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  Accelerating the information flow through improved communication: Lego’s unique cockpit process
  

  Achieve the most accurate information possible by reducing the time lag between producing and acting upon your data. Lego reveal how they have improved the quality of their information by developing a room designed to facilitate, detailed accurate reporting.

  Ole Jensen, Director of Reporting & Planning, Lego

  
  
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  Achieving a Streamlined, Successful Finance Function Through Effective Change Management and Leadership
  

  
  As your business model evolves, your Finance structure must adapt to efficiently meet the needs of your core business. Maximising your systems and resources requires effective leadership and change management. Casandra will examine how you can achieve an efficient Finance function by creating the right culture and effectively utilising your transaction centre.
  • Integrating your transaction centre with your planning and analysis function without centralising FP&A
  • Enabling effective change management and leadership
  • Implementing a single data source
  • Effectively selling your systems and processes internally
  
  Casandra Daubney, Former Head of Financial Operations, Abbey National

  
  
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  Achieving An Integrated Market For The European Banking Industry
  
  Guido Ravoet, Secretary General, European Banking Federation
  
  
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  Alpha or Beta: Replicating Hedge Fund Returns
  Richard Hannam, Head of Global Structured Products, State Street Global Advisors
  
  
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  An Indirect Approach to International Property Exposure
  Lars Grenald, Director Head of Seperate Accounts, Aberdeen Property Investors Indirect Investment Management
  
  
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  CAT Retrocession Market
  

  
  • Examining drivers of the market
  • Detailing market pricing and the role of capital markets
  • Assessing the risks of playing in this market
  • Future prospects for the CAT retrocession market

  Greg Richardson, Chief Underwriting Officer, Harbor Point Re Ltd.

  
  
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  Driving Process Efficiency Across your Entire Finance Function
  

  Effective change management is needed to really drive efficiency and enhance performance; this session explores
  Coca Cola’s approach to managing the transition.
  
  • Implementing a single system for data warehousing, consolidation, planning and reporting
  • Overcoming resistance to modifications to systems and processes
  • Standardising disparate processes and reporting
  • Executing effective change management to ensure efficiency
  • The next step: Streamlining processes and centralising planning into Shared Services

  Jérôme Amand, Financial Transformation Project Manager, Coca Cola and Lucille Wong, Global Implementation Lead, Coca Cola

  
  
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  Driving Transparency and Envisaging What's Next: Taking e-Sourcing to the Next Level with Bid Optimisation
  Integrating your e-Souring strategy seamlessly to ensure that the award decisions are instant, transparent and accurate is becoming more business critical.
  Bid Optimisation not only makes this possible but also ensures true collaboration is a reality, factoring in the business constraints which typically are unachievable through manual processes. The allocation of scarce resources as business needs constantly change requires quick decision-making and immediate scenario comparison. Royal Mail is facing these challenges head-on proving that Bid Optimisation takes award transparency to the next level. Through this tool they are successfully matching business demands with supply chain constraints whilst further improving e-Sourcing benefits in half the time!
  Stephen North, Senior Procurement Manager Technology, Royal Mail Plc
  
  
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  From Detailed Planning to High Level Forecasting: How to Find the Right Balance Between Corporate and Business Unit Needs
  

  Norske Skog is a truly global company with 17 business units on 4 continents. This creates true challenges in the budget process. Over 3 years Norske Skog moved from a centralised organisational model with no centralised planning tool, to building and implementing a centralised planning tool for all business units. This transition was followed by a shift to a decentralised model with more autonomy of the business units and high level forecasts cased on 6 rolling quarters. Now, most business units have reverted to their own planning systems and the business unit budget is no longer consolidated, but it is used to calibrate the high level model once a year.
  • Implementing a rolling forecast and mixed budgeting model
  • Examining the optimum detail for planning
  • Assessing how much of the process and assumptions should be driven from corporate vs. the autonomy of the business units
  • The next step: Shutting down the centralised planning tool

  Ane S. Grønlund, Vice President Performance Management, Norske Skog

  
  
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  Getting to Grips With Volatility Arbitrage
  
  • Arbitraging the dynamics of the implied volatility surface
  • Arbitraging historical volatilities of different frequencies
  • Optimizing dispersion trades
  • Management of a portfolio of risk premia
  
  Bruno Dupire, Senior Researcher, Bloomberg
  
  
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  Global Opportunities Panel – Europe And Beyond
  Global Opportunities Panel – Europe And Beyond
  Brynjolfur Helgason, Deputy CEO and Head of International Banking, Landsbanki
  Sonjoy Chatterjee, CEO, ICICI Bank
  
  
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  How to Make the Most of Volatility as an Investable Asset Class
  • Successfully analyse the VIX index to make the most from related products
  • Profit maximisation from a range of other listed volatility products
  • Alleviating the ‘perpetual’ problem in practice
  • Essential volatility technicals to consider
  • Constructing a truly investable volatility index; tried and tested strategies
  Aaron Brask, Global Head of Equity Derivatives Research, Barclays Capital
  
  
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  Implementing an Efficient Reconciliation & Exception Management System within a Financial Shared Services Environment
  

  Chris Palmer, SSC Business Process Specialist, The Carphone Warehouse
  Paul Spencer, Relationship Manager, CheckFree

  
  
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  Implementing Global Procurement in a Diverse and Ever-Changing Environment: BT’s Journey so Far
  Implementing a standard Procure-to-Pay process is difficult in any Global organisation, but especially so if the needs and the shape of that business is constantly changing. BT has based its new processes on their chosen ERP suite to enable the progressive implementation of common company-wide processes, but it’s the business transformation which is the key. Dave will explore how BT is taking a pragmatic approach in the rollout of their systems to support the Procurement professionals.
  Creating a framework for corporate governance, visibility and control
  Designing a centralised and global presence
  Mastering your vendor relationship
  Handling sourcing and contracts
  Enriching the end users experience and productivity through catalogue management
  Optimising electronic trading and Business
  Intelligence reporting
  Dave Meadmore, Lead - Order to Invoice, Procurement & Supply Chain, British Telecom
  
  
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  Insurance Capital Markets: A Private Equity Perspective
  

  • Detailing where the goals of the insurance capital markets differ from those of Wall Street and how they can work together
  • Reviewing potential competitive pressures on insurers in a soft market
  • Assessing the future of these markets: where are they leading and how will they work together?
  • Examining alternatives to sidecars

  Philip Moyles, Stone Point Capital

  
  
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  Keynote Address: The Role Of Catastrophe Risk in 21st Century Investor Asset Allocation: A Strategic Perspective
  

  John Brynjolfsson, Chief Investment Officer, Armored Wolf

  
  
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  Linking Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) and your Financial Supply Chain globally: Recognising the role P2P plays in freeing up your Working Capital
  Working Capital and cost savings are on every CFO’s agenda, but whether you can actually improve your internal process is another matter. There is a growing need for companies to view their P2P process in a holistic sense and forward thinking companies are doing just this. By integrating your Procurement and Accounts Payable (AP) departments to leverage control over processes, you can utilise your automated procedures more effectively. By applying meaningful KPIs you can take your P2P process to the next level and start to use it as a value adding tool, capable of putting money back into the Financial Supply Chain.
  Viewing the P2P process as part of the bigger Financial picture
  Transforming P2P process from a cost-saving initiative to a value-adding tool
  Breaking down pre-conceptions and driving forward change management
  Examining each individual process and its impact on the wider financial supply chain
  John Harrington, EMEA Strategic Operations Manager P2P, Citigroup
  
  
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  Modernisation of the P2P Process and Procurement Transformation in the Public Sector
  The NHS in Wales has been a leader in the implementation of procurement modernisation, including e-Tendering and e-Auctioning. Driven by the Welsh Assembly Government’s edict that improvements have to be secured across the whole of the Welsh public sector by 2010, NHS Chief Executives and Procurement Directors in Wales have taken and maintained an early lead in this development. A number of e-Auctions have taken place, delivering significant savings to the Welsh Public Sector. Larry will outline the case for some of these and the significant impact that these modern procedures have had on public sector Procurement in Wales.
  The Welsh Assembly’s Procurement Initiative and procurement modernisation in the NHS
  e-Sourcing including e-Auctioning – the future of public sector procurement
  Simplifying the connectivity between suppliers and buyers
  Making the most of collaborative procurement
  Developing the business case and managing the change
  Larry Petterson, M.B.E., FCIPS, Head of Procurement & Commercial Development, Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust
  
  
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  Moving With The Times: Adapting Your Finance Department For Improved Communication And Business Alignment
  

  
  Justin Scott, Head of Finance EMEA, Reuters

  
  
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  Moving With The Times: Strengthening Finance With A Global Transformation Perspective
  

  Moving With The Times: Strengthening Finance With A Global Transformation Perspective

  Daniel Bednar, Deputy CFO & VP Finance, Bureau Veritas

  
  
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  New Models for a New World
  

  In this session you will learn how others have leveraged the world of Web-Scale Computing to enable business models and finish projects that were not practical just a couple of years ago.

  Mike Culver, Web Services Evangelist, Amazon Web

  
  
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  Reducing Bottom Line Losses Through Process Improvement In Your Compliance Procedures
  
  Amitabh Saxena, Vice President – Transformation, Deutsche Bank
  
  
  
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  Rising to the Challenge of 21st Century Business Environments
  In this session, Jane will give an insight into the cutting edge forecasting and planning processes in the new and dynamic online business environment of ASK.com. Using a sophisticated bespoke software model, ASK.com is able to collect, analyse and use data to accurately identify trends and forecast revenue.
  
  
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  Shifting the Onus: Maximising Procurement’s Role in P2P Productivity
  For many years, Finance has carried the burden of squeezing efficiency out of the back end of the P2P process. Now a shift in onus has occurred with many organisations encouraging Purchasing to play their part. In this session, Chris looks at the shift in mind-set that is required to ensure that the overall Procurement process is directed at improving efficiency.
  Understanding the overall Procurement process
  Ensuring there’s no disconnect between the various parts of the process from sourcing to contract management
  Improving supplier relationship management and compliance
  Reducing maverick spend
  Chris Jones, Director of Procurement, EDF Energy
  
  
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  Synthetic Life Settlement Products Market
  

  • Outlining the current market for synthetic instruments surrounding life settlements
  • Assessing the obstacles to accessing this market
  • Understanding instruments to take and hedge longevity risk
  • Analyzing key price indicators and determinants
  • Incorporating synthetic life settlement products into your portfolio

  Bill Cassano Vice President, Longevity Markets Group, Goldman Sachs

  
  
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  Technical Insight Session: Innovative Payment Solutions for the Procurement Sector
  Controlling the purchasing process
  Innovation and integration in the P2P chain
  Optimising Procurement programme performance
  Gerry Burton, Senior Business Leader – Corporate Products, MasterCard Europe
  
  
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  The Credit Market: Update and Opportunities
  Anna Troup, Executive Director, Global Fixed Income Management, Goldman Sachs
  
  
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  Transferring Longevity Risk through Indexed Swaps and Other Derivatives
  

  • Comparing generalized versus pool-specific indices
  • Evaluating the requirements of a liquid and traded market
  • Addressing issues with longevity forecasts and expectations of volatility
  • Detailing the computation processes of index products
  Antony R. Mott, Managing Director – Structured Insurance Products, ICAP Capital Markets, LL
  Guy Coughlan, Global Head of Pension ALM, JPMorgan Chase