Keynote Headliners from Accenture, Disney, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, LATAM Airlines, Salesforce
HOUSTON, Jan. 19, 2016 – PROS® (NYSE: PRO), the revenue and profit realization company, today announced that seasoned executives from some of the world’s most prominent companies will deliver keynotes and presentations at its annual Surperformer les Amériques event. This year’s conference – themed Realize Your Potential – attracts participants from around the world and will be held Jan. 27-29 at Disney World’s spectacular Contemporary Resort in Orlando, Fla.
PROS welcomes thought leaders, leading practitioners and industry analysts, who will deliver thought-provoking presentations about revenue and profit realization success across a broad range of industries. The conference is specifically designed for both executives and practitioners who are responsible for their organizations’ top- and bottom-line growth.
Conference participants can select from either of two tracks: Selling & Pricing or Revenue Management.
This year’s Premier Sponsors include Accenture et Avanade, with Acumen Solutions, Microsoft, SpringCM et Travelport serving as Presenting Sponsors. Branding Sponsors for Outperform Americas include Antuit, Deloitte, Infare, L&T InfoTech, Professional Pricing Society, QL2, Simon-Kucher & Partners, SITA et ZS Associates.
“Organizations around the world are looking for new opportunities to generate meaningful revenue growth through data science and prescriptive analytics,” said PROS Chief Marketing Officer Patrick Schneidau. “Every year, Outperform guests hear from industry thought leaders, and share extraordinary experiences and networking opportunities with the best and brightest minds in the industry. We appreciate the support of our sponsors and look forward to sharing actionable insights about what leading companies are doing to drive revenue and profit realization today.”
An impressive array of leaders from some of the world’s most highly regarded organizations will deliver keynote addresses:
- Accenture: Saideep Raj is a managing director with Accenture Technology and leads its global Cloud First Applications team, which includes SaaS-related professional services for several functional process areas including CRM. Raj’s presentation – The Sky is the Limit: How the Cloud and Analytics are Bringing Transformational Change to Enterprise Business – will share important insights from this new era of digital transformation, including the impact of CPQ (configure-price-quote) and pricing technology, and explore emerging trends that are gaining traction so companies can stay on top of today’s radically changing business environment.
- Disney: Mark W. Shafer serves as Senior Vice President, Revenue and Profit Management, with Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. In his remarks – Leading an Analytics Transformation: The Disney Story – Shafer will share his 30-year analytics journey, including lessons learned as a pricing leader at People Express Airlines, to building a science-based analytical team at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts.
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise et Salesforce: Stephen Moss, Vice President, Pricing, with Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Glenn Dearing, Vice President, Pricing Strategy, at Salesforce will jointly deliver remarks: Innovations in Pricing.
- LATAM Airlines Group S.A.: Carlos Jovel serves as Vice President, Pricing and Revenue Management, at the southern hemisphere’s largest airline, LATAM. In his session – Revenue Management in Diverse and Challenging Environments – Jovel will examine how to foster stability during turbulent times and how to stake a claim on the future when even the present is in flux.
Outperform features an impressive line-up of additional speakers, including PROS customers and industry thought leaders, who will share their personal insights and experiences:
- Peter Barr, Senior Director, Pricing, McKesson Medical-Surgical: Driving Business Value with Price Guidance
- Peter Belobaba, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Incorporating Personalization Into Airline Revenue Management: Simulating the Potential Rewards and Risks
- Gerard Dignan, Head of Revenue Management Systems, Qantas Airways Limited: From Origin to Destination – The Qantas Journey
- Neil Duffy, Director, Pricing, Sunoco: Overcoming Volatility: How to Make the Right Pricing Decisions
- Mohit Gupta, Strategic Pricing Manager, Cargill DSO: The Importance of Technology and Tools in Pricing
- Stephen Haggett, Vice President, Pricing and Revenue Management, Iron Mountain: Pricing Fairness: Engaging Sales & Increasing Price Performance
- Brian Horel, Director of Sales Operations, Georgia-Pacific: Georgia-Pacific’s Journey to Pricing Excellence: A Look Back – and Forward
- Karl Isler, General Manager, Operations Research and Strategy, SWISS: Revenue Management in a World Without Booking Class Availability
- Mansi Kansal, Pricing Analytics Program Manager & PMO, and Joel Birnbaum, Pricing Analytics Program Manager & Solution Lead, both with Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Realizing Value: The PROS Pricing Impact at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
- Amit Khandelwal, Divisional Vice President, Revenue Management, Emirates: Revenue Management – The Next Frontier
- Mirjam Gehring, Head of Revenue Management Projects and Systems, Austrian Airlines: Branded Fares at Austrian Airlines – How Revenue Management Systems Cope with New Challenges
- David Mok, Director, Pricing Strategy & Analytics, DePuy Synthes: Overcoming a Perfect Pricing Storm: Challenges and Solutions
- Barry Murchie, Vice President, Commercial Operations, McCain Foods: A CPQ-based Strategy for Consistent and Efficient Pricing and Promotions Management
- Eric Napientek, Assistant Vice President, Operations, OSI Group, LLC: Using Purchasing and Blend Optimization to Improve Supply Chain Management
- Peter Ostrow, Vice President and Group Director, Groupe Aberdeen: The Price is Right and Other TV Classics That Teach Us Smarter Selling
- Jonas Rauch, Senior Manager, Revenue Management Solutions, Lufthansa: Disentangling Capacity Control from Price Optimization
- Josh Sigmund, Director, Ingredients Sales & Operations Planning, Fonterra: From Supply to Market – Fonterra’s Journey to Full Revenue and Profit Realization
To register for Outperform Americas, visit the site web. To learn more, visit the PROS site web ou suivez PROS sur Twitter à l'adresse suivante @PROS_Inc.
À propos de PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE : PRO) est une société de réalisation de revenus et de profits qui aide les clients B2B et B2C à réaliser leur potentiel grâce à la combinaison de la simplicité et de la science des données. PROS propose des solutions en nuage pour accélérer les ventes, formuler des stratégies de prix gagnantes et aligner les produits, la demande et la disponibilité. Les solutions de réalisation des revenus et des bénéfices de PROS sont conçues pour permettre aux clients de connaître une croissance significative de leurs revenus, une rentabilité soutenue et des processus commerciaux modernisés. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site pros.com.
Déclarations prospectives
Ce communiqué de presse contient des énoncés prospectifs, y compris des énoncés sur la fonctionnalité et les avantages des logiciels de réalisation de revenus et de profits pour les organisations en général, ainsi que sur la fonctionnalité et les avantages des produits logiciels de PROS. Les déclarations prospectives contenues dans ce communiqué de presse sont basées sur l'expérience historique de PROS en matière de logiciels de réalisation de revenus et de bénéfices et sur ses attentes actuelles concernant les avantages des logiciels de réalisation de revenus et de bénéfices pour les organisations qui mettent en œuvre et utilisent ces logiciels. Les facteurs qui pourraient faire en sorte que les résultats réels diffèrent matériellement de ceux décrits dans le présent document comprennent la possibilité de répondre aux besoins d'une organisation en matière de logiciels de réalisation de revenus et de bénéfices, les risques associés au développement et à l'amélioration des produits de PROS avec la fonctionnalité nécessaire pour fournir les résultats déclarés et les risques associés à la mise en œuvre et à la maintenance complexes des logiciels de réalisation de revenus et de bénéfices tels que les produits logiciels de PROS. Les documents déposés par PROS auprès de la Securities and Exchange Commission contiennent des informations supplémentaires sur les incertitudes qui pèsent sur les activités de PROS. Ces déclarations prospectives représentent les attentes de PROS à la date du présent communiqué de presse. Des événements ultérieurs peuvent modifier ces attentes et PROS décline toute obligation de mettre à jour ou de modifier ces déclarations prévisionnelles à l'avenir, que ce soit à la suite de nouvelles informations, d'événements futurs ou autres.
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