June 9 - June 13, 2025
The Venetian | Las Vegas, NV
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Come together with the JD Edwards Community.
Inspiring innovation. Empowering education. Building community.
The JD Edwards Forum at BLUEPRINT 4D is designed to help JD Edwards customers prepare their organizations, their teams, their tools and technology, and their strategies – for the future. This year’s event is a great chance to meet the JD Edwards product teams in person, make connections with innovative solutions providers and build your network with other JD Edwards customers.
The JD Edwards Forum agenda will include hundreds of sessions, a keynote address from Oracle, roadmap updates, learning labs, roundtable discussions, new feature demos, Executive Forum and more. This event is the best place to learn about Modernizing JDE, Release 24 & 25, Orchestrations, Automation, Continuous Adoption and more.
The rich networking program includes a JD Edwards community welcome lunch, Coffee & Connect sessions, 1:1 customer meetings with the Oracle product leads, customer panels and roundtables, Special Interest Group meet-ups, Oracle Meet the Experts Q&A sessions and special industry networking hours.
Plus – you’ll have the opportunity to earn professional credits from our expanded network of partners in Finance, Business Analysts and Supply Chain Management.
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JD Edwards Forum
JD Edwards insights, education & connections for all levels of the organization.
Who should attend?
- Business Analysts:
Connect and learn from other JD Edwards users to gain insights into implementation strategies and processes. Plus, earn certification credits from IIBA and NASBA. - IT and business leaders:
Get the insights and information you need to plan ahead and inform your technology roadmaps. Take your pick of executive level insights sessions, learn about JDE 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 JD Edwards! Get the latest on Release 23, dive into delivered features and gain insights from your peers as they share best practices, case studies and lessons learned from their own JDE journeys. - The entire team!
Extend the knowledge and save big when you bring 4 or more.
New for 2025!
- Cloud Summit Symposium
- Re-energize
- Executive Learning Path
- Women in Technology is back!
- Professional Development track
- Quest 30th Anniversary Celebration
Executive Education
JD Edwards business and technical leaders can take advantage of enhanced special programming and networking at BLUEPRINT 4D like the Quest Executive Forum and the JD Edwards 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 JD Edwards customers.
Within this track, you’ll learn about:
- Evaluating if, when or how your company should move to the cloud
- Other JD Edwards customers who have successfully shifted to the cloud and what they’ve learned
- How to help your organization get cloud-ready
- Options for migrating some or all of your solution to Oracle Cloud applications for modernized business functions with the latest technology
- Running JD Edwards on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to reduce total ownership costs and provide more operational agility
- Hot topics like data mapping, security, adoption best practices and change management
BLUEPRINT 4D By the Numbers
With a hugely successful program, the 4-day event drew over 1300 attendees. Offering 365+ education sessions and six distinct programs, BLUEPRINT 4D delivered an insightful, innovative and engaging event that received rave reviews.
Insights.
Innovation.
Community.
Developing the future-proof organization:
- JD Edwards executive update, roadmaps & product news
- JD Edwards tech innovations & new feature overviews
- The latest on Oracle Cloud ERP, SCM, EPM and HCM
- Move to Cloud program: how to get cloud ready for on-prem
- Cross Apps Technology: AI, Strategic Tech & Oracle Database
- Talent Management: retain, reskill & redeploy
- Executive Forum: strategic insights & networking
JD Edwards Tracks and Hot Topics at BLUEPRINT 4D
Education Tracks
- Financial Management
- Human Capital Management
- Tools & Tech: System Administration
- Tools & Tech: Digital Platform
- Manufacturing & Distribution
- JD Edwards Other
Hot Topics
- Continuous Adoption
- AI/Gen AI
- Applications
- Automation
- EAM
- JDE on Cloud
- Low code/ No code tools
- Mobile
- Modernizing JDE
- JD Edwards Move to Cloud
- Oracle Guided Learning
- Orchestrations
- Personalization/Extensibility
- Release 24
- Release 25
- Security & Compliance
- UX One
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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.