Global Speakers

Michael has spent over 35 years as a Finance Professional, and the last 20 years in Corporate Performance Management. He has worked with hundreds of organisations of various sizes and industries and developed a deep understanding of how Business Intelligence and technology can improve and support the business. Michael holds an Honours Degree in Financial Accounting and is qualified as a Chartered Accountant.

Topic: The Human Side Of RPA

Day 1 Zoom Breakout Session: Session A – Building An Agile Finance Function

CFO Panel: Closing The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Your Digital Transformation Efforts

During his career, Dominic has been involved in thousands of business intelligence, reporting and planning projects across hundreds of companies.

From his early days at Price Waterhouse as a Chartered Accountant, Dominic has spent the last 25 years in the ICT sector in a range of commercial roles, including 13 years at board level.  For the last 11 years, Dominic has led CALUMO Group – APAC’s first cloud-based business intelligence, reporting, planning and forecasting specialist software. 

Topic: The Human Side Of RPA

CFO Panel: Closing The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Your Digital Transformation Efforts

Responsible for the vision, strategy and direction of products produced by CALUMO, David’s innovative approach has been instrumental to the continuing evolution of CALUMO.

After spending a decade at CALUMO delivering budgeting and forecasting solutions to companies across many verticals, David knows that data truly is a client’ most valuable asset. Passionate about data and efficiency, David has worked with CFOs and Senior Finance Managers to help them use technology to their advantage. 

Day 1 Zoom Breakout Session: Session A – Building An Agile Finance Function

Serg has more than 10 years of diverse business experience in the software industry in Australia. He has served in enterprise sales and leadership positions in SaaS vendors driving revenue growth, leading high-performance teams, and growing partner networks. Serg has worked with various medium and large organisations as an advisor throughout their Finance Transformation journey with a focus on deploying world-class FP&A, Integrated Business Planning solution projects with next generation predictive analytics capabilities.

Topic: Future Of Finance: Building A Resilient Organisation With Collaborative Planning

CFO Panel: Closing The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Your Digital Transformation Effort

Day 1 Zoom Breakout Session: Session C – How Are You Going To Navigate The Road To Recovery?

Oskar is Enterprise Account Manager at Jedox across Australia and New Zealand. Oskar helps leading Australian organisations in the transformation of their planning, analysis and reporting processes across their entire organisation through the use of technology – helping them understand what ‘good’ looks like and how it can be achieved.

Day 1 Zoom Breakout Session: Session C – How Are You Going To Navigate The Road To Recovery?

Jorge is Director Centre of Excellence at Jedox across Asia Pacific. He is passionate about delivering insights and performance outcomes for medium to enterprise size accounts across the region.

Jorge has over a decade of experience in both the corporate and academic sectors in various positions ranging from Assistant Professor of Information Systems and Head of Commercial BI for an international airline.

His background includes extensive technology expertise in statistical, large scale data integration and interface design projects.

Workshop B: How To Get Started With Predictive

Nicholas is a Data Science and AI Technical Specialist at IBM with extensive experience in helping clients formulate and execute on their data strategy. Working across a broad range of industry verticals including Finance, Government, Wholesale, Retail, Manufacturing and Technology has provided him with the insight to help clients make the most of their data and leverage the best in AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning technology outcomes. He is currently focused on driving adoption of the IBM Data Science and Business Analytics Portfolio including Watson Studio, Watson APIs and Planning Analytics.

Topics:

• Save Time At Month End With Automated Forecasting, Streamlined Decision Making And Smart Workflows
• Driving The Future Of Finance With Planning Analytics

Day 1 Zoom Breakout Session: Session B – Addressing Challenges In The Finance Function Using Emerging Technologies

Jon is a FP&A Solutions Architect who spent his last 15 years helping businesses to make informed decisions with agile planning solutions. Experienced in working across many different industries, Jon enjoys developing creative solutions to solve complex business problems and working with new technologies to deliver reliable insights including decision optimisation, time series forecasting and python integrations. He is currently focused on driving customer success with Planning Analytics applications, guiding businesses on the path to more insights and better outcomes.

Day 1 Zoom Breakout Session: Session B – Addressing Challenges In The Finance Function Using Emerging Technologies

Topic: Driving The Future Of Finance With Planning Analytics

Yakura creates industry-specific use case offerings to accelerate IBM’s client’s application of AI & Automation enabling new possibilities for digital transformation. Yakura implements innovative offering and product management principles in applying technologies such as machine learning, natural language processing, and cognitive agents to help clients increase the rate of successful automation implementations. He engages with customers to help them realise how automation can increase productivity and innovation – providing a systematic approach and holistic view of their operational processes to prioritise the most impactful automation projects.

Workshop A: Enable Data Driven Decision Making Through Process Mining

Co-founder and Chief Risk Officer of eftsure, Mark is an engineer, accountant and technologist with 30 years of experience working across a range of solutions, from engineering automation software to mobile financial apps. Mark has had numerous local and international patents granted in the financial technology industry.

Day 2 Zoom Breakout Session: Session A – Internal Controls To Prevent A New World Of Scams

After post-graduate studies in Finance, Gavin spent 21 years in marketing communications leading businesses for global communication groups WPP and Publicis. In 2018 he reconnected with his long held passion for all things digital and joined eftsure where he is Chief Growth Officer.

Topic: Financial Fraud Prevention And Protection With eftsure

Day 2 Zoom Breakout Session: Session A – Internal Controls To Prevent A New World Of Scams

Over the past 15 years, Michael has worked closely with senior finance executives across Asia Pacific; helping them simplify and streamline key financial processes to strengthen controls, reduce costs, increase visibility and transparency as well as boost cash flows in their businesses. As the head of Basware APAC, he works to help companies of all sizes unlock value across their financial operations and business networks by leveraging best-in-class automation solutions.

Topic: Bringing Data-Driven Innovation & Advanced Analytics To Finance

Day 2 Zoom Breakout Session: Session C – Data, Vision, Trends And The Right KPIs

Peter is a qualified accountant (CIMA) and the Financial Controller at Pāmu (Landcorp Farming Limited). His intention is to make e-invoicing and procurement work for both Pāmu and its suppliers, many of whom are small rural businesses with limited access to technology, by streamlining supplier procurement, invoice capture, and processing. In his spare time Peter is a keen musician and owner of a classic car that is nearly as old as he is.

Topic: Bringing Data-Driven Innovation & Advanced Analytics To Finance

Day 2 Zoom Breakout Session: Session C – Data, Vision, Trends And The Right KPIs

Topic: CFO’s Toolbox For 2021: Remaining Future-Ready With Technology
Day 2 Zoom Breakout Session: Session B – The Unified Platform For The Office Of CFO: Finance Transformation To Modernization

Mike has over twenty-five years of senior management experience in Australia. He presently works as an Executive Director for Client Engagement Group of the Australian Taxation Office.

Mike is an accomplished leader in organisational transformation through development and implementation of innovative client service, organisational development, business transformation, capability development, knowledge development, change management, compliance management, revenue performance and risk management strategies. He is a Bachelor of Economics graduate from USYD, postgraduate from UNSW in Master of Statistics (foundation of ML and AI) and postgraduate from UCAN in finance and accounting. He is also Certified Practicing Accountant.

Mike has a global network and prolific writer on LinkedIn and tech publications on digital transformation. He is a sought after conference chair and speaker because of his ability to bring unique perspectives from his extensive finance and accounting career, intelligent automation expertise, new economics of digital, organisation developments issues, how to maximize the opportunities from these technologies, and his ability to assist and guide CEOs, CDOs and CFOs in their digital transformation journey.

Topic: How Businesses Can Optimise Strategic Benefits Of AI

Topic: Financial Data Management On Cloud: Why A Single-Source-Of-Truth Can Improve The Decision Readiness Of Performance Data

Starting Robotic Process Automation journey since 2017, Eric has delivered values to Business Operations through his duties as Business Lead and Developer across various scales (Enterprise, Program of Works to Business Development) in Telecom Customer Services, Project Management, and IT Consulting, Managed and Professional Services.

With Internal and Business partners, he solves business problems via Automation, Data Insights and Agile ways of work.

Over his 15 years in the Managed Customer Services space, serving customers from enterprises, government agencies and SMEs, Eric knows what drives: Customer Time Reduction, Consistent Customer Advocacy, and Practical Cost Saving.

Eric holds a Master of Business Information Systems from Australia National University.

Topic: Financial Services, How To Get Through The Pandemic And Beyond With Automation: Real Values, Real Impact And Real-Time

Felipe is a leading advanced analytics and data visualisation consultant and partner helping teams build, manage and enhance their data science, analytics and data visualisation capabilities. He is also an experienced instructor in data science, analytics, machine learning and data visualisation delivering both online and face-to-face training. He’s received an M.Phil. in Electrical and Information Engineering with specialization in Learning Analytics from The University of Sydney and he serves as the data visualisation and storytelling advisor for the South Australia Health Department’s Commission on Excellence and Innovation in Health Clinical Informatics Group. Felipe is also a blogger, recognised internationally for his thought leadership, having articles ranked #1 in Google search and referenced by many sources and students from leading educational institutions. For more, visit: feliperego.com.au

Workshop A: Redefining Your Finance Capability With Analytics, Visualisation & Data Storytelling

CFO Panel: Closing The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Your Digital Transformation Efforts

Topic: Barriers To Digital Transformation Of Government Finance

CFO Panel: Closing The Digital Skills Gap In Finance To Avoid Setbacks On Your Digital Transformation Efforts

Topic: Becoming A Data-Driven CFO: How Big Data Are Helping CFOs Acquire New Insights, Trends, And Generate Business Growth

Alan is an Entrepreneur with HumanAce Talent Acquisition Training Internship, Ikigai Capital Funding, Investment, Opportunities, Fellow CPA Australia working as Business Partner. Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer with Big4, Public Listed Sunway Conglomerate, Federal Government NDIS.

Global Business Career Mentor for CPA Australia, Monash University, AMES. Global Speaker for International Events, Author of “Applying Sun Tzu Principles Into Your Business and Career”.

Alan enjoys networking, entrepreneurship, mentoring, time management, mindset, leadership, personal development, contribute back to the community skills journey started with Big4, CPA Australia, Monash University, Public Listed Sunway Conglomerate, Federal Government NDIS and is always willing to share his experiences with his mentees, clients, and business associates.

Alan’s three decades of experiences on networking, entrepreneurship, mentoring from Big4, CPA Australia, Monash University, Public Listed Sunway Conglomerate, Federal Government NDIS is being shared on talks, interviews, forums, with his mentees, clients, business associates including how to be successful in life, career, business, start-up, turn-around, expansion.

Topic: The Future Of Financial Reporting With Analytics: How Advanced Analytics Are Helping Finance Leaders Improve Their Financial Reporting, Profitability Analysis And Operational Decision Making

Pre-Summit Workshop B: Becoming A Data-Driven CFO: How Data Science And Machine Learning Can Be Incorporated In Financial Forecasting, Planning And Analysis

Topic: A Case Study Of Using Blockchain Technology In Regulatory Technology