Join Vena CEO Hunter Madeley to discover the formula that will transform the way you power your personal, professional and business growth. 

Hunter Madeley

Chief Executive Officer, Vena

Keynote: Excelerate Your Growth

Learn how to build credibility, develop trusted relationships and break down barriers to growth with world-renowned psychologist and  author Robert Cialdini. 

Robert Cialdini, PhD

Author of Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Keynote: The Science of Ethical Influence

Join Rishi Grover to explore the transformation of finance as a strategic business partner through the power of people, process and technology.

Rishi Grover

Chief Solutions Architect, Vena

Keynote: The Complete Planning Advantage 

Take a deep dive into Vena budgeting, forecasting and reporting in the grid you know and love, Excel, with Microsoft 365 and Power BI Embedded.

Demo: Vena Finance-Led Planning and Analysis

Discover the skills required for successful financial modeling as well as the 10 key design principles and standards for creating accurate, robust and reliable financial models in Excel.

Paul Barnhurst

The FP&A Guy

Workshop: Intro to Financial Modeling

Learn powerful tips to check and audit your financial models to ensure accuracy, eliminate errors and instill confidence with your decision makers.

Ian Schnoor, CFA, CFM

President and Founder of The Marquee Group and Executive Director, Financial Modeling Institute

Workshop: Advanced Financial Modeling

Explore data model fundamentals of the Vena Modeler! Master basic data model terminology and maintenance to ensure accurate data consolidation and financial reporting.

Alicia Sacristan

Training Specialist, Vena

Training: Vena Data Modeling Fundamentals

Learn about versioning scenarios to help with budgeting, alternate hierarchies to allow for more dynamic reporting, and troubleshooting strategies to drive your business.

Michelle Sun

Senior Training Specialist, Vena

Luana Faria-Fichelli

Product Manager, Vena

Training: Vena Data Modeling Advanced

Day One

A product deep dive session with Delbridge Solutions on workflows, audit trail and automation

Harjot Ghai

Chief Operating Officer, Delbridge Solutions

Jason Patraj

Solution Architect, Delbridge Solutions

 Trusting Your Numbers During Your Account Reconciliation Process

Learn why leading manufacturers choose Vena to manage their financial and operational planning and deep dive into how you can spend less time integrating your different data points and more time focusing on updating your product demand.

Michal Rzepka

Principal Solutions Consultant, Vena

Mark Erdmann

VP, Solutions, Vena

Demo: Vena for Manufacturing

Learn how the latest advances in Complete Planning technology are empowering the strategic office of finance to transform FP&A, extended planning and beyond.

Hugh Cumming

Chief Technology Officer, Vena

Keynote: The Future of Planning Technology 

Discover how Vena customers are benefiting from the latest product advancements in Microsoft Excel, 365 and Power BI.

Wendy Braithwaite

Chief Financial Planning & Orchestration Officer, Microsoft

Keynote: The Power of Vena and Microsoft 

Learn the vision for Vena’s Complete Planning Platform and how it will continue to power the transformation of the strategic office of finance and beyond.

Andrew Stanbridge

VP, Product, Vena

Keynote: The Future of Vena Complete Planning

Learn how the Kansas City Chiefs streamlined business-wide budgeting and reporting and their workforce and revenue planning, and how they deployed Vena with Power BI Embedded to drive financial and operational excellence in strategic planning.

Michael Ragsdale, CPA

Director of Strategy and Analytics, Kansas City Chiefs

Rebecca Swank

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst, Kansas City Chiefs

Jenny Crawford

Customer Success Manager, Vena Solutions 

Keynote: The Kansas City Chiefs Excelerator Showcase

Join us for a 30-minute yoga break. Learn how you can increase your range of motion, improve your blood circulation and reduce stiffness wherever you are.

Pam DeMesa

Yoga Instructor

Yoga Break: Heart and Hip Opener With Pam DeMesa

Join us to discover how to power your personal, professional and business growth that goes beyond the Vena product in our Customer Exclusive Excelerators Program.

Paula Batras

Senior Customer Marketing Manager, Vena

Session: How To Excelerate Personally and Professionally With Vena

The only limit of Vena with Power BI Embedded is your own imagination. Spark your creativity with a deep dive into a collection of pre-built dashboards presented by Rishi Grover.

Demo: Power BI Embedded Pre-Built Dashboard Showcase

Discover best practices in data visualization using Excel charts and graphs with Microsoft MVP and Vena Excel Nerd Chandoo.

Purna Duggirala

Chief Excel Officer, Chandoo.org, Microsoft MVP

Workshop: Data Visualization in Excel 

Learn best practices and tips to create scalable Power BI models with a focus on optimization techniques for data preparation, modeling and advanced visualization without compromising on performance.

Parvinder Chana

Microsoft MVP

Workshop: Advanced Data Visualization in Power BI

Learn the basics of Power BI Embedded in Vena and how to create effective filters and dashboards that will power your reporting and operational insights all within Vena.

Rachel Taguicana

Senior Product Manager, Vena

Training: Vena and Power BI Embedded Fundamentals 

Learn advanced techniques to further “excelerate” decision making through dashboards, predictive forecast, anomaly detection, scenario analysis and more.

Anton Medvedev

Training: Vena with Power BI Embedded Advanced

Learn how, with the right tech stack, finance can become a strategic function and force multiplier in your organization that will help drive outsized performance for your business. 

Steve Ronan

Partner, Strategy and Business Transformation, Citrin Cooperman

Session: Performance Management for the Modern-Day Executive

Day Two

Deep dive into Vena for SaaS, a best practice pre-configured solution built to help power growth at any stage, including purpose-built connectors for CRM and ERP data for detailed revenue planning.

Shaun Jansen

VP Sales, Vena

Nolan Southfield

Solutions Consultant, Vena

Demo: Vena for SaaS

Join us for practical guidance on navigating hybrid work environments. Learn how to cultivate informality, build trust and stop feeling over-Zoomed in a fireside chat and a lively Q&A.

Priya Parker

Author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters

Keynote: The Art of Gathering

Join us for a 30-minute yoga break. Learn how you can reduce stress levels, build better breathing habits, achieve better sleep and an overall sense of well-being wherever you are.

Yoga Break: Chair Yoga With Pam DeMesa

See how Vena’s latest quarterly release will help you excelerate your growth with a focus on enhancing your Vena instance with a more seamless user experience and greater access to the business insights.

Session: On the Road to Growth

Learn how Vena delivers connected revenue and expense planning with best practices in how to align finance, marketing and sales to power your Plan To Grow.

Thomas Krolak

Senior Manager, FP&A, Vena

Ruslan Valeev

Director, Sales Operations, Vena

Andre Proulx

Director of Marketing Ops, Vena

Session: Agile Revenue Planning Best Practices

Unleash  your business-wide data strategy with engaging and interactive dashboards built in Power BI to easily communicate complex financial business intelligence.

William Liang

Managing Director, ProLytics Consulting Group

Partner Session: Power BI With Prolytics

Join this networking session to discover the latest product features from Microsoft and get the chance to meet with the Microsoft team.

Networking Session: The Microsoft Power Hour

Day Three

Hear firsthand how fellow finance leaders close their books with confidence 10x faster, report on cash flow with today’s actuals and reforecast on a dime. Get more out of your Vena with Fluence.


Ben Reddall

Director, Solution Engineering, Fluence Technologies

Excelerating Your Consolidation, Account Reconciliation & Reporting

See how Vena makes allocating funds and planning grants for not for profits easy  with templates, workflows, data models and the familiarity of a native Excel interface.

Kyli Lane

Lauren Hodson

Senior Director, Sales, Vena

Demo: Vena for Not for Profit

Learn best practices in connected planning across finance, human resources and revenue operations to drive agility and resilience in the face of an ever-changing business environment. 

Laura Victoria

VP, Global Talent Acquisition, Vena

Burzin Contractor, CPA

VP, Revenue Operations & Strategy

Tom Seegmiller, CPA

VP, FP&A, Vena

Panel: Agile Business Forecasting Best Practices

Discover the modern mix of critical skills you need to provide sound strategic thinking and analysis as an effective and trusted advisor to the business. 

Muneerah Kanji

VP Finance, Vena

Olivia MacDonald

Senior Manager, Financial Systems & Operations, Vena

Session: Contemporary Skills for Strategic Finance Professionals

Discover best practices for headcount planning, labor expense planning, benefits planning and more so you can ensure your people leaders—and business—are ready for any scenario.

Ravi Persaud, CPA

Demo: Vena for Workforce Planning

Learn how to create more accurate forecasts with driver-based calculations for common operating expenses such as headcount, advertising and legal fees. And deep dive into templates  for managing individual assets by properties such as book value, useful life, residual amount and more.  

Evan Short, CPA, CGA

Solutions Consultant, Customer Success, Vena

Allana Cowley

Senior Regional Sales Manager, Vena

Demo: Vena for CAPEX and OPEX

Learn the five core change management methods that will help you address all the areas of preparation you need, from support to reinforcement to deliver organizational change with a more positive outcome. 

Megan Strant

Microsoft MVP 

Session: Evolving Relationships with Change Management Methods

Whether you just launched your Vena instance or looking to create a “Complete Planning” culture, this session will guide you on the principles of change management to further strengthen your partnerships and adoption across your organization.

Vern Redwood, CPA

Senior Consultant, Vena

Naman Gupta

Senior Lifecycle Marketing Manager, Vena

Training: Vena’s Change Management Playbook

Day Four

Take a deep dive into how Vena can carry out your sales team's quota planning, capacity planning, territory management and incentive compensation management process and reporting. 

Demo: Vena for ICM

Learn best practices in attracting, recruiting and retaining professionals who will help build a differentiating modern workplace culture to thrive in the face of ongoing change.

Tracey Mikita

Chief People Person, Vena

Keynote: Hiring for the New World of Work

Join expert negotiator Chris Voss to learn how to move a conversation along, startle people in the right way, uncover what someone’s real motivation is and  why “yes” is the last thing you want to hear. 

Chris Voss

Former FBI Lead Hostage Negotiator and CEO and Founder of The Black Swan Group

Keynote: The Art of Negotiation

Get a deep dive into advanced workflow capabilities and an integrated data model in a native Excel interface with Vena for Account Reconciliation and Financial Consolidation. Learn also how to excelerate your time to close.

Rebecca Lomax

Sr. Solutions Consultant, Vena

Demo: Vena for Account Reconciliation and Financial Consolidation

Meet and greet a Vena Expert and learn how you can partner in powering your Plan To Grow through expert managed services and beyond.

Justin Chiu

Director, Solution Services, Vena

Meg Bowie

Sr. Manager, Customer Success, Vena

Mike Liu

Sr. Manager, Managed Services, Vena

Power Hour: Vena Expert Services

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Join us to discover the Vena Complete Planning platform, our methodology, best practices, and more including agile budgeting, forecasting, scenario modeling, workforce planning and more.

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