- 25 September 2024
- 9:00am - 6:00pm
- Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
EVENT OVERVIEW
More than ever, CFO and CIO collaboration is crucial for delivering the desired outcomes set by the CEO and the Board.
The CIO’s focus on leveraging technology for innovation and operational efficiency complements the CFO’s responsibility for financial planning, risk management, and resource allocation. Together, they can create a unified vision for how technology can enable the organization to deliver the desired outcomes.
By aligning their efforts, the CIO and CFO can ensure that technology investments are not only cost-effective but also directly contribute to the financial health and long-term success of the company.
A Gartner poll of more than 1,400 executive leaders revealed that 45% of enterprises are scaling generative AI investments across multiple business functions, with 22% scaling across more than three different functions.
AI is no longer exclusive to the CIO office. Among leading organisations, its democratization of use coupled with a sound governance framework, is creating new business opportunities and delivering desired outcomes.
Running in its fifth year under the theme of “Delivering Outcomes” at C-Engage Convention 2024, we are bringing together experienced industry practitioners and domain experts to share with attendees the latest in technology and best practices to maximise the value innovations in process and technology to deliver strategic goals and desired outcomes in 2025 and beyond.
At this year’s flagship event, we will cover:
- Achieving sustainable growth
- Transformative leadership
- Embracing AI to power growth
- Harnessing the latest digital capabilities for decision-making
- Continuous innovation
- Human-machine partnerships
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
C-Engage Convention aims to give insights on driving technological transformation and on addressing pressing concerns to optimize digital investments and business performance to over 400 senior IT and finance leaders from multiple industries in the region.
This one-day event offers the best opportunity to hear from the industry’s leading professionals, contribute questions from the floor, engage in panel discussions, attend hands-on workshops on harnessing the power of disruptive technologies, and witness first-hand best practices in deploying the right technology and strategy to be successful in moving to the next phase of digital transformation and managing the change.
High-Level Industry Speakers
We gather 40+ industry speakers and experts from leading organizations for keynote presentations and incisive discussions so you can tap on their invaluable insights and best practices to your digital transformation journey.
Interactive Discussions
Be part of our interactive panel discussions that address the current hot topics, share ideas and experiences and get the answers to your pressing questions from prominent business leaders on stage.
Networking Opportunities
Meet new business partners, engage and forge new connections with our business leaders, end users, solution providers and many more at our event through luncheons, coffee breaks, one-to-one meetings and informal introductions.
Targeted In-Depth Sessions
8 hours of learning and networking opportunities packed into 10 in-depth sessions. Listen to corporate-driven best practices and case studies sharing that are targeted to your profession through the personalized conferences we crafted for you - FutureCIO and FutureCFO conferences.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
CEOs, COOs, CIOs, CTOs, CMOs, CHROs, CROs, CSOs, CSCOs, CPOs, Directors, Heads, MDs, SVPs, VPs, Leads, involved in:
- Information Technology
- Finance
- Operations
- General management
- Procurement
- Supply Chain
- Sustainability
- Innovation & Digital Technology
- Human Resources
- Risk Management
At the conference
2024 AGENDA
09.00
Conference Chairperson’s Welcome Remarks
Alvin Rodrigues
Editorial Consultant
CXOCIETY
09.15
PANEL DISCUSSION I: Modernising Foundational Digital Platforms
An IDC study mentions that digital infrastructure is set to drive 43% of business revenue in Asia by 2027. From adopting customer-centric mindset to embracing product-based approaches, CIOs need to redesign their IT framework and strategy to guarantee continuous business transformation.
- Key trends that will shape digital transformation landscape in 2024
- Transforming IT for digital success
- Doing the cloud right: Scalable and flexible
- Transforming IT Ops with hyper-automation
- Optimising digital platforms for AI and D&A delivery
- Building/deploying solutions that support specific revenue stream
MODERATOR:
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
PANELIST:
Yedu Siddalingappa
Technology Lead Specialist– AI-Native Networks
JUNIPER NETWORKS
10.15
PANEL DISCUSSION II: Embedding IT in Business Strategy
IDC predicts that by 2026, 60% of CIOs will find their roles being challenged by line-of-business (LOB) counterparts who can better demonstrate the ability to align technology with organisation’s mission and customers.
As an enabler that solves business’s problems and needs, IT is a powerful catalyst for business’ progress, innovation and efficiency. Therefore, to emerge as a true business enabler, CIOs must have profound understanding of the organisation’s wider goals and act as business’ strategic partner.
- IT as business enabler
- Strategies for tracking and assessing disruptive trends
- Partnering with business teams and building an ecosystem of innovation partners
- CapEx vs. OpEx: Funding IT strategy that delivers against business objectives
- Adopting a franchise model for IT to co-own the responsibility of digital delivery with other CxOs
MODERATOR:
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
PANELISTS:
Donseok Ahn
Global IT Director – Medical
RECKITT
09.00
Conference Chairperson’s Welcome Remarks
Jeremy Gray
Editorial Consultant
CXOCIETY
09.15
PANEL DISCUSSION I: Achieving Sustainable Growth and Cost Efficiency
Dealing with overall macroeconomic conditions, increased interest rate, rising capital costs and geopolitical challenges will worry many senior finance executives in 2024. Finance leaders are under great pressure to bring costs down to anticipate volatile business landscapes in the coming years and yet, also tasked to preserve profitability for the business.
- What’s top of CFO’s mind in 2024
- Monitoring business/investment risks under global uncertainty in 2024
- Capturing market opportunities to ensure unit economics stay above the hurdle rate
- Strategic cost reduction: Balancing revenue-sustaining and cost-cutting efforts
- Building robust balance sheet in turbulent times
- Striking the optimum balance between cost cutting and investing for growth
MODERATOR:
Editorial consultant, CXOCIETY
PANELIST:
Shivam Kumar
CFO – South East Asia and Taiwan
HALEON
10.15
PANEL DISCUSSION II: CFO’s Transformative Leadership
- What it takes to be an effective transformative CFO
- Designing a future finance operating model that supports growth and innovation
- CFO’s leadership in delivering transformation projects
- What really matters to a CFO in 2024 and beyond?
- Lessons learned managing stakeholders and orchestrating company-wide transformation
MODERATOR:
Editorial consultant, CXOCIETY
PANELISTS:
Christine Tan
Chief Financial Officer, APAC
CYTIVA
Hongrui Mo
CFO
MET ASIA ENERGY
Li Chong Jin
CFO
SINGAPORE POOLS
11.15
FIRESIDE CHAT I: CIO’s Guide on Technology Business Management (TBM)
According to IDC, ICT spending grew in 2021 by more than 7.1% in APAC to US$ 950 billion, and is expected to reach US$ 1.1 trillion by 2025. Also, Gartner indicates that only 1.8% increase of the global spend will occur in Southeast Asia. This session will highlight the importance of TBM for IT leaders to do more with less and manage the challenges that many have around budgets and financial transparency with the business.
- The fiscal responsibility of an IT leader
- TBM as a tool to track IT fiscal performance and minimize redundancy/duplications in IT spends
- The KPIs in TBM
- Deploying TBM to mature IT portfolio management programs in 2024-2025
- Creating technology investments framework to better understand business
- Leveraging data-driven insights for CIO’s decision making and build solid base to drive growth
INTERVIEWER:
Alvin Rodrigues
Editorial Consultant
CXOCIETY
INTERVIEWEE:
Senior representative, SAP
11:40
PANEL DISCUSSION III: Using Generative AI to Power Growth
The era of widespread adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) tools have come. AI has captured the attention of many IT leaders and reaching more users. CIOs must prepare to fit emerging transformative technologies, such as GenAI, into the enterprise’s digital planning and technology investments.
- The future of Gen AI’s enterprise developments and applications
- How to leverage GenAI and where do you begin: What is realistic, what has worked and what has not?
- Moderating GenAI
- Managing AI risk, ethics and governance
- GenAI use cases
MODERATOR:
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
PANELISTS:
Natalie Que
CIO/Chief Data and Digital Officer – SEA and North Asia
KENVUE
11:15
FIRESIDE CHAT I: Improving Working Capital to Sustain the Growth Engine
- Achieving effective working capital management by accelerating cash conversion cycle
- Planning and metrics for effective working capital optimisation strategy
- Finance and Procurement’s strategic collaboration to improve working capital
- Designing debt prevention strategies to mitigate bad debt risks
- Aligning policies, procedures and technology with working capital’s KPIs
INTERVIEWER:
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
11:40
PANEL DISCUSSION III: Embracing Generative AI: Opportunities and Risks for CFOs
According to EY, CFOs saw a new priority on C-Suite agenda as they steer their organisations through an uncertain growth outlook in 2024: Generative AI (GenAI).
As much as this transformative technology is a powerful ally in shaping enterprise’s sustainable and prosperous future in the age of innovation, there are considerations that CFOs need to ponder before they confidently embark on adopting GenAI for their business.
- How is GenAI shaping the future of business and finance teams?
- Prioritising AI projects that deliver ROI
- Tackling technical debt presented by AI investments
- Responsible applications of Gen AI
- Challenges in ensuring AI and data governance
MODERATOR:
Daniel Leung
Country Manager
ACCA SINGAPORE
PANELISTS:
14.30
PANEL DISCUSSION IV: Transformative IT Leadership
In an era of on-going disruptions, the leadership team tend to have ambitious business agendas that require technology. CIOs need to step in and manage broad portfolio of enterprise technology required to transform, innovate, and run the business. To achieve these, CIOs need to deliver tech at speed, innovate at scale and harness the power of human-centred and bold leadership.
- The changing role of CIO
- IT leadership for greater agility
- Meeting the challenges in building enterprise’s digital dexterity and operational models
- Executive effectiveness in delivering digital dividends and transformation projects
- Lessons learned managing stakeholders and orchestrating company-wide transformation
MODERATOR:
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
PANELISTS:
Henk van Rossum
General Manager – Group Cloud, Infrastructure and IT Operations
INTERNATIONAL SOS
Arif-Uz-Zaman
Head of Technology
TRANSCOM LTD. (BANGLADESH)
14.05
FIRESIDE CHAT II: ESG in the Era of Escalating Costs
With ESG efforts maturing and continuous business challenges face CFOs every now and then, CFOs and management teams undeniably have a lot on their plates. Some may even be rethinking their ESG priorities and timelines as they choose to battle inflation, maintain market shares, improve supply chain resiliency or bring cost capital down. How ESG can support cost reduction?
- CFO at the intersection of sustainability and finance
- ESG’s shift from being just an investment category to mainstream strategy
- Can CFOs reduce costs while achieving ESG goals?
- Aligning ESG reporting with financial disclosures
- Metrics in CFO-led ESG
INTERVIEWER:
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
14:30
PANEL DISCUSSION IV: Incorporating Agility into Planning, Forecasting and Budgeting
VUCA or not, cash flow is indisputably the lifeblood of the business. Fulfilling short-term payment obligations have become challenging to some organisations, yet leveraging on credits or borrowing is not quite an answer either as interest rates continue to grow.
Making data-based forecasts and financial strategy will equip finance leaders to tackle obstacles and provide a clear picture of their financial trajectory throughout the coming year.
- Cash flow planning and frequent forecasting amidst uncertainty
- Meeting cash forecasting challenges
- Improving cash forecasting accuracy, liquidity planning and management and working capital with data and modern technologies
- Leveraging AI and ML to build realistic and trustworthy forecasts even without reliable recent historical data
MODERATOR:
Editorial consultant, CXOCIETY
PANELISTS:
Marisa Tengku Azman
Regional CFO
ENGIE SOUTH EAST ASIA
Ma. Celina Leonardo
Senior Director, Financial Planning & Reporting
THE COFFEE BEAN & TEA LEAF®
15:30
CONFERENCE CHAIRPERSON’S WELCOME REMARKS
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
16:00
C-SUITE PANEL DISCUSSION I: Doing Things Differently with People and Technology
- Talent management trends and career opportunities in 2025
- Less about technology and more about people and processes
- People and workflow simplification as key drivers of change and growth
- Enhancing employee experiences for sustained success and long term’s business growth
- Human-machine partnerships for the future of work
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
16:35
C-SUITE FIRESIDE CHAT: Leading the Democratization of Digital Delivery
The session explores how the democratization of technology is impacting leadership responsibilities, accountability and decision rights.
- Technology and digital initiatives as shared leadership imperatives
- Realising the value of digital initiatives and driving speed and agility with technology democratization
- Empowering various business functions to create technology
- Meeting the challenges in achieving technology integration with business units
- C-Suite collaboration to design and implement a new technology delivery model that fosters democratized digital delivery
INTERVIEWER:
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
17:00
C-SUITE PANEL DISCUSSION II: How to Fund the Ideal Tech Strategy?
- Evaluating the current enterprise tech strategy from the finance perspective
- Striking the right balance between innovation and stability
- Financing technologies for innovation
- Controlling the technologies’ finances while ensuring innovation delivery and business value in real time
- Ensuring that technology use, especially in the finance function, is at full potential
MODERATOR:
Allan Tan
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
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