Speakers
Randolph Johnston
- One of the 2004-2022 Accounting Today Top 100 Most Influential People
- Top 25 Thought Leader in the Accounting Industry 2011-2023
- Inducted into The CPA Practice Advisor Accounting Hall of Fame in 2011
- One of nine technology stars in the U.S. - Accounting Technology Magazine
- Has started and owns multiple businesses, including K2 Enterprises and Network Management Group, Inc., a leading provider for accounting professionals
- Taught technology at Hutchinson Community College, James Madison University, Western Washington University, and the University of Central Oklahoma
- Over 40 years of management and technology consulting experience!
Stephen Yoss
Stephen M. Yoss, Jr., CPA, is a senior technology strategist and principal of Yossio, a company that focuses on helping organizations develop a technology strategy to streamline their business operations.
Stephen has consulted with several companies on how to lower overhead, personnel, and compliance costs by investing in technology and reengineering their business practices. He teaches his clients to embrace technology at every opportunity in order to increase efficiency and productivity.
Stephen began working with technology at age ten, and started his first IT company at age 13, designing web applications for local businesses. He started writing original computer code at age 15 and has been working with technology ever since.
He has presented to thousands of practitioners worldwide on topics such as cloud computing, mobile technology, Excel tips and best practices, data modeling and analysis, big data, information security, identity theft prevention, and more.
Apart from working in technology and accounting he is a professional licensed pyrotechnician and works on major firework displays around the country. He lives in Claremont, California.
Lawrence McClelland
Mac McClelland, an attorney and accounting professional, is an associate of K2 Enterprises of Hammond, Louisiana, and Network Management Group of Hutchinson, Kansas.
Mac was formerly the director of the Centre for Financial Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he lived and worked for seven years from 1990 to 1997. He was also a member of the faculty of the Advanced Business Programme, ranked in the top 100 MBA programs in the world by The Economist, specializing in business strategy and strategic management accounting.
He gained his practical experience in information systems with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and has an established practice in business and technology consulting. Mac has taught hundreds of continuing professional education seminars to accountants and business managers in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, Japan, and Southeast Asia. His presentations are highly rated, and he has won several awards for teaching excellence.
Mac has been published in leading business and practitioner journals, including Tax Ideas, Computers in Accounting, Journal of Accounting Education, Chartered Accountants Journal of New Zealand, and the top-rated Journal of Accounting Research.