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EVENT OVERVIEW

Make plans now to join CFOs and senior finance executives on 23 Oct 2024 at the leading CFO conference in Hong Kong. At the conference you’ll hear how the future of finance is all about managing across functions, building the right combination of capabilities, and establishing a strong data foundation. On-going FutureCFO dialogues with finance leaders across the function reveal a continued commitment to driving growth through digital transformation.

However, the maelstrom of non-aligned priorities, talent shortages, legacy processes and too many options when it comes to technologies make the road to growth in 2024 a formidable challenge for even the most seasoned finance professionals.

A Gartner’s research affirms that organisations face a medium-term environment characterised by tepid demand growth, stubbornly high costs and constrained access to capital – referring to the combination as a deadweight economic condition. “Absent fortuitous events such as a surprise end to geopolitical conflict, a swift halt to inflation or the quick realisation of dramatic productivity gains from AI, CFOs should expect many of the underlying economic trends contributing to the deadweight economy to persist across their strategic planning horizon.

Hong Kong’s economy is projected to grow by an average of 3.3% a year in real terms from 2025-2028. Earlier this year, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Financial Secretary Paul Chan delivered the 2024-25 Budget, which aims to support Hong Kong’s enterprises, accelerate high-quality development, and enhance the competitive edge of the city’s industries.

While Hong Kong is looking to boost economic growth and benefit the people through forward-looking initiatives that will promote areas such as capital markets, financial services, innovation and technology (I&T), infrastructure, digital economy and green developments – how will these new initiatives affect businesses and finance leaders in Hong Kong? Also, as Hong Kong continues down the path of integration with China, how can businesses harness the opportunity presented by this integration, while retaining, even enhancing, what has always been unique to Hong Kong – a dynamic business hub to the world?

 This year’s FutureCFO Hong Kong Conference will be held at Kowloon Shangri-La, Hong Kong on 23 October 2024, bringing together seasoned finance professionals to uncover:

  • How to sustain enterprise’s growth engine amidst challenging time
  • Transformation roadmap for success in the future
  • Best practices in riding the transformation challenges
  • Tactics for evaluating digital competencies across the function
  • How to build realistic and trustworthy forecasts
  • Strategies to shorten the digital financial close
  • Top challenges in data, data technology and governance management
  • AI and smart automation priorities and use cases
  • People management for stronger, digitally competent teams


The challenges ahead present real and economic tailwinds that can derail ongoing efforts to transform organisations into engines of innovation and growth. For the finance team, there remains clear opportunities to lead by example out of the potential maelstrom that lies ahead to bring about sustained growth in the years ahead.

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

2024 AGENDA

09:00

Chairman’s Welcome Remarks

Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

09:15

Panel Discussion I: 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:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

Panelists:
Wilkie Wong, CFO, ESQUEL GROUP
Yan Zhang, CFA, PCC, Head of Finance, HILTI (HONG KONG)
Philip Shin, CFO, Prudence Foundation, PRUDENTIAL PLC
Guru Balasubramaniam ACMA, CGMA, Country President, SECURITAS HONG KONG

09:55

Keynote I: Integrated Reporting: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage

This session explores the evolving landscape of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) reporting and its transformation from a compliance necessity to a strategic imperative. As companies navigate the complexities of sustainability regulations, they are discovering that integrated financial and sustainability data not only meets regulatory requirements but also provides a significant competitive advantage. From enhancing stakeholder trust to driving innovation and improving financial performance, assured integrated reporting is reshaping the way companies operate and how they are perceived in the market. This session will delve into the challenges and opportunities of integrated reporting and learn how your organisation can leverage technology to drive long-term value creation.

Steven Shiu, Lead Regional Enterprise Sales Director, WORKIVA

10:20

Panel Discussion II: 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:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

Panelists:
Peter Ying, CFO, ALIA BIOTECH GROUP
Tricia Koh, Commercial Director – Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, ALLIANZ TRADE
Angus Tsang, CFO & Company Secretary, CN LOGISTICS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED
Danny Ho, Executive Director & CFO, SA SA INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

11:00

MORNING COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

11:30

Keynote II: Bridging the Efficiency Gap: AI Powered Finance

Constant market disruptions and skill shortages prompt finance leaders to work smarter. With automation taking over the rote tasks and AI provides forward-thinking and predictive analytics, finance leaders are poised to become powerful strategic advisor and partner to business.  With AI as the game changer, how should CFOs leverage on AI-embedded automation capabilities to improve enterprise’s cost efficiency and performance?

  • Scaling up automation for finance function
  • Streamlining the digital financial close process with automation
  • Automation with built-in AI capabilities for increased efficiency and data confidence
  • Balancing the use of AI, automation and human labor
  • Overcoming implementation challenges in driving automation at-scale


Amy Ting, Head of oCFO Solutions Consulting, Asia, WORKDAY

11:55

Panel Discussion III: 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. 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 2025
  • Monitoring business/investment risks under global uncertainty in 2025
  • 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:
Allan Tan, Group Editor-in-Chief, CXOCIETY

Panelists:
Jeff Zielinski, CFO, BUYANDSHIP
Jim Ding, CFO (NAS), FERRERO
Sundararaman Venkateswaran, CFO & Group Finance Director, MASON GLOBAL LIMITED
Joseph Leung, Group Finance Director, THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS COMPANY (1933) LIMITED

12:35

Keynote III: Optimising Financial Data Management with Intelligent Platform
  • Streamlining data integration with AI
  • Leveraging AI-driven real-time data analytics and reporting for informed decisions quickly and efficiently
  • Utilising predictive data insights with AI algorithms to anticipate trends in budgeting and planning
  • Creating efficient financial data consolidation processing in finance
  • Ensuring data compliance and security with AI

Elaine Ong, Services Lead, CCH Tagetik, WOLTERS KLUWER

13:00

NETWORKING LUNCH

14:00

Keynote IV: Embracing Digital Twin for Finance Transformation
  • The concept of Digital Twin for organization-wide integrated planning
  • Practical AI supporting the finance team in financial planning and analysis (FP&A)
  • Steps to reshape finance business partnering with technology


Chun Seong (CS) Lim, VP Asia, JEDOX

14:25

Panel Discussion IV: Preparing for the Future: Transforming Finance as a Growth Partner

A McKinsey Global Survey of CFOs in March 2024 states that 98% of CFOs say that they have invested in digitisation and automation in their finance functions, regardless of where they are on their digitisation journeys. However, only one-quarter or less of their processes are currently digitised or automated. This session aims to discuss the challenges and strategies to modernise the finance function in today’s digital and uncertain business landscape.

  • Roadblocks to finance transformation success
  • Best practice in modernising legacy finance processes
  • Embracing automation and emerging technologies to enhance finance operations
  • Getting the right people and technology in place for successful transformation
  • Maximising automation and technology innovations investments in 2025


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

Panelists:
Wilson Ma, VP of Global Finance, A BATHING APE®
Dr. Ricky Chan, CFO, A LEADING GLOBAL INVESTMENT FIRM
Raymond Tsoi, Team Lead (APAC) – Finance System (Treasury), ARROW ELECTRONICS

15:00

Executive Interview I: CFO & Tech: 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

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

Interviewee:
Patrick Chan, CFO & Company Secretary, BAGUIO GREEN GROUP

15:25

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

15:55

Panel Discussion V: 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

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

Panelists:
Dr. William Chen, FCMA, CGMA, Past President & Hong Kong SAR Area Committee Member, CIMA
Johnny Yu, Head of Sustainability, HENDERSON LAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD.
Kelvin Li, Director, Corporate Services, THE HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL

16:30

Fireside Chat: 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

Interviewees:
Jemi Lam, Regional Financial Controller, BELTON TECHNOLOGY GROUP
Horace Ma, CFO, S. CULTURE HOLDINGS

16:55

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS

17:00

END OF CONFERENCE

2024 SPEAKERS

Allan Tan

Group Editor-in-Chief

CXOCIETY

Amy Ting

Head of oCFO Solutions Consulting, Asia

WORKDAY

Angus Tsang

CFO and Company Secretary,

CN LOGISTICS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

CS Lim

Vice President of Asia

JEDOX

Danny Ho

Executive Director and CFO

SA SA INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

Dr. Ricky Chan

CFO

A LEADING GLOBAL INVESTMENT FIRM

Dr. William Chen

FCMA, CGMA, Past President & Hong Kong SAR Area Committee Member

CIMA

Elaine Ong

Services Lead, CCH Tagetik

WOLTERS KLUWER

Guru Balasubramaniam

ACMA, CGMA, Country President

SECURITAS HONG KONG

Horace Ma

CFO

S. CULTURE HOLDINGS

Jeff Zielinski

CFO

BUYANDSHIP

Jemi Lam

Regional Financial Controller

BELTON TECHNOLOGY GROUP

Jim Ding

CFO (NAS)

FERRERO

Johnny Yu

Head of Sustainability

HENDERSON LAND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY LTD.

Joseph Leung

Group Finance Director

THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS COMPANY (1933) LIMITED

Kelvin Li

Director, Corporate Services

THE HONG KONG RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TEXTILES AND APPAREL

Patrick Chan

CFO & Company Secretary

BAGUIO GREEN GROUP

Peter Ying

CFO

ALIA BIOTECH GROUP

Philip Shin

CFO, Prudence Foundation

PRUDENTIAL PLC

Raymond Tsoi

Team Lead (APAC) - Finance System (Treasury)

ARROW ELECTRONICS

Steven Shiu

Lead Regional Enterprise Sales Director

WORKIVA

Sundararaman Venkateswaran

CFO & Group Finance Director

MASON GLOBAL LIMITED

Tricia Koh

Commercial Director – Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea

ALLIANZ TRADE

Wilkie Wong

Chief Financial Officer

ESQUEL GROUP

Wilson Ma

VP of Global Finance

A BATHING APE®

Yan Zhang

CFA, PCC, Head of Finance

HILTI (HONG KONG)

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