Laserfiche today kicked off its Empower 2015 Conference with keynote speeches from CEO Chris Wacker and President Karl Chan. 2,500 attendees from the worldwide Laserfiche community are taking part in this annual event.

An impressive line-up of speakers from organizations including Gartner, the Center for Digital Government, the Texas A&M University System, Info-Tech Research Group, Bank of Beirut and Palm Beach, Florida, will lead more than 150 course sessions over the next three days. In addition, Mohammed Qassem of New Vision will discuss “building the Iraq of tomorrow” in his keynote speech on Thursday morning.

“Laserfiche experienced incredible growth in 2014, with rapid expansion across all product lines and vertical industries,” said Wacker. “It’s our privilege to host an event that allows our growing user and reseller community to share ideas and learn from each other.”

Empower 2015 attendees also have on-site access to hundreds of Laserfiche employees who are available to answer questions and provide attendees with hands-on experience with new and upcoming Laserfiche enterprise content management (ECM) products.

“We’ve always been very intentional about tying our software development team with our users, and interacting with the Laserfiche user community at the Empower Conference is a highlight of the year for our engineers,” said Chan. “As we’ve grown, the energy from bringing our customers and our developers together has been the key to our innovation.”

Epson is the premier sponsor of Empower 2015; Canon and Fujitsu are gold sponsors. Exhibitors include: Accela, Access, Accuflex, Ancora Software, Cambridge Connections, Cities Digital, Continental Imaging & Technology, CoSign by ARX, DocuNav Solutions, EzeScan, Infolinx System Solutions, Kodak Alaris, Kofax, New World Systems, New Wave Technologies, NovusAGENDA, Panasonic, Parascript, RachetSoft, Scanning America and United Micro Data.

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Based in Long Beach, CA, with global headquarters in Hong Kong and offices in Shanghai, Toronto, Mexico, London, Washington, D.C., and Fort Lauderdale, FL, Laserfiche uses its Run Smarter® philosophy to create simple and elegant enterprise content management (ECM) solutions. Since 1987, more than 34,000 organizations worldwide—including federal, state and local government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies—have used Laserfiche® software to streamline document, records and business process management.

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