Leading Long-Term Strategic Growth, ESG and Talent in Volatile Times
12.00
CFO Nordic Business Lunch
2 course business lunch for in-person attendees
Mingle, network and compare charts with cross-industry peers
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?
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
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.
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
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.
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?
14.45-15.15
Break
Theme
AI in Finance & the Future of Financial Functions
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
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?
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
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
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
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