The pandemic has brought to light the fragility of enterprise cost structures, lack of accurate and timely information, and a poor cash flow management. In a changing and uncertain economic environment, the challenge for finance leaders is to achieve a strategic cost transformation with a range of digital accelerators that can go beyond short-term cost savings. This actionable and pragmatic approach will enable organisations to protect margins, improve cash liquidity, and boost bottom-line performance.

Please join the EVP & CFO of Haribo of America, Wes Saber in this Executive Interview where he will discuss how to manage the challenges of 2020 and how to plan for success in 2021. Wes discusses how focusing on eCommerce trends helps you stay connected with your consumers and your community.

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• Nurturing Agility to thrive in increasingly uncertain and rapidly changing markets
• Shifting the emphasis from meeting short-term negotiated objectives… to unleashing the reactivity and potential of your organization with more adaptative planning
• Ensuring the operational underpinning of strategies and plans, and taking advantage of modern forecasting solutions

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Discussion on Rittal UK experience using low coding applications such as HCL Domino and Microsoft Power Apps and low cost hardware such as Rasperry Pi to develop workflows, databases and data visualisation tools.

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To understand value creation, this presentation will provide the audience with an understanding of structuring debt – including using derivatives to hedge interest risk and stock dilution. Optimizing liquidity and funding availability to allow for flexibility in mergers/acquisitions and corporate restructuring. Discover financial flexibility through long-term financial planning. Understand dynamics of research and the related investor and stock price behavior.

• Learn financial strategies and obtain practical tools to create value through funding (public or private funding)
• Understand how to use restructuring options effectively
• Gain knowledge on the practical application of risk management

Today’s business has been severely disrupted with the advent of cloud based infrastructure, advent of Robotics, AI and M/C learning, there has never been better time for finance to lead this transformation at the front. Customers and partners do not want to buy the product or services in isolation and then stich the myriad offerings and incur high capex spending. Its time to buy the outcomes with utmost ease and flexibility. With this approach companies have to come with a new operating model, remove the friction points in the current business and enable a commerce with differentiated experience. The key consideration of new business model remains the same a) Process b) Policies c) System/capabilities d) Data.

This session will cover the benefits of digital technologies, having skilled talent and an organisation that nurtures innovation. It will cover the importance of getting and retaining executive buy in of digital technology, skilled talent and innovation. Finally, it will cover some key tips and techniques for gaining and retaining executive buy in – including considering cost, risk and benefit.

In an ever changing world, the CFO is expected to highly participate, even more so to lead the change. How to do that? What is the importance of company culture in there and how can you contribute as finance? And how can we apply that learning to any large transformation projects and in digitisation?

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.” This Chinese proverb goes to the essence of what is required for successful change management. Those involved in experiencing the change need to believe and understand it. They need to feel the experience is of benefit to them. Therefore the importance of understanding the human impact of any change is crucial. It requires strong leadership; it requires impactful communication; it requires very careful planning and it requires supreme patience

At EDF UK the Enterprise IT function reports to the CFO and has direct accountability for EDF UKs enabling IT services. Over the last 2 years we’ve been changing the way we provide IT with less of a focus on Capital investment and asset management and more of a focus on user experience, collaboration and productivity. One trigger for this change was a visit I made to our UK customer contact centres in Sunderland which set in train a series changes that ultimately meant the IT team were able to respond with agility and bias to action to the challenges of moving a workforce from office to home working, almost overnight, in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Please join the North Region of Central Florida CFO at Advent Health, Brent Davis in this Executive Interview where he will discuss how his team has adapted to continue aligning their short term and long term goals with their mission, vision, and values in a time of uncertainty.