Europe's Premier Invitation-Only Meeting for Treasury Leadership
Europe's Premier Invitation-Only Meeting for Treasury Leadership
Agenda Day 1
7:30 am - 8:30 am
REGISTRATION & BREAKFAST
8:30 am - 8:35 am
PROGRAM DIRECTOR'S WELCOME
8:35 am - 8:45 am
CHAIR'S OPENING REMARKS
8:45 am - 9:15 am
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: USING AI TO REDUCE MANUAL WORK AND IMPROVE DECISIONS WITHOUT INCREASING RISK
Eva Frehner -
Global Head of Treasury,
Sulzer Ltd
Many treasury teams are experimenting with AI and advanced automation, and a common theme emerging is uncertainty around where these tools are
delivering the most value. Discover where AI is already delivering practical value in treasury today and how treasurers are integrating it into existing processes without creating new risks or dependencies.
• Uncover where treasurers are using AI to remove low value manual work
• How teams are testing AI use cases without disrupting core controls
• Practical steps to introduce AI in a way the business and auditors are
comfortable with
9:15 am - 9:45 am
SPONSOR PRESENTATION: The Treasury Triangle: How Treasurers Are Regaining Control of Liquidity and Working Capital Resilience Across the Supply Chain
Kris Van Broekhoven -
Chief Executive Officer,
PrimaTrade
Payment terms sit at the centre of working capital and liquidity resilience, yet ownership is often fragmented. Explore how treasury teams are regaining influence over supplier terms and supply chain liquidity by aligning stakeholders around shared business outcomes rather than competing priorities.
• Achieve working capital and liquidity objectives while creating measurable value for procurement and suppliers
• Turn supply chain data into treasury-grade decision intelligence
• Reduce operational complexity through sustainable, governance-friendly automation
• Build trusted supply chain data foundations that support the safe adoption of AI
Sponsored by: PrimaTrade
9:50 am - 10:20 am
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
10:25 am - 10:55 am
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
11:00 am - 11:30 am
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
11:00 am - 11:30 am
THINK TANK: REAL-TIME TREASURY OR REAL-TIME NOISE? TURNING VISIBILITY INTO BETTER DECISIONS
Treasury teams have invested heavily in visibility, more dashboards, more feeds, more data, yet decision-making often still lags volatility. As organisations push toward real-time cash, forecasting and risk oversight, the challenge is no longer access to information, but confidence, prioritisation and control.
• Clear distinctions between visibility that drives action and visibility that creates noise
• The points where forecasting accuracy improves and where it meaningfully stalls
• Trade-offs between speed, control and governance in real-time treasury environments
• The impact of data confidence on senior-level decisions under pressure
11:35 am - 12:05 pm
FIRESIDE CHAT: AVOIDING THE EXPENSIVE MISTAKES AS AI MOVES FROM PILOTS TO EVERYDAY USE
Teodora Terzieva -
Head of Treasury & Digitalization,
Evonik Industries
Takachida Kuhudzai - Head of Treasury, Avon
As AI becomes more embedded in treasury processes, new challenges around trust, governance, and decision making are emerging. Discuss and engage as we bring together treasurers at different stages of AI maturity to share what has worked, what has not, and what they would approach differently.
• Has AI genuinely improved speed or decision quality?
• When does automation go too far and need to be rolled back?
• How are treasurers balancing innovation with control and accountability?
12:05 pm - 12:35 pm
SPONSOR PRESENTATION: From Forecast to Decision: Why Accuracy Alone Isn't Enough in Volatile Conditions
Treasury teams have invested heavily in improving forecast accuracy, but volatility has exposed a harder problem: knowing when to trust your forecast enough to act. As real-time data expands what is visible, the gap between having a number and making a confident funding or liquidity decision has widened, not narrowed. This session examines how treasury teams are defining what forecast quality actually needs to look like to support decisive action, and where scenario modelling is replacing single-point forecasts as the basis for real decisions.
- Where forecasting accuracy breaks down in multi-entity and cross-border environments
- How treasurers are using scenario-based approaches to make decisions during uncertain times
Sponsored by: GTreasury
12:40 pm - 1:10 pm
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
1:10 pm - 2:00 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH
2:05 pm - 2:35 pm
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
2:05 pm - 2:35 pm
THINK TANK: AI IN TREASURY: FROM FIRST STEPS TO FULL AUTOMATION
James Kelly -
Co-Founder,
YourTreasury
Treasurers are experimenting with GenAI at very different levels, from basic prompting to structured data environments. This session explores practical Copilot usage, creating memory documents that teach AI internal terminology, and defining safe governance boundaries so AI recommends but does not execute. Examine how centralised platforms such as Microsoft Fabric consolidate treasury data into auditable structures, enabling ondemand reporting and insight generation.
• Understand how to use Copilot confidently in daily treasury workflows
• Gain clarity on safe AI usage and governance boundaries
• Learn how to structure treasury data for auditability and control
• Enable faster reporting and actionable insights from AI
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Rethinking Invoice to Cash: Practical Levers for Better Working Capital Outcomes
Abhishek Abhishek -
Global Head of B2B Acceptance,
Visa Inc.
Treasury manages trade offs between liquidity, risk, cost, and operational efficiency—often long before payment is received. In this roundtable, participants will discuss how organisations are actively shaping the invoice to cash phase, from settlement mechanics to payment choice, with commercial cards emerging as a powerful but underutilised working capital tool. The focus will be on practical action and measurable outcomes.
Sponsored by: Visa
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Navigating Trade Finance in Turbulent Times
Bunmi Adeyemi Wilson -
Head of Global Cash Management,
Shell
When markets move fast, fragmented processes and opaque bank lines become a liability. Shell and Komgo share an unfiltered view of what it takes to run trade finance operations in a world that no longer waits and what real-time visibility actually changes for the treasury function.
• The operational cost of manual trade finance : time, errors, and blind spots.
• Closing the cash / trade gap : how real-time visibility reshapes liquidity management.
• Implementation unpacked : lessons from onboarding a global bank network.
• AI in trade finance : embedded intelligence today, agentic workflows tomorrow
Sponsored by: Komgo
2:40 pm - 3:10 pm
ROUNDTABLE: AUTOMATION THAT SCALES VERSUS AUTOMATION THAT BREAKS UNDER PRESSURE
As automation expands across treasury processes, many teams are discovering that what works in isolation does not always scale cleanly. This roundtable explores where automation has delivered sustainable value and where it has introduced fragility, risk, or unintended dependencies.
• Processes where automation has reduced effort without weakening control
• Common failure points when automated processes meet real-world
exceptions
• Signals that automation is increasing operational risk rather than reducing it
3:10 pm - 3:40 pm
SPONSOR PRESENTATION: RESTORING CONTROL IN A FRAGMENTED TREASURY LANDSCAPE
As treasury technology environments expand across multiple systems, banks, and automated processes, maintaining clear ownership and control is becoming harder rather than easier. The primary focus is on how treasurers are addressing fragmentation, strengthening accountability, and ensuring automation supports governance rather than obscuring it.
• Clearer ownership across automated processes and system handoffs
• Reduced operational risk in multi-system and multi-bank environments
• Greater confidence in controls, auditability, and exception handling
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
3:45 pm - 4:15 pm
COFFEE & NETWORKING
4:20 pm - 4:50 pm
1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS
4:55 pm - 5:25 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: NAVIGATING THE COMPLEX DATA LANDSCAPE TO IDENTIFY WHAT DATA GENERATES ACTIONABLE INSIGHTS
Declan Doorly -
Group Treasurer,
DCC
Omar Ibarra - Treasury Director EMEA, Clarios
Treasury teams now have access to more data than ever, but the value is not always clear. This panel brings together different perspectives on where
additional data has genuinely improved outcomes and where it has added complexity or distraction.
• Does greater data lead to better funding or liquidity decisions?
• Are there situations where additional reporting created noise rather than clarity?
• How do you define the right level of information for effective control?
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: HOW LEADING TREASURERS ARE CREATING CLARITY DESPITE SYSTEM LIMITATIONS
Michael Ben Moshe -
VP treasury,
Teva Pharmaceutical
Most treasury teams have invested heavily in systems, yet many still struggle to get timely, trusted information when it matters most. Looking at why systems often fail to deliver decision-ready insight and how Group Treasurers are refocusing on outcomes rather than functionality.
• Where treasury systems most commonly fall short in supporting real
decisions
• Why integration and data quality matter more than adding new tools
• How leading treasurers are resetting expectations around what systems
should deliver
