Overview

As global volatility remains persistent, CFOs are tasked with more than just keeping the company out of the red. With the UK facing rising inflation, supply chain disruption and a downturn, finance leaders face increased scrutiny when it comes to improving working capital and cash flow, and ensuring operational efficiency across the order-to-cash process.

Join us for this exclusive, invitation-only roundtable where Joanna Fielding, CFO Data & Analytics at the London Stock Exchange Group, discusses the role of finance as a business enabler across the whole enterprise, and how automating the end-to-end O2C process can help improve visibility and decision making, whilst ensuring financial health

Agenda

18.00: Champagne Reception & Networking

18:30: Guests seated and welcome by FDE

18.50: Introductory address by HighRadius

18:55: Keynote address by Joanna Fielding, CFO Data & Analytics, London Stock Exchange Group

19:10: Moderated Discussion

19:40: Break & Networking

20:00: Dinner is served, informal discussion continues

21:25: Closing remarks

Maximize Digital Growth Opportunities

Overview

Companies across industries are facing ongoing digital disruption and need modern skills, methodologies, and tools to compete in today’s digital economy. This is the time for the rise of nimble, lean, customer-centric, and resilient enterprises.

Most importantly, the need for digital fluency – the ability to understand business challenges and opportunities and combine that understanding with deep expertise in next-generation technologies is key to solving the dynamic business needs.

Join us for an evening to hear from our digital thought leaders, and practitioners and network with our evangelists to understand how to step up to drive business growth with new revenue models enabled by disruptive digital technologies.

Have a deep dive discussion on driving the overall digital agenda to solve real business problems by challenging the traditional consulting model through digital fluency, building greater visibility of key performance trends, and the ability to identify problem areas and quickly optimize growth strategies leveraging data.

Agenda:

Kyle Watson Senior Director, Brillio

Kyle Watson is a practice leader and security architect with over 20 years’ consulting experience in assessment, policy and architecture design, project leadership, and operational transition in complex technology and business environments. Kyle collaborates with Infrastructure and Security executives in Healthcare, Life Sciences, Financial Services, and Insurance as a strategic advisor to solve digital infrastructure and security challenges.

Chris Holden SVP & CISO, Crum & Forster

Chris Holden is the Sr. Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Crum & Forster, a Property & Casualty insurance company Headquartered in Morristown, NJ. He has over 12 years of experience in the Cybersecurity industry, with expertise in Cyber Program development, Digital Forensics & Incident Response, Penetration Testing, and Software Security. Chris has worked internally and as a consultant for companies in Financial Services, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, and Retail industries.

Pramod Khandelwal Solution Strategist, Brillio

Pramod is an Enterprise Cloud leader at Brillio LLC. With expertise in Cloud computing, automation, and digital security he has led design and Implementation for organizations of varying sizes and complexities. He leverages his expertise in guiding organizations through their Cloud journey, from Initial planning and assessment to implementation and ongoing management. Pramod has worked across industries, including Healthcare, Finance, retail, and High-Tech, and has gained a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities in each industry.

Sandeep CEO, Synapse Labs

Sandeep is a seasoned executive with a successful track record of leading complex digital & data transformations at scale. He has deep experience in building & delivering digital products through cloud-based, real-time systems, using next-gen tech including enterprise-scale data, AI, & ML. He is customer obsessed, has the ability to influence at the C-Suite, and has a passion for developing diverse, talented, and engaged teams. Most recently, he served as the Chief Data, Privacy, and Analytics Officer for Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group (SVB). His previous experience was as Unit CIO for Credit & Fraud Risk at American Express, and Head of Engineering for their Customer Data Platform. He has experience in building & leading large global organizations (800+ people) and managing investments of $100M+. As a passionate and life-long learner, He co-founded a start-up with a mission to transform learning and help individuals maximize their potential. He also plays a key role in relevant industry consortia, and often speaks at conferences (like Gartner, Evanta CDO, & HMG CIO Summit) and universities. He is very active in the local Phoenix community and the co-founder of Industry Engagement Catalyst board at ASU Fulton Schools of Engineering.

Build Immersive Experiences

Overview

Companies across industries are facing ongoing digital disruption and need modern skills, methodologies, and tools to compete in today’s digital economy. This is the time for the rise of nimble, lean, customer-centric, and resilient enterprise.

Most importantly, in this new digital world, where customers discover, interact, and transact with your organization from the first touchpoint to the final conversion through digital properties, CX is the new currency for businesses.

Join us for an evening to hear from our digital thought leaders, and practitioners and network with our evangelists to understand how to build trust in the tremendous value of CX-centric models, deliver amazing customer experiences, and imagine immersive user journeys.

Have a deep dive discussion on how to step up the CX game by leveraging design thinking, closely listening to customers through data, and building expertise in advanced analytics. Gain from Brillio’s experience building CX for hundreds of companies through problem-solving and creating innovative solutions at scale.

Agenda:

Speakers

Brian Anderson Business Solutions Strategist, Retail and Consumer Goods

Brian serves as a Solutions Strategist for Brillio’s Retail and Consumer Goods companies. In this role, he works with leaders on how to drive their business strategy via digital solutions that enable a connected customer experience. Previous to Brillio, Brian served as a senior director, product management and strategy and Publicis Sapient. Companies he has worked with include Target, McDonalds, Loblaws, Academy Sports, Cintas, and Rogers Communications. Brian lives in Austin and in his free time, he can be found at the local playground with his wife and two boys, ages 6 and 2.

Brian Prescott Senior Director, IT Applications McAfee

Brian Prescott is a seasoned technology professional with more than two decades of experience in driving business innovation and results. He has deep experience in helping organizations achieve financial and operational objectives. He has built high performing teams and is a leader of successful technology strategy, global technology deployments, operations, data and analytics, and software development teams.

Krish Goswami Managing Director, CX practice Leader, Brillio

Krish is CX transformation expert with more than 20 years of experience in building and delivering strategic, extensive digital solutions across CX; specializing in Commerce, Martech and Content transformation. Krish has spent his entire career as a CX specialist, successfully solving complex digital experience problems for strategy, platform solutions and digital ops. He has driven large CX transformation initiatives across industry verticals including Retail, CPG, Travel and hospitality, technology, insurance, healthcare and life sciences. In his current role, Krish leads the Go to market, strategy, and technology solutions for CX LOB at Brillio.

Economic uncertainty and continually evolving customer expectations are the pressing challenges across all industries. Accelerated decision making underpinned by the right technology is critical to drive sustainable growth and leveraging cloud platforms to leapfrog transformation is the key. Brillio is enabling businesses to effectively harness data for intelligent decision making, deliver innovative experiences and enable cost optimizations, with the power of AWS.

Join us for this private, closed-door roundtable where we will be taking a deeper look at:

1. Intelligent Decisioning: Enable and foster a ‘data-driven’ culture with “cloud-based insights” that enable deeper understanding of business metrics and faster decisioning

2. Enhanced Experiences: Harness customer obsession for growth by empathising customer emotion and behaviour across channels and deliver personalized experiences that matter.

3. Boost ROI for your cloud investments: Tap into your data to reap insights into the changing market demands, identify areas for efficiency improvements and avenues for cost savings to get the maximum value out of your cloud resources

Agenda

Speakers

Raghu Ramakrishnan Managing Director, Data & AI Practice CTO, Brillio

Seasoned Data and AI leader with decades of experience in leading data transformation engagements across the data and marketing technology space for various industry verticals including Retail CPG, BFSI, HLS. Extensively worked on enabling business leverage data for decisions through data strategy initiatives, data 360 platform build outs and platform adoption at scale while breaking data silos, Deep experience in building high-performance teams, setting technology direction, leading GTM initiatives and nurturing alliances with technology partners and hyperscalers.

Babita Tomar Data Strategy leader, AWS

Babita Tomar is a Data Strategy leader at AWS and runs a program called Data Driven Everything (D2E) for several Industry verticals worldwide. Prior to joining AWS, she worked for Wells Fargo for 19 years and held leadership positions across multiple lines of business ranging from leading data initiatives to setting up new risk programs. Most recently, she built and ran WF's Enterprise Customer Experience root cause analysis team and provided an update to the regulators on actions taken to protect customer's interest. At AWS, she is working with major financial services and high-tech customers to help build their data strategy and accelerate their transformation to becoming more data-driven. She enjoys problem solving and likes to help her customers tackle cultural, people and process changes along with technical aspects.

Vimal Kohli Chief Analytics Officer, Gap Inc.

Vimal is a strategic leader with extensive experience in leveraging data analytics and insights to drive business decisions and improve profitability. He has a proven track record of conceptualizing innovative analytic solutions to solve various business challenges and has in-depth expertise in designing and developing analytics models and processes, to gain actionable insights. Identifying emerging technologies/trends in analytics space by conducting in-depth market analysis with a focus on maximizing ROI of analytics initiatives is a part of his core strength.

Arun Ganesan Divisional CIO, Data Engineering, Silicon Valley Bank, A Division of First Citizens Bank

Arun is a seasoned Cloud and Data Executive with over 30 years of progressive management responsibility in senior technology and operations roles. With a strong data background, he envisions and enables leveraging data as an asset with data mesh and data products. As an experienced cloud strategy and migration leader, he has led several initiatives that improve developer productivity and agility, increase security and reduce risks to organizations.

 

Celebrating its 6th year, the renowned, Cyber Security in Financial Services Summit is the must-attend event for senior-level, delegates from the Financial Services Institutions.

The summit will aim to understand the current state of Cyber Security in Financial Services and what to expect for 2023 and beyond. With the forever evolving needs and interests in the financial services industry, the summit intends to focus on the latest industry and technology trends by gathering together key experts and industry leaders.

The security landscape continues to evolve, with attacks on the rise and threat actors seizing the opportunity to cause disruption in an industry. Many organisations have started to invest heavily in cybersecurity training and awareness programmes to combat cybercrime and prevent breaches from occurring. With a continuous trend of remote working, monitoring and threat detection will likely prove to be the next big challenge for CISOs and become high priority for IT leaders.

Experience a world-class agenda of interactive, innovative presentations, interviews, panels and Q&A sessions focusing on the latest industry, technology trends, regulations and solutions.

Our esteemed speakers, sponsors, and delegates will assemble to discuss the greatest opportunities and challenges in the sector. Attendees will have access to cutting-edge presentations, interviews, and panel discussions as well as networking breaks, lunch, and networking drinks reception.

The Cyber Security in Financial Services Summit continues to be the go-to event in the sector and enables attendees to form many new meaningful business relations.

Thriving During Economic Uncertainty
How the CFOs office can connect the business and navigate disruption

Overview

As global volatility remains persistent, CFOs are tasked with more than just keeping the company out of the red. With the UK facing rising inflation, supply chain disruption and a downturn, CFOs are expected to create an agile, reactive, and data-driven finance function that can help transform the way the company operates – all whilst continuously adapting to the external forces constantly reshaping their business.

Join us for this exclusive, invitation-only FDE roundtable where Sam Allen, Finance Transformation Director at global payments solutions provider Checkout.com, and their Enterprise Architect, Finance Transformation, Emma Castledine, discuss the critical role of finance in facilitating business transformation, and how harnessing technology, data and insights can help enable organisations to become a more agile, reactive business in an ever-evolving, and uncertain, economy.

Agenda:

8.00am: Registration and coffee networking
8.30am: Breakfast served
9.00am: Welcome by FDE
9.05am: Introductory speech by Workday
9.15am: Keynote presentation by Checkout.com
9.40am: Q&A
10.15am: End of briefing and additional networking

Turn Disruption into Advantage

Overview

Companies across industries are facing ongoing digital disruption and need modern skills, methodologies, and tools to compete in today’s digital economy. This is the time for the rise of nimble, lean, customer-centric and resilient enterprises

Most importantly, the need for digital fluency – the ability to understand business challenges and opportunities and combine that understanding with deep expertise in next-generation technologies is key to solving the dynamic business needs.

Join us for an evening to hear from our digital thought leaders, and practitioners and network with our evangelists to understand how to take a holistic approach to digital transformation – rather than focusing on one aspect, such as strategy, or product engineering.

Have a deep dive discussion on driving the overall digital agenda and solving real business problems by challenging the traditional consulting model through digital fluency, design thinking, rapid prototyping, problem-solving and creating innovative solutions at scale.

Agenda:

Karthik Balasubramanian Hi-Tech Business Leader, Brillio

Karthik is the global market leader for the Brillio-Hi-Tech business and has extensive experience across the Tech Industry, he has over two decades of experience in IT Consulting and Professional Services Industry esp. in the areas of Hi-Tech Vertical and Horizontal Tech industries like FinTech, Retail Tech, Travel Tech, and more. He has partnered with customers on several transformation programs, and some of the top Tech NASDAQ Tech 100 have been his direct clients.

Chander Damodaran Global CTO at Brillio

A technology thought leader and evangelist focused on bringing in the right mix of business and technical competency to solve large business problems. He thrives in fuzziness and loves defining the blueprint for digital transformation with clear outcomes and elevated experience for Brillio’s customers. He has over 24 years of diversified technical experience in architecting, solutioning, innovation and product development In his current role, he leads the innovation charter and establishes an engineering mindset within Brillio. He is a Computer Science Engineering graduate and member of “The Forbes Technology Council”.

Gert Christen Innovation Strategist

Innovation strategist, digital shaper and technology thought leader. Creative visionary and builder of transformative businesses internationally. Founder of USA Launching Pad, a methodical program helping foreign growth startup companies create leads and sales in the USA. Passionate startup incubator builder and entrepreneurship lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company.

Joe Faghani IT Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture, Ceridian

Prior to joining Ceridian, Joe held various IT Enterprise Architecture roles at Netapp, Cadence Design Systems, VMWare and Juniper. He is an experienced IT leader delivering optimized scalable solutions to the enterprise. He earned a bachelors degree in Computer Science from University of London

Aditya Palande VP, Software Engineering, McAfee

Aditya is a senior hi-tech leader with strong technology background with proven success in systems architecture, product development, and server-side enterprise platforms. He has led key technical leadership positions at startups as well as large companies. He specializes in systematic execution, from an idea on a paper napkin to a fully deployed solution, on time and under budget.

Geeta Pyne Chief Enterprise Architect, Intuit

With more than 25 years of industry experience, she is a trusted advisor to CIOs and CTOs. Pyne is a transformation leader and a change agent with an entrepreneurial mindset. To that end, she is an advisor to multiple startups and passionate about growing and coaching the next generation of talents. She is also a Board Member/Advisor for several organizations such as Chief Architect Forum & Women in Architecture, SIM, Evanta San Francisco, a Gartner company, Evanta Global CIO, and GTM Capital Advisory Board.

Creating Sustainable Futures

The world-renowned, Leading European Architecture Forum is the must-attend event for senior-level decision-makers from leading international architectural practices, contractors, developers, engineers, interior designers, and government officials.

LEAF 2023 will focus on forward-thinking strategies to deliver on net zero targets and explore how technology, digitalisation and the coronavirus pandemic are transforming the built environment across the entire supply chain. The agenda will look at sustainable architecture design strategies that reduce the negative environmental impact from future built environment projects and assessing sustainable performance.

Our solution providers have the opportunity to showcase their organisation, discuss future building projects, as well as share ideas and best practices, whilst increasing their brand awareness. Network with your peers and gain new insight from key industry leaders examining opportunities and exploring how technology, digitalisation, net-zero carbon targets and the pandemic are transforming the built environment across the entire supply chain.

LEAF 2023 Draft Agenda – Creating Sustainable Futures:

• • Creating a sustainable future: Architecture’s role in tackling climate change
  • The Global Housing Crisis and Homelessness
  • Managing developments in a dynamic global market – how are events like global supply chain issues, impacting the future of city buildings
  • The impact that AI will have on design and the design professions, and how we must respond
  • Designing, constructing and operating a smart building: considerations around safety, comfort, security, energy and the overall atmosphere
  • How do we ensure that free movement of skills does not impact on collaboration between the construction industries in the EU and UK?
  • Emerging trends & future predictions for building façade
  • Urban development – assessing the impact to achieve sustainable buildings
  • The role of buildings in improving functional health – how can developments actively improve the well-being of users
  • The challenge that the Home Working phenomenon imposes on the continued vibrancy of city centre office areas
  • The ongoing impact of the continued war in Ukraine, and a vision for peace, as well as how the continued conflict is affecting the global economy

Unlocking Data Potential to Drive Omnichannel Growth for CPG & Retail in 2023

Overview

It’s been another challenging year for the consumer goods industry, with businesses still shaped by supply chain disruptions, rising prices, and unpredictable shopper priorities & behaviors than before COVID-19 pandemic. As we head into 2023, Omnichannel growth is essential for CPG & retail companies to meet the ever-evolving expectations and buying habits of today’s digital savvy consumers. Organizations must have real-time, granular visibility of inventory, consumer preferences, and demand across all channels (direct, indirect, and e-commerce) to provide an unrivaled customer experience and drive business growth. And each channel presents its own unique set of challenges. With the rise in e-commerce demand signals have become further fragmented, it is even harder to fulfill demand without accurate, timely consumer off-take data. The result is lost sales, high penalties, low brand reach, suboptimal growth, and profitability.

During this session, we will discuss how enterprise leaders can gain visibility, unlock supply chain potential and stay on top of the game in 2023, irrespective of the sales channel:

• • Key priorities for supply chain leaders in 2023
  • Challenges consumer goods face in achieving success across markets and sales channels
  • How are leading companies addressing these challenges?
  • What possibilities does this unlock for CPG & Retail brands?

Agenda:

17:00 – 17.30: Registrations and Welcome Drinks

17:30 – 17.35: Opening Note & Introduction by Tarun Gugnani – Director – CPG & Retail – Americas, EdgeVerve

17:35 – 17.55: Supply Chain Industry Outlook for 2023 by Dan Stolarski – Managing Director – PWC Advisory (Retail & Consumer Ops)

17:55 – 18.05: Unlocking Data Potential to Drive Omnichannel Growth in 2023 by Suresh P Bharadwaj, Global Platform Head – TradeEdge, EdgeVerve

18:05 – 18.45: A Follow Up Industry Panel Discussion

Moderator (Tarun Gugnani)

Panelist 1 – Dan Stolarski, MD – PwC Advisory

Panelist 2 – Deepak Jose, Global Head & Senior Director ODDA Analytics Solutions at Mars Wrigley

Panelist 3 – Suresh Prahlad Bharawaj, Global Platform Head – TradeEdge, EdgeVerve

Panelist 4 – Shantam Biswas, Principal Consultant – Analytics, Infosys

18:45 – 19.00: Open House (Interactive Session)

19:00 – 19:10: Possibilities Unlimited

19:10 – 20.30 Seated Three Course Dinner & Drinks

20:30: Program Ends

Speakers:

Dan Stolarski Managing Director, PwC

Dan Stolarski is a Managing Director in PwC’s Retail and Consumer Strategy & Operations practice. He leads the Retail Omni-Channel Enablement capability, which includes solutions that help retailers and brands evolve their channel and consumer experience strategy, operating models, supply chain and fulfillment experience, and data & analytics. Over his 20+ year career, Dan has partnered with retailers and consumer brands across a wide spectrum of segments, including Fashion & Luxury Apparel, Specialty Apparel Retail, Luxury Consumer Goods, Food & Beverage, Beauty & Personal Care, General Merchandise Retail, Department Stores, Big Box Specialty Retail, Furniture & Home Goods, Grocery, Off-Price, and Discount Chains. He also has significant global experience, having worked with retail and consumer clients in Asia, Australia, Europe, Latin America, and North America. Dan began his career as a merchant at Target Corporation. He received his BA and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan and resides in New Jersey with his wife and two children. Having grown up in inner-city Detroit, he is passionate about giving back to under-served communities and teaching economic empowerment to young adults in those communities.

Deepak Jose Global Head & Senior Director ODDA Analytics Solutions at Mars Wrigley

Deepak Jose is a purpose led executive leader in digital transformation, commercial strategy, data sciences, and analytics. He is currently the Global Head and Senior Director of One Demand Data and Analytics Solutions at Mars Wrigley and a Mars Global Customer Leadership team member. He was part of Mars Digital Technologies, where he led data and analytics transformation programs for Pet Care, Mars Wrigley, and Food & Multi Sales segments. Deepak leads a global team of data scientists, data engineers, DevOps and product strategy managers. Before Mars, Deepak was part of global brands like Coca-Cola, ABB, Asurion and Mu Sigma in strategic roles driving business growth. Deepak was awarded Global Top 100 Innovator in Data & Analytics by Corinium Intelligence. He is a member of the Retail & CPG Executive Advisory Forum for Amazon Web Services & advisory and board members of many other organizations

Suresh Prahlad Bharadwaj Global Platform Head – TradeEdge, EdgeVerve

Suresh is the Platform Head for TradeEdge. Suresh has vast professional experience in product management, strategy, and business process consulting in the Retail-CPG industry. He has led successive technology startups to significant value by creating globally-recognized products and platforms in the areas of warehouse management, logistics, and sales execution. His emerging markets experience has been a key driver in delivering frugal innovation within the consumer goods value chain. A great motivator and mentor, Suresh is an entrepreneur and a co-founder of Manhattan Associates (NASD:MANH), a global leader in supply chain solutions.

Tarun Gugnani Director – CPG & Retail - Americas, EdgeVerve

An accomplished IT business leader with over 20 years of experience in selling and conceptualizing innovative IT software solutions and services, establishing operations and launching new products and services in multiple geographies and verticals like CPG, retail, logistics, banking and financial services.

Shantam Biswas Principal – Consumer Products & Retail, Infosys

Shantam brings more than fifteen years of consulting experience helping consumer goods and retail companies address strategic growth issues, around sales and marketing, by applying advanced analytics and now AI/machine learning techniques in cloud environments. He has a unique ability to blend different sources of data through predictive models and descriptive insights to identify emerging trends and uncover granular growth opportunities through a superior understanding of consumers and deep domain expertise. His expertise spans areas of demand driven growth strategies, category management, revenue growth management, retail activation, and marketing spend optimization through a combination of predictive and prescriptive analytics, automated solutions, and consultative engagement. He has a proven track record of serving as a trusted thought partner to senior client leadership, selling complex projects, growing relationship with marquee clients, and in process building next generation capabilities and assets.