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Executive Education at BLUEPRINT 4D
Enhanced learning & networking opportunities for business and technical leaders
At BLUEPRINT 4D, organizational leaders and influencers can take advantage of enhanced special programming to sharpen their knowledge to better address the critical issues facing their businesses:
- How is Oracle investing in next gen ERP capabilities for JD Edwards and PeopleSoft?
- What have other companies learned as they attempt to retain, retrain and reskill their teams for Cloud?
- How are other organizations approaching AI adoption and governance?
- How are organizations modernizing their JDE and PeopleSoft investments, and what have they learned?
- How is Cloud innovation enabling best-in-class Oracle Cloud customers like Choctaw Nation, Baylor University, Wendy’s, Providence Health and Tiffany’s to more quickly deliver on critical business goals?
- How should companies evaluate further investments in on-prem ERP modernization vs moving to the Cloud?
- What does it take to develop a future ready organization?
Choose your learning path:
Quest Executive Forum
Join us for the 2025 Quest Executive Forum, a half-day pre-conference program designed for Director, VP and C-Suite business and technical leaders using Oracle ERP applications—JD Edwards, PeopleSoft, and Fusion Cloud Apps.
With an expert keynote, collaborative breakout discussions and a seasoned panel of customer leaders, the program addresses the critical challenge of driving technological innovation while preparing teams to thrive in environments of rapid change. Attendees will gain actionable strategies for evaluating innovations, fostering team agility, building a culture of continuous improvement and empowering their people to succeed.
The forum provides a unique opportunity for Oracle customer leaders to connect with peers, learn from experts and walk away with practical tools to lead in an age of accelerated innovation.
Executive Learning Paths
Does your company need to modernize its ERP solutions? Is your leadership team clear on the next gen ERP capabilities of your existing JD Edwards or PeopleSoft solution? Are you trying to understand and articulate Oracle’s long term investment strategies for JDE and PeopleSoft amidst a sea of misinformation from Cloud solutions providers? If so, the Executive Learning Path at BLUEPRINT 4D can help.
Designed specifically for executive leaders and technology influencers, the 2025 Executive Learning Path will help participants evaluate if JD Edwards and PeopleSoft can meet their organizations’ strategic business goals, explore success factors for a successful next gen ERP implementation, explain how to objectively evaluate if, when and how a company should consider moving to the Cloud and explain how to make the case for longer term JDE and/or PeopleSoft investments to your organization’s executive team and Board of Directors.
Oracle Cloud Summit
Bringing the Fusion Cloud Apps customer community together for an intimate learning and networking experience, the Oracle Cloud Summit offers fresh insights on critical hot topics while creating meaningful opportunities for executive customers to connect and learn from each other. Business operations and technology leaders who participate in this program will meet their customer peers, learn from best-in-class cloud organizations about their journey and innovations, and hear the latest dates on Oracle Cloud for HR, Finance and Infrastructure and Tech.
Move to Cloud program
Working on your cloud strategy? Getting your organization cloud-ready? Looking for best practices, insights and planning templates? Debating whether to run your existing solution on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure or take the SaaS path? Inform and accelerate your journey with this series of tailored sessions designed for existing JD Edwards and PeopleSoft customers.
Quest Emerging Leaders program
Designed specifically for organizations running JD Edwards, PeopleSoft and Oracle Cloud apps, this 9-month leadership development program is designed to help the Oracle customer community further develop high potential employees for technology leadership roles of increasing responsibility and impact – leading teams, evolving agile collaboration methods, developing data capabilities as competitive differentiators and leaning into Oracle investments to drive innovation and deliver impactful business outcomes in an era of massive digital transformation. Meet current program participants at BLUEPRINT 4D, join an info session to learn more about next year’s program or visit the Emerging Leaders Program page for more details.
Guest Speakers
Isaac Sacolick
Digital transformation expert and best-selling author
Isaac Sacolick is President of StarCIO, a technology leadership company that guides organizations on mentoring digital trailblazers and building digital transformation core competencies. He is the author of Digital Trailblazer and the Amazon bestseller Driving Digital. Sacolick is a recognized keynote speaker and digital transformation influencer, with over 1,000 articles published on his blog Social, Agile, and Transformation, CIO.com, InfoWorld, and other sites. You can find him sharing new insights on the Driving Digital Standup or during his weekly Coffee with Digital Trailblazers.
Isaac has led digital transformation, product development, innovation, agile management, and data science programs in multiple organizations. He has transformed underperforming businesses by delivering new digital products, investing in strategic technologies, enabling agile practices, outsourcing commodity services, and establishing performance metrics.
George Danner
Technology Futurist, Author and AI Consultant
George Danner is an influencer in the field of data science. He is an AI consultant and Author of the Executives How-to Guide to Automation. He has been solving complex business problems with science and math for over 30 years. He is the founder and president of Business Laboratory LLC, an award-winning consultancy that helps mid-size and large organizations improve their performance through problem-solving, optimization, and forecasting.
George is passionate about applying the scientific method and the latest technologies to strategic planning and decision-making. He has worked with clients from various industries, including energy, pharma, retail, and finance, and has published two books on automation and data science for business. He also received the Wolfram Innovator Award, which recognizes his contribution to advancing the usage of Wolfram Alpha, a programming language that uses Mathematica for computational knowledge. George’s mission is to empower businesses and governments with the tools and techniques of data science and to inspire them to embrace the infinite possibilities of automation.
Gary Grieshaber
Group Vice President, Applications Development, Oracle
Gary Grieshaber is a senior executive within Oracle’s Applications Development division. Mr. Grieshaber is presently the Group Vice President of Applications Development. In this role, he is responsible for the worldwide product strategy and customer success for Oracle’s JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and JD Edwards World products. He also has responsibility for the Oracle Cloud ERP Advanced Industries product strategy and development including solutions for the Energy and US Federal industries.
Gary has been with Oracle and JD Edwards since 2001, holding various product strategy, product management and development management positions related to the JD Edwards product line and Oracle applications. He has played a key role in the evolution of the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne product to a full ERP suite, modern technology and cloud ready platform that continues to enjoy one of the top customer satisfaction scores across the Oracle product portfolio.
Robbin Velayedam
Senior Director, HCM Product Strategy, Oracle
Robbin has spent the majority of his professional career designing, developing, and championing HR, Talent Management, CRM, and Workforce applications to customers of all sizes and industries. He began his journey with PeopleSoft in 1998 and has been involved with Oracle PeopleSoft applications either as a customer or in Product Management. He has worked in a variety of functional areas with product development such as Approvals, Analytics, Self Service, Mobile/Fluid, and Shared Components.
As a Director of Product Management and Strategy, he currently serves as a conduit between customers and the development organization to ensure user expectations are met with new functionality. Robbin’s partnership with the PeopleSoft user community has been a part of his team’s overall responsibility of maintaining strong engagement with all PeopleSoft customers. Over the years, Robbin has been a frequent speaker at user conferences and hosts webinars focused on helping customers maximize their current investment in PeopleSoft.
Ken Piddington
Vice President & CIO, US Silica and member of the Quest Board of Directors
Chair, Executive Programming Committee
As a transformational, business Technology Executive, Ken creates a strategic vision, positions to scale, and drives initiatives that enable high business growth. A strategist who builds deep trust within IT organizations, fostering collaborative environment focused on innovation and continuous improvement.
Ken is a change agent and CEO partner experienced in all business cycles, including high growth, business transformation, and M&A integration, with an entrepreneurial spirit. He leverages emerging technology across multi-industry verticals and consulting to accelerate profits.
As an award-winning thought leader, respected for game changing contributions and passion for talent development and customer satisfaction, Ken was the obvious choice to help Quest build this year’s Executive Forum program and serve as host to this high-powered program.
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Ken Piddington
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Education, Leadership & Affiliations
- BS in Business, Management & Leadership, Northeastern University
- Serves on multiple boards, including Energy Institute High School and the Quest Oracle User Community
- Program Mentor, Columbia University Masters Technology Management
- 2022 Houston CIO of the Year Orbie award winner
Professional Biography
Ken Piddington is a transformational, global business technology executive who creates a strategic vision and mission, positioning to scale, and driving initiatives that enable high business growth. Strategist who builds deep trust within IT organization, fostering collaborative, open, and trusting environment focused on problem-solving, innovation, and continuous improvement. Ken is an innovative change agent and CEO partner with a strong legacy in all business cycles, including high growth, business transformation, mergers and acquisitions integration, and an entrepreneurial spirit. He is a strategic business partner who leverages emerging technology solutions across multi-industry verticals – logistics, retail, manufacturing, oil and gas, and consulting to accelerate the pace of bottom-line results. As an award-winning thought leader and published author, he is respected for game changing industry contributions, and his passion for talent development and customer satisfaction.
Currently, Ken leads as the Vice President and CIO at U.S. Silica. He is responsible for defining and executing its business technology strategy and leading its digital transformation initiatives.
Ken previously served as CIO for Global Partners LP, SGR Energy, and MRE Consulting. At each company, he contributed to tremendous growth and transformation. He actively participated in Global Partners’ revenue growth from $6 billion to $20 billion in four years. SGR Energy had 1700% revenue growth, and the company was named Houston’s fastest-growing privately held company by the Houston Business Journal. While at MRE, Ken turned an internal project into a marketable, adding a new revenue stream for the company.
Ken serves on the Quest Oracle User Community’s board of directors and is a board member with the Friends of Energy Institute, supporting the Energy Institute High School. Ken is also an Advisory Board member for the CIO Executive Council and a mentor in their leadership development program.
In 2022 Ken received the Houston CIO of the Year Orbie award. He has been named a Computerworld Premier 100 Technology leader, is a CIO100 award winner, and has twice been recognized as an InformationWeek 500 Top Technology Innovator. Ken is recognized as an industry thought leader, a regular speaker at business and association conferences, and featured in multiple media publications.
Ken holds a Bachelor of Science in Management & Leadership from Northeastern University and attended Graceland College, where he played football and baseball. Today, Ken makes Houston, Texas, his home.