You’ve already built systems your team depends on. Workflows that keep projects moving. Apps people actually use. Processes that hold things together when the stakes are high. 

Now the pressure is different.  

Expectations are higher than ever. Systems are more connected. There’s an urgent need to move faster without disrupting what already works. That’s exactly what Empower 26 (May 18–20) is designed to address. 

This year’s theme, Build Your Breakthrough, isn’t about starting over. It’s about strengthening what you’ve built, so it scales, adapts, and holds up as your organization grows.   

The Empower 26 Agenda Is Live. Here’s What to Expect. 

The Empower 26 Agenda isn’t just a list of sessions by role. It’s built for a very specific moment. You’re responsible for keeping critical work moving — and at the same time, you’re being asked to improve workflows, visibility, and performance without slowing anything down. You’re likely trying to:  

• Move faster without losing control. 
• Make changes without breaking what works. 
• Add new capabilities without adding complexity. 

The sessions at this year’s Empower are built around strengthening live systems, keeping governance intact, and adding AI where it actually helps.  

Here are a few sessions that show what breakthrough looks like in practice. 

If You Build Apps People Rely On 

As adoption grows, functionality alone isn’t enough. An app can technically work and still frustrate the people using it. Forms become dense, dashboards get crowded, and navigation slows people down instead of guiding them. 

Breakthrough at this stage isn’t about adding more capability. It’s about making what you’ve built easier to use. 

Designing Apps People Want to Use 

This session focuses on practical UX principles that reduce friction and improve clarity in your apps. You’ll learn how to spot usability issues in forms, dashboards, and navigation. Discover ways to structure workflows so they’re simpler to follow. Walk away with techniques that improve adoption by making apps that feel intuitive and easy to learn and use.      

If You’re Looking to Grow With Better Control 

As more teams start building, things drift. Duplicate apps. Slightly different processes solving the same problem. Permissions that no longer align. Gaps in visibility. Over time, those small differences add up. The instinct is to tighten control. You’re not trying to slow people down. You’re trying to make sure what they build actually holds up.  

Scale with Control: Governance Tools for a Growing Platform 

This session takes a practical look at how to structure environments, manage versioning through ALM, and embed governance into the way your platform evolves. Explore how Admin Console Sync, App Intelligence, agent-enabled insights, and the AI Command Center work together to provide end-to-end visibility and control. 

If You’re Applying AI to Real Work 

Most teams are past the point of asking whether AI matters. What’s less clear is where it belongs in day-to-day work.  

• What should it support?  
• Where does it actually add value?  
• Where does it introduce risk?  

AI should connect what’s scattered, surface what’s buried, and put answers where decisions happen. In other words, it should create clarity, not add more noise.  

AI in Action: Real Use Cases and What Actually Works 

This fireside chat moves beyond theory and into execution. Customer and product leaders share how AI is being applied inside real operational workflows: what worked, what didn’t, and where teams adjusted course. 

You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of how to identify practical AI use cases, avoid common adoption pitfalls, and move from experimentation to measurable operational impact. 

If You Own Operations or Reporting 

Operations teams are often the first to feel the impact of systems that don’t fully connect. Data lives in different places. Updates are delayed. Getting a clear picture takes effort and that slows decisions down. 

Turning Frontline Data into Competitive Advantage 

This panel explores how organizations capture frontline data in real time and turn it into workflows that improve visibility and accelerate decision-making. You’ll hear practical examples of how modern data collection strengthens compliance, improves response times, and converts everyday activity into actionable insights. 

If Field Work Is Core to How You Operate 

Field work doesn’t wait. Inspections, service calls, deliveries — they move fast, and the data behind them needs to keep up. Tools have to be simple in the field and connected back to the rest of the business.  

Smarter Field Operations: What’s New in FastField 

This product spotlight session explores recent FastField updates designed to improve asset tracking, team coordination, and real-time data capture. You’ll see how AI photo insights, label scanner OCR, and smarter scheduling tools help field teams move faster while keeping operational data clean, visible, and connected. 

If You’re New to Quickbase  

Sometimes a breakthrough starts with mastering the fundamentals.  

Quickbase Fundamentals: Space Rodeo Edition 

This hands-on session walks through the core building blocks of the platform, from app structure to workflow design, so you can understand how everything fits together. Whether you’re building your first app or filling in knowledge gaps, you’ll leave better prepared to design structured, purposeful solutions your teams can rely on.   

If you’re ready to go a step further, you can also take a certification exam to validate your expertise (pre-registration required). 

Grounded in How Work Actually Happens 

This year’s agenda is not about showcasing features. It’s built around real-world customer scenarios, practical use cases, and addressing the tension many teams are already living with every day. Breakthrough doesn’t come from ripping out what works. It comes from extending it carefully, so teams can move faster on stronger ground.  

Build Your Breakthrough This May at Empower     

If you’re working through how to improve what you’ve built, scaling it without adding more complexity, or making it easier for your teams to use every day, Empower 26 gives you a place to do that. 

This is your opportunity to go deeper where it matters most. Whether that means strengthening your foundation, refining how you build, learning how peers are solving similar challenges, or getting a closer look at what’s new and what’s next, the agenda gives you room to focus on what moves your work forward. 

Explore the full agenda and register for Empower 26.