May 8 | 10AM-4:15PM ET | Free Virtual Event
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The Future of Dynamic Work

The way we work has changed. It’s become equal parts overwhelming and demanding. And for many of us, it’s now downright impossible to meet job expectations that seem to change every single day. Especially with several different systems and countless tools to constantly keep track of. We run the risk of losing data, missing deadlines, blowing budgets, and not delivering our best work.

Honestly, always pushing for greater productivity has become exhausting. Unsustainably exhausting.

Empower 2024 is where we turn all that exhaustion into excitement! Being so busy, it’s easy to stop learning and stop feeling inspired. With our heads down grinding, we can miss the big opportunities right in front of us. Empower is setting out to change that.

For six straight hours, some of the most forward-thinking companies, across multiple industries, will be sharing how they’re taking on dynamic demands by thinking differently. By embracing a better way of working.

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Why Attend?

Get Smarter: Hear from people like you who have found simple ways to uncomplicate how work gets done. Join discussions from leading brands on topics like keeping your field teams safer, delivering more projects on time, and optimizing shop floor efficiency. And, of course, how AI is about to transform how it all gets done.

Get Inspired: Unlock new and inspiring ways of motivating yourself and your teams to do your best work, while keeping up with the speed of demand.

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Get Building: See how AI and automation are about to fundamentally change the way you work and revolutionize the potential of application building forever.

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Get Connected: Get a pulse on what's new in your industry, network with peers, and discover new ways to meet the demands of your most complex and Dynamic Work.

Event Info

May 8th
10:00 - 4:15 PM ET

6 hour virtual event
20+ breakout sessions
LIVE Q&A

We have a jam-packed day of education, best practices, inspiration, and innovation we built just for people like you. So, let’s get going!

10th Empower and Quickbase’s 25th anniversary
For 10 years, thousands of people have benefited from Empower. We’ve had brands like Comcast, Southwest Airlines, PwC, and Skanska join us to speak about the ways they have been able to improve productivity across their organization, utilize AI to get their employees back to the work they love, and keep up with the pace of modern dynamic work using Quickbase platform. Here’s to many more decades of working together. All together!

Agenda Preview
May 8
10:00–11:15 am EDT
Future of Work Keynote & Product Announcements
11:15–11:30 am EDT
Break
11:30–12:15 pm EDT
Breakout Session Block 1 - 30 Minute Content / 15 Minute Q&A
12:15–1:00 pm EDT
Breakout Session Block 2 - 30 Minute Content / 15 Minute Q&A
1:00–1:45 pm EDT
Breakout Session Block 3 - 30 Minute Content / 15 Minute Q&A
1:45–2:15 pm EDT
Break
2:15–3:00 pm EDT
Breakout Session Block 4 - 30 Minute Content / 15 Minute Q&A
3:00–3:45 pm EDT
Breakout Session Block 5 - 30 Minute Content / 15 Minute Q&A
3:45–4:15 pm EDT
Product Roadmap / Closing

Past speakers include industry leaders like:

Rich Taylor

Vice PresidentComcast Cable
Vice PresidentComcast Cable

Kate Barrand

President & CEOHorizons for Homeless Children
With a vision for a better future for children experiencing homelessness, Kate took over as CEO of Horizons for Homeless Children in 2015. During her tenure, she established a financially sustainable model and enriched the organization's programs through innovative partnerships with leading edge providers in early childhood development. Under her leadership, Horizons initiated a capital campaign for the Horizons Center, a unique public/private joint venture that was completed in 2021 and is transforming the education, health and well-being of at-risk children and families in Boston.

Before taking the helm at Horizons, Kate was a leader, strategy consultant and operating manager in the finance and technology sectors. During that time she served on the Board of Directors at Horizons for 14 years and deepened her involvement at Horizons by volunteering as a Playspace Activity Leader.

Kate's passion for children and families battling homelessness has been a meaningful part of her entire career. Kate holds a BA in Early Childhood Development from the Eliot-Pearson Department at Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University.
President & CEOHorizons for Homeless Children
With a vision for a better future for children experiencing homelessness, Kate took over as CEO of Horizons for Homeless Children in 2015. During her tenure, she established a financially sustainable model and enriched the organization's programs through innovative partnerships with leading edge providers in early childhood development. Under her leadership, Horizons initiated a capital campaign for the Horizons Center, a unique public/private joint venture that was completed in 2021 and is transforming the education, health and well-being of at-risk children and families in Boston.

Before taking the helm at Horizons, Kate was a leader, strategy consultant and operating manager in the finance and technology sectors. During that time she served on the Board of Directors at Horizons for 14 years and deepened her involvement at Horizons by volunteering as a Playspace Activity Leader.

Kate's passion for children and families battling homelessness has been a meaningful part of her entire career. Kate holds a BA in Early Childhood Development from the Eliot-Pearson Department at Tufts University and an MBA from Boston University.

Lee Connolly

Director, Cloud & DigitalPwC
Lee has spent 12 years in the Program Portfolio Management (PPM) space with PwC. He has helped clients plan for and deliver on some of their most complex change and transformational projects. He is a certified Quickbase builder and has a passion for expanding the awareness and uses cases of no/low-code platforms within both PwC and their clients.
Director, Cloud & DigitalPwC
Lee has spent 12 years in the Program Portfolio Management (PPM) space with PwC. He has helped clients plan for and deliver on some of their most complex change and transformational projects. He is a certified Quickbase builder and has a passion for expanding the awareness and uses cases of no/low-code platforms within both PwC and their clients.

Anthony Chiaradonna

CIOConsigli Construction
Anthony joined Consigli Construction Co., Inc. in 2011 as Chief Information Officer, where he oversees information technology strategy, planning, and implementation for the $2 billion organization with 1,300 employees across 11 regional offices and 100 project sites from Maine to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

As a member of the senior management team, Anthony leads IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization. Anthony is an expert in all software development methodologies encompassing analysis, development, testing, training and integration, and is responsible for the selection and management of all technology implementations from hardware and software to contracts and vendor relationships.

During his tenure at Consigli, Anthony has led major systems integrations including the move of 80% of the company's data to cloud systems; the corporate transition to Microsoft 365; the creation of a data warehouse to support a corporate scorecard, dashboard system, and integrations; and the implementation of a total cloud-based disaster recovery system.
CIOConsigli Construction
Anthony joined Consigli Construction Co., Inc. in 2011 as Chief Information Officer, where he oversees information technology strategy, planning, and implementation for the $2 billion organization with 1,300 employees across 11 regional offices and 100 project sites from Maine to the U.S. Virgin Islands.

As a member of the senior management team, Anthony leads IT strategic and operational planning to achieve business goals by fostering innovation, prioritizing IT initiatives, and coordinating the evaluation, deployment, and management of current and future IT systems across the organization. Anthony is an expert in all software development methodologies encompassing analysis, development, testing, training and integration, and is responsible for the selection and management of all technology implementations from hardware and software to contracts and vendor relationships.

During his tenure at Consigli, Anthony has led major systems integrations including the move of 80% of the company's data to cloud systems; the corporate transition to Microsoft 365; the creation of a data warehouse to support a corporate scorecard, dashboard system, and integrations; and the implementation of a total cloud-based disaster recovery system.

Ed Jennings

Chief Executive OfficerQuickbase
Ed Jennings joined Quickbase as chief executive officer in May 2020 and has a proven track record of accelerating enterprise growth for SaaS leaders. His unique strengths combine innovative market strategies, velocity sales leadership, and extraordinary team building.

Prior to joining Quickbase, Ed was chief operating officer at Mimecast, where he was responsible for the global marketing, sales and services teams and helped bring the company public in 2015. Under his leadership, Mimecast expanded its footprint into the enterprise space, grew its annual revenue from $82M to over $400M in four years, and scaled the team from 350 employees to 1,800, while expanding offices internationally.

In addition to his recent role at Mimecast, Ed has held marketing leadership roles at PTC and Veracode; at the latter, he defined the go-to-market strategy that enabled the company to quadruple revenues during his nearly four-year tenure. Veracode was sold to Computer Associates in 2017. He also has served as CEO for SaaS workflow solution Copanion that was acquired by Drake Software in 2010.

Ed is on the advisory board of Ten Eleven Ventures and the Cyber Resilience Think Tank. He is a regular speaker on a range of digital transformation and technology topics at Gartner, Forrester and FS-ISAC conferences.

Ed is a graduate of Boston College and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
Chief Executive OfficerQuickbase
Ed Jennings joined Quickbase as chief executive officer in May 2020 and has a proven track record of accelerating enterprise growth for SaaS leaders. His unique strengths combine innovative market strategies, velocity sales leadership, and extraordinary team building.

Prior to joining Quickbase, Ed was chief operating officer at Mimecast, where he was responsible for the global marketing, sales and services teams and helped bring the company public in 2015. Under his leadership, Mimecast expanded its footprint into the enterprise space, grew its annual revenue from $82M to over $400M in four years, and scaled the team from 350 employees to 1,800, while expanding offices internationally.

In addition to his recent role at Mimecast, Ed has held marketing leadership roles at PTC and Veracode; at the latter, he defined the go-to-market strategy that enabled the company to quadruple revenues during his nearly four-year tenure. Veracode was sold to Computer Associates in 2017. He also has served as CEO for SaaS workflow solution Copanion that was acquired by Drake Software in 2010.

Ed is on the advisory board of Ten Eleven Ventures and the Cyber Resilience Think Tank. He is a regular speaker on a range of digital transformation and technology topics at Gartner, Forrester and FS-ISAC conferences.

Ed is a graduate of Boston College and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.

Sarah Din

Vice President, Product MarketingQuickbase
Sarah Din is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Quickbase. She joined the company in 2022 to lead key areas of product marketing, including Product go-to-market strategy, Product Growth and Customer Lifecycle, and Market Intelligence and is responsible for defining and evangelizing the Quickbase story.

She has spent the last 18 years leading marketing for B2B SaaS companies, helping them bring new products to market, expand existing markets, and carve out new categories to create demand and win market share. Sarah's expertise is in developing strategic narratives and brands, operationalizing cross-functional teams around an effective GTM strategy, building high-performing teams, and mentoring people to find joy in their work.
Vice President, Product MarketingQuickbase
Sarah Din is the Vice President of Product Marketing at Quickbase. She joined the company in 2022 to lead key areas of product marketing, including Product go-to-market strategy, Product Growth and Customer Lifecycle, and Market Intelligence and is responsible for defining and evangelizing the Quickbase story.

She has spent the last 18 years leading marketing for B2B SaaS companies, helping them bring new products to market, expand existing markets, and carve out new categories to create demand and win market share. Sarah's expertise is in developing strategic narratives and brands, operationalizing cross-functional teams around an effective GTM strategy, building high-performing teams, and mentoring people to find joy in their work.
I have gotten so much out of attending the past three Empowers, I can attest to the value they bring. From hands-on problem-solving sessions to great presentations and talks with product experts, there is something for everyone.
Tammie King
Information Technology Application Analyst, Mintz

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