3rd Annual FutureCFO Conference Thailand

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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

09:15

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:
Ashok Jhanwar, Head of Finance, KENVUE
Dixon Wong, Financial Director, TUNE PROTECT GROUP

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

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:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

Panelists:
Manish Maharaj, Business Head ASEAN & Regional Director – ASEAN, APOLLO TYRES LTD
Amrit Shrestha, CFO, HAAD THIP PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED

11:20

Keynote II: Modernising Financial Reporting for the Next Wave of ESG Developments

As Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) adoption accelerates across Asia Pacific, CFOs face significant challenges in aligning ESG-related reporting with financial metrics. The evolving landscape of ESG imperatives and mandatory disclosure requirements complicates this task. It is crucial for CFOs to explore strategies for modernising financial reporting to effectively integrate ESG considerations. This session aims to equip CFOs with actionable insights to fortify their organisations’ reporting frameworks, balancing the need for growth with compliance and sustainability imperatives.

Navigating the next phase of sustainability reporting and its implications for financial practices.
Understanding new standards and frameworks for compliance in ESG reporting.
Ensuring alignment with the latest regulatory requirements to enhance credibility.
Increasing transparency in sustainability-related disclosures to build stakeholder trust.
Leveraging AI technologies to optimise ESG metrics and streamline data management.

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

Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

14:00

Fireside Chat II: Fortifying Business Resilience with Cyber Risk Management Optimisation

As the business landscape evolves and digitalisation accelerates, the threat of cyber-attacks has become a critical concern for CFOs. According to PwC’s 2025 Global Digital Trust Insights, only 2% of businesses have achieved comprehensive cyber resilience, even though cybersecurity issues are increasingly pressing and the average data breach costs over $3 million. In this context, how can finance leaders effectively safeguard their organisations in the digital era? This session will equip CFOs with the insights and strategies needed to navigate the complexities of cybersecurity while supporting organisational growth in 2025?

Understanding evolving cyber threats
Developing a comprehensive risk management strategy
Collaboration with IT and security teams
Building a data and security response plan

Interviewer:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

Interviewee:
Senior representative, 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:
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)

15:55

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:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

16:20

Panel Discussion V: Building Effective Data & Analytics (D&A) Governance Model to Achieve Sustainable Growth

In 2025, data governance has emerged as a cornerstone of enterprise growth, particularly for CFOs navigating a landscape characterised by rapid technological advancements and increasing regulatory scrutiny. This panel discussion will explore how CFOs can fortify their D&A governance frameworks to achieve sustainable growth in a competitive, data-driven environment. By focusing on these critical areas, CFOs will be better equipped to leverage data as a strategic asset, balancing the pursuit of growth with the need for robust risk management in an ever-evolving landscape.

Data governance as a strategic necessity
Aligning Data, AI, Governance, and business goals
Implications of data democratisation on finance leaders
The fundamentals of effective D&A Governance for CFOs

Moderator:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

Panelists:
Rajeev Chawla, Area Finance Director, APISA, VIRBAC

2025 SPEAKERS

Allan Tan

Group Editor-in-Chief

CXOCIETY

Amrit Shrestha

CFO

HAAD THIP PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED

Dixon Wong

Financial Director

TUNE PROTECT GROUP

Glenn Tucker

Finance Director – Thailand and Myanmar

FONTERRA

Isni Maisyarah Dalimunthe

CFO SSEA

KRAFT HEINZ

Leo Nakajima

President & CFO

SUMMIT CAPITAL LEASING

Manish Maharaj

Business Head ASEAN & Regional Director – ASEAN

APOLLO TYRES LTD

Pawan Chhatwal

Chief Financial Officer

RESTAURANTS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LIMITED

Rajeev Chawla

Area Finance Director, APISA

VIRBAC

Sanpetch Tangsawapark

Business Controller, Emerging Markets

ELECTROLUX GROUP

Steven Siew

Director of Administration Division (Finance & Accounting IT HR&GA)

PROSPIRA (Thailand) (formerly known as Bridgestone NCR)

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