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.

CXO Cyience: Fueling Industry 4.0 adoption for Smarter Operations

Join an exclusive group of industry leaders, as we discuss the key trends and technological enablers of Industry 4.0 and smart operations. The discussion will be centered around some of the key aspects that enterprises should focus on to adopt and scale I4.0 solutions –

• Alignment of the I4.0 strategy with a clear digitalization roadmap, business targets & monetization opportunities (i.e. business case delivering clear ROI targets)
• Identification of the right starting point for investment(s) and strategizing to keep these intact during an economic downturn/recession (incl. investments aimed towards achieving sustainability goals)
• Alignment of processes and structure to enable enterprise integration through a “sensorize-connect-monetize” approach
• Adapting organization processes, technologies, and structure to handle the transformation
• Adopting a holistic approach instead of domain-specific solutions addressing individual processes
• Adapting organization structure & leveraging strategic partnerships to upskill & build talent-at-scale
• Addressing workforce shortage by leveraging automation techniques (such as bots, etc.)

Agenda:

5:15pm-6:00pm: Registration and Pre-event networking
6:00pm-7:00pm: Panel Introduction & Discussion
• Akshat Vaid, VP – Everest Group
• Anand Parameswaran, President & Global Head of Technology Delivery, Cyient

7:0pm-7:30pm: Q&A
7:30pm-9:00pm: Dinner and post-event networking

Venue: Rosewood Mansion at Turtle Creek

Date: 8 December

Overview

A huge chunk of data within organizations is unstructured and locked in documents. AI enabled Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) is a game changer opening doors to a wealth of rich insights critical for faster and easier decision making without the need for time-intensive and manual extraction of information from documents.

Industry specific processes continue to dominate IDP adoption. Financial services, with use cases in customer onboarding and contract analysis, is showing significant traction.

Financial services enterprises often deal with a variety of complex contracts with inherent risks. IDP can step up the process of analyzing and reviewing contracts identifying and extracting key clauses and terms for better risk analysis and shortening negotiation cycles. Similarly, customer onboarding is a crucial process for banks, who need to ensure adherence to KYC and other norms, as also a smooth onboarding experience. IDP reduces the repetitive manual data entry and analysis thereby providing both speed and compliance.

Key Takeaways:

• • How enterprises are unlocking business value from their documents with AI (Specifically Deep Learning techniques like Vision and NLP) as part of their digital transformation journey
  • How you can drive cost reduction, process efficiency, and improve the customer experience at your organization
  • How to leverage this technology in different scenarios
  • Discuss current challenges and how IDP can help in shaping the enterprise of the future by
    • Improving business outcomes
    • Accelerating innovation
    • Driving growth in endless ways

The Edge Power Room Series will bring together thought leaders to discuss current challenges and how automation can help improve business outcomes, accelerate innovation and drive growth in endless ways, thus shaping the enterprise of the future. As the digital revolution takes shape, enterprises which can derive intelligence, from all the data that lies within the plethora of documents, will be able to shape the future and thrive in disruption.

Are you geared up shape the future of your enterprise?

Agenda:

Speakers

Badri Devalla Senior Director, Digitization and Automation Solutions, EdgeVerve

Badri Devalla is the Senior Director & Head – AI & Automation Solutions at EdgeVerve. Badri is responsible for implementing solutions leveraging AI & RPA products for Enterprise clients. Badri has delivered cognitive automation across Enterprise Operations using AI techniques ranging from Recommendation Engines to Deep Learning-based NLP to redefine customer experience and improve operations efficiency. His current focus is on “Doc to Digital” approaches to pipeline enriched & validated extracts from documents to Enterprise systems supporting business processes for New Business, KYC, Servicing, Claims, Telecom Billing, and Contracts Analysis. In his 25+ years of experience, he has led teams of systems architects, business process consultants, and Automation experts. He is an alumnus of Texas A&M University with a Master’s in Electrical Engineering (Data Compression & Error Correction) and a PhD in Computer Science (Networking & Real-time Systems).

Praveen Kombial Vice President at EdgeVerve, an Infosys company

His mandate is to leverage Artificial Intelligence and Emerging technologies to build and launch products solving for specific business problems for industries globally. At EdgeVerve, Praveen leads a highly talented team of Engineers and Product managers in building an ecosystem of Products addressing industries and functions such Financial Services, Insurance, Consumer Packaged Goods and Supply chains. Prior to Infosys, Praveen spent many years at GE Capital and GE Money in India and did a gamut of functions and roles across retail finance, corporate leasing and risk management. Among other things, he managed a 500Mn$ Auto portfolio, was instrumental in setting up a fast funding channel in consumer lending and expanded a corporate leasing product. With his background across core Industry domains and the evolving cutting edge technology landscape, Praveen is on the forefront of driving change and brings a practitioner’s view to translate concepts to reality.

Imke Jacob Partner, McKinsey & Company

I’m a Partner with the Global Banking Practice of McKinsey & Company. From my base in New York, I support financial services organizations including corporate and commercial banks, retail and wealth management businesses on making the most of analytics to drive growth and build trust with customers. I have experience in: digital strategy, data transformation, growth strategy, marketing and sales, new ways of working and advanced analytics. I’m deeply interested in artificial intelligence and how banks can better harness internal and external data to carve out a sustainable competitive edge. Prior to joining McKinsey, I gained my banking experience working as a director of international business coordination and strategy at a global bank. I am passionate about developing and mentoring younger colleagues in particular women to grow and succeed in their careers. Outside of work I enjoy spending time with my family.

We welcome you to our 20th annual International Power Summit where our unique business meeting and conference format allows audiences to discover and connect directly.

IPS is an international event attracting an exclusive line-up of speakers from across the Power Generation, Renewable and Energy sectors, including key decision makers in Procurement, Plant Development, Maintenance, Technical & Engineering, Asset Management, Project Management, and International Business Development.

IPS 2023 enables you to build new partnerships, identify more contacts, exchange ideas and initiatives with companies and individuals who influence change and development for future business.

Join us in September to engage with your peers and gain new insights from key industry leaders examining more opportunities during this time of energy transition. The meticulously researched programme, led by key industry speakers, will help you better understand the current issues shaping the power generation market today.

Topics include:​

• Deep diving into energy-as-a-service models for the new energy revolution
• Digitalisation and advanced analytics in power generation – enabling enhanced production and increased revenue​
• Tapping into new technologies in Wind, Solar and Hydro Power to minimise carbon emissions from fossil fuelled power generation
• Applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable fault prediction and dynamic power plant maintenance
• New trends and best practices for conventional and renewable energy project financing
• The role of Nuclear energy in an environmentally sustainable future​
• Latest advancements and future prospect of geothermal energy in Europe
• Uncovering Europe’s green hydrogen potential and opportunities
• Evaluating and implementing the right tools to predict and manage high volumes of renewable energy
• The importance of E-Fuels in creating a climate neutral future in Europe

This complimentary registration form is only for Operator and Power Plant delegates.

Date: 20th -21st September 2023

Location: Milan, Italy

Venue: Radisson Blu Milan – Via Villapizzone, 24, 20156 Milano MI, Italy

Overview

Automation is not transformation, and technology alone will not achieve finance’s objectives. Leading finance executives know the calculus for transforming F&A to support growth, reducing costs and increasing business agility is based on several key best practices and organisation fundamentals.

Join us for this exclusive, invitation-only boardroom dinner where Adam Murray, CFO at Flight Centre will share insights and tips on how to champion change to achieve the promises of finance transformation

Agenda:

The The Edge Power Room Series – Unlocking the value from unstructured data and documents

Overview

A huge chunk of data within organizations are unstructured and locked in documents. These organizations are staring at lost opportunities because they fail to capture and make sense of all the information hidden in these documents.
AI enabled Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) is a game changer opening doors to a wealth of rich insights critical for faster and easier decision making without the need for time-intensive and manual extraction of information from documents.
Leveraging IDP, companies can deliver assured outcomes such as higher workforce productivity, faster time to value, and resilient business.

The Edge Power Room Series will bring together thought leaders to discuss current challenges and how automation can help improve business outcomes, accelerate innovation and drive growth in endless ways, thus shaping the enterprise of the future.
As the digital revolution takes shape, enterprises which can derive intelligence, from all the data that lies within the plethora of documents, will be able to shape the future and thrive in disruption.
Are you geared up shape the future of your enterprise?

Agenda:

Speakers

Badri Devalla Senior Director, Digitization and Automation Solutions, EdgeVerve

Badri Devalla is the Senior Director & Head – AI & Automation Solutions at EdgeVerve. Badri is responsible for implementing solutions leveraging AI & RPA products for Enterprise clients. Badri has delivered cognitive automation across Enterprise Operations using AI techniques ranging from Recommendation Engines to Deep Learning-based NLP to redefine customer experience and improve operations efficiency. His current focus is on “Doc to Digital” approaches to pipeline enriched & validated extracts from documents to Enterprise systems supporting business processes for New Business, KYC, Servicing, Claims, Telecom Billing, and Contracts Analysis. In his 25+ years of experience, he has led teams of systems architects, business process consultants, and Automation experts. He is an alumnus of Texas A&M University with a Master’s in Electrical Engineering (Data Compression & Error Correction) and a PhD in Computer Science (Networking & Real-time Systems).