The third full day at a conference is when the fatigue starts setting in. Your social battery wears out, the food tastes bad, and you miss your bed.
That’s what I felt like this morning, but…what can I say? I love the game. The thrill of meeting new people, the validation of feeling wanted by others who want to talk to me. The prospect of closing deals.
I love the game.
I woke up at 730AM, checked in on Cadbury’s Linear + Slack (shout out to our engineering team for holding down the fort). I do my best to unblock our engineers but sometimes, they just need to make assumptions and push forward.
Grabbed breakfast, and then headed over for the keynote.
My notes:
As I mentioned in the day 1 recap, they are all in on AI with their NetSuite Next initiative (think ChatGPT hooked up to your NS instance). The rhetoric is centered around making NS the place where you can act on data, rather than just consume it. That is the narrative Oracle is trying to build.
The Claude MCP integration is live and here’s an example of how a non-profit called EALGreen is using it today:
When they take in a donation, a photo is taken of the item. This is fed into Claude to figure out what it is (eg a snowblower).
They use Claude to check their inventory in NS, to see if they already have a snowblower. They also use Claude to scrape the internet to find the FMV of the snowblower, and tie it to the donation amount they make.
This was built in a few weeks.
The team dove deeper into agents, and gave an example of a Overdue PO Agent:
See a list of overdue POs
Ask the agent to follow up with each one via email
All the vendors end up replying, except 1, which states they need more time (aka a new due date)
You either approve or deny that modification.
Of note re agents: it respects your role, so your agent can’t do anything your role can’t.
I’m beginning to see a greater investment in developer tooling. NS realizes every business works differently, so they’re going to provide some general purpose agents (eg an agent that automates a financial close), and also give you the lego blocks to build your own. I suspect many consultants (aka partners) are excited at the prospect of a new business line opening.
After the keynote, I headed over to lunch.
I spent more time on the floor today, and it was great to see what problems vendors were attacking (more on this later). Shout out to Ahad of Everest, Steve of Legion, Tate of SystemsAccountants, Erin of Mesh, and Teddie at TFR - it was great to connect/reconnect with all of you.
Afterwards, I headed over to the happy hour NetSuite & SystemsAccountants were hosting. Shout out to Aubrey of NetSuite (the AE for a client we built an integration for) for the invite.
The night wasn’t over though, oh no. You see, when your body is telling you should rest, you do the exact opposite.
You go see Pitbull live.
