How modern data analytics and AI are revolutionizing accounting and controlling: from predictive analytics and anomaly detection to automated reports – enabling CFOs and controllers to make well-founded decisions faster and more proactively.

The integration and collaboration of finance departments are crucial to a company’s success. Learn how a harmonized structure increases efficiency, streamlines processes, and leads to better decision-making.

Companies are facing a wave of new regulatory requirements. This session highlights how businesses can proactively prepare for upcoming ESG reporting obligations – from data collection to strategic implementation.

In 2026, many companies will be in the midst of the ECC → S/4 migration (Deadline 2027 / increased maintenance costs), leveraging the transition for real-time cost accounting, event-based postings, and integrated plan-vs-actual analyses.

From Fashion to Telecom, the challenges in Accounting may wear different styles, but the mission is the same: reinvent a function that’s been around for centuries, and make it ready for the future.

In this cross-industry keynote, Raymond and Katharina share their perspectives on leading Accounting through transformation. Grounded in shared leadership values and systemic thinking, they explore how people, processes, and technology come together to build a resilient and future-ready function.

Two industries. One journey. Let’s reinvent Accounting together.

Traditional planning models quickly reach their limits in a dynamic business environment. In this session, CFOs will learn how modern methods and technologies help them anticipate market changes early and make strategic decisions proactively.

After the first reporting round in 2025, 2026 will focus on clean data flows, automation, and auditability.

In no phase of history has there been a comparable surge in innovation as in our time. As a result of the new technical possibilities, the world is growing together into a networked global system of great heterogeneity. Opportunities and risks are closely intertwined. Dealing with the new in society has become a major challenge. At this high pace of innovation, citizens are looking for ways to understand the new and to recognize the social and technical processes in context. In dealing with the new, we are currently experiencing the transition from a “considerate” to a “cautious” society.

I will use many examples to illustrate our changed approach to the new and show ways of creating a culture of change.