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Driving Business Resilience,
Growth and Profits

20/03/2024

12:00-16:45

STOCKHOLM

7A POSTHUSET

MARCH 20th - HYBRID EVENT

Agenda

Theme:  CFOs Role in Driving Long-Term Economic Success and Sustainable Finance

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12.00

CFO BUSINESS LUNCH

  • Two course lunch

  • Discuss and network with CFOs and peers

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13.00

OPENING REMARKS
THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY – 5 TOP PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT 12 MONTHS 

  • Challenges ahead, economic forecast, guidelines and predictions

  • What strategies can finance functions adopt to navigate macroeconomic and geopolitical changes? Leading volatility with confidence

  • Critical barriers and buffers. What can we trust in the next 6-12 months?

  • Sanctions, Economy, Talent, Cyber, Inflation or Something Else: Where do our greatest future risks lie and how prepared are we for them?

Ylva​ Hedén Westerdahl

Director of Forecasting

Konjunkturinstitutet

Andreas Wallström

Forecasting Director

Swedbank

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13.15

LEADING FINANCE BEYOND THE CRISES AND VOLATILE TIMES

Robert Bergström

Partner

Deloitte

  • Helping the Commercial Teams succeed. Being an insightful partner

  • Strengthen your balance sheet & Access to Capital

  • Cash Management & Optimize working capital, Capital Allocation

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13.35

HOW CFOs CRAFT LONG-TERM VALUE WITH TRUE AUTOMATION

  • Today’s world of concurrencies: Key challenges for the CFOs

  • Value creation for the long run: It is all about Data, Technology, Compliance and People

  • Real world examples of how True Automation creates value

Martti Nurminen

CFO

Basware

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13.55

HOW AI AND ML WILL ENABLE THE CFO TO CREATE VALUE AND ANTICIPATE CHANGE

  • Expectations for the finance function role

  • CFO - the architect of value creation

William Millard

Regional Finance Lead

Workday

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FIRESIDE CHAT
THE FINANCE TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY

14.10

  • The drivers behind a finance transformation initiative in a large enterprise

  • Turning the transformation vision into reality

  • What are the latest developments on the European and global e-invoicing landscape, e.g. VAT in the Digital Age (ViDA)

  • A process, not a project - what will the future hold?

Jonas Stringberg

Head of CFO Office

Ericsson

Nazar Paradivskyy

VP Regulatory Affairs

Pagero

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FIRESIDE CHAT
BUILDING THE FINANCE TEAM OF THE FUTURE

14.30

  • How are skill sets, roles and composition changing for the finance team

  • The future of an AI-driven finance organsation

  • What is the role of finance in driving agility and resilience in times of economic uncertainty? 

  • Should you blend in new roles with alternative backgrounds other than economics?

Cecilia Strand

Finance Director Nordics

Kone

Hans Backman

Group CFO

NIBE

Bryce Wolf

Director, Strategic Growth

UNIT4

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14.45-15.15

NETWORKING BREAK

Theme: The Future of the Financial Functions: Leading Volatility, Digital, Autonomous

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INTEGRATED BUSINESS PLANNING

15.15

Trond Stabekk

CFO

Obos

Michael Hyldgaard

Channel Manager

Jedox

Ville Aavikko

Senior Solution Architect

Wolters Kluwer

  • How do we enable integrated business planning not only to manage and improve finance processes, but to accelerate business decisions on a wider scale

  • When everything can be measured and most things can be automated, the benchmark for improvement is continually adjusting upwards. The importance of a common data set.

  • Why traditional FP&A planning techniques are struggling to keep up​

  • Implementing enterprise wide agility throughout and speeding up the planning process

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15.30

  • Efficient distribution of financial data

  • Restricting and enable financial data to the correct business roles.

  • Solution to handle traditional BI content & to perform forecast and budget planning.

  • Challenges during the project

BUILDING AN EFFICIENT FINANCE FUNCTION

Fredrik Borgenstam

Consultant

Intito

Marie Ahlberg

CFO

Quinyx

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15.45

EMBRACE SUSTAINABLE FINANCE. LEGISLATION IS INTEGRATING ESG and FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT FOR LONG-TERM SUCCESS

  • Understand the importance of sustainable finance and the integration of ESG principles.

  • Explore strategies for integrating ESG considerations into finance practices for long-term success.

  • What role has CFO’s to play when expanding responsibilities to also include societal impact, TNFD/TCFD

Lotta Nilsson Viitala

CFO

ATG

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NAVIGATING THE FUTURE CFO OFFICE WITH AI-ENHANCED INSIGHTS

16.00

Erik Thelander

Chief Product Officer

Hypergene

  • Explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can add new layers of insight to your financial planning. Prepare for an autonomous future.

  • Learn how AI is reshaping financial forecasting, risk assessment, and strategy optimization. 

  • The future intersection of finance and AI will bring enhanced agility, accuracy, availability and consistency of data to the CFO's office and ultimately deliver augmented decision-making capabilities

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16.15

CASE
ON THE INSIDE OF A CYBER ATTACK

Eva Sagemo

Group CFO

TOMRA Systems

  • Crisis management and navigating unforeseen challenges

  • How we rallied a crisis team

  • What actions and preparation would TOMRA have taken - had we known that a large-scale cyber-attack would strike us a year later

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16.30

FIRESIDE CHAT
THE DNA OF THE MODERN CFO - THE NEXT LEVEL OF BUSINESS SKILLS

Susanne Larsson

Group CFO & EVP IT

Mölnlycke

Magnus Karlsson

CFO Sweden

Sweco

Trond Stabekk

CFO

Obos

  • Navigate the changing business dynamics and their impact on the role of modern CFOs

  • Explore the expanded responsibilities and the new holistic view of the modern CFO  

  • Evaluate the role of CFOs in driving sustainable and responsible financial practices

  • Understand the skills and competencies required to thrive as a CFO in an evolving business landscape

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16.50

END OF DAY

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17.15 - 19.00

STRATEGY TALK
SOHO HOUSE

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