I have more than ten years of experience as a finance professional (seven years in financial audit and four years in controlling). Living in five different countries across three different continents (France, USA, Luxembourg, Singapore and Germany) gave me the capacity to integrate myself quickly and understand different local and working cultures.

I am currently heading the Finance and Controlling team of MIS Germany (one of the domains of Thales Germany). I am also in charge of controlling the MIS Space segment (cross-regional scope between Germany and France).

Muhammad is a strategic finance professional and an entrepreneur with a track record of more than 17 years of adding a tremendous amount of value to businesses across a diversified range of industries within Asia, the Middle East & Europe region by improving their strategic position, competitive edge in the market, operational excellence, accounting & finance functions, profitability, and cash flow leading to sustainable business growth.

Monika Piekarska is a Tableau Developer and a former Director of LabMP Ltd Data Visualization Consulting in the UK. She educates finance on communicating data impactfully.

LabMP Ltd provided data storytelling for business leaders to trigger effective communication across the organisation through reporting, BI tools, and slide decks.

Monika Piekarska’s Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/monika-piekarska/

Michael Lengenfelder joined the former prevero Austria GmbH in 2005 as a consultant and has been part of the Unit4 FP&A journey ever since. He offers broad experience and knowledge in consulting and FP&A applications. He became VP Business Unit Utilities in 2013, followed by Vice President Finance two years later, and finally Head of FP&A Product Management in 2021.

Knut Fahlén is a PhD and Management Consultant, Ekan.

Author of Situationsanpassad Ekonomi- och Verksamhetsstyrning (Komlitt, 2020), Dynamic Management Strategy (BAS, 2018, e-version BOD, 2019) and Beyond Budgeting i Praktiken (Liber, 2016).

Kerman Lau is a seasoned finance executive and trusted advisor to business partners and company leaders.

He uses his strong systems knowledge to drive innovation, and has implemented planning and reporting systems in companies of all sizes. Kerman is currently director of finance at Workday, and regularly speaks and writes about FP&A best practices. Prior to Workday, he worked as a key part of the Finance teams at Electronic Arts, Symantec, and Veritas Technologies.

Joao Almeida is the Chief Financial Officer for the Hub Terminals Portfolio at AP Moller Maersk. Joao has expertise in blue-chip multinationals in senior finance and transformation leadership roles in supply chain and logistics, consumer, healthcare, telecommunications, building materials and private equity industries. Joao has operated in Europe, Asia, Latin America, Middle East and Africa.

Irina Steenbeek is a data management practitioner and coach with more than 11 years of experience. She assists executive data management (DM) professionals in assessing data management's maturity and performance, implementing or optimizing data management frameworks, and developing a data lineage business case. For that, I offer a ready-for-use step-by-step methodology.

Simon is Director FP&A at FedEx Express. His more than 30 years in various Finance roles have provided experience on a wide variety of topics, including Strategy Development, Talent Development, Performance Management, Project Management, Global System Implementations, M&A, Accounting & Controlling, Working Capital Management & Auditing.

He has lived in Denmark, Chile & the Netherlands and has worked with and managed teams across the globe. Simon is a strong believer in looking beyond the figures to truly understand the story behind them.

Franz Röösli is head of the Institute for Organisational Viability at the University of Applied Sciences Zurich (ZHAW). He researches, teaches and advises companies in the areas of organisational design, leadership and strategy. He holds a PhD in management sciences.

At the same time, he is a member of the core team of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table (BBRT), an international practitioner and research community of companies and researchers that addresses issues of future-oriented management and has developed the Beyond Budgeting management model.