600Minutes Executive Finance

Future Finance Function: Driving Change and Accelerating Innovation while Achieving Resource Optimisation

October 29 - November 04, 2021

Netherlands

About the Event

While the role of CFOs and finance leaders has undergone a major shift last year, immediate adoption to digitalization and automation is needed more than ever to protect customers, suppliers, and employees in the future.

Join us at the upcoming 600Minutes Executive Finance networking event filled with insights related to the evolution of the CFO, resilience, digitalization, and scenario planning. Gain insights and share experiences with C-suites, top finance executives and strategic decision makers in the Netherlands through inspiring keynotes, discussions, and virtual 1-to-1 networking sessions.

Speakers

Lodewijk Lockefeer

CFO

Zeelandia Groep

Jeanine Tijhaar

Group CFO

Eneco

Hendrik Jan Roel

CFO Albert Heijn & Ahold Nederland

Albert Heijn

Kristof Stouthuysen

Professor of Management Accounting & Digital Finance

Vlerick Business School

Frank Verbeeten

Honorary Professor IMA & Professor of Accounting

University of Amsterdam Business School

Mike De Boer

CFO

KNAB Bank

Jeroen Smit

Journalist & Bestseller Author

Leadership Speaker

René Kuijer

Senior Manager

PwC Netherlands

Yannick Lamens

Manager Consulting Finance

PwC Netherlands

Marc Grasso

Former CFO

Mediq B.V.

Featured Sessions

Panel discussion : The road to recovery - The world after the pandemic

The recent COVID-19 outbreak has affected the whole Dutch economy. CFO's needs to invest in the future and embrace changes to create business continuity. During this session, the panelists will discuss how the business landscape and world will adjust to the “new normal”.

During this session, the panelist will dive into the lessons and learnings during covid-19 and how the future of finance will look like.

• Shaping the future - What are the lessons & learnings of resilience and how can a CFO restructure and transform the business?
• Changing Role - What is the role of the CFO to ensure that the company operates and what opportunities can be seized during this time?
• Driving Value - How can a CFO drive growth and increase the long-term value of the company?

Speakers: Lodewijk Lockefeer - Zeelandia Groep, Jeanine Tijhaar - Eneco, Hendrik Jan Roel - Albert Heijn

Leadership presentation : The DNA of the digital finance leader; Value creation with AI & ML

What do AI & Machine Learning (ML) really mean? How do these 2 technologies generate real impact in various sectors and domains? And how can will AI & ML create value for finance leaders? Professor Kristof Stouthuysen challenges and encourages you to integrate AI & ML in the financial domain step by step to in order to successfully become a strategic partner in the digital age.

Speaker: Kristof Stouthuysen - Vlerick Business School

Panel discussion : Impact Creation - Unlocking value with analytics

In the past years, CFO's have increased the amount of time they spend on using advanced analytics to identify certain threats and new business opportunities. Especially the COVID0-19 recovery pushes CFOs to improve their analytics strategy to accelerate further digitalization, minimize risk and drive sustainability.

The leading voices of this interactive panel discussion will exchange insights on impact creation with the help of data and analytics.

• Leading the change - How can a CFO drive sustainability?
• Finance transformation - How to accelerate the finance digitalization?
• Risk management - How to deal with ethical concerns in your analytics strategy?

Speakers: Frank Verbeeten - University of Amsterdam Business School, Mike De Boer - KNAB Bank

Leadership presentation : A CFO ' Activist' - Driving Purpose on a Long-Term Sustainable Future

A CFO driven by purpose and a strong focus on a (very) long-term sustainable future, will be successful in the 21-the century. During this session, will Jeroen dare the audience to create impact as a business leader

Speaker: Jeroen Smit - Leadership Speaker

Keynote : The perfect storm Basware / PWC

Basware and PwC have joined forces to bring you a one-of-a-kind joint presentation on the future of Finance where we will dive into what makes the perfect storm of opportunity for the Modern Finance organization. The presentation is a unique blend between finance strategy as presented by PwC and practical use case of automation and digitization within source-to-pay, presented by Basware.

They will touch upon the following:

• What the Future Finance organization will look like
• Three main areas in which finance can deliver value to the business and how that is changing
• Digital use cases in source-to-pay enabling the future finance organization

Speakers: René Kuijer - PwC Netherlands, Yannick Lamens - PwC Netherlands