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Today we're reflecting on two great days of "functional fellowship" during our visit to the West Coast of the USA last week! San Francisco was a great host city and we're grateful for the participation and contribution from everyone that attended. Thank you to our speakers and panelists for sharing "route to market" and bottom-up forecasting experiences and best practices: Spencer Geren, Brian Hawkins, Rob Hand, Mike Gamage, and Don Baker. Next up is RGM in London. Learn more about that here: https://zurl.co/8dfH4

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"Functional Fellowship"... a term we heard from Spencer M. Geren II, nicely sums up our last two days in San Francisco. Day 1, the Elevate Conference, was all about BluePlanner, news about UpClear initiatives, and knowledge sharing. Day 2, the Route To Market Summit, focused on forecasting practices. First up was all new benchmark research on forecasting practices and how AI is changing bottom up forecasting in CPG. Then the group heard from Spencer M. Geren II, Rob Hand, Michael Gamage, Brian Hawkins, CMA, Kyle Barnholt, and Don Baker on a variety of topics. we them capped-off the day with roundtables where the group discussed challenges, shared their experiences, and brainstormed actionable solutions. Jean Hong , Andrew Dentinger,Lucinda (Selverian) Stamboulian, Max Walker, Thierry Soudee, Ken Accardi and Kurt Kaiser thank everyone that attended UpClear 's 5th of 6 events around the world this year. And last but not least, we would like to thank our hosts at Capitol Art in San Francisco's Mission District. Their facility was perfect for our event!

We're back with part 2 of Call the Consultant, where Brian Kolubinskyj sits down with Mike Gammage to discuss the pros and cons of working on TPM in parallel to an ERP implementation. Contact us if you're interest in a chat with either BK or Mike: https://zurl.co/a3DZY

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