Intapp Connect20

For all the focus on the “new normal” of work as businesses start to reopen, the greatest innovators in design, technology, and workplace leadership are thinking about the next normal — a world in which flexibility and resilience are the coins of the realm. Fast Company editor-in-chief Stephanie Mehta speaks to the design firms, Silicon Valley innovators, digital transformation experts, and global creatives who are creating the workplace after tomorrow to find out exactly what it entails.

In this information-packed session, Mehta considers how the physical footprint of offices and work campuses will change and evolve, the far-reaching impacts of the grand remote-work experiment of 2020, and how we can best manage hybrid teams made up of a some remote and some in-person workers. Perhaps most importantly, Mehta addresses the underlying question of how a “next normal” mentality will set leaders up to innovate and better deal with future business interruptions.

As client buyer behavior evolves, firms struggle with a host of converging factors, including pricing pressure, increased competition, and winning the battle for top talent. The truth is that you can no longer afford accept operational inefficiency as the status quo if you want to remain competitive in the marketplace. Welcome to the era of the connected firm, where best-in-class technology integrates data, processes, and people to reduce costs, accelerate growth, increase profitability, mitigate risk, and provide superior experiences to professionals, partners, and clients alike. Join this session to learn more about this vision for the connected firm in professional services, and hear from a panel of industry innovators from some of the world’s firms, sharing their perspectives on how leaders can address some of the most pressing challenges facing our industry.

In an increasingly competitive market, you need software that not only gets the job done but also creates a business advantage. With more than 20 years’ experience cultivating deep expertise professional service, Intapp offers a suite of purpose-built solutions designed for the unique needs of firms like yours. Join our product team leaders to learn about our latest developments:

• Intapp Integration Service creates seamless interoperability between all your firm’s software and applications on one single platform.
• Intapp Global Independence streamlines acceptance, continuance, and conflicts resolution with process automation, integrated third-party data, and AI capabilities to streamline decision-making.
• Intapp Time offers zero-entry capture technology, multidevice and mobility support, and monitoring capabilities that help teams more easily manage to client budgets.

The transition to virtual work caused an unprecedented shift within professional services firms, and raised new questions about how to manage teams remotely. On top of this, clients’ financial uncertainty — and the subsequent cash collection pressures — prompted many firms to think differently about billing and realization, and work harder create better outcomes for both the firm and its clients. Although many firms froze spending on technology projects, others realized that strategic investments could position them to not only weather the storm but emerge with a strong competitive advantage. Join this session to learn how a robust timekeeping solution can provide a quick win for your firm’s top line, and how a multiplatform solution with automated capture technology can power insights to understand productivity, boost staff satisfaction, protect billable time, and maximize potential revenue.

Rigorous risk management is an enterprisewide effort for professional services firms, and it all starts with the new client acceptance process. With so much riding on sound decision-making at the point of acceptance, it’s critical that firms construct processes that ensure the highest levels of data accuracy while also prioritizing speed. Take a deep dive into two important considerations in modern risk management for professional services firms: Maximizing your investment in third-party company data, and leveraging the power of AI to enhance and standardize the conflicts clearance process and enable analysts to spend more time on high-priority and complex tasks while streamlining the rest.

How you conduct new business acceptance, continuance, and conflicts clearance significantly impacts not only your firm’s reputational and regulatory risk, but also its overall financial health and its book of business. Although assessing a prospect’s strategic fit and its subsequent onboarding are business-critical processes, they’re subject to oversight and error. Learn how simplifying processes can help safeguard your firm by ensuring accurate corporate client data, leveraging continuous risk monitoring, and streamlining regulatory audits response; lower firm costs by reducing the time it takes to confidently begin client work and eliminating the need to maintain outdated systems; and drive profitability by enabling informed and strategic decisions to create the most value for the firm and the best outcomes for the client.

During the past two decades, the professional services business has evolved in countless ways; it continues to transform more quickly than firms can keep pace. As millennials become the largest workforce cohort and macroenvironmental factors demand new ways of working, the question of “what’s next?” looms large. Join an esteemed panel of industry veterans for a reflective look at how the most successful firms made strategic decisions and investments to survive the most significant events and upheavals of the new century, and learn how industry trailblazers are forging a path to the future.