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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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2018 Speakers and Panelists

Brian Cristiano

Founder & CEO, BOLD Worldwide

Randall S. Newton

Managing Director, Consilia Vektor

Christopher Wood

Adept Support Subject Matter Expert, Dow Chemical

Earlene Gibbons

Senior Director, Operational Technology, United Therapeutics Corporation

Steve Danasko

Enterprise Solutions Specialist, Greene, Tweed & Co.

Phil Fitzgerald

Adept Administrator, Toray Composite Materials America Inc.

Kristen Tomasic

President, Synergis Technologies

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

Martha Lubow

Director of Marketing, Synergis Software

Joe Gasper

Adept Product Manager

Eric Homeier

Solutions Architect

Nick Bogart

Applications Consultant

John Burke

Applications Consultant

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 - Lafayette / 3rd Floor - Brandywine
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
3rd Floor - Moravian / 2nd Floor - Lehigh
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
3RD FLOOR - MORAVIAN / 2ND FLOOR - LEHIGH
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 - LAFAYETTE / 3RD FLOOR - BRANDYWINE
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
Northampton
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 - MORAVIAN / 2ND FLOOR - LEHIGH
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
3RD FLOOR - MORAVIAN / 2ND FLOOR - LEHIGH
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
6:30 am-7:50 am

Registration & Breakfast

8:00 am-8:30 am
Grand Ballroom
Scott Lamond
Kristen Tomasic

Synergis Welcome & Kickoff

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Scott Lamond
Kristen Tomasic
8:30 am-9:00 am
Grand Ballroom
Brian Cristiano

Keynote Address: Brian Cristiano, BOLD Worldwide

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Brian Cristiano
9:00 am-10:00 am
Grand Ballroom
Steve Ackerman
Joe Gasper
Chris Fabri
Todd Cummings

What’s New in Adept 2018/SWX Task Pane/PublishWave

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Steve Ackerman
Joe Gasper
Chris Fabri
Todd Cummings
10:00 am-10:30 am

Break & Networking

10:30 am-11:15 am
Grand Ballroom
Christopher Wood

Customer Success Story – Dow Chemical

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Christopher Wood
11:15 am-11:45 am
Grand Ballroom
Phil Fitzgerald

Customer Success Story – Toray Carbon Fibers America

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Phil Fitzgerald
11:45 am-12:00 pm
Grand Ballroom

Kahoot Game

[ALL ATTENDEES]

12:00 pm-1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm-1:45 pm
Grand Ballroom
Randall S. Newton

Keynote: Peeking Inside the Box: The Quantum Structure of Innovation

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

Randall S. Newton
1:15 pm-2:00 pm
Lafayette Room

Your Adept Implementation: What to Expect – Services Team

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

1:45 pm-2:30 pm
Grand Ballroom
Earlene Gibbons

Customer Success Story – United Therapeutics

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

Earlene Gibbons
2:00 pm-2:45 pm
Lafayette Room
Scott Lamond

Developing the Business Case for Engineering Information Management

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Scott Lamond
2:30 pm-3:15 pm
Grand Ballroom
TBD

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

Presented by: Synergis Applications Consultants

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

2:45 pm-3:15 pm
Lafayette Room
Chris Fabri

Nuts and Bolts – Understanding the Infrastructure for Implementing EIM

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Chris Fabri
3:15 pm-3:45 pm

Break & Networking

3:45 pm-4:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Joe Gasper

PublishWave Primer

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Joe Gasper
4:00 pm-4:45 pm
Grand Ballroom
Charlie Smith
Steve Danasko

Customer Success Story – Greene, Tweed & Co.

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Charlie Smith
Steve Danasko
4:45 pm-5:15 pm
Grand Ballroom

Helpdesk Tips & Tricks

Presented by: The Synergis Helpdesk Team

[ALL ATTENDEES]

5:30 pm-8:00 pm

Evening Social Event & Dinner

6:30 am-7:50 am

Breakfast

8:00 am-9:45 am
Grand Ballroom

Customer Feedback: Introduction to Visual Thinking Part 1

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

8:00 am-10:30 am
Lafayette Room
Craig Schuler

Full overview of Adept for companies managing revenue generating assets and doing large capital projects

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Craig Schuler
9:45 am-10:00 am

Break & Networking (Customer Track)

10:00 am-11:00 am
Grand Ballroom

Customer Feedback: Introduction to Visual Thinking Part 2

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

10:30 am-11:00 am

Break & Networking (Demo/Implementation Track)

11:00 am-11:45 am
Grand Ballroom
Gene Sewell
Eric Homeier

Tune Adept to Optimal Performance: What Every Administrator Should Know

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

Gene Sewell
Eric Homeier
11:00 am-12:00 pm
Lafayette Room
Craig Schuler

Product Demo & Q&A

[DEMO / IMPLEMENTATION TRACK]

Craig Schuler
11:45 am-12:00 pm
Grand Ballroom

Customer Forum Overview

[CUSTOMER TRACK]

12:00 pm-1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm-2:15 pm
Grand Ballrom
Brian Cranston
Bob Burke
Kevin Klinger
Karyn Dawes
Dave Ruddock
Ryan Mongeau
Gregg Schuler

Customer Panel

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Brian Cranston
Bob Burke
Kevin Klinger
Karyn Dawes
Dave Ruddock
Ryan Mongeau
Gregg Schuler
2:15 pm-3:00 pm
Grand Ballroom
Juan Grobler

Adept Integrator at Work

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Juan Grobler
3:00 pm-3:30 pm

Break & Networking

3:30 pm-4:15 pm
Grand Ballroom
Todd Cummings

Product Roadmap

[ALL ATTENDEES]

Todd Cummings
4:15 pm-4:30 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.”