2025 FutureCFO Conference Thailand
- 20 February 2025
- 9:00am - 5:00pm (THT)
- Crowne Plaza Bangkok
EVENT OVERVIEW
In 2025, the landscape for CFOs and finance leaders in Asia is increasingly complex, with growth remaining a top priority amidst evolving challenges. According to Alexander Bant, chief of research in the Gartner Finance Practice, “CFOs and CEOs are united in their focus on profitable growth, with nearly two-thirds identifying it as a key strategic priority.” Following this, technology and workforce management emerge as crucial areas of concern.
However, the role of modern CFOs extends beyond fostering organisational growth and optimising costs. They must adeptly navigate a landscape filled with uncertainties, balancing the pursuit of growth with effective risk management. As pivotal players in risk mitigation, CFOs are expected to formulate robust plans to tackle potential crises such as:
- Constrained access to capital and investment challenges
- Cybersecurity threats and data breaches
- Economic headwinds and inflationary pressures
- Evolving regulatory landscapes
- Market volatility and shifting consumer behaviours
- Talent shortages in a competitive labour market
Also, a Gartner survey highlights that 62% of CFOs and 58% of CEOs believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) will significantly reshape their sectors in the coming years. As CFOs increasingly integrate AI into financial operations, they must also address the accompanying challenges and ethical implications of emerging technologies.
The 3rd FutureCFO Thailand Conference 2025, themed “Pathways towards Differentiated Success,” will serve as a vital platform for finance leaders to explore strategies that ensure steady margins while effectively managing risks. Attendees can expect insights from seasoned industry experts on critical topics, including:
- Aligning organisational priorities amid competing demands
- Enhancing the role of finance leaders as strategic partners
- Harnessing emerging technologies to shape the future of finance
- Implementing forward-looking risk management strategies
- Leveraging digital finance transformation and process automation
- Navigating the next phase of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives
This conference will equip CFOs with the tools and knowledge needed to thrive in an ever-changing environment, ensuring they can balance the dual imperatives of growth and risk management.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
CFOs, MDs, VPs, Directors, Heads, GMs, and Senior Managers, involved in:
- Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
- Strategic Planning & Forecasting
- Costing & Budgeting
- Treasury Operations
- Project Financing
- Accounting and Reporting
- Merger & Acquisition (M&A)
- Investment / Portfolio Management
- Auditing & Internal Control
- Tax Governance
- Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
- Statutory & Regulatory Reporting
- Fiscal Policy Planning
- Financial Technology Solutions
WHY YOU SHOULD ATTEND
The FutureCFO Conference aims to give CFOs, who also act as their company’s strategic business partner and catalyst, insights on ensuring corporate growth and successfully mitigating risks and challenges amidst the current economic and political uncertainties in their countries. The conference will also address strategies and best practices on how CFOs can reimagine finance functions and their organizations to survive and thrive in today’s fast-paced and digitally driven landscape.
This by-invitation only one-day event will gather over 120 senior finance leaders from multiple industries and offers the best opportunity to hear from the industry’s leading professionals, contribute questions from the floor, engage in incisive panel discussions that discuss real-life business cases, updates and strategies to meet the most pertinent challenges facing the finance function in 2020.
High-Level Industry Speakers
We gather 20+ industry speakers and experts from leading organizations for keynote presentations and incisive discussions so you can tap on their invaluable insights and best practices important to your finance function management and transformation.
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 finance leaders on stage.
Networking Opportunities
Meet new business partners, engage and forge new connections with fellow finance and treasury leaders in the region, 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 country-specific conferences we crafted for you - FutureCFO Conferences.
FUTURECFO CONFERENCE SERIES
AGENDA
09:00
Chairman’s Welcome Remarks
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
09:15
Panel Discussion I: Balancing CFO’s Strategic Priorities while Delivering Immediate Results
In 2025, CFOs face the challenge of balancing business growth and profitability with fostering innovation and ensuring compliance. As the finance function evolves, how can it add genuine value from the perspective of business stakeholders? This session emphasises the strategic focus and complexities that CFOs will face in 2025.
- Navigating growth pressures and challenges facing CFOs in 2025
- Ensuring long-term profitability amidst market changes
- Cost control as growth strategy
- Balancing risk and growth
- Making smart investment decisions
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Gavin Hume, Finance Director, AMCOR FLEXIBLES THAILAND
Ashok Jhanwar, Head of Finance, KENVUE
Dixon Wong, CFO, CAPITAL AVIATION SERVICES (a subsidiary of AirAsia)
09:50
Keynote I: Embedding Innovative Payment Automation into Business to Drive Growth
As credit tightening and inflationary pressures create a challenging environment, CFOs face the dual challenge of managing expenses while ensuring cash flow, profitability, and growth. In this context, the digitisation of payment processes has emerged as a strategic imperative, offering new avenues for value creation and enhanced bottom-line performance. This session will provide insights into how innovative payment automation can serve as a catalyst for financial resilience and strategic growth in 2025.
- Navigating the evolving payment landscape
- Harnessing payment automation for growth
- Enhancing accounts receivable efficiency
- Developing a flexible, scalable payment model
Senior Representative, SAP
10:15
Panel Discussion II: Redefining Strategic Finance Leadership in 2025
As CFOs navigate an increasingly complex landscape, they face new mandates: innovating rapidly, accelerating automation, collaborating with governments and industries, establishing robust financial controls, ensuring regulatory compliance, and attracting top talent. To thrive in 2025, what essential skills, qualities, and insights must modern CFOs cultivate to effectively manage risks, respond swiftly to market demands, and seize emerging opportunities? This discussion aims to equip finance leaders with the insights needed to redefine their roles and drive sustainable growth in a dynamic environment.
- CFO as a strategic business partner
- The expanding skill sets for finance leaders
- Impactful leadership in finance function
- Bridging finance and business
- Becoming a tech-savvy finance leader
Moderator:
Jeremy Gray, Editorial Consultant, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Manish Maharaj, Business Head ASEAN & Regional Director – ASEAN, APOLLO TYRES LTD
Amrit Shrestha, CFO, HAAD THIP PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
Voravannee Tangsirikusolwong, FCMA, CGMA, SEVP, Strategy and Operation Group, KRUNG THAI ASSET MANAGEMENT & Member, CIMA
10:50
Morning Coffee Break & Networking
11:20
Keynote II: From Legacy Systems to AI-Driven Spend Management: Unlock Efficiency, Visibility and Strategic Growth
In this session, CFOs will explore how transitioning from legacy spend management systems to an AI-driven platform can unlock operational efficiency and drive strategic growth for the business.
- Actionable strategies to enhance control and profitability in today’s dynamic business landscape
- How AI-powered insights and a unified spend management platform can transform procurement processes, streamline operations, and provide real-time visibility into business spend
- Leveraging collective community insights to power decision-making, improving margins and fostering agility.
Nataporn Thintarvon, Account Director (Thailand), COUPA
11:45
Panel Discussion III: Finance Digital Transformation Check-Up
A McKinsey Global Survey of CFOs in March 2024 reveals that while 98% of CFOs have invested in digitisation and automation within their finance functions, only a quarter of their processes are fully digitised or automated. As we navigate the uncertainties of 2025, finance leaders need to understand the challenges and strategies essential for modernising the finance function in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. This discussion will equip finance leaders with actionable insights to drive their digital transformation efforts while balancing the inherent risks and opportunities of the evolving financial landscape in Asia.
- Identifying roadblocks in finance transformation
- Modernising legacy processes
- Maximising efficiency in finance function
- Aligning people and technology for effective transformation
- Measuring ROI of finance transformation initiatives
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Leo Nakajima, President & CFO, SUMMIT CAPITAL LEASING
Sanpetch Tangsawapark, Business Controller, Emerging Markets, ELECTROLUX GROUP
12:20
Fireside Chat I: Enhancing Tax Compliance amid Global Tax Complexities
As the tax landscape becomes increasingly complex, CFOs—particularly those with global or regional responsibilities—must take a proactive role in managing tax compliance. With the implementation of the OECD/G20 BEPS 2.0 Pillar Two framework, many jurisdictions in the Asia-Pacific region are actively advancing their tax regulations.
CFOs face the challenge of navigating these evolving regulations while ensuring their organisations remain compliant. How can finance leaders effectively manage these complexities and minimise risks?
- Navigating tax challenges in 2025
- The CFO’s role in facilitating complex tax compliance while minimising overall tax liabilities
- Futureproofing the tax function
- Data-driven decision-making for better tax planning and compliance
Senior representative, ONESTREAM SOFTWARE
Senior representative, PWC THAILAND
12:45
Networking Lunch
14:00
Keynote III: CFO’s Role in Navigating Global Expansion
In the context of global expansion, the narrative surrounding the CFO often revolves around strategic financial leadership and risk management. As a company ventures into a new international market, the CFO becomes a crucial player, leading the financial planning and execution necessary for such an ambitious move. Their leadership ensures that the company remains agile and responsive to changes, ultimately guiding it to successful operations in the global marketplace. Through careful planning and strategic foresight, the CFO helps transform the organization’s vision for global expansion into reality. This session will provide insights on some of CFOs’ key responsibilities in managing international expansion in the areas of:
- Strategic financial planning
- Tax and regulatory compliance
- Financial monitoring and reporting
- Collaboration with local management
- Adapting financial practices
William Chaylis, Director, POINTSTAR CONSULTING
14:25
Fireside Chat III: Revolutionising Finance with Artificial Intelligence
As we approach 2025, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finance is becoming a pivotal focus for CFOs across Asia. Gartner predicts that by 2026, 90% of finance functions will implement at least one AI-enabled technology solution. Notably, 44% of finance professionals are already leveraging AI for intelligent process automation, enhancing information processing and anomaly detection.
With AI’s potential to transform decision-making and operational efficiency, how can finance leaders harness this technology effectively? This will share insights and strategies to embrace AI, mitigate risks, and drive sustainable growth in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
- The impact of AI on finance in 2025
- Initiating AI innovations in finance
- Collaborating with IT Leaders for AI deployment
- Evaluating AI tools for finance
- Solving complex financial challenges with AI
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Interviewee:
Senior representative, COUPA
Pawan Chhatwal, Chief Financial Officer, RESTAURANTS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED
14:50
Panel Discussion IV: Recalibrating the Way We Work in 2025
According to Gartner, organisations currently face historic hurdles: a competitive talent landscape, an exhausted workforce, pressure to control costs, and the rise of AI. These new developments are likely faced by finance functions too and finance leaders will now need to rethink how and where work gets done. As CFOs are dealing the complexities of hybrid work and at the same time embracing emerging and automation technologies in the finance functions, how can they effectively manage these transitions while attracting and retaining top finance talent in 2025?
- Future of work trends that will impact finance in 2025
- Redesigning workplace processes, policies and environments for better engagement, increased productivity and business outcomes
- Innovative retention strategies in a competitive job market
- Finance talent investment to tackle future challenges
Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Panelists:
Glenn Tucker, Finance Director – Thailand and Myanmar, FONTERRA
Isni Maisyarah Dalimunthe, CFO SSEA, KRAFT HEINZ
Steven Siew, Director of Administration Division (Finance & Accounting IT HR&GA), PROSPIRA (Thailand) (formerly known as Bridgestone NCR)
15:25
Afternoon Coffee Break
15:55
Executive Interview I: Becoming an Action-Centric CFO to Drive Value Creation
- Sustainable financial roles through enterprise resource value maximisation
- Redefining the action-centric concept and its importance in the future
- Improving decision making and business forecasts with new effective performance measures
- Creating a dynamic business model that balances the human approach with AI and Machine
- Building strong action-centric teams to drive new capability creation
Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY
Interviewee:
Dr. Yanyong Thammatucharee, CFO, SPEED INTER TRANSPORT CO. LTD
16:20
Fireside Chat IV: The Future of Cash Flow Management
As we navigate the uncertainties of 2025, one element remains vital for businesses of all sizes and sectors: cash flow. For CFOs, optimising cash management is crucial not only to enhance financial performance but also to mitigate risks in an unpredictable market. This session will help CFOs effectively balance the imperative of maintaining liquidity while pursuing sustainable growth amidst evolving market dynamics.
- Emerging trends and challenges of cash flow management in 2025
- Precision in cash flow forecasting
- Leveraging AI for cash flow management automation
Interviewer:
Jeremy Gray, Editorial Consultant, CXOCIETY
Interviewees:
Kritin Yaroojjanont, Finance Director
16:55
Chairman’s Closing Remarks
17:05
End of Conference
2025 SPEAKERS
Group Editor-in-Chief
CXOCIETY
CFO
HAAD THIP PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED
Head of Finance
KENVUE
CFO
CAPITAL AVIATION SERVICES (a subsidiary of AirAsia)
CFO
SPEED INTER TRANSPORT CO. LTD
Finance Director – Thailand and Myanmar
FONTERRA
CFO SSEA
KRAFT HEINZ
Finance Director
President & CFO
SUMMIT CAPITAL LEASING
Business Head ASEAN & Regional Director – ASEAN
APOLLO TYRES LTD
Account Director (Thailand)
COUPA
Chief Financial Officer
RESTAURANTS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED
Business Controller, Emerging Markets
ELECTROLUX GROUP
Director of Administration Division (Finance & Accounting IT HR&GA)
PROSPIRA (Thailand) (formerly known as Bridgestone NCR)
Director
POINTSTAR CONSULTING
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