June 9 - June 13, 2025
The Venetian | Las Vegas, NV
Save the date for BLUEPRINT 4D 2026: May 4 – 7, 2026
Call for presentations opens in fall 2025!
By the Numbers
331 PeopleSoft Customers
147 PeopleSoft Companies
105 PeopleSoft Sessions
RECONNECT Live! at BLUEPRINT 4D
PeopleSoft insights, education & connections for all levels of the organization.
Who should attend?
- IT and business leaders: get the insights and info you need to plan ahead and inform your technology roadmaps.
Take your pick of executive level insights sessions, meet 1:1 with Oracle product leaders, learn about PeopleSoft in the Cloud, connect with other industry leaders, exchange ideas with your peers in the Executive Forum and develop relationships with current or future partners. - Technology managers and power users: stay in the loop on what’s coming from PeopleSoft!
Get the latest on PeopleTools, HCM, ERP and Campus Solutions, dive into delivered features and new enhancements and gain insights from your peers as they share best practices, case studies, tips and lessons learned from their own PeopleSoft journeys. Learn about PeopleSoft in the Cloud and connect with other PeopleSoft customers through a multitude of networking activities. - New to PeopleSoft customers: get up to speed on PeopleSoft!
RECONNECT Live! is your chance to accelerate your product learning path, develop relationships with key PeopleSoft product strategy teams, make important connections with cross-industry PeopleSoft users and supercharge your business impact. - The entire team!
Extend the knowledge and save big when you bring 4 or more. - HR, Finance and IT professionals: get credits for recertification!
You’ll have the opportunity to earn professional credits from SHRM, IIBA and NASBA.
2025 Highlights
- Industry Programs for Healthcare, Higher Education and Public Sector
- Learning Path: PeopleSoft Modernization
- PeopleSoft Pit Stops
- PeopleSoft Move to Cloud
- Women in Technology luncheon
- Re-Energize Live Comedy Break
- Professional Development
- Quest Executive Forum
- Quest 30th Anniversary Celebration
What you’ll learn
At PeopleSoft RECONNECT Live, attendees will get the latest on critical hot topics from Oracle, gain meaningful insights from other PeopleSoft customers and walk away with actionable information for their own organizations, including:
- Strategic investment areas and upcoming development priorities for PeopleSoft technology
- Strategies for PeopleSoft modernization
- Roadmaps & updates for PeopleSoft HCM and FSCM
- The latest on PeopleTools 8.62 such as:
- The New PeopleSoft Landing Page
- Smart Prompts & Dropdowns
- New WorkCenters with Work Management embedded insight visualizations
- Hot topics like Notification Composer, Insights & Analytics, Fluid UI, WorkCenters, Navigation Search and Digital Assistants
- Best practices and success stories for PeopleSoft Healthcare, Higher Ed and Public Sector customers
- Move to Cloud insights and strategies
Executive Education
PeopleSoft business and technical leaders can take advantage of enhanced special programming and networking at BLUEPRINT 4D like the Quest Executive Forum and the PeopleSoft Executive Learning Path to sharpen their knowledge and better understand the critical issues and challenges facing today’s organizations:
- What does it take to develop a future ready organization?
- How are other organizations approaching AI adoption and governance?
- What are companies learning as they attempt to retain, retrain and reskill their teams for Cloud?
- How is Oracle investing in next gen ERP capabilities for JD Edwards and PeopleSoft, and what is their long-term support commitment?
- Which companies have leaned into modernizing their JDE and PeopleSoft investments, and what have they learned?
- How should companies evaluate further investments in on-prem ERP modernization vs moving to the Cloud?
- 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?
Move to Cloud
Working on your cloud strategy? Looking for best practices, insights and planning templates to get your organization cloud ready? Inform and accelerate your journey with tailored Move to Cloud sessions designed specifically for PeopleSoft customers.
Within this track, you’ll learn about:
- Evaluating if, when or how your company should move to the cloud
- Other PeopleSoft customers who have successfully shifted to the cloud and what they’ve learned
- How to help your organization get cloud-ready
- Hot topics like data mapping, security, adoption best practices and change management
- Options for migrating some or all of your solution to Oracle Cloud applications
- Extending PeopleSoft with cloud solutions like digital assistants, Oracle Guided Learning, Oracle Autonomous Database, AI and generative AI services and more
- Running PeopleSoft on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with PeopleSoft Cloud Manager for increased performance and cost-reduction
Interested in learning more about Cloud Apps? Your BLUEPRINT 4D registration entitles you to full access to the Oracle Cloud Summit program.
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Ken Piddington
CIO
US Silica
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.