Driving Business Resilience, Growth and Profits

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08/04/2025

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12:00-16:50

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Sergel Hub Stockholm

April 8th - Hybrid Event

Agenda

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Leading Long-Term Strategic Growth, ESG and Talent in Volatile Times

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12.00

CFO Nordic Business Lunch

  • 2 course business lunch for in-person attendees
  • Mingle, network and compare charts with cross-industry peers
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13.00

The State of the Economy - 5 Top Priorities for 2025

  • The 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?
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13.15

Leading Finance Beyond the Crises and Volatile Times

  • 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

Managing Upwards: The Board, Investors and Partners

  • What the board expects from a Chief of Finance Officer
  • CFOs are increasingly seen by key stakeholders as the stewards of long-term values
  • Setting proper expectations, effective communication and delivering accurate and informative analyses
  • Fostering a strong, collaborative relationship between the CFO and the CEO to guide transformations, optimize resources and to fund innovations.
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13.50

Integrated Business Planning that Drives Effective Decisions and Responses

  • 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.
  • How FP&A leaders drive scenario planning to conceptualize multiple potential future states, identify critical uncertainties, fraud prevention, risks and opportunities.
  • Implementing enterprise wide agility throughout to navigate performance, strategy and resource allocation effectively
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14.10

Embrace Sustainable Finance. Legislation is Integrating ESG and Financial Management for Long-Term Success

  • How should CFOs and CSOs work together to de-risk their ESG strategy?
  • Explore strategies for integrating ESG considerations into finance practices for long-term success and to ensure the ESG goals are met
  • Can ESRS reporting be made less burdensome for companies? Evaluate ESG metrics & Policies & Procedures between the finance team and the operation
  • What role has CFO’s to play when expanding responsibilities to also include societal impact, TNFD/TCFD and due diligence through CS3D.
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14.25

Fireside Chat: Building the Finance Team of the Future

  • How are skill sets, roles and composition changing for the finance team
  • The future of an AI-driven Finance organization
  • 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 than economics?
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14.45-15.15

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AI in Finance & the Future of Financial Functions

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15.15

Harnessing the Power of Technology; Automation and AI

  • The finance function on autopilot. Prepare for an autonomous future
  • Identify how to incorporate automation into your financial reporting process, eliminating error-prone manual tasks and freeing up time for value-add activities
  • Accuracy, availability and consistency of data. Enhancing financial forecasting for better decision making
  • How to get hyped technologies to actually generate results? Moving up the food chain in skills
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15.30

The Finance Transformation Journey

  • The drivers behind a finance transformation initiative in a large enterprise
  • Turning the transformation vision into reality
  • A process, not a project - what will the future hold?
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15.45

Cyber Security and Finance. Strategies for Building Resilience

  • The raising challenges within risk management,  Building agility and strategies to meet global challenges
  • Shielding  your financial data against cyber threats
  • Incident management and crises communication from the CFO perspective
  • The benefits and risks with CBDC - a new era in company funding
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16.00

Navigate the Future of the CFO Office with AI-Enhanced Insights

  • Explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can add new layers of insight to your financial planning.
  • 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

AI is Complex but People are even More

  • Solving the human problem: How to build a team culture that embraces AI
  • The emergence of the Data Scientist in Finance. What can the distinct skill set offer?
  • Archetypes of finance team structure based on level of expertise, resourcing and urgency for transformation
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16.30

Fireside Chat: The DNA of the Modern CFO - The Next Level of Business Skills

  • 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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17.30

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