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Adept Experience is the only event where you can learn, share and connect with knowledge experts from Synergis and the Adept community.

Make lasting connections with your peers, give input to our roadmap, and gain insights and expertise that will propel your company to a new level of operational excellence.

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2017 Conference Highlights

Check out the many magical moments when Synergis Adept users get together to network and improve their knowledge of Adept engineering document management software.

2017 Sessions Highlights

Check out these videos from Adept Experience 2017!

Dow Chemical: Best Practices Planning and Implementing Adept for an Enterprise User Base, Adept Experience Conference

Dow Chemical: Best Practices Planning and Implementing Adept for an Enterprise User Base, Adept Experience Conference

Pushing Past the Pushing Back: Making Adept Successful at Eastern Shipbuilding, Adept Experience Conference

Pushing Past the Pushing Back: Making Adept Successful at Eastern Shipbuilding, Adept Experience Conference

Space Age Electronics: Achieving New Efficiencies in Product Data Management, Adept Experience Conference

Space Age Electronics: Achieving New Efficiencies in Product Data Management, Adept Experience Conference

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2017 Speakers and Panelists

2018 Speakers will be announced soon!

Mark Mahovich

Vice President, Professional Services & Information Systems

Todd Cummings

Vice President of Research & Development

Scott Lamond

Vice President, Marketing & Business Development

Chris Fabri

Director of Solutions Architects / Customer Advocate

Joe Gasper

Adept Product Manager

Eric Homeier

Solutions Architect

Patti Heubach

Document Management Helpdesk Manager

Charlie Smith

Product Owner, Application Development

Nick Bogart

Applications Consultant

John Burke

Applications Consultant

Andrew Cummings

Adept API Developer/Instructor

Jeffery Newton

Applications Consulant

Craig Schuler

Solutions Architect

Juan Grobler

Adept Integrator Solutions Architect

Todd Dietrich

CAD Specialist and Quality Assurance

Martha Lubow

Director of Marketing, Synergis Software

ADEPT COMMUNITY NETWORKING RECEPTION & DINNER

Tuesday, October 2nd, 6-9:30PM   /  Hotel Bethlehem Terrace Room

2018 Conference Schedule

Training Day 1
1 October 2018
Training Day 2
2 October 2018
Conference Day 1
3 October 2018
Conference Day 2
4 October 2018
8:30 am-4:30 pm
2nd Floor - Lehigh
Cost: $1,495 per person (includes both days)
John Burke

Adept Administrator Basics – Day 1 of 2

An accelerated version of our 4.5 day Adept Administrator Training, this 2-day class focuses on general Adept administration topics with less attention to user functions and IT related subjects. Anyone completing this 2-day class will be certified as an Adept Administrator.

Anyone completing this class will be certified as an Adept Administrator.

Intended audience:  For existing Adept users getting introduced as a new Administrator to support an existing Administrator, and for existing Adept administrators who want a refresher.

Duration: 2 Days

John Burke
8:30 am-4:30 pm
University
Cost: $1,495 per person (includes both days)
Andrew Cummings

Adept API & Web Services – Day 1 of 2

This class is an accelerated version of our three day API class. During this class, developers with VB.NET or C# experience will gain practical understanding of Adept’s API as well as examples for building custom extensions. Join other Adept colleagues who want to further automate their business processes to achieve time and resource gains.

Intended audience:  Individuals with Visual Basic or .NET programming experience and experience using web services. Class will be conducted using .NET technologies, however any modern development environment consumes web services! Come and gain understanding and insight in to leveraging the Synergis. WebAPI endpoints for posting, getting and putting your way to accessing enterprise data stored in Adept.

Duration:  2 Days

Andrew Cummings
8:30 am-12:00 pm
3rd Floor - Northampton
Cost: $375 per person
Nick Bogart

Workflow Essentials Basics & the Top 10 Coolest and Most Underused Features in Adept (Part 1)

Learn the basics of implementing Adept Workflows. Discover how to effectively document your existing processes to map them into Adept. Learn about all the configuration options to design basic workflows when you get back in the office. An added bonus to this session includes “Top 10 of the Coolest, Most Overlooked Features in Adept” (Part 1)

Duration: 1/2 Day

Nick Bogart
8:30 am-12:00 pm
Moravian
Cost: $375 per person
Jeffery Newton

Advanced Administration Part 1

Part 1 of Advanced Admin will cover topics including:

  • Replication
  • Extracting data from Office Docs
  • How to set that up
  • Configuring Related Fields
  • Setting up AFS Servers
  • Reporting
  • Revisiting Your Groups
  • Active Directory

Duration: 1/2 Day

Jeffery Newton
1:00 pm-4:30 pm
Moravian
Cost: $375 per person
Jeffery Newton

Advanced Admininstraton Part 2

Part 2 of Advanced Admin will cover topics including:

  • On the desktop side: All admin configurations as well as everything in the Admin and Systems Tabs.
  • On the server side: Designer, licensing tool, and SQL setup, Repair database, Clearing ADM password, Current logins, import and export database, back up database, starting and stopping the service, running adept as an application vs. as a service

Duration: 1/2 Day

Jeffery Newton
1:00 pm-4:30 pm
Northampton
Cost: $375 per person
Nick Bogart

Transmittal Basics & the Top 10 Coolest and Most Underused Features in Adept (Part 2)

Learn the basics of implementing Adept Transmittals. You’ll gain an overview of transmittal administration and configuration and the template designer. You’ll get a Transmittal cheat sheet that helps you plan for and refererence to configure, design and leverage Adept’s transmittal features. An added bonus to this session includes “10 More Cool and Overlooked Features in Adept” (Part 2)

Duration: 1/2 Day

Nick Bogart
8:30 am-4:30 pm
2nd Floor
Cost: $1,495 per person (includes both days)
John Burke

Adept Administrator Basics – Day 2 Of 2

An accelerated version of our 4.5 day Adept Administrator Training, this 2-day class focuses on general Adept administration topics with less attention to user functions and IT related subjects. Anyone completing this 2-day class will be certified as an Adept Administrator.

Anyone completing this class will be certified as an Adept Administrator.

Intended audience:  For existing Adept users getting introduced as a new Administrator to support an existing Administrator, and for existing Adept administrators who want a refresher.

Duration: 2 Days

John Burke
8:30 am-12:00 pm
Moravian
Cost: $375 per person
Nick Bogart

Workflow and Transmittal Advanced

Learn to leverage all the advanced capabilities of Workflow and Transmittal to manage your for ECO/ECN processes.

Duration: 1/2 Day

Nick Bogart
8:30 am-12:00 pm
3rd Floor - Northampton
Cost: $375 per person
Eric Homeier

Performing Your Own Health Check

Learn how to perform a basic Health Check on your own Adept system. This class will show you the out-of-the-box tools that will identify changes you can make to improve processes, performance and user experience. Topics include:

  • Database field management report
  • “Watchers” Performance Tools
  • AFS
  • FTP
  • CAD integrations
  • Reporting

Duration:  1/2 Day

Eric Homeier
8:30 am-4:30 pm
University
Cost: $1,495 per person (includes both days)
Andrew Cummings

Adept API & Web Services – Day 2 of 2

This class is an accelerated version of our three day API class. During this class, developers with VB.NET or C# experience will gain practical understanding of Adept’s API as well as examples for building custom extensions. Join other Adept colleagues who want to further automate their business processes to achieve time and resource gains.

Intended audience:  Individuals with Visual Basic or .NET programming experience and experience using web services. Class will be conducted using .NET technologies, however any modern development environment consumes web services! Come and gain understanding and insight in to leveraging the Synergis. WebAPI endpoints for posting, getting and putting your way to accessing enterprise data stored in Adept.

Duration:  2 Days

Andrew Cummings
1:00 pm-4:30 pm
Moravian
Cost: $375 per person
Eric Homeier

Extending Adept’s Core Capabilities (Plugins)

Want to take Adept to the next level? Understand how to implement the Adept plugins, including:

  • AutoName
  • AutoRevision
  • Children Check Out
  • Copy Data Cardd
  • Copy Fields to Parents
  • Data Importer/Data Exporter
  • Outlook to Adept
  • PDF Extractions
  • Property extractions from Visio and other programs
  • Relationship Search
  • Required Fields
  • XML Properties

Duration: 1/2 Day

Eric Homeier
1:00 pm-4:30 pm
Northampton
Cost: $375 per person
Craig Schuler
Nick Bogart

Adept 2018 Technical Upgrade Class

This class will focus on the technical details you need to know to best prepare to upgrade to Adept 2018, including installation recommendations and best practices. This 1/2 day class will also include the technical details to update to Adept PublishWave 2018.

Duration: 1/2 Day

Craig Schuler
Nick Bogart
7:00 am-8:00 am

Registration & Breakfast

8:00 am-8:15 am
Grand Ballroom
Martha Lubow

Synergis Welcome & Kickoff

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Martha Lubow
8:15 am-9:00 am
Grand Ballroom
TBD

Keynote Address

[ALL ATTENDEES]

9:05 am-9:35 am
Grand Ballroom
TBD

Customer Success Story

[ALL ATTENDEES]

9:40 am-10:10 am
Grand Ballroom
TBD

Customer Success Story

[ALL ATTENDEES]

10:15 am-10:45 am

Break & Networking

10:55 am-11:55 am
Grand Ballroom
Chris Fabri

What’s New in Adept 2018

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Chris Fabri
12:00 pm-1:15 pm

Lunch

1:20 pm-2:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Eric Homeier

Technical Solutions Every Administrator Should Know

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

Eric Homeier
1:20 pm-3:05 pm
Lehigh Room
Craig Schuler

THE COMPLETE STORY – ADEPT PRODUCT DEMONSTRATION… FROM SOUP TO NUTS

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Craig Schuler
2:05 pm-2:30 pm
Hotel Bethlehem
TBD

Customer Success Story

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

2:35 pm-3:05 pm
Grand Ballroom
TBD

Customer Success Story

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

3:05 pm-3:35 pm

Break & Networking

3:35 pm-4:25 pm
Grand Ballroom
TBD

Top 10 Mistakes Customers Make within Adept & How to Avoid Them

Presented by: Synergis Applications Consultants

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

3:35 pm-4:25 pm
Lehigh Room
Craig Schuler

Adept Q&A

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Craig Schuler
4:25 pm-5:05 pm
Grand Ballroom
TBD

Project Management to the Rescue

[ALL ATTENDEES]

5:15 pm-9:00 pm

Evening Social Event & Dinner

7:00 am-8:00 am

Breakfast

8:00 am-8:45 am
Grand Ballroom
Todd Cummings

Product Roadmap

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Todd Cummings
8:50 am-9:20 am
Grand Ballroom
TBD

Customer Success Story

[ALL ATTENDEES]

9:25 am-10:25 am
Grand Ballrom
TBD

Customer Advisory Council – Feedback to Product Development – Part 1

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

9:25 am-10:25 am
Scott Lamond

The Business Case for Engineering Information Management

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Scott Lamond
10:25 am-10:55 am

Break & Networking

10:55 am-12:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
TBD

Customer Advisory Council – Feedback to Product Development – Part 2

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

10:55 am-12:00 pm
Mark Mahovich

Best Practices for Implementing Adept

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Mark Mahovich
12:00 pm-1:30 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm-1:45 pm
Grand Ballroom
Scott Lamond

Synergis and Partner Update

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Scott Lamond
1:50 pm-2:20 pm
Grand Ballroom
Juan Grobler
Scott Lamond

Adept Integrator

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Juan Grobler
Scott Lamond
2:25 pm-2:55 pm
Grand Ballroom
Todd Cummings

How to Address Cyber Security with Adept

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Todd Cummings
2:55 pm-3:25 pm

Break & Networking

3:25 pm-4:00 pm
Grand Ballroom

Helpdesk Tips and User Forum

Presented by: The Synergis Helpdesk Team

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

3:25 pm-4:00 pm
Chris Fabri

Nuts and Bolts

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Chris Fabri
4:00 pm-4:15 pm
Grand Ballroom

Closing and Adjourn

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Location

Hotel Bethlehem
Hotel Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA 18018
Read More About Accommodations & Amenities Here
215.302.3000adeptexperience@synergissoftware.com

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EXPERIENCES FROM 2017

  • “The fact that Partners and Senior Managers gave an entire day to talk to users and listen to our ideas shows how committed to Customer Service your company is – that’s amazing!”

  • “Extremely well done event, loved the overall exploration of Adept 2015 new features.”

  • “I loved talking to other Adept users to see how they use the product.”

  • “I enjoyed the team group session where we were asked what we’d like to see in future releases.”

  • “I’m glad that you liked hearing from us. Some issues we thought would be hurdles or big surprises, but nothing we asked seemed tough to tackle.”

  • “Loved learning about the changes in the latest release.”

  • “Great facility, speakers and overall experience.”

  • “Informative, interactive, customer focused.”