22 - 23 October, 2019
Hotel Palace Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Conference Day 1

9:15 am - 9:45 am Registration and welcome coffee

9:45 am - 9:50 am Opening of the annual conference by IQPC

9:50 am - 10:20 am Chairperson's opening remarks

Michael Tobai, Head of Digitalization and Tax Declaration Center at Siemens AG

Michael Tobai

Head of Digitalization and Tax Declaration Center
Siemens AG

10:00 am - 10:30 am Beyond Technology - Organizational adoption to a technology driven global tax function

• Update on Siemens’ journey on digital tax transformation
• Trends affecting the future job roles in tax – what is realistic, what is hype?
• Future workplace scenario for tax departments – what is the new framework?
• Clockspeed of change in tax departments – what needs to change now?
• Change management in tax – what approach?
Michael Tobai, Head of Digitalization and Tax Declaration Center at Siemens AG

Michael Tobai

Head of Digitalization and Tax Declaration Center
Siemens AG

10:30 am - 11:00 am Keynote Transformation of a global tax function

• The tax function as agile partner for fast changing business
• Design thinking, UX, BPMN and OKRs- tools to help to transform the tax function
• Change of the organization and the mindset in the tax function
Dr. Mathias Hildebrand, Head of Tax at ProSiebenSat1

Dr. Mathias Hildebrand

Head of Tax
ProSiebenSat1

11:00 am - 11:30 am Match and Meet

This is the time to get out of the comfort of your chair and get to know who else is in the conference room with you. A networking facilitating session designed just for you to help you break the ice as early as possible.

11:30 am - 12:00 pm Networking and refreshment break

12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Digital tax transformation

• Identification of required skill set
• Identification of knowledge gap
• Long-term development as foundation of future digital transformation path
• Employing advanced Microsoft tools to automate various tax related processes
Lukasz Kubicki, Head of International Tax at OC Oerlikon

Lukasz Kubicki

Head of International Tax
OC Oerlikon

12:30 pm - 1:00 pm TaxTech in Indirect Taxes - Best practice, challenges, trends, case studies

• Challenges due to increased indirect tax reporting requirements - a global perspective
• Indirect tax in the context of an ERP agenda
• The profile of the indirect tax expert 4.0
• Case studies
Sophia Weber, BD Tax Technology at Thomson Reuters

Sophia Weber

BD Tax Technology
Thomson Reuters

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Networking luncheon

Round Table Discussions | IDG 30 Min
Peer-led informal discussions in small groups, focused on specific challenges and solutions. You can open up and enquire about actual lessons learnt in an intimate setting.

Table 1: Designing end-to end processes
Sebastian Wenzel, Head of Indirect Tax, BASF Services Europe GmbH

Table 2: Designing and defending a successful tax technology strategy
Michael Tobai, Head of Tax Technology and Digitalization, Siemens AG

Table 3: Central Management of Tax data: Data homogenization in preparation for automation
Sanjeev Agarwal, Head of Tax, Customs and Export Control, BMW India
Sebastian Wenzel, Head of Indirect Tax at BASF – Global Shared Services Organization

Sebastian Wenzel

Head of Indirect Tax
BASF – Global Shared Services Organization

Michael Tobai, Head of Digitalization and Tax Declaration Center at Siemens AG

Michael Tobai

Head of Digitalization and Tax Declaration Center
Siemens AG

Sanjeev Agarwal, Head of Tax, Customs and Export Control at BMW India

Sanjeev Agarwal

Head of Tax, Customs and Export Control
BMW India

• Increasing reporting environment: Re-definition of the tax function and the need to be compliant
• Redefining the relations with the Tax Authority
• Handling, reconciling and securing consistency on information: The use and need of IT tools
• Spain Daily VAT reporting system (SII): What might be next?
• UK MTD and tax Journey

Enrique Gomez Garcia, Group Tax EMEA Director Spain, Italy, UK, Ireland, Slovenia, Croatia and Portugal at Volvo Group

Enrique Gomez Garcia

Group Tax EMEA Director Spain, Italy, UK, Ireland, Slovenia, Croatia and Portugal
Volvo Group

• Setting a TP digitalization strategy
• Effectively implementing TP technology: pitfalls & learning
• Use cases for data and analytics in TP
• Financial Analysis
Jonne Kregting, Senior Manager Transfer Pricing Processes and Technology at Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe BV

Jonne Kregting

Senior Manager Transfer Pricing Processes and Technology
Teva Pharmaceuticals Europe BV

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm Dealing with PE Risk and Profit Attribution

Jean-Louis Barsac, Head of Tax at Nokia

Jean-Louis Barsac

Head of Tax
Nokia

4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Networking and refreshment break

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Quality of data - Prepare the company for the future

Sanjeev Agarwal, Head of Tax, Customs and Export Control at BMW India

Sanjeev Agarwal

Head of Tax, Customs and Export Control
BMW India

5:30 pm - 6:00 pm How to manage the complexity

6:00 pm - 6:10 pm Chairperson's closing remarks

Michael Tobai, Head of Digitalization and Tax Declaration Center at Siemens AG

Michael Tobai

Head of Digitalization and Tax Declaration Center
Siemens AG

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm Evening Get-Together

Join our evening Get-Together and take this opportunity to network and make new business contacts. Or just to relax and round off your first conference day.