Check-in at the registration booth and enjoy some morning coffee, tea and breakfast before general session starts.

Traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. Spreadsheets are more than forty years old now, and the dynamic needs of modern business requires a more modern approach to accounting. Modern accounting is unified, automated, and continuous. BlackLine's COO, Marc Huffman, will kick off InTheBlack 2020 by painting a picture that shows how BlackLine will collaboratively guide you on the next step in your journey to modern accounting.

Presented by EY - In this session, we’ll share how EY leveraged BlackLine to standardize the reconciliation process and more closely monitor monthly activities throughout a Fortune 500’s ongoing finance operations transformation. More than just technical best practices, organization-wide transformations involve large scale redesigns across leadership, teams, and functions. We will share how EY leveraged BlackLine to standardize and gain efficiencies in the reconciliation process, transition activities between on-shore/off-shore locations in a controlled fashion, and enable self-service reporting to track progress and manage Service Line Agreements (SLA’s).

Enjoy light refreshments in between sessions.

Presented by Deloitte - Deloitte and BlackLine are strategic partners focused on helping organisations move from unsustainable traditional accounting processes to modern accounting. See how Digital Controllership will drive your accounting team into the future.

BlackLine has always been a company focused on innovating for our customers. This year we want to showcase some of our most innovative customer stories. BlackLine's Founder & CEO Therese Tucker will invite innovative leaders who have delivered transformational results for their companies. Every business has its unique challenges and you will hear stores from four distinct companies. The Customer Innovation Showcase will give you something to take home with you along with new ways of overcoming obstacles and driving transformational change in your company.

Join us for lunch and network with industry professionals. Make sure to stop by the Innovation Hub to connect with BlackLine partners, connect with a BlackLine product team member, and earn a prize at Customer Connect when you compelte a survey!

Finance transformation is top of mind for almost every CFO, and there’s no shortage of tools, technologies, and tips for digitising your organisation, but it can be difficult to make sense of it all. SAP, a trusted leader in enterprise technology, has a vision for the Intelligent Enterprise and end-to-end solutions for Finance. Bring your lunch bento box to this invite-only session for an exploration of the future of Intelligent Finance with product demonstrations of SAP Account Substantiation and Automation and SAP Intercompany Financial Hub by BlackLine.

This session is designed for those evaluating BlackLine who are looking for a solution to help them manage the financial close, automate accounting processes, or ensure intercompany governance. Experts in accounting transformation will demonstrate BlackLine's accounting cloud platform functionality with a deep dive into our solutions and how they can help you build a foundation for sustainable accounting practices.

A framework to guide your Finance and Accounting Transformation Journey. A blueprint to measure your current state, prioritise goals, and build out a roadmap of targeted quick, medium and long-term activities for a successful journey to your end game. The framework focuses on 5 key areas: 1. Define and prioritize your goals (end game) 2. Identify the KPIs to track progress 3. Assess the 5 Core Finance and Accounting Processes 4. Design a roadmap 5. Monitor progress

When is the last time you used a rolodex or called a travel agent? Did you recently opt to go the library instead of asking Google for some information? Believe it or not, you can still buy ledger paper online! Technology has transformed so many of our activities and freed up our time to focus on other things. How we spend our time at work is directly correlated to the value we add to the business. Yet enterprise technology can seem daunting, systems are not built to naturally work with another, data lives in silos, and bringing it all together is often manual and chaotic. This chaos is often mistaken for complexity because it is we humans who historically had manage it. But in reality, “machines” and software are ideally suited for managing the chaos, so we can focus on the truly complex in our daily jobs. This session will show how BlackLine’s product innovation is focused changing the experience of F&A professionals with technology that connects your systems, provides visibility across every process, runs intelligently and automatically, and importantly, is easy for you, the users.

For accounting and finance teams, securing budget for technology can be a tall task. A compelling and robust business case is a critical requirement to starting a transformation, and it shouldn't be overlooked. In this session, we'll review how financial close solutions deliver value for customers and how you can best demonstrate that value to gain executive approval and support.

Enjoy light refreshments in between sessions.

Modernising the financial close is only one part of digital finance transformation. Experts and practice leaders dedicated to transforming Finance and Accounting will explore the pressing challenges facing organisations. Your participation is encouraged, please bring your own questions for the experts.

Grab a drink and some food and connect with industry professionals!

Get your morning started with coffee, tea, and hot breakfast items on the second day of BlackLine's user conferenceday!

Optimisation projects on both a large and small scale not only impact your processes and technology, but also your team. A project management plan transforms your technologies and processes, but an integrated Change Management Plan supports your teams through the transformation. Change Management is a structured and intentional plan to support people through change as part of a transformation journey. We will discuss how to integrate a Change Management methodology into your project plan in order to prepare and support individuals through the changes to their jobs, as well as ensure that employees adopt, use, and optimise the change being introduced.

Enjoy light refreshments in between sessions.

Adopting new technology alone is not enough. Subtle shifts in process and the application of key features can dramatically reduce time spent on reconciliations—and perhaps more importantly—ensure confidence in every substantiated balance. Attend this workshop to explore seven change management practices that will help you get the most out of Account Reconciliations.

This seminar walks you through the key functions and features of Task Management. Review different use cases in action and learn how great visibility, efficiency and control can be achieved with this product.

This introductory seminar provides an overview of essential information when completing a reconciliation. Locate information such as the template details, power of items, comments along with supporting documents while learning about key internal controls surrounding the GL Balance. Explore the steps required to certify, approve or reject a reconciliation. This seminar showcases critical keys to success for Preparers, Approvers and Reviewers.

Understand the power of BlackLine's integrated platform by exploring how different products work together to increase automation and value to the organisation. Learn how to take advantage of functionality like task dependencies and how to connect a journal entry to an account reconciliation.

Understand the power of BlackLine's integrated platform by exploring how different products work together to increase automation and value to the organisation. Learn how to take advantage of functionality like task dependencies and how to connect a journal entry to an account reconciliation.

Join us for lunch and network with industry professionals. Make sure to stop by the Innovation Hub to connect with BlackLine partners, connect with a BlackLine product team member, and earn a prize at Customer Connect when you compelte a survey!

Not sure which BlackLine Reconciliation template to choose for your reconciliations? Want to know which Reconciliation template to use for better visibility, reliability, and efficiency? This seminar gives you an overview of the nine BlackLine standard templates. Also, you will see how to manage items to your organisation’s benefit.

In today’s data-driven world, accountants are tasked with doing more with the same resources, in less time—all while maintaining the agility to look into and understand the financials at a transactional level. Join this session to learn why it’s more important than ever to optimise your close and ensure your journal entries aren’t muddying the water.

This seminar will explore at least 5 areas that will help you increase your adoption and optimisation rates when using Account Reconciliations. Learn about critical success points to ensure your reconciliation foundation is solid before moving onto more advanced features. In this seminar, you will also be able benchmark against your peers in real time using interactive polling technology.

When you think of high-volume ticking and tying, your first thought is probably bank reconciliations. But the reality for Accounting is, data matching and manipulation is a large part of many processes. Join this session to learn about unique high-volume reconciliations use cases for processes like payroll, accruals, system-to-system, and cash application, that can be automated with BlackLine. You will hear from BlackLine experts on how they identify unique use cases and successfully address the most cumbersome manual ticking and tying processes that still plague accounting teams today.

Enjoy light refreshments in between sessions.

Implementing Transaction Matching doesn't have to be as overwhelming as you think. You've planned the project, but what's next? In this session, we'll take you through the secrets to having a successful implementation.

Make life easier and your processes more efficient. This session, geared towards BlackLine system administrators, will cover topics such as: managing assignments, Account Rules, BL Data Import Template, adding tasks, reporting, new System Admin Guide, and utilising Blackline U and the Community.