Conclave 2026

This interactive Edge User Group session is designed for retailers who want to better understand recent enhancements to The Edge and how they can be applied effectively in day-to-day store operations.

We’ll review key features and improvements released from early 2025 through Conclave 2026, focusing on real-world workflows such as inventory accuracy, purchasing, receiving, reporting, and operational visibility. Attendees will learn not just what’s new, but why changes were made and how other Edge users are putting them into practice.

The session will also include a forward-looking discussion of upcoming enhancements currently in development, giving attendees insight into where The Edge is headed and how they can prepare their processes and teams. Time will be reserved for questions and peer discussion and collaboration.

In an era of unprecedented volatility, understanding precious metal markets is more critical than ever for jewelry professionals. This session will deliver a clear, data-driven outlook on platinum, gold, and other key metals, exploring how macroeconomic forces, geopolitical tensions, tariffs, and supply constraints are shaping pricing today—and what to expect tomorrow.

Attendees will gain insight into how global events—from central bank policy to mining disruptions—translate into real-world impacts on margins, pricing strategies, and consumer demand.

Key Topics:

• Current and projected price trends for platinum and gold

• The impact of tariffs, inflation, and global conflict on metals markets

• Supply chain dynamics and mining outlook

• How metals pricing influences consumer behavior

Whether you plan to sell, pass it to your children, or simply want the decades you have invested to mean something beyond your last day behind the counter, this session is for you. Many jewelers build genuinely successful businesses and still have nothing structured to show for it at exit. Not because they failed, but because success alone does not create a transferable legacy.

This session covers the financial and operational systems that turn a successful jewelry business into one that can be passed down, sold, or protected regardless of what the future brings.

Mariel Diaz founded Accounting for Jewelers in the shadow of her father, a talented and successful jeweler who built something real but left no systems behind to protect it. When he was gone, so was everything he had built.