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Keynote Announced
Author, entrepreneur and executive Mike Karlsrud presents "Winning the War for Talent"
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Keynote Speakers
Mike Karlsrud presents Winning the War for Talent
In Winning the War for Talent, Karlsrud will discuss the potential shortage of skilled professionals in the job market over the next two decades. He will discuss the cost of open positions, and share invaluable insights on revolutionizing recruitment and retention strategies for optical labs.
About the Speaker: Mike Karlsrud is an author, entrepreneur, and executive with over 25 years of experience in leadership, sales, and resource development within the optical industry. He has become an experienced authority in business coaching, leadership development, and talent dynamics.
Alysse Henkel presents Optical Insights: A Deep Dive into Lens Consumer Behavior
An in-depth exploration of optical lens sales, including evolving consumer preferences, market share between lens types, and the impact of online purchasing behaviors based on The Vision Council's research. The session presents insights from a rich dataset from over 100,000 consumer surveys and millions of transaction records to offer insights into how lens users navigate choices in a changing optical landscape.
About the Speaker: Alysse Henkel serves as the Vice President of Research and inSights at The Vision Council, overseeing its market research team. She crafts and delivers critical insights from consumer trends and industry data, working with optical industry stakeholders to apply findings from The Vision Council's inSights research program.
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Why Attend?
1. Learn from Experts
Elevate your LMS knowledge with insights from industry leaders to supercharge your processes and quality management.
2. Hands-On Workshops
Empower your team with advanced, interactive Innovations training that directly enhances your lab's capabilities.
3. Impact Innovations
Seize the chance to collaborate with our experts and influence the development of your LMS.
4. Global Networking
Connect and exchange knowledge with optical lab professionals from all over the world.
Agenda Highlights
Ocuco Insights: What's New in Innovations & Roadmap
When: April 12, 10:30 am
Presenters: Russ Gagain, Innovations Product Owner, & Dan Baker, Lab Development Manager
Learning Path: Technical
Skill level: All levels
Overview: A detailed presentation of Innovations’ main features and why labs should use them. This session will also present what has been implemented from the development roadmap and an overview of what the updated roadmap encompasses.
Ocuco Insights: What's New in Lablink & Roadmap
When: April 13, 11 am
Presenters: Matt Hitchingham, Lablink Product Owner, & Dan Baker, Lab Development Manager
Learning Path: Technical
Skill level: All levels
Overview: This presentation will outline the most relevant Lablink features and how optical labs can make the most of them. In addition, this session will analyze enhancements that were applied to Lablink and present the new development roadmap for the product.
Confirmed Workshops
Benefit from training sessions delivered by the Innovations LMS experts. Scroll to find out more about what our team has prepared for each workshop:
Innovations Product Development: From Think Tank to Delivery
Learning Path: Business
Skill level: Beginner
Overview: A walkthrough of Ocuco's Innovations Product Development, from inception to delivery. Gain insights into the three key development phases: Requirement Gathering; Coding, Implementation and Testing, and Delivery and Acceptance.
Innovations’ Remote Ordering Infrastructure: Deep Dive
Learning Path: Technical
Skill level: Advanced
Overview: An in-depth walkthrough of Ocuco’s Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which your other systems can seamlessly integrate with. Learn how our APIs work and understand the business workflows they enable.
InnovaWeb: Customer Service, Tracking and Inventory Verification
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Beginner
Overview: A detailed walkthrough of InnovaWeb, an Innovations browser-based app, covering customer service, tracking and scan station.
Keeping Sight of Your AR Jobs: Innovations Order Batching
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Intermediate
Overview: Understand how to easily configure Innovations to track and manage batches in your coating department. Discover how to move batches to different containers and machines, monitor jobs in a batch, and view their history.
Lab Logistics: How to Set up Workflow Validation
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Advanced
Overview: Find out how to use status dependencies and production path validation through practical examples.
Printer Conditions and Worktickets
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Intermediate
Overview: Discover the enhancements in Printer Conditions and Workticket assignments in Innovations. Learn how to precisely instruct Innovations on what and when to print, utilizing a user-friendly interface that eliminates the need for complex configuration files, allowing you to specify printing preferences effortlessly.
Setting up your Freeform Designs and Troubleshooting
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Beginner
Overview: Understand how your data is exchanged between the LMS and LDS, including the various file formats and troubleshooting. Learn about fundamental concepts of freeform and essential data required to complete calculations.
Setting Up Your Lab to Get Quality Metrics from Innovations
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Intermediate Advanced
Overview: Learn how to get the information to improve production with the new reporting in Workflow Monitor.
The Lifecycle of Remote Orders: Receiving Online Orders and Updating Job Status
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Intermediate
Overview: Understand online ordering and how orders flow from retailers to your lab. Find out how to configure Innovations to receive remote orders and view live job statuses, enhancing customer service.
Setting Up User Defined Lenses: Custom Branding and White Label Products
Learning Path: Business
Skill level: Beginner
Overview: Learn about the file format used to load User-defined lenses in Innovations. Also, discover how to create Lens Options with the Innovations Wizard and when to employ the user database.
Introduction to Pricing: How to Set Your Pricelists in Innovations
Learning Path: Business
Skill level: Beginner
Overview: A comprehensive introduction to Pricing in Innovations. Learn how to configure the lab's pricing logic using the Pricing module. This includes creating price lists and price groups, assigning customers to different price lists, and applying discounts and special pricing.
Advanced Pricing Configuration: Rules and Packages
Learning Path: Business
Skill level: Advanced
Overview: Discover the power of Rules in Innovations to control special pricing conditions, packages and promotion price lists setup.
Lablink: Custom Branding, Retail Configuration and Product Offering
Learning Path: Marketing
Skill level: Intermediate
Overview: Discover more about branding techniques available in Lablink to support multiple business lines and product offerings,such as field customization and multi-catalog maintenance.
Accounts Receivable: Setting Up Your Accounting in Innovations
Learning Path: Business
Skill level: Beginner
Overview: Uncover best practices for Innovations Accounting. Learn how to set up volume discounts, process statements, receive payments, and complete post-transactions and sales journal entries.
Innovations' Queues and Hold Conditions
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Intermediate
Overview: Delve into production planning and workflow queuing in Innovations, gaining insights from real-world scenarios. Explore the newly introduced automated queue release feature, discover effective techniques for prioritizing work using queues, and learn how Hold Conditions can highlight special job considerations.
Minimize Excess Trays and Paperwork with Job Staging
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Intermediate
Overview: Discover the benefits of Job Staging in optimizing lab efficiency and minimizing waste. Gain insights into the seamless setup of Job Staging, offering a modular system to enhance visibility, job tracking, and overall workflow efficiency. Learn how Job Staging empowers your lab to maximize Work in Progress (WIP) while minimizing Turn Around Time (TAT).
Inventory
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Intermediate
Overview: A walkthrough of Innovations' Inventory module. Find out how to automatically replenish lenses and frames. Gain insights into order points, cycle counts, bin locations, cost input, and purchase order management.
Queues and Hold Conditions
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: Intermediate
Overview: Delve into production planning and workflow queuing in Innovations, gaining insights from real-world scenarios. Explore the newly introduced automated queue release feature, discover effective techniques for prioritizing work using queues, and learn how Hold Conditions can highlight special job considerations.
Profit Hacks with Special Processes in the IOT LDS
Learning Path: Production
Skill level: All levels
Overview: Discover several specific technical solutions available in the IOT LDS that help optical laboratories increase efficiency and drive profits.
Sponsored Presentations
What The Big Guys Don’t Want You to Know:
Hacks for Building a More Competitive and Profitable Business
Presented by Tina Lahti
Understand what drives success and profitability in today’s integrated and highly competitive market, from IOT, an independent technology partner, to hundreds of optical manufacturing businesses.This session will offer several profit-driving ideas you can execute now and share advice on maintaining long-term success. Presented by Tina Lahti, IOT’s VP of Sales for Designs and Coatings. This session will offer several specific profit-driving ideas you can execute now and share advice on maintaining long-term success.
OptikamPad: Modernize and Elevate the Optical Experience
Presented by Jerry Wolf OptikamPad, an iPad-based system, transforms the eyewear dispensing process. With just one frontal photo, it captures ten crucial eyewear measurements, including Position of Wear. Augmented Reality and Lens Demos empower Eye Care Professionals to visually demonstrate various lens options, while side-by-side frame comparisons boost multiple-frame sales.
Schneider Rx Lens Processing Solutions: What’s Going at Schneider
Presented by Shannon Toler
An overview of Schneider's history, emphasizing established innovations. Additionally, essential information about the Control Center will be provided, highlighting its pivotal role in enhancing operational efficiency.
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