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

09:40

Keynote I: Revamping the Future of Finance with Connected Finance

Finance functions typically operate with separate inventory of tools which don’t talk to each other, thus creating silos of data. Connected finance is the process within finance operations that integrates financial services with digital technologies for interconnected workflow and seamless experience for businesses and their consumers.

  • Creating value with connected finance
  • The fundamentals of connected finance
  • Aggregating systems to achieve a unified business outcome with connected finance
  • Enabling connected finance to enhance productivity, convenience and better customer experience


Senior representative, WORKIVA

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

Panelists:
Wilkie Wong, CFO, ESQUEL GROUP
Danny Ho, Executive Director & CFO, SA SA INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED

10:50

MORNING COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

11:20

Keynote II: Bridging the Efficiency Gap with Smarter Automation

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

11:45

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

12:20

Keynote III: Managing Rapid Growth with Data Management

To transition to the realm of data-driven decision-making, finance leaders need to unlock the transformative potential of advanced analytics. This session will explore the benefits of harnessing the power of data and informed strategies for actionable insights, accelerated growth, innovation and competitive advantage.

  • Challenges and opportunities presented by rapid expansion
  • The critical synergy between Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and data-driven insights
  • Implementing a robust ERP framework as the groundwork for sustainable success
  • Best practices of seamless ERP deployment to fuel organisation’s growth trajectory

13:45

NETWORKING LUNCH

14:00

Keynote IV: CFO’s Guide in Modernising Data Infrastructure

As companies generate more data each day, finance teams have limitless opportunities to glean new insights and increase their value to the business. Data management tools are evolving rapidly; however, sophisticated F&PA tools are only effective if the data that fuels them are accurate. Also, as transparency over industry data increase, lack of proper data governance and management will critically impact business performance.

  • The greatest data issues still facing the finance teams today
  • Building trust and credibility in data
  • Harnessing digital capabilities to increase the analytic value and transparency of data
  • Shaping a strong data governance program in the AI era

14:40

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

15:10

Fireside Chat 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

15:35

AFTERNOON COFFEE BREAK & NETWORKING

16:05

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

16:30

Panel Discussion V: 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

17:05

CHAIRMAN’S CLOSING REMARKS

17:15

END OF CONFERENCE

2023 SPEAKERS

Allan Tan

Group Editor-in-Chief

CXOCIETY

Angus Tsang

CFO and Company Secretary,

CN LOGISTICS INTERNATIONAL

Calvin Lim

Group Finance & Administration Director

AMAZON PAPYRUS CHEMICALS LIMITED

Casey Hui

Head of Finance & Accounts

NEW WORLD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

Cheng Fai

Regional Treasurer

RGE GROUP

Dennis Ip

CFO and Company Secretary

IMPRO PRECISION

Dr. Darron Sun

Fellow Member

CIMA

Dr. Travis Huggins

Finance Director, Asia

CITY FACILITIES MANAGEMENT (HKG) LIMITED

Dr. William Chen

CFO
QUASAR ENGINEERING
& Hong Kong SAR Area Committee Member 
CIMA

Dr. Yanir Landenberg

CFO

GOLDSTAR LINE

Edmond Lee

CEO, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan

ALLIANZ TRADE

Elaine Ong

Services Lead

WOLTERS KLUWER

James Liu

Finance Director, IKEA

DFI RETAIL GROUP

Jemi Lam

Asia Pacific Finance Director

WESTERN DIGITAL

Jitendra Singhal

SVP Group Finance

EPIC GROUP

Joseph Leung

Group Finance Director

THE KOWLOON MOTOR BUS COMPANY (1993) LIMITED

Philip Shin

Board Member

JUSTICE WITHOUT BORDERS AND RESOLVE FOUNDATION

Ronnie Ede

Executive Director & CFO

INNOVENT BIOLOGIC INC.

Sammy Yeung

Regional Finance Lead

WORKDAY

Steve Tsang

CFO, Asia Pacific

SSP GROUP

Sundararaman Venkateswaran

CFO & Group Finance Director

MASON GLOBAL LIMITED

Sunny Cheng

Group CFO

UCP GROUP

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