Choosing and Replacing Practice Management Software: What to Evaluate Before You Switch
A vendor neutral look at how veterinary practices should evaluate practice management software, what to check before committing to a switch, and where these projects most often go wrong. This includes how AI features and security requirements should factor into selection criteria.
Adam Wysocki
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Hacked in 11 Seconds: Cyber Threats, Shadow IT and the Veterinary Practice Defense Plan
It’s 7:45 am and you’re first in. The front-desk computer wakes without a password handy, because the whole team shares that login anyway. The PIMS password is the practice name plus the year; everyone knows it, that’s the point. Antivirus got switched off on the imaging PC last week because it kept breaking the PACS link someone will turn it back on when things calm down. Reception is drowning in emails, but pasting client histories into ChatGPT to draft replies is saving hours. I wish the Windows update popups would just go away? Dismissed again. There’s a full waiting room. But hey at least Alexa playing out some great music, keeps people in the right mindset.
Nothing in that paragraph feels unusual. Every line of it is how an attacker gets in.
In this session, veterinary IT expert and Certified Ethical Hacker Jack Peploe shows you exactly how by walking through a real breach he staged, with permission and on camera, against his own marketing manager: one lookalike email, full access, ransomware. You’ll hear AI-cloned voices you cannot tell from real ones, see how a fraudulent out-of-hours invoice with “updated bank details” slips past a busy accounts inbox, and meet the Shadow IT and Shadow AI already running in your practice without approval.
At every stage we stop and ask one question: what would have stopped this? You’ll leave with a practical, budget-realistic defence plan built for how veterinary practices actually run, passwords and MFA that survive a shared consult room, staff training that sticks, tested 3-2-1 backups, safe rules for AI tools, and six rules your whole team can live by from Monday morning.
Jack Peploe
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
AI in Veterinary Practices
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Jack Peploe
Time: 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
VetCE Virtual: Future-Ready Veterinary Care: Technology, AI & Data Security
Oct 12Oct 19Oct 26 8 pm - 9 pm ET
Agenda
Speakers
Adam Wysocki
Adam Wysocki has spent more than 30 years building software, including nearly a decade in veterinary technology with Pawbly and VitusVet, where he served as CEO. He is the founder of VetSoftwareHub, an independent, vendor-neutral directory where practices compare veterinary software without pay-to-rank listings, and the creator of the PIMS Selection Navigator, a structured engagement that walks hospitals through scoring vendors, running fair demos, and checking references before contracts get signed. He works with startups, acquisitions, and established hospitals on PIMS selection, conversion, and workflow mapping, with a focus on avoiding expensive mistakes.
Jack Peploe
Jack Peploe is a Certified Ethical Hacker and the founder and CEO of Veterinary IT Services, the UK’s only IT and cyber security provider working exclusively with veterinary practices. After more than two decades in IT and one transformational project with a struggling multi-site practice Jack dedicated his company to a single mission: technology that keeps veterinary practices running, so teams can focus on patient care.
Today his team supports more than 100 practices, hospitals and groups across the UK. Jack hosts the Modern Veterinary Practice podcast and is a regular speaker at major veterinary events, including the London Vet Show where he appeared as its first ever ethical hacker the New York Vet Show, BVA Live and BSAVA Congress to name but a few.
Why Attend?
The VetCE Virtual event series of micro-conferences is designed to deliver multiple approved RACE and/or CVPM CE credits in a concise, half-day virtual format with three consecutive one-hour presentations. The series not only provides you with the opportunity to benefit from educational sessions presented by expert speakers but also offers an easy way to learn and earn credits from the comfort of your home or office!
VetCE Virtual events cover a wide range of topics, from detailed medical discussions to practice management and other non-medical subjects relevant to everyday situations encountered by veterinary professionals. If you’ve already registered and happen to miss the live event, no worries, you’ll be given access to the OnDemand courses once they become available (typically about three weeks after the live event) Recordings of the sessions will be accessible for viewing for 2 weeks following each event, providing participants with a valuable reference.
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