This year's conference will feature an enhanced Financial Services track, which will kick off with a keynote presentation from Don Russo, Financial Services Global Business Unit, Oracle. Below are the education sessions that currently make up the Financial Services track.

49990: Oracle's Application Strategy and Roadmap for the Financial Services Industry   
Don Russo, Oracle

How Financial Services organizations can overcome today's challenges and realized opportunities using Oracle Applications.

49170: PeopleSoft Financial Management Applications Road Map: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond
Tom Vassallo, Oracle; PeopleSoft

Attend this session to hear how the current release of Oracle's PeopleSoft Financial Management enables customers to implement highly efficient finance processes, an enhanced user experience, and extended interoperability between applications. The presentation also covers new features being considered for future releases.

• Financials 9.0 Understanding 
• Financials 9.x Direction

48950: A Strategy for Enterprise Business Intelligence   
Rich Schmitt, Oracle; Hyperion

This session will highlight the advantages of having access to real-time and accurate information to support your business operational initiatives by effectively leveraging the robust capabilities of Oracle's business intelligence solutions. 

• Understand the value of Business Intelligence
• Use cases on how companies have used Business Intelligence

45150: Upgrading from PeopleSoft Recruiting Solutions 8.8 to 9.0 – Global Financial Services Company Case Study   
Brian McIntyre and Melinda Broome, WorkStrategy, Inc.; PeopleSoft

Will discuss Recruiting Solutions 9.0 project planning, applicant navigation and usability, Recruiter Dashboard deployment, Verity searching, detailed configuration steps, and Integration Broker setup.

• Review Recruiting Solutions Upgrade Steps
• See how to turn on the Recruiter Dashboard
• Learn how to improve your business process & educate your staffing team

49260: Top Five Benefits People Soft Customers can Achieve by Automating Application Access Controls
Adil Khan, Fulcrum; PeopleSoft

Today management is burdened with growing governance responsibilities as companies around the globe continue to face emerging business risks, challenging economic conditions, as well as increasing pressure from government regulators and investors. Leading companies are meeting these challenges by establishing controls to “baseline” their global ERP systems that can enable management to effectively focus on critical risks, and manage relevant exceptions.

• In this presentation we share lesson’s learned from the real-world experience of automating control
• The session includes insight into widely used control’s frameworks, application controls automation

49070: PeopleSoft Executive Update and Investment Strategy
John Webb, Oracle; PeopleSoft

Receive an update on the latest and greatest involving the PeopleSoft product line. Hear about Oracle's ongoing commitment to PeopleSoft. See the value delivered in the latest release.

49870: PeopleSoft Compensation: Manager Access with eComp+: National Financial Services Company Case Study 
Brian McIntyre,WorkStrategy, Inc.; PeopleSoft

WorkStrategy will demo eComp+ modeling features, merit/bonus functionality, how to setup templates, workflow andsecurity, multi-currency, build PeopleTools objects and run reporting. 

• Education on new PeopleSoft Compensation Bolt-on
• Review existing PeopleSoft technology (i.e., workflow, security, XML Publisher)
• Learn how a Financial services company automated a labor intensive, manual spreadsheet process. 

50000: Identity Management in Financial Services: The Next Challenge    
Bijan Chowdhury, Oracle

The race between the good and the bad guys continues to escalate, as financial institutions step up their efforts to counter increasingly sophisticated attacks inside and outside the firm. 

• Hear about what new technologies are being employed to secure identity and assets
• How firms must protect customer trust while providing superior service
• How Oracle's customers are adopting and automating these approaches to stay ahead of the next challenge

50010: Balancing Risk and Performance with an Integrated Finance Organization: Results from the IBM 2008 Global CFO Study   
Stephen Rogers, IBM

CFOs are challenged with the paradox of delivering a stable, highly effective finance environment while also providing the agility to respond/react to rapidly changing business climates. Hear how 1200+ CFOs are helping to drive enterprise growth.

• Learn how Finance organizations approach globalization’s opportunities, challenges and risks
• Learn what financial mgmt models have the flexibility to enable strategic/operational transformation
• Better understand what the CFO’s role is with respect to risk management