AGENDA
OUR TOPICS
The CFO of today is facing a rapidly changing environment, increasingly due to technological development. To remain at the top, CFOs have to act and capture the full potential of new technologies and implement them through inspiring leadership.
SUSTAINABLE
FINANCE
The second main topic will address how companies need to incorporate a sustainable and green focus on their strategies and business models. The topic will touch upon how to use ESG in strategic decisions and secure future growth.
ORGANISATIONAL
FINANCE
The second main topic will touch upon how to succeed in the digital age, key abilities a finance team must have in 2022, how to create relevant KPIs that are actionable and how to invest in your finance department for future development.
THE IMPACT OF
TECHNOLOGY
The third main topic will focus on how using technology can create more value and lead to better business decisions. The topic will touch upon robotic process automation, software services, data management, advanced analytics, AI, and how technology has changed the role of the modern CFO.
2022 AGENDA
- 8:00 - 9:00
- 9:00 - 9:10
The Official Introduction to CFO Insights 2022.
- 9:10 - 9:35
Claus is the Group CFO of one of the largest privately held companies in the world, Mars Incorporated. Claus has extensive experience within F&B, pet food, and veterinary services, and is responsible for over 40$ billion dollars in sales. With his extensive experience, Claus will shine a light over what he thinks 2023 holds for both the economy, the finance function in general, and the CFO role specifically. Claus will come across various subjects including the current economic outlook, ESG, strategy, and much more. What better way to kick off the day!
Claus Aagaard
Global CFO
- 9:40 - 10:20
Our experts will cover: what are the “dos and dont’s” for a CFO in M&A, how can you as a CFO secure that M&A is value-adding for the company and what changes can be expected for the CFOs role in M&A going forward?
Kim Hendil Tegner
Equity Partner & CFO Program Lead
Thomas Johansen
Partner & CFO
Gert Jørgensen
Group CFO
1) What should you consider when thinking about centralizing finance within your company? And which functions should be centralized?
2) What are the arguments against centralization, and when might it be a bad idea?
3) What are the best tools for centralizing? E.g. should you build Centers of Intelligence, Shared Service Centers etc.
Moderator
Allan Auning Hansen
CEO
Speaker
Anders Lonning Skovgaard
Executive Vice President & CFO
Speaker
Carsten Dyrup Revsbech
CFO, Norway
Speaker
Thomas Dyhrberg Nielsen
CFO
Speaker
Philipp Temmel
Partner & Head of Life Science & Chemicals
1) How do you organize your organization to best allow for successful business partnering?
2) What are the common challenges when trying to establish an effective business partnership, and how do you resolve these?
3) How do you utilize business partnering to optimize performance management?
4) How can you factor in business partnering into your transformation strategy?
Moderator
Lene Hall
CFO & CIO
Speaker
Mette Ingeman Pedersen
Group CFO
Speaker
Tina Hørbye Christensen
Group CFO
Speaker
Marcin Nogalski
SVP Finance
- 10:25 - 11:05
1) In what area of the business do you see the best use case for analytics? E.g. in supply chain, operations, or sales?
2) How can data analytics be used to drive forward commercial growth, and strengthen the value proposition?
3) How do you transform your business to enable a greater use of data analytics?
Moderator
Mette Hundebøl Nielsen
CFO & CIO
Speaker
Christian Baltzer
Group CFO
Speaker
Anders Boyer
Executive Vice President & Group CFO
Speaker
Mads Dorf Petersen
Head of Strategic Finance
Speaker
Niels Peter Larsen
CFO & Partner
1) Which areas of the business are the most crucial to automate??
2) How much does an automated finance function affect overall efficiency in the company?
3) How does it benefit you as a CFO to have an automated finance function?
Moderator
Peter Nordgaard
Lector
Speaker
Per Sørensen
COO
Speaker
Ann-Sofie Østberg Bjergby
Group CFO
Speaker
Natalie Bates
SAP CoE Value Architect Manager
Speaker
Tapan Kumar Dash
Technology Director
1) What are the possibilities of a transformation, and how do you align your goals with the state of your company?
2) How do you structure and fund a digital transformation?
3) What is the best practice for implementing a digital transformation, and how do you make sure that the organization, and its stakeholders are ready for it
Moderator
Michael Hjalsted
Senior Director
Speaker
Peter La Cour Gormsen
Group CFO
Speaker
Carsten Topholt
CFO, Denmark
Speaker
Kasper Tjørntved Davidsen
CTO
- 11:05 - 11:35
Network smartly with +1,200 other CFOs and future finance leaders through the networking app.
- 11:40 - 12:05
Not many have experienced a career developement as rapid as Kasper’s. Being the Group CFO of one of the biggest stock-listed companies in the world, Kasper has gained significant experience within all of the finance subjects. With this in mind, Kasper will share his experiences with moving up the corporate ladder within finance as well how he uses the CFO role to become a strategic partner to the CEO and board. Kasper will include information about the current transformation of ISS.
Kasper Fangel
Executive Vice President & Group CFO
- 12:05 - 13:00
Grab yourself a lunch and network smartly with +1,200 other CFOs and future finance leaders through the networking app.
- 13:00 - 13:40
1) In what area of the business do you see the best use case for analytics? E.g. in supply chain, operations, or sales?
2) How can data analytics be used to drive forward commercial growth, and strengthen the value proposition?
3) How do you transform your business to enable a greater use of data analytics?
Moderator
Jesper Schleimann
Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer
Speaker
Jacob Götzsche
President & CEO
Speaker
Nikolaj Wendelboe
Executive Vice President & CFO
Speaker
Sanne Christensen
Finance Director
1) What should be the main digital focus for employees and managers?
2) How do you work together with the CTO/CIO to provide proper upskilling and competencies for your employees?
3) How do you structure an upskilling program in practice, and how extensive should a program be?
Moderator
Morten Toft
CFO
Speaker
Thomas Angelius
Global CIO
Speaker
Jacob Lehman
Group CFO
Speaker
Hans Henrik Thrane
CFO
- 13:00 - 13:20
1) Coop was Oracle EPM first mover in Denmark with both Consolidation & Close + Narrative Reporting
2) Lessons learned by using Oracle in an SAP environment
3) Effective and efficient processes around closing and consolidation and the ability to deliver agile and captivating reports for the board and C-level
Mirella Hansen
Director of Group Finance
- 13:20 - 13:40
Stephen Faulkner
Global CFO Industry Lead
Carsten Lützhøft
Senior Director Process Digitalisation
- 13:45 - 14:25
1) When developing an ESG strategy, how do you make sure that your goals align with the governance “G-criteria” in ESG?
2) What are the key factors that can make an ESG strategy a good investment?
3) How do you make sure that your ESG efforts fuel growth?
Moderator
Jens Pultz Pedersen
Director
Speaker
Henrik Aamann
CFO
Speaker
Morten Agdrup
Vice President, Head of Corporate Finance & Strategy
Speaker
Anne Mette Barfod
CFO - Global Head of Finance & Supply Chain
Speaker
Mikael Geday
Group CFO
1) How uncertain times affected your forecasting
2) What are the benefits of scenario planning and rolling forecasting
3) How do you address the gap between planned actions, and what is actually being done to eliminate the “knowing-doing gap”
Moderator
Toni Brandenhof
CFO
Speaker
Curt Anderson
Director Nordics, UK & Benelux
Speaker
Daniel Langfeldt
Head of Reporting & Forecasting
Speaker
Björn Peters
CFO
Speaker
Mads Winther
Group CFO
CFO
- 13:45 - 14:05
How CFO’s are increasing the success of digital initiatives.
Peter Harden
Country Manager, Denmark
- 14:05 - 14:25
We know what stellar business performance looks like today. What we’re really interested in is what it looks like tomorrow. Vice President of Sales & GM Nordic & Eastern Europe, Michael Zink will share the view on the next generation of business performance, including the latest developments in Execution Management and latest Celonis product innovations, and what this means for companies like yours.
Michael Zink
Vice President of Sales & GM Nordic & Eastern Europe
- 14:30 - 14:55
Henrik Andersen is the CEO of Vestas, the most sustainable company in the world. Henrik will be giving a keynote speech with the title “Leverage Opportunities In ESG To Secure Future Growth” at the 2022 CFO Insights Europe conference on September 15’th.
The keynote speech will address the following topics:
1) How ESG affects the growth agenda
2) The energy transition the world is going through
3) How ESG links to the finance community
Henrik Andersen
President & CEO
- 14:55 - 15:30
Network smartly with +1,200 other CFOs and future finance leaders through the networking app.
- 15:30- 16:10
1) What do you look for in people when hiring, and what competencies are you looking for in candidates? Have the relevant competencies changed?
2) How do you scale an organization while focusing on utilizing digitalization and technology, and not people?
3) How do you create an agile and efficient organization while experiencing rapid growth, and trying to scale as fast as possible
Moderator
Rasmus Lønborg
Senior Vice President
Speaker
Thorbjørn Lund-Poulsen
CFO
Speaker
Stig Pastwa
Partner & COO
Speaker
Mikael Koch Jensen
Group CFO
Where is Digitalization going? And where is Compliance and Reporting going? What are the future Global trends?
AI, Quantum Computing, RPA and the Impact on Global compliance and the requirements for Finance Functions will be covered in this Fireside-chat.
Speaker
Kristian N. Stidsen
Partner | Head of Global Compliance & Reporting, Finance Operate & Transformation
Speaker
Hans C. Jessen
Partner I Global Innovation Leader, Robotics & AI
1) How to establish a strategic procurement process
2) How to utilize technology to increase quality control and governance
3) How to leverage data to gain better insight in suppliers
Moderator
Bo Møller
Head of Procurement
Speaker
Kenneth Henriks
Group CFO
Speaker
David Howie
CCO
Speaker
Narcis Jørgensen
Head of Procurement
Speaker
Henrik Larsen
Former Group CPO
- 16:15 - 16:40
Anders Wall is the Group CFO of Denmarks fastest growing greentech scale-up, Greenmobility. Greenmobility has shared electric cars all over big danish cities as well as big cities abroad. Anders will give his view on how to achieve esg objectives through a thorough focus on digitalization of traditional industries.
Anders Wall
Group CFO
- 16:40 - 16:50
Official thank you from and final remarks to CFO Insights 2022.
- 16:50 - 19:00
Enjoy drinks and network with more than 1,200 CFOs, current and future finance leaders at the official CFO Insights 2022 post-conference drinks & networking.
