Name: 21st Edition of CFO Leadership Summit, India
Start: 08/10/2021 04:30 AM +00:00
End: 08/10/2021 01:00 PM +00:00

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14:00 - 14:10: Welcome Note by Exito Media Concepts Pvt. Ltd
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14:10 - 14:30: OPENING KEYNOTE PRESENTATION - Balancing Traditional Roles with New Responsibilities
<ul>
<li>Emerging role of CFOs as Strategic Business Advisor- Engagement with external stakeholders</li>
<li>Shift in focus &nbsp;from traditional cost control to growth optimisation</li>
<li>As a CFO, taking care of Enterprise Risk Management and Enterprise Resource Planning</li>
<li>How rapid evolution of ICT evolving the CFO's role?</li>
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14:30 - 14:50: Solution Showcase - Innovation Insights for Extended Planning &amp; Analysis (xP&amp;A) using IBM Watson AI
We live in an era of digital transformation where disruption is always at the door &mdash; especially as it relates to optimizing the power of data to inspire informed decision-making. To not just survive, but thrive, you need to evolve your planning and analysis solutions and future proof your investments in the process. Successful planning, budgeting and forecasting requires accurate data, a single source of truth, collaboration across the entire organization and the flexibility to adjust plans and forecasts quickly. It sounds simple, but in most organizations, business unit planning is a lengthy, manual and siloed process. So how do you get started? Join us and hear our experts explain how at IBM, we&rsquo;ve actually been doing it for years. Let&rsquo;s dive deeper.
Speakers:
Pradeep Iyer, Segment Leader &ndash; Watson AI at IBM India/South Asia
Atul Joshi, Chief Technical Architect at IBM India/South Asia
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14:50 - 15:35: PANEL DICUSSION - Becoming a data-driven CFO
<ul>
<li>Accurate use of data to become a strategic enabler for the organization.</li>
<li>Your view on CFOs role in providing insights and analysis to support key business decisions, proactively lead strategic initiatives, create efficient and effective finance functions, and how effectively does this contribute to profitable growth.</li>
<li>Reliance on analytics to understand the past and predict the future for informed decision-making.</li>
<li>Becoming an Analytics-savvy CFO - leveraging both financial and non-financial data to support cross-departmental decision making</li>
</ul>
Moderator - Yash Arora, CFO at Indian Oil-Adani Gas Ltd.
Panellists:&nbsp;&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>Raghupati Mishra, CFO at Liberty House Group</li>
<li>Ashish Goenka, CFO at Jubilant Foodworks Limited</li>
<li>Amit Gupta, CFO at P&amp;G Healthcare</li>
<li>Atul Joshi, Chief Technical Architect at IBM India/South Asia</li>
</ul>
15:35 - 16:20: PANEL DISCUSSION - Ensuring ROI for your digital investments
<ul>
<li>Top technology implementations for the automation in finance processes - AI and RPA</li>
<li>Aligning your technological investments with your business goals.</li>
<li>Will CFOs remain focussed on greater business value for their IT investments?</li>
<li>Strategies that will help measure the performance of digital investments</li>
</ul>
Moderator: Hithesh Uppal, CFO at Magic Bricks
Panellists:
Rupesh Mishra, CFO at Bharti Airtel Limited, Gurgaon
Jogendra Singh, CFO and President at Hero Enterprise
Sanjay Banka, CFO at Senco Gold and Diamonds
Tanmay Kumar, CFO at Spencer's Retail
Gaurav Khandelwal, CFO-India/South East Asia, Oyo
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16:20 - 16:40: Keynote - CFO Torch-bearer of ESG efforts
Speaker: Amitesh Sinha, CFO at SIMA Funds
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16:40 - 17:25: PANEL DISCUSSION - RPA's impact on finance processes
<ul>
<li>How much of an impact has the implementation of RPA in your financial processes made?</li>
<li>Major challenges faced in its implementation</li>
<li>Tackling the fear of automation - How tech savvy does the CFO have to be for the automation of the finance process.</li>
<li>RPAs role in creating business resilience, reduce costs and improving accuracy.</li>
</ul>
Moderator: Jayaprakash Kalappan, CFO &amp; Company Secretary at Panasonic Appliances India Company Limited
Panellists:
Jagdish Baheti, CFO at Delfingen India
Sambasivan G., CFO at Tata Sky Limited
Santosh Abbimane, Group Chief Financial and Transformation Officer, DTDC Express Limited
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17:25 - 17:30 : Closing Note by Exito

Agenda

Speakers19 Speakers

Raghupati Mishra

Yash Arora

Hitesh Uppal

Santosh Abbimane

Gaurav Khandelwal

Amit Gupta

Jogendra Singh

Sanjay Banka

Amitesh Sinha

Jagdish Baheti

Jayaprakash Kalappan

Pradeep Iyer

Sambasivan G.

Atul Joshi

Tanmay Kumar

Nikita Rana

Rupesh Mishra

Tanisha Govindarajan

Ashish Goenka

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