customer community together to learn and share.

The Conference – open to everyone at Feith customer locations from the CEO to power users – is a combination of training, presentations, and theory on specific Feith applications and solutions, demonstrations of the advancements in the software and the theories behind them, the opportunity to learn more about critical industry issues, a chance to take a sneak peek at upcoming releases and products, and time to interface and network with members of every department as Feith as well as fellow Feith users and organizations.

More of what you love about the Feith Annual Conference and Training

Drawing technology leaders and visionaries from across the Feith User community.

Our streamlined Talks are going to be rich with concepts and theory and a greater sense of how everything we do relates to you and what’s important to your organization and why you need to be thinking about these advances in the industry. You’ll learn a lot more about why we do what we do within Feith solutions, and why that matters to your business and how you do business.

In the new-and-improved DGR, you’ll find less product demo and more of what you really need to learn.

FACT’s Joint Application Development sessions are your opportunity to give us your suggestions, your ideas, and your improvements – as well as discuss and solve your most sticky issues – and just tell us what you think Feith should be more able to do for you… directly to the developers and programmers that can make it happen.

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Conference Schedule

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Monday Talks
10:00 – 10:45
To Be Announced Soon!
By Customer Speakers Both Business and IT Users

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
13:30 – 14:00
Emerging Threats: a Security State of the Union
By John McCann VP, Engineering

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
15:30 – 16:15
Cut Vegetables to Soup, your Mirepoix Enterprise
By Charlie King Chief Innovation Officer

You likely have many valuable tools in use at your organization; unfortunately, it’s also likely that those valuable tools don’t play well together. Join us while we break down why it’s so important to get your resources to interact, view integrations we’ve created, and discuss our solution-focused approach to interoperability problems.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
16:15 – 16:45
Personal Dashboards – Gamifying your Workplace
By , Kris Pettie Federal Business Analyst

Research shows that the gamification of office tasks will dramatically improve productivity. Providing your staff and SMEs with personalized information about their own productivity, and the metrics of their counterparts, can inject extremely valuable competition and transparency into day-to-day operations. Join us as we identify tasks that can be gamified and discuss how you can increase motivation and productivity in your organization with Dashboard IQ.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
16:45 – 17:15
The Exceptional and the Deviant
By Andres Mercedes Research & Development

Focusing your manager’s attention on outliers, whether “exceptional” or “deviant” can provide profoundly more actionable insight than giving them global dashboards that don’t differentiate between the norm and the unusual. Join us to see why it’s so important to focus attention on the unusual, followed by ways to apply the right strategy in your organization.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
15:15 – 15:30
Coffee Break
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome Address: This Week in Philadelphia
By Joe Friedrich Director of Customer Success

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
08:00 – 09:00
Networking Breakfast
18:00 – 21:00
After Party! @ Cuba Libre
09:15 – 10:00
Plenary
By Daniel Feith Executive Vice President, Sales

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
14:30 – 15:15
Eight Tasks, Nine Routes, Endless Possibilities
By Mitch Farbstein VP, Government, Austin Markiewicz Senior Solutions Architect

Most problems an organization will face are fairly common. While helping develop solutions for our customers, we’ve discovered that many of those problems can be solved with a comprehensive workflow. As a result, Feith has built and delivered numerous Workflows to clients, using various styles for various types of problems. Join Austin and Mitch to go over the commonly used workflow styles, a sampling of the solutions we’ve developed, how you can create solutions to similar problems, and how to identify other areas that would improve with BPM.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch time!
14:00 – 14:30
Recess: the Advantage of a Play System
By Richard Long Director of Marketing

Childhood Development and Education theorists agree that humans learn best by doing – by playing – in low stress environments. With this in mind, it stands to reason that you won’t try to learn your Feith platform by busily pushing unfamiliar buttons, if you only have a production system. We’ll discuss why it’s so essential to get your hands dirty when learning a new skill, how that applies to learning Feith, and the benefits of having a development system in place.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
11:30 – 12:00
Quick Hit Solutions
By Josh Caton Customer Success Manager

Sometimes you just need a quick fix to a problem. But what do you do if that need occurs during one of your organization’s busy times? Maybe it’s at the end of the fiscal year, or during a major onboarding period or merger; no matter what is creating a hectic life for your IT team, the ability to give a small problem to Feith for a Quick Hit Solution can be quite useful. We’ll go over some of the solutions we’ve already delivered and discuss what it takes to get a Quick Hit Solution going for your organization.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30
Out the Door and on the Floor: Get it in Production
By Joe Friedrich Director of Customer Success

Join Joe Friedrich as he discusses strategies for delivering your prototypes quickly, whether they’re new Forms, Workflows, File Cabinets, Dashboards, or even complete processes. Learn why we challenge the common notion that your initial production delivery needs to be polished, and instead, why we support a ‘roll out early and often’ mentality. Don’t make the most common mistake and develop in a vacuum.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall

Monday Training
15:30 – 17:15
FAST
By Manny Gonzalez Head of Training

Where
Training Room
13:30 – 15:15
FeithDrive Advanced
By Ashley Sukhavong Senior Solutions Architect, Manny Gonzalez Head of Training

Where
Training Room
11:00 – 12:00
Web FCP & Architecture
By Manny Gonzalez Head of Training

Where
Training Room
15:15 – 15:30
Coffee Break
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome Address: This Week in Philadelphia
By Joe Friedrich Director of Customer Success

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
18:00 – 21:00
After Party! @ Cuba Libre
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch time!
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break

Tuesday Talks
08:00 – 09:00
Networking Breakfast
18:00 – 21:00
Demo-Go-Round Party
16:00 – 16:30
Cataloging Your Universe – Taxonomy Design with Feith
By Ramon McCrimmon Director of Project Management, Tom Edwards LTC Regional Manager

Good structure is extremely important to the health of an organization, both in complex issues like content tagging and classification and ABAC controls, and in very simple issues like structuring your repositories into flat or hierarchical repositories. We’ll discuss how organizations handle taxonomical concerns in their repositories, focusing on Records Management, an area where taxonomy is immediately and directly applicable.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
14:30 – 15:15
Inter-Agency Collaboration and Tracking
By Matt Rost Director of Solutions, Mitch Farbstein VP, Government

With the rapid expansion of transparency in government, requests for FOIA responses has significantly increased, although policies governing agency response times has not. What exacerbates this challenge is the growing need for cross agency review through content distribution with controlled communications. During this session, Feith will demonstrate and discuss cross agency referrals and consultations for FOIA requests. We will explore the various models, using Feith’s Case Manager module, for managing this interaction between agencies. And, since cross agency interactions are not limited to just FOIA requests, we will also discuss inter- and intra-agency tasking.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
16:30 – 17:00
Dealing with Transactional Data Silos
By Richard Long Director of Marketing

Chances are that there are at least 10 major systems that make up the lifeblood of your organization, and chances are even better that the data from your systems can’t communicate with each other. We’ll discuss how connecting some or all of that data using Feith dramatically heightens your organization’s capabilities, including added benefits from the Feith platform with Workflow IQ and Dashboard.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
09:15 – 10:00
NEW: Task Management
By Charlie King Chief Innovation Officer, Don Feith Founder, Feith Systems

Join Don Feith, CEO, as he discusses what’s new at Feith Systems, with a specific focus on Task Manager. He’ll be joined by CIO Charlie King who will walk us through a live demonstration of the software.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
14:00 – 14:30
“Don’t Worry, They’ll Never do it” – The Impending Compliance Apocalypse
By Pat Seifert Senior Project Manager, Andres Mercedes Research & Development

From GDPR to NY Cyber Regs to the OMB’s Records Management requirements to HIPAA, FERPA, and more, the trend is clear: governments around the world have decided that the way we store and use documents and data must be more structured, transparent, and compliant. For an IT user, this is a massive concern – particularly as new laws like GDPR seem to have much larger teeth than those we’ve seen in the past. Join us to discuss why you can’t afford to push data compliance projects off any longer, and the best strategies to make sure you’re ready for the new wave of requirements.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
15:15 – 15:30
Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:00
Chutes and Ladders – Adding Structure to the Organization
By Katherine Long Senior Business Analyst

Establishing organizational processes, hierarchy, and document taxonomy in your IT systems can help maintain your continuity of operations, provide auditable insights into your productivity, allow managers to better understand your processes, and much more. We’ll look at, from the highest level, why it’s extremely important to your organizational health that you move your organizational intelligence into your IT systems.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch Time!
13:30 – 14:00
Scaling Up, You’ve Got Mail
By John McCann VP, Engineering, Jon Schwartz Senior DevOps

Email is, for most organizations, the single largest repository of information they have. In addition, the information contained in an organization’s email is extremely valuable, providing record of its history. We’ll discuss why growing with your email is key, and how Feith has scaled to handle the increasing demands.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
11:00 – 11:30
Who’s Afraid of Physical Records?
By Kris Pettie Federal Business Analyst, Ashley Sukhavong Senior Solutions Architect

You can’t build the future if you neglect the present: physical records haven’t gone away, and yet many organizations are caught buying records software that won’t address their remaining paper and physical storage requirements. Feith is providing the physical records solution by allowing you to keep and track your physical records. Join us as we review the ways that Feith is making it possible to integrate your paper into the digital age.
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome Address: What You Need to Know Today
By Katherine Long Senior Business Analyst

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00
Feith for your Developers
By Austin Markiewicz Senior Solutions Architect

If you’ve considered bringing JavaScript developers into your organization to build on current solutions, make sure to join two of Feith’s newest developers to hear what it’s like to learn Feith Developer, and hear them share their suggestions for your on-boarding process. We’ll also tour some of our newcomers’ training projects to provide reliable evidence that the Feith Developer is one application you’re not going to want to go without!
Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
10:00 – 10:45
To Be Announced Soon!
By Customer Speakers Both Business and IT Users

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall

Tuesday Training
13:30 – 17:45
Rapid Application Development
By Austin Markiewicz Senior Solutions Architect

Where
Training Room
11:00 – 12:00
Workflow
By Manny Gonzalez Head of Training

Where
Training Room
08:00 – 09:00
Networking Breakfast
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch Time!
09:00 – 09:15
Welcome Address: What You Need to Know Today
By Katherine Long Senior Business Analyst

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
10:45 – 11:00
Coffee Break

Wednesday Joint Application Development
15:30 – 15:45
Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:30
Closing
By Daniel Feith Executive Vice President, Sales

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
13:15 – 15:30
Joint Application Development
12:15 – 13:15
Lunch at Science History
11:15 – 12:15
Joint Application Development
09:00 – 09:30
The Story of JAD
By Don Feith Founder, Feith Systems

Where
Ullyot Meeting Hall
11:00 – 11:15
Coffee Break
09:30 – 11:00
Joint Application Development
08:00 – 09:00
Networking Breakfast

Speakers from across Feith

Experts from all parts of Feith are here to share their experience, from executives to engineers

Pat Seifert

Senior Project Manager

Matt Rost

Director of Solutions

John McCann

VP, Engineering

Evianne Keeney

Solutions Architect

Josh Caton

Customer Success Manager

Jon Schwartz

Senior DevOps

Mitch Farbstein

VP, Government

Natanya Knauf

Events Coordinator

Joe Friedrich

Director of Customer Success

Kris Pettie

Federal Business Analyst

Customer Speakers

Both Business and IT Users

Daniel Feith

Executive Vice President, Sales

Ramon McCrimmon

Director of Project Management

Richard Long

Director of Marketing

Don Feith

Founder, Feith Systems

Location

Science History Institute – 315 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA

“The Science History Institute collects and shares the stories of innovators and of discoveries that shape our lives.”

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An awesome chance to get the most from your Feith platform. Between two days of training and sessions, free consultations, and our Joint Application Development session you won’t want to miss this!

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