Industries of the Future
The New York Times bestseller, from leading innovation expert Alec Ross, a “fascinating vision” (Forbes) of what’s next for the world and how to navigate the changes the future will bring.  Ross provides a “lucid and informed guide” (Financial Times) to the changes coming in the next ten years. He examines the fields that will most shape our economic future, including robotics and artificial intelligence, cybercrime and cybersecurity, the commercialization of genomics, the next step for big data, and the impact of digital technology on money and markets.

2019 CPA Firm Trends, Technologies and Disrupters Updates

Roman Kepczyk, CPA - this presentation will focus on today’s core technology trends impacting accounting firms including cloud, collaboration, connectivity, and IT Security. Roman will discuss today’s leading production best practices including a slew of “Lean Six Sigma” opportunities identified in his consulting within accounting firms. Roman will also incorporate the latest CPAFMA IT and Paperless Benchmark survey results so firms can see how they stack up and identify specific opportunities for improvement. This presentation also discusses key disrupters having a significant impact on the accounting profession.

Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning tools in Accounting

Michael Fraunces is the President and former General Counsel of Md7, LLC, a wireless services company focused on network lease negotiation, lease administration and site acquisition services. Mike has had extensive expertise in network leasing and has drafted and negotiated thousands
of leases on behalf of the major wireless carriers. Most recently, he has focused his efforts on investigating, testing and implementing artificialintelligence/machine learning solutions to the lease abstract, audit and administration functions of wireless leases.

Update on Tax Policy

Dean Zerbe is National Managing Director for alliantgroup and is based out of alliantgroup’s Washington, D.C. office. In this role, Dean is responsible for, among other things, monitoring tax-related legislative activity in Washington to help keep our clients and staff informed and help direct alliantgroup’s service offerings to ensure we are meeting client needs.

Prior to joining alliantgroup in February, 2008, Dean was Senior Counsel and Tax Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he worked closely with then Chairman of the Finance Committee, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) on tax legislation. During his time on the Finance Committee, Dean was intimately involved with almost every major piece of tax legislation that was signed into law – including the 2001 and 2003 tax reconciliation bills (representing two of the largest tax cuts in the nation’s history); the JOBS bill in 2004 (corporate tax reform); and the Pension Protection Act.