AGENDA 2026
Three Days of Learning - Prepare to Launch!
Join us for general sessions, hands-on breakouts, product deep dives, and evening events—all designed to help your team get more from Euna Solutions.
Monday, September 14
Tuesday, September 15
Wednesday, September 16
From Procurement to Purpose: Transforming Grantmaking in the Era of Opioid Settlement Funding
When new funding arrives with high expectations and little infrastructure to support it, the pressure to deliver is immediate. That was the reality for Colorado Region 10 Opioid Abatement Council (ROAC) when it was charged with stewarding $50M over 18 years in a rapidly evolving policy environment.
This session shares how Region 10 transformed its operations from fragmented, procurement-based workflows to a purpose-built grant management approach powered by Euna Solutions. We'll walk through what drove the change, how leadership secured executive and cross-department buy-in, and how the team restructured internal processes to support transparency, collaboration, and long-term grantee success.
The results speak for themselves: Region 10 has emerged as a leading council among Colorado's 19 ROACs, recognized for operational clarity, transparent processes, and effective grant stewardship.
Attendees will leave with practical strategies for navigating implementation under public scrutiny, improving review and decision-making workflows, strengthening post-award grantee relationships, and streamlining the applicant experience, all while building organizational confidence in a new way of working.
If your agency is managing new funding mandates and needs to evolve quickly without sacrificing accountability or adoption, this session is for you.
- How to Transition from Procurement-Based Processes to True Grantmaking Infrastructure: Practical steps for evaluating legacy workflows, identifying misalignment, and redesigning systems to support transparent, accountable grant programs—especially in new funding landscapes like opioid settlement dollars.
- Driving Executive Buy-In and Cross-Department Adoption During High-Visibility Change: Real-world strategies for aligning leadership, council members, and staff while implementing a new platform under public and policy scrutiny.
- Implementing a Grantmaker Framework Through Measurable Operational Transformation: How improved workflows, structured review processes, and streamlined applicant experiences positioned our council as a leading example among our peers.
Transforming Detroit from Bankruptcy: Best Practices in Data Management Supporting Transparency & Outcomes
Detroit's road to financial recovery is one of the most remarkable turnaround stories in modern municipal history. This session opens with the context that made transformation necessary: the city's 2013 bankruptcy, the fiscal conditions that led to it, and the establishment of the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO), the centralized body that would shape Detroit's path forward.
From that foundation, the session explores how Detroit built its grants infrastructure from the ground up. That includes the creation of a centralized Office of Development and Grants, and the city's adoption of its first-ever grants management software in 2015 through eCivis. A core part of that story is how Detroit approached data quality early on, establishing naming conventions, document standards, and metrics tracking that became the backbone of its reporting and ultimately supported the city's navigation out of the State's Financial Review Commission oversight.
The session also covers how Detroit developed processes for tracking grant implementation progress and milestones, keeping funds on track and spent in alignment with their intended purpose.
The results speak for themselves: a significant reduction in audit findings, a growing portfolio of funders and total dollars raised, an improved credit rating, and a population increase for the first time since the 1950s.
- Good data management requires consistent standards and routine quality checks. Without them, transformation stalls.
- A single approval process for grant applications and awards gives organizations full visibility into their portfolio. Simple in theory, complex in practice for larger organizations.
- Milestones and spending steps need to live in one place everyone can access. Silos kill momentum. When teams can see progress clearly, reporting gets easier, funders get confident, and more funding follows.
Budget Book, Done Right: Lessons from Frederick County
When Frederick County Government set out to build their budget book in Euna Budget's transparency solution OpenBook, they learned that the real work happens before the first page is published. In this session, the Frederick County team walks you through their end-to-end implementation experience, from identifying the data fields and custom attributes you'll need to defining the structure and organization of the final book.
You'll hear honest lessons learned, practical tips and tricks, and the questions they wish they'd asked before starting. Whether you're pre-implementation or mid-build, this session will help you avoid common pitfalls and get the most out of Budget Book Studio.
- Identify the right data fields before you build your budget book
- Structure your budget book for public-facing clarity
- Avoid common implementation pitfalls
- Know the questions to ask before you start
Grants as a Strategic Growth Tool: Moving from Funding to Transformation
Grants are more than funding opportunities; they are strategic tools that can drive organizational growth, innovation, and long-term transformation. This session explores how organizations can shift from reactive grant-seeking to intentional funding strategies that align with mission, operational priorities, and measurable outcomes. Attendees will learn practical approaches for building sustainable grant pipelines, strengthening partnerships, and leveraging ERP and grant management systems like AmpliFund to improve visibility, compliance, and operational efficiency. Through real-world insights and actionable strategies, participants will gain a framework for using grants to create lasting organizational impact.
- How to Align Grants with Strategic Goals: Attendees will learn how to evaluate funding opportunities through a strategic lens, avoid mission drift, and build a grant alignment framework that supports long-term organizational priorities and growth objectives.
- How to Build a Sustainable and Scalable Grant Pipeline: Participants will gain practical strategies for forecasting opportunities, improving internal collaboration, defining roles and responsibilities, and creating repeatable systems that increase funding readiness and long-term success.
- How Technology and Systems Strengthen Grant Management: Attendees will understand how ERP and grant management systems, such as AmpliFund, can improve transparency, compliance, reporting, financial tracking, and cross-department coordination — allowing organizations to move from reactive grant management to strategic operational excellence.
From Initiatives to Impact: How High Point Aligned Its Budget Process with Strategic Goals
Discover how the City of High Point transformed their approach to budgeting by intentionally linking departmental investments to the city's strategic plan. As Budget and Performance Director, Stephen Hawryluk sits at the intersection of two disciplines that too often operate in silos. This session walks through High Point's evolution from informal initiatives to a formalized strategic planning process, including how they gained council buy-in and modernized a budget office to meet the demands of a growing city.
- Aligning your budget process to a multi-year strategic plan
- Connecting financial decisions to measurable community outcomes
- Driving organizational change incrementally and getting leadership on board
- Building transparency and accountability into your process
Grant Management Reimagined: Centralization, Collaboration, Results
This session will share the transformation of our grant management process from a fragmented system reliant on Excel spreadsheets and Outlook communication to a centralized, collaborative platform using AmpliFund. Prior to implementation, grant information was often stored across multiple files and email threads, and accountability for timelines and deliverables was difficult to track across teams, project directors, and principal investigators.
Through intentional change management, leadership engagement, and cross-department collaboration, we implemented a centralized system that integrates task management, automated alerts, digital approvals, and real-time visibility into grant activity. This transformation not only improved efficiency and accountability but also strengthened compliance and ensured that critical grant information was accessible across the organization.
Participants will gain insight into the practical steps required to move from siloed processes to a transparent and collaborative grant management framework while fostering adoption and cultural change across teams.
- A clear understanding of the risks associated with decentralized grant tracking systems, including reliance on spreadsheets and individual knowledge.
- Practical strategies for implementing centralized grant management systems that improve transparency, accountability, and efficiency.
- Approaches for securing executive leadership buy-in while driving adoption across departments, project directors, and grant teams.
- Lessons learned from managing organizational change, including training, communication, and building a culture of shared responsibility.
- Examples of measurable outcomes, including improved deadline management, reduced project delays, stronger compliance, and better protection of grant funding.
Personnel Module for Budgeting Salary and Union Contracts
Salary budgeting is challenging enough. Add union contracts, step increases, and benefit allocations, and it becomes one of the most demanding parts of the budget process.
In this session, Champaign Park District shares how Euna Budget's Personnel Module supports personnel cost forecasting, salary budgeting, and the management of contractual compensation rules, along with practical lessons learned from implementing these processes in local government organizations. Whether you're just getting started or looking to get more out of the module, you'll walk away with practical ideas you can apply to your own budget process.
- Build accurate salary budgeting at the position level
- Manage labor agreements and forecast long-term budget impacts
- Reduce manual calculations and create more time for strategic financial planning
From Implementation to Impact: How Vibrant Emotional Health Uses Euna to Strengthen Grant & Budget Management for National Mental Health Crisis Support
Vibrant Emotional Health implemented Euna Solutions to support federal grant and budget management operations, managing workflows across $1 billion over five years. Framed through the lens of a national, mission-driven organization, this session explores the challenges Vibrant set out to solve, from fragmented processes and limited visibility to complex compliance requirements, and how a unified technology solution drove measurable change.
Attendees will get an inside look at how Vibrant automated more than 20 critical grants management processes with full audit traceability, established role-based access controls to safeguard sensitive financial data, and streamlined subaward management by enabling end-to-end e-signatures, contract approvals, and invoicing within a single system.
Beyond technology, the session covers the operational shift that followed: stronger cross-functional alignment, increased efficiency, and a more scalable infrastructure to support high-impact, nationwide work. Candid lessons learned, from implementation hurdles to change management strategies, offer a practical roadmap for organizations looking to modernize their own systems.
Attendees will leave with actionable insights on how the right technology can improve day-to-day operations and build a stronger, more responsive foundation for mission delivery.
- How to successfully implement enterprise technology solutions in complex, mission-driven environments.
- Proven strategies to streamline and automate grant and budget management at scale for nationwide federal grants.
- Real-world lessons in change management, adoption, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Practical approaches to strengthen compliance, visibility, and operational efficiency.
- How to align technology investments with mission impact and organizational growth.
Procurement and IT Collaboration in Action: How TxDOT Closed the Gap Between Procurement and Mandatory Advertising Requirements
Most procurement teams using a sourcing platform still have at least one mandatory step that lives outside of it — a required posting site, a comptroller system, or a public notice board. The result: solicitations built carefully in one system are manually re-entered in another; the accuracy depending on whoever did the copy-paste that day.
In this session, leaders from Texas' Department of Transportation share how they automated the connection between Euna Procurement and Texas SmartBuy — and what procurement and IT had to figure out together to make it work.
The Integration is the outcome. The more transferable story is how they got there: how procurement framed the problem so IT could act on it, what options Euna provided to enable the work to be done, and how several teams across two agencies built something neither could have designed alone.
If your agency has a compliance step that lives outside your sourcing platform, this session offers a practical model for what that collaboration can look like.
- How to frame a procurement problem so IT can scope and prioritize it
- Which decisions inside Euna, such as data standards and solicitation structure directly shape what was possible on the integration side
- Why upstream data quality in your sourcing platform determines accuracy and compliance everywhere downstream
- What TxDOT's experience tells you about the timeline, resourcing, and cross-functional alignment required to automate a manual compliance step
DFW Airport's Path to More Strategic Procurement: Marketplace, Data, and Freed-Up Time
Public sector procurement teams are being asked to do more with the same headcount they had five years ago. For DFW Airport, the answer wasn't a bigger team, but a smarter way to work.
In this session, LuAnn Fisher, Procurement Systems Manager at DFW Airport, shares how a shift to Euna Marketplace freed her team from the administrative overhead of under-threshold purchasing and created the visibility needed to move from reactive to proactive procurement planning.
And that's just phase one. LuAnn will also share what DFW is building next and what it could mean for procurement teams ready to think bigger.
If you've ever wondered what your team could accomplish with less administrative burden, this session is for you.
- How to introduce a new purchasing process without disrupting your team or your suppliers
- What it looks like to redefine the day-to-day operations of procurement staff
- The spend patterns that helped identify when informal purchasing should become a formal contract
- How DFW is thinking about centralizing their procurement data and what it will unlock for their team and stakeholders
Grants Dashboard in Action: Real-Time Insights for Smarter Decisions
This session would show users how to use Euna Grants for data visualization to show patterns, identify gaps in funding areas, and make informed decisions using real-time data in the system. The session would walk participants through how to use the dashboard functions already within Euna and to leverage this capability to visualize their entire funding ecosystem during the entirety of the grant lifecycle. This would allow users to transform grant management decisions from reactive to proactive and would help better inform elected officials and citizens on these projects.
- How to use and customize the dashboard tool for their needs; move away from a list, Word document summary of data to a visual representation of it all in one central place
- How to identify funding gaps and patterns
- How to use the data visualization to make informed decisions at a granular level
From Compliance to Cost Savings: Getting the Most from Your Marketplace
Most organizations know where their big contracts live. It's the everyday purchasing -- the tail spend, the off-contract buying, the purchases that slip through without visibility -- that quietly erodes your budget and compliance posture.
DeKalb County School District set out to fix that. By implementing Euna's Marketplace solution, they didn't just streamline purchasing -- they unlocked savings in their first year that exceeded anything seen in recent history, while giving procurement and finance teams the visibility they'd been missing.
In this session, Fred Christopher, Procurement Manager III at DeKalb County School District, will walk through what it actually took to get there: how they selected the right suppliers to set the implementation up for success, how they drove buy-in from end users across a large, distributed organization, and how the results made a compelling case to finance leadership.
Whether you're evaluating Marketplace, mid-implementation, or looking to expand adoption, you'll leave with a practical roadmap and lessons learned directly from the field.
- Strategies for driving end-user adoption across a large organization
- How Marketplace creates shared value for both procurement and finance teams
- What real-world savings and spend visibility look like in year one
From Spreadsheets to Statewide System: Rhode Island's Euna Grants Implementation Journey
In 2021, the State of Rhode Island set out to replace a fragmented, Excel-based grants management process across 30 state agencies with a unified Euna Grants GMS. Four years later, that system is live, integrated with their Financial Management System, and fundamentally changing how they manage federal awards and subrecipient programs. This session tells the full story, from the challenge of aligning 30 agencies around a single system, the change management strategies that drove adoption, the technical work of integrating GMS with financial systems, and what sustained success looks like years post-go-live. Whether you're managing a small grants program or planning for growth, attendees will walk away with honest, practical insight from an organization that has been through a full implementation, including what had to be adjusted along the way and what they would do differently.
- Understand the decisions and change management strategies that drove statewide adoption of Euna Grants across 30 agencies — and what to anticipate when scaling a GMS implementation across a complex, multi-agency environments
- Learn how Rhode Island built an integration (twice) between its GMS and Financial Management System, enabling automated payment requests, transaction data transfer, and unified subrecipient oversight
- Gain honest, longitudinal perspective on what implementation success actually requires — and how Rhode Island has continued to evolve its use of the system as agency needs and federal requirements have changed
After Go-Live: The Work of Making New Software Adoption Stick
Getting a system live is the milestone everyone plans for. Sustaining the behavioral change that makes it valuable is often a longer, ongoing journey.
Mark Topping, Director, Procurement and Contract Management Services at MacEwan University, has encountered the adoption challenge from every angle: driving implementations of Euna at two organizations, and joining a third where the system was already live but needed support to regain momentum. That rare 360° view shapes everything he shares in this session.
Drawing on all three experiences, Mark delivers a candid, practical account of what adoption actually looks like in the months and years after launch: where stakeholder resistance surfaces even after training is complete, why users revert to workarounds, and what it actually takes to move people from reluctant usage to genuine confidence in a new platform.
This session is for anyone who has launched new software and watched the energy fade, whether you work in procurement, finance, operations, or any function where change management is par for the course.
- Why go-live is only the beginning of change management, not the end, and what that means for how leaders should measure success in year one and beyond
- Where adoption most commonly breaks down post-implementation: the patterns to watch for and the early signals most teams miss
- How to engage and re-engage stakeholders who completed training but quietly reverted to old habits and workarounds
- What actually moved the needle across Mark's three experiences, including what he inherited, what he built, and what he would do differently
Euna Procurement: What's New & What's Next
Public sector work is evolving faster than ever, and Euna Procurement is evolving with it. In this session, the Euna Procurement product team will walk you through the innovations we've recently released, the capabilities coming next, and the longer-term vision guiding every decision we make. You'll hear directly from the people building the product, learn how your feedback is shaping the roadmap, and get a clear picture of where Euna Procurement is headed, and why.
Whether you're looking to get more value from what you already have or planning ahead for what's coming, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to move forward.
Come ready to ask questions, share your perspective, and leave with a view of Euna Procurement that goes beyond the release notes.
- A clear view of what's new. A summary of the latest capabilities shipped in Euna Procurement and how they're already delivering value for customers like you.
- Visibility into what's coming. An honest look at the near-term roadmap, including features in development and the problems they're designed to solve.
- The product vision in plain language. An understanding of the strategic direction guiding our investment, so you can plan, advocate, and prepare internally.
- A direct line to the product team. The opportunity to ask questions, share challenges, and know that your voice is part of what shapes this roadmap.
Euna Grants: AmpliFund Mastery -- Grants Data That Leadership Can Actually Use
Grant teams often have a lot of data, but not always the right visibility for leadership, finance, departments, or external stakeholders. This session will focus on how Euna Grants helps turn grant data into actionable insight through dashboards, reports, portfolio views, and standardized data collection. Attendees will learn how to use the system to answer the questions leaders care about: what funding do we have, where is it going, what is at risk, and what outcomes are we supporting?
- How to create better visibility across a grant portfolio.
- How reporting can support leadership decisions, finance conversations, and program oversight.
- How standardized data collection improves confidence in grant reporting.
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Euna Grants: What's New & What's Next
Public sector work is evolving faster than ever, and Euna Grants is evolving with it. In this session, the Euna Grants product team will walk you through the innovations we've recently released, the capabilities coming next, and the longer-term vision guiding every decision we make. You'll hear directly from the people building the product, learn how your feedback is shaping the roadmap, and get a clear picture of where Euna Grants is headed, and why.
Whether you're looking to get more value from what you already have or planning ahead for what's coming, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to move forward.
Come ready to ask questions, share your perspective, and leave with a view of Euna Grants that goes beyond the release notes.
- A clear view of what's new. A summary of the latest capabilities shipped in Euna Grants and how they're already delivering value for customers like you.
- Visibility into what's coming. An honest look at the near-term roadmap, including features in development and the problems they're designed to solve.
- The product vision in plain language. An understanding of the strategic direction guiding our investment, so you can plan, advocate, and prepare internally.
Euna Procurement: Bonfire Mastery
This session provides a comprehensive walkthrough of the core capabilities within Euna Procurement's Bonfire platform. Attendees will gain a solid foundation in the platform's sourcing workflows — from building and publishing solicitations to evaluating submissions and awarding contracts. Designed for users who want to move from basic familiarity to confident, day-to-day proficiency, this session covers the features and best practices that drive compliant, efficient procurement operations.
- How to build and publish solicitations in Bonfire from start to finish
- Best practices for managing vendor submissions and evaluator collaboration
- How to navigate contract workflows compliantly and efficiently
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Euna Budget Pro: Reporting
Show prospects the power of Budget Pro reporting. This will touch upon the reporting module and OpenBook/BBS.
- Learn about the reporting module such as budget-to-actuals, FTE counts, vacancy reports, and budget comparisons. Show the possibility of dashboarding and report creation in OB/BBS.
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Navigating Technological Change (0.75 CPE credits)
Technology is consistently transforming every workplace. Currently, AI has significantly impacted both workflow and organizational functions. The purpose of this session is to share how to lead teams through change, encourage adaptability, support the adoption of AI and emerging technologies, and create a culture of innovation and continuous learning.
- Provide tools for developing a culture of innovation.
- Develop practical steps for supporting technological changes, using AI as a case study.
- Provide a technology adoption framework focused on AI, but applicable to general technology change.
Euna Budget: What's New & What's Next
Public sector work is evolving faster than ever, and Euna Budget is evolving with it. In this session, the Euna Budget product team will walk you through the innovations we've recently released, the capabilities coming next, and the longer-term vision guiding every decision we make. You'll hear directly from the people building the product, learn how your feedback is shaping the roadmap, and get a clear picture of where Euna Budget is headed, and why.
Whether you're looking to get more value from what you already have or planning ahead for what's coming, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to move forward.
Come ready to ask questions, share your perspective, and leave with a view of Euna Budget that goes beyond the release notes.
- A clear view of what's new. A summary of the latest capabilities shipped in Euna Budget and how they're already delivering value for customers like you.
- Visibility into what's coming. An honest look at the near-term roadmap, including features in development and the problems they're designed to solve.
- The product vision in plain language. An understanding of the strategic direction guiding investment, so you can plan, advocate, and prepare internally.
- A direct line to the product team. The opportunity to ask questions, share challenges, and know that your voice is part of what shapes this roadmap.
Euna Procurement: Ion Wave Mastery -- Hidden in Plain Sight: From Good to Great
You've got the system — but are you getting everything out of it? This session is for Ion Wave users ready to move beyond the basics and unlock the full potential of Euna Procurement. We'll take a practical look at streamlining your procurement workflows, surfacing powerful features that often go underutilized, and sharing content across agencies to reduce duplication and drive efficiency. Walk away with strategies you can put to work immediately.
- Work Smarter, Not Harder — Discover time-saving tips and workflow efficiencies built into Euna Procurement that can reduce manual effort, maintain consistency across all buyers on your team, and help your organization do more with less.
- Hidden Gems: Features You May Be Missing — Get a guided tour of the most overlooked tools and capabilities in the Ion Wave system — features your team likely has access to today but may not be fully leveraging.
- Cross-Agency Content Sharing — Learn how to share solicitation templates, contract content, and other procurement resources across agencies to promote consistency, save time, and build on the work of peers across your region.
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Euna Grants: eCivis Mastery -- Setting Expectations & Coaching to Prep for the Next Step
One of the most critical steps in any grant lifecycle is the moment you receive your award letter and finalize your contract with your grantor. This is where compliance begins, and getting your setup right from the start makes everything that follows significantly easier.
When your award is properly configured in Euna Grants, your project structure mirrors the terms of your award contract, giving your team a single source of truth for compliance. That alignment enables three essential capabilities:
Automated reminders. Critical team members receive timely notifications tied to reporting deadlines, compliance milestones, and other key dates embedded in your award terms, so nothing falls through the cracks. Centralized documentation. Every critical file associated with your compliance events is captured, tracked, and stored in one place, directly connected to the events they belong to. Your team always knows what exists, where it is, and whether you're covered.
Performance tracking. Goals tied to your award objectives let you measure and document your program's impact over time, giving you the evidence you need to demonstrate responsible and effective use of funds to your grantor.
Together, these capabilities turn your award contract from a static document into an active compliance framework, one that keeps your team aligned, your files organized, and your outcomes visible.
- Set up your award contract in Euna Grants from day one. The moment you receive your award letter is the most important setup opportunity in your grant lifecycle. Mapping your project structure to your contract terms early creates the compliance foundation everything else depends on.
- Keep every critical file connected to your compliance events.
- Documentation shouldn't live in scattered folders or inboxes. When files are captured, tracked, and stored directly against the compliance events they belong to, your team always knows what exists, where it is, and whether you're covered.
- Track your impact as you go. Performance goals tied to your award objectives give you a continuous record of outcomes, so when it's time to report to your grantor, the evidence of effective fund use is already there.
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Crisis Management (0.75 CPE credits)
Effective crisis leadership starts with people. In this session, we will explore a human-centered approach to navigating uncertainty, communicating with empathy, making sound decisions under pressure, building resilience, and leading teams confidently through challenges. The guiding framework for this presentation will focus on the importance of communication through crisis.
- Understand how to conceptualize crisis and how to engage crisis positively.
- Connect a communication framework to real-world crises.
- Enhance understanding of the importance of leadership in crisis management situations.
Euna Payments: What's New & What's Next
Public sector work is evolving faster than ever, and Euna Payments is evolving with it. In this session, the Euna Payments product team will walk you through the innovations we've recently released, the capabilities coming next, and the longer-term vision guiding every decision we make. You'll hear directly from the people building the product, learn how your feedback is shaping the roadmap, and get a clear picture of where Euna Payments is headed, and why.
Whether you're looking to get more value from what you already have or planning ahead for what's coming, this session will give you the clarity and confidence to move forward.
Come ready to ask questions, share your perspective, and leave with a view of Euna Payments that goes beyond the release notes.
- A clear view of what's new. A summary of the latest capabilities shipped in Euna Payments and how they're already delivering value for customers like you.
- Visibility into what's coming. An honest look at the near-term roadmap, including features in development and the problems they're designed to solve.
- The product vision in plain language. An understanding of the strategic direction guiding our investment, so you can plan, advocate, and prepare internally.
- A direct line to the product team. The opportunity to ask questions, share challenges, and know that your voice is part of what shapes this roadmap.
Euna Procurement: Marketplace Mastery -- Optimizing Purchasing and Invoicing
This session focuses on getting the most out of Euna Procurement Marketplace's purchasing and invoicing capabilities. Attendees will learn how to streamline the full purchase cycle — from requisition through invoice matching — using Marketplace's built-in tools to reduce manual effort, improve spend visibility, and maintain compliance. Whether you're looking to reduce processing time or improve accuracy across your purchasing workflows, this session delivers actionable strategies to optimize day-to-day operations.
- How to configure and manage the purchase requisition and approval workflow in Euna Marketplace
- Strategies for streamlining invoice processing and reducing manual reconciliation
- How to use Marketplace reporting and spend data to drive smarter purchasing decisions
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Euna Budget Pro: Scenario Modeling for Uncertainty
This will highlight the ability to create global and local scenarios with Budget Pro.
- The attendee will learn how to create local scenarios in cost centers/projects, global scenarios affecting the whole budget, and personnel scenarios.
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Euna Budget Enterprise: What's New
Join this session as we introduce all of the new product updates/integrations/roadmap updates that the product has in 2026 and beyond.
- Attendees will see all of the product updates that Euna Budget Enterprise has been/is working on, and share some key insights into the benefits these new features and functionality have for our customers.
Navigating Change: Driving Adoption Within Your Organization
Organizational change fails when you execute a flawless project plan but neglect the people side of change. Whether you're rolling out new software, redesigning workflows, or implementing new compliance requirements, adoption depends on how well you manage stakeholders, communicate why change matters, and provide the right support at the right time. In this 50-minute interactive session, you'll move beyond lecture to map a communication and support plan for your own change initiative. Using the GMS 5-Stage framework, you'll learn why most rollouts stumble (unclear strategy, overlooked stakeholders, generic messaging) and the tried-and-true tactics that prevent those failures. You'll work with a stakeholder readiness map to identify who your change affects most—and whose buy-in is critical. By the end, you'll have a draft framework to build on and a clear next step. Walk out ready to drive adoption and make your change stick.
- Change management is a formal discipline within system implementations—not a soft skill or afterthought.
- Stakeholder readiness varies wildly—and a one-size-fits-all message will miss the people who matter most.
- Write down your communication and support plan—and treat it as a living document you iterate on as you learn.
Euna Procurement: Bonfire Deep Dive
Building on foundational Bonfire knowledge, this session goes under the hood to explore advanced configurations, edge cases, and power-user techniques within the Euna Procurement Bonfire module. Attendees will leave with a deeper understanding of how to customize workflows, troubleshoot common issues, and unlock capabilities that aren't always surfaced in standard training. Ideal for experienced users, administrators, and anyone looking to get more out of the platform.
- Advanced workflow configurations and how to tailor Bonfire to your organization's procurement process
- Tips and techniques for handling complex or non-standard solicitation scenarios
- How to leverage platform capabilities that are underutilized or commonly misunderstood
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Euna Budget Pro: Mastery
This session will highlight the three main modules: Operating, Personnel, and Capital.
- Attendees will understand the importance of a centralized budget system. Our modules are able to design separate budgets for their operating and capital budgets. Additionally, the personnel module can forecast their personnel costs to the dollar and cents.
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Finding your Purpose and Developing Meaning (0.75 CPE credits)
Purpose drives performance and fulfillment. In this session, we will focus on how identifying the “why” behind your work can strengthen motivation, increase engagement, guide decision-making, and create greater meaning, impact, and long-term success.
- Enhance understanding of how to find your purpose, and articulate your organizational purpose.
- Provide tools for engaging purpose in organizational decision making.
- Help participants to see the connection between purpose and performance.
Euna Grants: AmpliFund Deep Dive -- Reimbursement Without the Chaos: Creating a More Controlled Payment Process
Reimbursement processes are often one of the biggest sources of friction in grant management. This session will walk through how Euna Grants can help teams manage reimbursement requests, approvals, documentation, budget checks, and payment visibility in a more controlled and repeatable way. The focus will be on reducing back-and-forth, improving time to payment, and giving finance and program teams a shared view of what is happening.
- How to structure reimbursement workflows for better speed and control.
- How budget visibility and documentation reduce risk before payment.
- How better reimbursement processes improve the experience for recipients and internal teams.
Euna Budget: How to Publish a Digital ACFR & Budget Book
Producing the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) and budget book has traditionally meant wrestling with static PDFs, manual formatting, and version-control headaches. This hands-on session shows finance teams how to move past the print-first mindset and publish polished, interactive digital ACFRs and budget books that residents, councils, and oversight bodies can actually navigate.
We'll walk through the full publishing workflow—structuring your content, pulling in financial data, layering in narrative, charts, and tables, configuring layout and branding, and pushing the finished document live to a public-facing, mobile-friendly site. Along the way, we'll share practical tips for managing updates, maintaining a single source of truth, and meeting GFOA presentation standards without rebuilding from scratch each year.
Whether you're publishing your first digital report or refining an existing process, you'll leave with a clear, repeatable approach to producing transparent, accessible financial documents that strengthen public trust and save your team meaningful time.
- A repeatable, end-to-end publishing workflow — How to take an ACFR and budget book from raw financial data to a live, interactive digital document, and how to repeat that process efficiently year over year.
- How to make financial reporting more transparent and accessible — How interactive charts, searchable narrative, and mobile-friendly layouts help residents and stakeholders understand the numbers, supporting GFOA award criteria and public-trust goals.
- Practical time-saving and accuracy techniques — Tips for maintaining a single source of truth, managing updates and approvals, and eliminating the manual formatting and version-control issues that slow traditional report production.
In order to have a hands-on experience, it is recommended to bring your laptop to follow along.
Euna Payments: Beyond the Basics -- Preparing Your Agency for the Next Wave of Digital Payments
Digital payments have become the expectation — but adoption was just the beginning. Now that residents are transacting online, through mobile channels, and on their own schedules, the bar has shifted. The question is no longer if you offer digital payments, but how well those experiences hold up against the seamless, intuitive interactions residents have when they shop, bank, and manage their lives digitally.
In this session, we'll explore how digital payments in the public sector have evolved, where they're headed next, and what it takes to close the gap between where agencies are today and where residents — and staff — expect them to be.
We'll look at what a truly modern payment experience looks like across every channel, how the right strategy reduces friction for residents while also making life easier for the finance and operations teams behind the scenes, and what agencies should be thinking about as they plan their next steps.
Whether you're optimizing what you already have or building toward something new, this session will give you a practical lens for evaluating your payment strategy and a clearer picture of what's possible.
- A clear picture of how digital payments have evolved — how resident expectations have shifted beyond basic online payments and what that means for public sector agencies today.
- A framework for evaluating your current digital payment experience — how to identify where your strategy has gaps and what a more modern, resident-friendly approach looks like.
- Practical criteria for what comes next — what to look for as you evolve your payment operations, including security and PCI compliance, ERP integration, multi-channel support, and accessibility.
- A staff-side perspective — how a stronger digital payment strategy doesn't just improve the resident experience; it reduces manual work, simplifies reconciliation, and makes your team's day-to-day easier.
Euna Grants: Finding & Winning Grant Opportunities with GrantExec
Finding the right grant opportunity is often the hardest part of the funding process. Teams know they need funding but struggle to surface relevant opportunities, evaluate fit efficiently, and move from interest to application without wasted effort. This session will show how GrantExec's AI-powered matching transforms grant discovery from a manual, reactive process into an always-on system that brings the right opportunities to your team based on your organization's mission, programs, geography, and eligibility. Attendees will learn how to build and optimize a profile that drives personalized daily matching, use the Alignment Score to prioritize what's worth pursuing, and apply Smart Opportunity Analysis to evaluate fit before investing time in an application, building a clear and organized path from discovery to submission.
- How GrantExec's AI-powered matching works and why it surfaces more relevant opportunities than keyword searching by evaluating your organization's mission, programs, geography, and eligibility to match you with funding across federal, state, local, and private sources.
- How to evaluate opportunity fit before investing time in an application using Smart Opportunity Analysis, including Strategic Alignment, resource commitment and competitiveness, risk factors, and timeline guidance so your team pursues the right grants with confidence.
- How to build an always-on funding pipeline using saved grants, alerts, and the Grant Market Dashboard to stay ahead of new opportunities, track your pipeline, and create a clear and organized path from discovery to application.
Empowering Yourself, Empowering Your Team (0.75 CPE credits)
Empowerment is a leadership buzz word that is so critical, but needs to be defined to be effectively implemented. In this session you will learn a definition of empowerment and hear about practical strategies to build confidence, develop leadership capacity, foster collaboration, and create opportunities for individual and team success.
- Define the concept of Empowerment
- Develop practical steps to further empower yourself and your team.
- Understand how empowerment can be viewed in context and be effectively implemented.
Setting Up for Implementation Success: Strategic Preparation Strategies
Successful implementations start with clear preparation. In this session, you'll discover how to maximize your organization's readiness by clarifying your application needs, understanding how your policies shape functionality, and establishing strong communication with the Euna team. Learn the preparation steps that enable faster, smoother deployments and set the foundation for long-term success with your new system.
- Clarify your vision - Document what your organization needs the application to accomplish and why
- Identify knowledge gaps strategically - Pinpoint areas where additional learning creates the most value
- Master the implementation process - Leverage Euna's templates and communication frameworks to accelerate deployment and ensure success
AI Roundtable: Real Talk on Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector
The general session laid out a vision. This roundtable is where participants dig into the reality. Following the AI Roadmap conversation, this session creates space for honest peer exchange about what AI adoption actually looks like inside public sector organizations, including the wins, the friction, and the uncertainty. The focus is on three things: being straight about where AI stands today, understanding why the trajectory matters for the future of public services, and exploring how government teams build credibility and trust with staff, leadership, and the communities they serve. A Euna facilitator will guide the conversation, but the value comes from the room.
- A grounded, peer-informed view of where public sector AI adoption stands today, separate from the roadmap vision, grounded in what participants are actually experiencing.
- A stronger sense of why the decisions organizations make now around AI will shape their ability to deliver services effectively in the years ahead.
- Practical approaches to building trust and credibility around AI, both internally with staff and leadership, and externally with the public.
Leading through a Time of Rapid Change
Public sector organizations are navigating an unprecedented convergence of pressures: tightening budgets, rapid advances in artificial intelligence, and a workforce facing burnout, turnover, and shifting expectations. Finance leaders, department heads, and HR professionals are being asked to do more with less - while simultaneously preparing their organizations for a future that looks fundamentally different from the past.
This roundtable is a peer conversation for government leaders managing all three forces at once. Participants will share how they are balancing fiscal constraint with the need to invest in technology and people, communicating difficult tradeoffs to elected officials and executives, and building organizations resilient enough to adapt as conditions keep shifting. The focus is practical: what is working, what is not, and what others in this room can take back and use.
- Budget and financial resilience strategies - practical approaches peers are using for scenario planning, midyear amendments, and communicating tradeoffs to councils and executives when funding assumptions keep changing.
- Frameworks for evaluating and deploying AI - how organizations are prioritizing AI investments, managing staff concerns about automation, and building governance guardrails without slowing down innovation.
- People-first responses to workforce pressure - concrete tactics for retaining talent in a competitive market, managing workload redistribution as teams shrink, and reskilling employees whose roles are evolving due to technology.
- A playbook for leading through compounding change - how to keep teams engaged and organizations moving forward when budget cuts, new technology, and workforce challenges hit at the same time.
State of Grants: Trends, Data & What It Means for Your Organization
This roundtable is a facilitated peer discussion where grants management professionals share how they're actually finding, applying for, and managing grants today - what's working, where the strain is, and how they're keeping up with compliance and reporting demands with lean teams. Expect a candid exchange on the realities your peers are navigating: shifts in federal funding availability, growing administrative burdens, and the pressure to do more with less. Come ready to talk, ask questions, and learn from the people sitting next to you. You'll leave with real perspectives from peers who are dealing with the same challenges you are.
- Understand the grants landscape trends most relevant to your organization right now, including funding availability, federal compliance shifts, and the growing pressure to demonstrate impact with limited staff capacity.
- Learn how peer organizations are streamlining grant discovery, application, and post-award management to reduce risk and capture more funding they're eligible for.
- Leave with practical ideas for building a more proactive grants program, whether your team is managing a handful of grants or a complex, multi-source portfolio.
Tribal | Voices at the Table: A Peer Community Session
Tribal governments operate under a distinct set of obligations — sovereign governance structures, federal trust responsibilities, unique compliance requirements, and community accountability that looks different from any other public sector. This session brings tribal finance, procurement, and operations professionals together to share what they've built, what's broken, and what they wish they'd known sooner.
The focus is peer-to-peer exchange. Attendees will hear directly from fellow tribal customers about how they've configured Euna tools to fit tribal-specific workflows, how they've navigated compliance in a dual federal-tribal regulatory environment, and where they've found unexpected wins. The facilitator keeps the conversation moving, but the expertise in the room drives it.
This is a space for candid conversation — about implementation challenges, workarounds that actually work, and the questions that don't have clean answers yet.
- Peer-tested approaches to tribal-specific workflows. Attendees will leave with concrete examples of how other tribal governments have adapted Euna solutions to fit sovereignty structures, tribal council approval processes, and community reporting requirements — approaches you can evaluate and potentially replicate.
- Strategies for navigating dual compliance environments. Tribal governments answer to both tribal law and federal requirements. This session surfaces practical methods peers are using to manage that complexity without building redundant processes or creating audit risk.
- A broader peer network to tap after the event. Beyond the session itself, attendees will connect with tribal finance and operations professionals facing similar challenges — building relationships they can return to when new questions come up back home.
Education | Common Ground: Building Public Trust from K12 to Campus
Whether you lead finance for a school district or a university system, the challenge is the same: the people who fund, attend, and depend on your institution rarely feel like insiders when it comes to budget decisions. The gap between what administrators know and what communities understand is one of the hardest problems in public education finance - and it shows up differently at every level.
This session brings K-12 finance and operations professionals together with their higher education counterparts to explore what meaningful community engagement actually looks like in practice. The formats, audiences, and governance structures differ - but the underlying work is shared: translating complex financial information into something residents, families, students, and legislators can understand, trust, and engage with.
The focus is on what's working: how peers across both sectors are using budget transparency, accessible data, and intentional communication to build public trust - and what they've learned when those efforts fall short. The facilitator guides the conversation, but the experience in the room shapes it.
- Practical approaches to budget transparency that build public trust across education settings. Attendees will hear how K-12 districts and higher education institutions are translating complex financial data into formats that work for different audiences — from community dashboards and public-facing reports to faculty senates and state legislative briefings.
- Strategies for managing community engagement during difficult budget cycles. Whether navigating school referendums, tuition increases, or state funding cuts, communication matters as much as the numbers. This session surfaces approaches peers are using to engage communities early, reduce misinformation, and keep conversations productive even when the news is hard.
- Tools and processes that reduce the distance between administration and community — at every level. Attendees will leave with concrete ideas from both sectors for turning required public processes into genuine engagement opportunities, not compliance checkboxes. What works in a district budget meeting and what works in a university town hall may look different, but the underlying principles travel.
Municipalities | Around the Table: Shared Challenges, Shared Solutions
Municipalities face a distinct set of pressures: lean teams, rising constituent expectations, compliance demands, and budget cycles that move slower than the work. This roundtable brings together municipal leaders to talk candidly about those pressures. What's working, what isn't, and how peers in similar roles are solving the same problems.
The focus is on the day-to-day realities of running finance, procurement, and grants functions inside a municipality. Topics span managing vendor relationships and bid processes, tracking grant compliance across multiple funding sources, and modernizing payment workflows. Attendees share what they've learned in the field, surface common friction points, and leave with practical approaches they can bring back to their teams.
- Learn how peer municipalities are structuring procurement and grants workflows to reduce manual effort and lower compliance risk — including what they tried that didn't work.
- Hear practical approaches to cross-department coordination and change management when rolling out new processes or technology to staff with limited time and capacity.
- Take away specific strategies for doing more with smaller teams, including how other municipalities are using technology and shared playbooks to fill capacity gaps and improve service delivery.
Not for Profit | Mission-Minded: A Peer Exchange
This session brings together not-for-profit organizations using Euna solutions to share how they navigate the unique pressures of mission-driven finance and operations. From managing grants and restricted funds to aligning budgets with program goals, NFP teams face challenges that don't fit a standard government playbook.
This peer exchange gives attendees a structured space to compare approaches, surface what's working, and learn from organizations facing similar constraints. The focus is practical: how are NFP customers using Euna tools to reduce manual work, strengthen funder reporting, and keep operations aligned with mission? Whether you're managing complex grant portfolios, juggling multiple funding streams, or trying to build better visibility across departments, this is a chance to hear directly from peers who understand the terrain.
- Practical strategies other NFP organizations use to align grant and budget workflows, including how they handle restricted fund tracking and multi-funder reporting inside Euna.
- An understanding of how mission-driven organizations are using Euna to build financial visibility for leadership and boards without adding staff overhead.
- A clearer picture of common operational pain points in the NFP sector and the workarounds, configurations, and process changes peers have found most effective.
Special Districts | In Good Company: A Sector Peer Session
Special districts face a distinct set of pressures: lean teams, complex funding structures, strict board reporting requirements, and constituent accountability that looks different from a city or county. This session brings together Euna customers who run special districts to share what's working, what's hard, and how they're getting the most out of their Euna tools.
The focus is practical. Attendees hear directly from peers managing the same day-to-day realities — multi-fund accounting, procurement with limited staff, grant compliance, and budget cycles that have to hold up to board scrutiny.
- How other special districts are structuring workflows in Euna to meet board reporting and compliance requirements without adding manual work.
- Approaches to common pain points — multi-fund budgeting, grant tracking, vendor management — that peers have already worked through.
- At least one idea you can bring back to your team and act on, sourced from organizations running the same plays under the same constraints.
States & State Agencies | Policy & Practice: A Community Forum
State governments and their agencies operate at the intersection of federal mandates, legislative priorities, and on-the-ground operational demands. This roundtable brings together Euna customers from state and state agency environments to share how they're navigating that reality.
In this peer-led discussion, attendees will explore how their organizations are applying Euna solutions to meet evolving policy requirements — whether managing compliance across budget cycles, streamlining procurement to satisfy transparency mandates, tracking grant funds for federal reporting, or modernizing payment processes in a shifting regulatory environment.
The focus is practical: what policies are driving change right now, where the friction points are, and what's actually working. Facilitated by a Euna expert with deep experience in the state government space, this session is a chance to learn from peers facing the same challenges and bring real questions to a group that understands them.
- Peer-tested strategies for policy compliance — Learn how other state agencies are using Euna tools to operationalize current policy and compliance requirements, including budget transparency, procurement regulations, and federal grant reporting.
- How to reduce friction between policy mandates and daily workflows — Gain practical approaches for aligning your internal processes with shifting legislative and regulatory demands without disrupting operations.
- A clearer picture of what's possible — Leave with examples of how agencies at similar scale and complexity are solving the same problems, along with ideas you can bring back to your own team.
State of Procurement: Trends, Data & What It Means for Your Organization
This roundtable is a facilitated peer discussion where public procurement professionals share how they're actually managing procurement today - the tools they're using, the processes that are working, and the friction that isn't. Expect a candid exchange on the pressures your peers are navigating: evolving vendor markets, supply chain instability, compliance demands, and the push for greater transparency. Come ready to talk, ask questions, and learn from the people sitting next to you. You'll leave with real perspectives from peers who are dealing with the same challenges you are.
- Understand the procurement trends most likely to affect your organization in the next 12–24 months, including vendor participation rates, compliance expectations, and the push for greater spend transparency.
- Learn how peer organizations are streamlining their sourcing and bid processes to reduce administrative burden, attract more qualified vendors, and shorten procurement cycles.
- Leave with practical ideas for strengthening your procurement program, from improving how you communicate with vendors to building better internal controls and audit trails.
AI Roundtable: Real Talk on Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector
The general session laid out a vision. This roundtable is where participants dig into the reality. Following the AI Roadmap conversation, this session creates space for honest peer exchange about what AI adoption actually looks like inside public sector organizations, including the wins, the friction, and the uncertainty. The focus is on three things: being straight about where AI stands today, understanding why the trajectory matters for the future of public services, and exploring how government teams build credibility and trust with staff, leadership, and the communities they serve. A Euna facilitator will guide the conversation, but the value comes from the room.
- A grounded, peer-informed view of where public sector AI adoption stands today, separate from the roadmap vision, grounded in what participants are actually experiencing.
- A stronger sense of why the decisions organizations make now around AI will shape their ability to deliver services effectively in the years ahead.
- Practical approaches to building trust and credibility around AI, both internally with staff and leadership, and externally with the public.
State of Budget: Trends, Data & What It Means for Your Organization
This roundtable is a facilitated peer discussion where public sector budget professionals share how they're actually managing the budget process today - what's working, where the pressure is, and how they're responding to fiscal uncertainty year over year. Expect a candid exchange on the realities your peers are navigating: macro forces squeezing budgets, shifting leadership priorities, and technology that's changing how teams build, manage, and report on budgets. Come ready to talk, ask questions, and learn from the people sitting next to you. You'll leave with real perspectives from peers who are dealing with the same challenges you are.
- Understand the budget trends most likely to affect your organization in the next 12–24 months, including funding pressures, staffing constraints, and the growing push for real-time financial visibility.
- Learn how peer organizations are modernizing their budget processes to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and keep stakeholders aligned through rapid change.
- Leave with practical ideas for building a more resilient, adaptive budget process, regardless of where your organization currently stands in its technology journey.
Tom Amburgey is the Chief Executive Officer of Euna Solutions, where he leads the company's strategic direction and growth in delivering purpose-built technology for the public sector. With more than 20 years of government technology experience, including serving as CIO for two local municipalities, Tom is passionate about helping communities across North America thrive.
Brian Haney is the Chief Customer Officer at Euna Solutions, where he leads all customer-facing functions to ensure a best-in-class experience for public sector customers. With more than 30 years of customer-centric leadership across organizations like INPUT and Deltek, Brian is a U.S. Army veteran passionate about helping public sector teams leverage AI-powered software solutions to deliver greater value to their communities.
Jenn Edwards is the Chief Marketing Officer at Euna Solutions, where she leads brand, product marketing, demand generation, and communications to support the company's growth and public sector mission. She brings extensive experience building and scaling marketing organizations for technology companies, with a focus on clear storytelling, customer insight, and measurable impact.
Myk Konrad is the Chief Product Officer at Euna Solutions, where he leads the company's technology vision, platform architecture, and product innovation. With deep experience building and scaling cloud-based SaaS platforms, Myk is focused on delivering secure, reliable, and a purpose-built, AI-powered financial suite that meet the unique needs of the public sector.
John Alexander is a SaaS software executive, entrepreneur, and operator with 25 years of leadership experience. John started his career working for a public utility before spending two decades as Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Ion Wave Technologies. When Ion Wave became part of Euna Solutions, John went on to serve as Chief Product Officer, helping guide Euna's full financial suite purpose-built for public agencies. He continues to support Euna's Corporate Strategy, working closely with the executive team on M&A and integration initiatives. Based in Springfield, Missouri, he's known for visionary leadership, strategic planning, and building products and teams that create lasting value, and he brings that perspective to his session at Eunaverse.
Adam Roth is the Vice President of Partnerships and Government Relations for Euna Solutions. He joined Euna after the acquisition of AmpliFund where he was the Founder and President. Before founding AmpliFund, Adam was Chief Operating Officer (COO) for West Side Ecumenical Ministry (WSEM). Adam brings a breadth of community and government experience to his role at Euna. He works closely with industry and government officials, was honored with the NGMA Impact Award/Private Sector for exceptional contributions to advancing the field of grant management, and serves on the boards of Seeds of Literacy, The Mobley foundation, and The Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio.
Ryan Alcorn is Principal of AI Strategy at Euna Solutions and the founder of GrantExec, an AI-native platform built to help mission-driven organizations find and secure grant funding (acquired by Euna Solutions). He serves on the board of Refraction Innovation Hub, an award-winning nonprofit coworking and accelerator in Tysons, VA, is a member of Mindshare, and co-chairs company outreach for the Accelerate Breakfast Series. Ryan also coaches youth baseball.
Mahogany Garza is the Grants Program Manager for the City of Corpus Christi's Finance Department, overseeing administration, compliance, and financial management of federal, state, and local grants. She ensures adherence to 2 CFR Part 200, maintains internal controls, monitors expenditures, and manages procurement, reporting, and audit requirements. She provides guidance on cost principles and subrecipient monitoring and supports departments from pre‑award through closeout. Her commitment to strong governance and accountability supports the City's continued success in managing public funds responsibly.
Stephen Hawryluk has spent his entire local government career in budgeting, starting as a Budget Analyst with Gaston County in 2007. Stephen then enjoyed a 9+ year stint with the City of Winston-Salem where he achieved his proudest professional accomplishment to date, getting a fire hydrant moved. Currently, he works in High Point as the Budget & Performance Director in the Budget & Evaluation Department. High Point is home to the world's largest home furnishings market, is located in 4 counties, and is home to a troll statue!
Shelby Glover serves as a Grant Coordinator in the Office of Grants & Opportunities for the City of Chattanooga. She holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her nine-year tenure with the City began as an undergraduate intern. Shelby is also recognized as a Certified Municipal Finance Officer through the State of Tennessee.
Courtney R. Kouzmanoff has served as Finance Director for the Champaign Park District in Illinois since 2024. Prior to joining the Park District, she served as Budget Officer for the City of Champaign, Illinois. She brings more than 10 years of experience in local government finance and budgeting, including extensive experience using Questica (Euna Budget) throughout her career. Courtney holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Illinois Chicago and has earned the Certified Public Finance Officer (CPFO) designation. She currently serves as Past President of the Illinois GFOA Downstate Chapter, after previously serving as President, Vice President, Treasurer, and Secretary.
Dr. Chelsea Shore-Miller is the Program Manager for Colorado's Region 10 Opioid Abatement Council (Gateway to the Rockies Opioid Council), overseeing operations and grantmaking processes for regional opioid settlement funding. She leads implementation of Euna Solutions to modernize grant administration, improve council governance, and strengthen transparency and accountability in public funding. Dr. Chelsea has a background spanning higher education, nonprofit leadership, program evaluation, and recovery-supportive initiatives. Her work focuses on building sustainable, policy-informed systems that improve public-sector grantmaking and community investment outcomes.
Kimberly Scovel is a Systems Analyst with over a decade of experience in Texas state government. She began her career in 2014 in business-focused roles, building a strong foundation in operations and customer engagement before transitioning to IT in 2017. For the past four years at the Texas Department of Transportation, she has helped bridge the gap between business and technical teams, translating needs into effective solutions. Kimberly is known for fostering collaboration, improving communication, and aligning technology initiatives with organizational goals.
Chelsea Sadler is a dedicated public servant who serves as the Director of Grants and Opportunities for the City of Chattanooga, overseeing the municipality's robust internal and external grant programs. Chelsea began her career with the City as an intern after earning her Master of Public Administration (MPA) from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her leadership and expertise have since spanned multiple key roles across two mayoral administrations. A highly credentialed professional, in addition to her MPA, she is a Certified Municipal Financial Officer (CMFO) in Tennessee and Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS), combining financial acumen with a passion for public service.
Sarah Samis is Senior Vice President of Finance Transformation & Operations at Vibrant Emotional Health, a leading national nonprofit advancing emotional wellness, crisis response, and mental health support. Vibrant is the nonprofit administrator and infrastructure partner of the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline and operates NYC988, New York City's multilingual, 24/7 mental health and substance use support line. In her role, Sarah leads operational and financial transformation initiatives that strengthen access to equitable behavioral health care and crisis services nationwide. She holds an MPA in Economics and Health Policy from Princeton University.
Kelly Weaver, Director, Budget Office, was appointed to her position in July 2019 after serving as assistant budget director since August 2007. Prior to her position as assistant budget director, she worked as an accountant at both the County and the City Hospital (now part of WVU Medicine).
Mindy Sawyer is a Lead Engineer in the Center of Excellence of the Professional Engineering Procurement Services Division of Texas Department of Transportation. She has over 15 years of industry experience working on retaining walls, traffic control, drainage, preventative maintenance, plans, specifications and estimates, and procurement. She provides support in the procurement and management of engineering, architectural and surveying contracts, along with working to maximize resources to enhance and streamline service capabilities. Mindy is a licensed Professional Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering along with a separate Bachelor of Science Degree in Architecture both from Texas Tech University.
Dena Wilson is the Executive Director of Institutional Advancement and Foundation at Prince George's Community College, where she leads fundraising, grant development, donor engagement, and strategic partnerships that advance student success and institutional growth. Committed to expanding educational access and opportunity, she aligns philanthropic investment with initiatives that strengthen workforce development, student support services, and institutional capacity. Wilson has cultivated partnerships across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, securing resources that drive measurable impact. Her work focuses on innovation, equity, and creating sustainable pathways that empower students and strengthen communities.
Katje has 7 years of experience in grant management, budget management, process improvement, and knowledge of financial compliance. She is experienced in navigating federal and state grant regulations, including pre-award through post-award activities and financial reconciliation. Since joining Witt O'Brien's in 2021, Katje has assisted the State of Rhode Island with implementing and adopting a statewide grant management system and integrating with their legacy and newly procured financial management system. Prior to joining Witt O'Brien's, Katje served in roles for the State of Arizona in the Executive Office of the Governor and Department of Administration from 2019–2021, assisting in managing state-wide programs.
Fred Christopher serves as the Director of Procurement for the DeKalb County School District overseeing the procurement of goods and services purchased in support of student achievement. With over 11 years of public procurement experience in K-12, Fred is responsible for ensuring all purchasing functions are conducted ethically, fairly, and in accordance with all applicable policies and laws.
Mark Topping is the Director of Procurement and Contract Management Services at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He has built his career leading procurement and supply chain teams across several well-known organizations in both public and private sectors, with specific public sector experience with the Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis Commission, British Columbia Lottery Corporation, the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia, and the Edmonton Police Service. He has been a part of implementations of Euna Procurement (fka Bonfire) at three organizations in his career.
Dr. Jon McNaughtan completed a Ph.D. in education with a focus on organizational behavior at the University of Michigan where he worked with faculty in both education and business. Over the last 15 years he has utilized his educational background and professional experience as a leadership coach with aspiring corporate, non-profit, and educational leaders to identify and cultivate positive practices designed to expand the capacity of organizations and individuals. He has worked with county governments from 46 of the 50 states and companies like Verizon, Walmart, Office Depot, Schwab, Mattress Firm, and many others.
In addition to his leadership coaching, he is currently a professor and Associate Dean at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. He loves teaching and engaging with people to solve complex problems and hopes to be able to discuss real questions and concerns in every interaction he has. Coming from a long line of educators he finds fulfillment in facilitating meaningful organizational change and teaching engaged learners.
Hello, I'm Bashar! I'm a graduate of the James Madison College at Michigan State University, with a degree in Social Relations and Policy. I've dedicated my career over the past 13 years to public service, beginning as an AmeriCorps VISTA and working at various nonprofits until I landed a dream job at the City of Detroit. During my time at the City, I also earned a Master in Public Administration at Wayne State University. I'm now an Assistant Director of Implementation within the City's Office of Development and Grants. I lead a team that supports the implementation of hundreds of grants and hundreds of millions of dollars for the City of Detroit.
LuAnn Fisher is an aviation leader with 15+ years of experience in project management, procurement, and enterprise improvement. As Procurement Systems Manager at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, she leads supply chain initiatives, streamlines processes, and supports strategic decision-making. She manages cross functional projects, improves transparency, and aligns technology with business needs. Previously at the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority, she led high impact enterprise projects and served as a key strategic partner to executive leadership. She's known for her decisive, solution focused leadership, her collaborative approach, and her track record of delivering meaningful outcomes.
Brittany Murtaugh is a member of the Grants Management Office in the Department of Administration for the State of Rhode Island. Her focus is on providing technical support and training related to the statewide grants management system and other relevant grant topics for state agency staff, grant applicants, and subrecipients.
Building for 2030: Industry Leaders on Pressure, Technology, and Talent
Federal funding is less predictable, costs keep climbing, revenue growth has flattened, and the technology on every finance team's desk changed faster than the policies governing it. For the leaders responsible for holding all of that together, the last twelve months did not just change the numbers. They changed the job.
This opening panel sets the stage for Eunaverse. Industry leaders reflect on what actually changed this past year, then look toward 2030 and the pressures they expect to become permanent. Expect specifics: which pressures, policies, and expectations are defining their organizations' work going forward, how they are doing more with less budget without giving up service levels, how AI is reshaping daily work without costing them trust, control, or their audit trail, and how they are developing the next generation of their workforce.
A New Era of GovTech: AI, Trust, and the Future of Public Finance
Public sector finance teams are being asked to move faster, prove more, and stretch every constituent dollar further than ever before. Over the past year, Euna has put AI to work inside the products you already use, from budget insights to procurement guidance to grant discovery, with real results and no leap of faith required. In this session, we’ll lay out what comes next: a shift from software that moves work through a process to software that helps you make and defend the decision itself, with you firmly in the loop. This session will share Euna's vision for an intelligence layer that lets anyone in your organization ask questions across your data, an integration approach that keeps that data flowing no matter what else changes in your stack, and the security and compliance foundation that makes all of it trustworthy. Joined by Euna's security and product leaders, and by your own live input on where you sit in your AI journey, this is a look at the next era of public finance technology and the role you play in shaping it.
Shape the Future: Euna Financial Suite
The future of public finance pairs experienced people with intelligence that brings the right data, context, and guidance to each decision.
In this interactive workshop you'll join peers from Budget, Grants, Payments, Procurement, and Finance to identify the work that needs better support, the insights that would make the greatest difference, and the safeguards needed to earn trust. Your perspective will help shape Euna’s intelligence roadmap for more confident decisions, stronger compliance, and better outcomes.
From Washington to Main Street: Navigating Federal Policy Shifts at the State and Local Level
Federal policy changes rarely stay federal for long. As new rules around funding, reporting, and accountability take shape in Washington, their effects ripple down to state, county, and city governments, often faster than local systems and processes can adapt. This panel brings together experts to explore how public sector finance and grants teams can stay ahead of shifting compliance demands, protect against funding timing disruptions, and build the kind of transparent, audit-ready operations that stand up to increased scrutiny, including emerging fraud, waste, and abuse oversight efforts.
Shape the Future: Euna Financial Suite
The future of public finance pairs experienced people with intelligence that brings the right data, context, and guidance to each decision.
In this interactive workshop you'll join peers from Budget, Grants, Payments, Procurement, and Finance to identify the work that needs better support, the insights that would make the greatest difference, and the safeguards needed to earn trust. Your perspective will help shape Euna’s intelligence roadmap for more confident decisions, stronger compliance, and better outcomes.
Arvind Raman is the Chief Information Security Officer at Euna Solutions, bringing more than 25 years of global cybersecurity and technology leadership, including three prior roles as a Global CISO. He has a proven track record of partnering with CEOs and boards to build resilient, business-aligned security strategies that enable innovation and growth, with deep expertise across cloud security, Zero Trust, identity, AI security governance, and enterprise risk. Before joining Euna, Arvind led global cyber and technology risk programs across both the SaaS/AI and financial services sectors, including six years as Global Head of Enterprise Cyber and Risk Leadership in banking, wealth management, and insurance, where he managed global teams of 200+ and advised executive leadership and regulators on cyber resilience and digital transformation. He holds an MBA from Saint Mary's University and an MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Temple University, and he brings this global risk and security perspective to his session at Eunaverse.
Sam Cossman is known for using emerging technology to explore some of the world's most extreme and inaccessible environments. He has led expeditions into active volcanoes and used technologies, including drones and 3D mapping, to capture data from places once considered impossible to reach. At Eunaverse, he will draw on those experiences to explore how leaders can make decisions amid uncertainty, manage calculated risk, and apply technology with purpose.
No Playbook Required: Leading Through the Unknown
Some of the world's most important discoveries happen in places where there is no map, no precedent, and no guaranteed outcome. Explorer and technology entrepreneur Sam Cossman has spent his career in exactly those places: descending into active volcanoes, pushing into hostile environments, and using emerging technology to reach places once considered unreachable.
The decisions he made in those moments were not reckless. They were disciplined. Driven by curiosity, a tolerance for ambiguity, and a bias toward taking the first step even when the path wasn't clear.
Public sector leaders are navigating a similar kind of terrain. The tools are changing. The expectations are rising. And the old answer, "we've always done it this way," is no longer enough.
In this keynote, Sam shares the mindset and practices that have carried him from the earth's most extreme environments to the frontlines of disaster response. Along the way, he's learned how to harness emerging technology, navigate uncertainty with intention, and move forward with purpose when the playbook doesn't exist – lessons any leader can apply today.
Here's What to Expect in a Breakout Session
Designed and led by your peers, the breakout sessions at Eunaverse 2026 are where the real learning happens. Whether you're deepening your expertise, solving day-to-day challenges, or connecting with peers who get it, you'll leave with practical tools, peer-tested solutions, and a broader network of colleagues who understand the unique demands of public sector work.
Roundtable Discussions
Small-group conversations facilitated by fellow customers. Share what's working, troubleshoot common challenges, and leave with real-world strategies you can implement right away.
How-To Trainings
Practical sessions that go beyond the basics. Learn tips, workflows, and shortcuts of the most impactful features and functions.
Product Sessions
Deep dives into specific Euna products, features, and roadmap updates. Get the inside track on capabilities your team may not be using yet, and see how other organizations are maximizing their investment.
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