45th Congress of Controllers on April 26/27, 2021 - ONLINE EVENT - agenda

10.20 am Coffee break

10.50 am „Digital Finance“ in a Decentralized Business Model (DHL Supply Chain)

• Challenges of a decentralized project-oriented business model
• Standards versus customer focus - a contradiction?
• Financial partners in the 21^st century - opportunities and risks
• Digitization and standardization - how the possibilities of the future bring global teams closer together

Dietrich Franz
CFO
DHL Supply Chain, Bonn

11.30 am Artificial Intelligence – from Science Fiction to the Driver of the 4th Industrial Revolution

• Why the 4^thIndustrial Revolution is more than a Digital Revolution
• The different approaches to “Technical Intelligence”
• Quo vadis AI? How 5G and Quantum Computing push AI to an even higher league

Prof. Dr. Sabina Jeschke
Board Member for the Digitization & Technology
Deutsche Bahn AG, Berlin

1.00 pm Lunch and experience exchange

3.40 pm Automation and Digitization of Financial Processes

• Job cutting vs. intelligent automation
• Change of task distribution - man versus machine
• Does outsourcing make sense in the long run?
• Project experiences and outlook

Mag. Klaus Schatz MSc.
Partner IT Advisory
KPMG Advisory GmbH, Linz/Wien

4.50 pm For a better Performance Management – Examples of Artificial Intelligence at BASF

• The role of a controller: from "Business Partner" to "Pathfinder"
• Transparency through visualization and analytics
• Predictive analytics in the financial forecast and in liquidity planning
• Artificial Intelligence in credit management

Stefan Schnell
Senior Vice President
Group Reporting & Performance Management, BASF SE, Ludwigshafen

2.30 pm Agile Methods in Practice: Scrum as a Management Instrument for Daily Work in Controlling

• From experiment to routine: Establishment and management of a Scrum Team in controlling
• Customized roles and tools for daily work
• Stand-up in virtual teams – it’s all a matter of organization!
• Important success factors for acceptance and enthusiasm in the team
• Role of the team leader in the process and change in leadership

Angela Saloch
Head of the Team Controlling Flight Ops & TFM
Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Frankfurt a.M.

Future of Work: Digitization and Agility - in Controlling / at Controllers

• How do controllers become drivers of and not driven by digitization?
• What does "agility" actually mean in the context of controlling?
• What are the approaches for activating employees and how can you support self-responsible innovation?

Jochen Fellhauer
SAP SE, Walldorf

3.40 pm Shaping Change as a Controller

• Success factors for the design of change (of culture)
• From awareness and reflection tools to creativity increase and design
• How can controllers be supported in the transformation processes?

Katharina Hochfeld
Deputy Head
Center for Responsible Research and Innovation (CeRRI)
Fraunhofer IAO, Berlin 

4.50 pm Moderated discussion

with speakers and representatives of the ICV expert work group Future of Work

Head of the ICV expert work group Dr. Rüdiger Eichin

SAP SE

2.30 pm Performance Management: How to enjoy Change with Controllers - or why Strengthening Strengths is so Valuable in Controlling

• Why should controllers enjoy the change?
• What does a top manager want from controlling? And how to make controllers successful?
• What does "shape the future" mean for controllers?
• How can we open the tight drawers, where controllers are often pressed into?
• What un-culture in leadership needs to disappear?

Alexander Gedat
Supervisory Board and Advisory Board in the Clothing Industry -
Former CFO, CSO and CEO of Marc O'Polo

A dialogue with Dr. Thomas Biasi

3.40 pm FAMOS 2025 - Developing and Implementing a Strategy in the SME Sector

• Myth strategy
• Welcome VUCA in the food sector
• 125 years – and what will follow?
• Strategy and strategy process - knowledge, desire and change
• Zentis Innoversum
• Exchange and discussion

Norbert Weichele
Executive Director at the Zentis Group
Zentis GmbH & Co. KG, Aachen

4.50 pm Management after Corona; what needs to change

• Middle management as we knew it, is dead
• Megatrends neo-ecology and security
• New generations, new leadership styles
• The necessary moonshot also for controllers?

Tristan Horx
Keynote Speaker | Autor | Zukunftsforscher

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9.00 am Digitization in the 3-stage distribution channel with the example of the industry plumbing / heating / air conditioning / electrical needs

• The sector distribution chanel
• Digitization of the supply chain
• Digitization projects in the GC-Gruppe
• AI projects in the GC-Gruppe

Benedikt Mahr
Executive Partner
Wilhelm Gienger KG, GC-Gruppe, Markt Schwaben

9.40 am Sustainability – The Moment for Bold Leadership is Here and Now

• What is the posture of the controlling profession in terms of sustainability? 
• Controllers have the obligation to boldly lead sustainability effort. But how? 
• Better decisions about processes, behaviors, and actions are obviously needed. What more can be done?
• Controllers can lead the way through six action steps relating to new measures, new processes and new collaborations 
• Controllers need the collective will to act in ways that are required by the ethical standards that guide this profession

Mike Wasserman
Ph.D., Professor of International Management
FH Münster, Münster

10.50 am Controlling Transformation in a Digitized & Data Driven Time

• Networking with the holding and company strategy
• Change and development of people, products and tools

Sonja Wallner
CFO
A1 Telekom Austria, Wien

11.30 am Transformation & Disruption: Digital Change at Zeppelin

• The Group
• New digital business models
• Scale-up & Start-up & Start-up control
• Digitizing existing business models

Christian Dummler
CFO
Zeppelin GmbH, Garching b. München

12.10 pm If You Want It, You’ll Make It

Sporting excellence has much in common with professional tasks and private projects. In these areas, too, it is important to set goals and consequently implement them. We often hear: "It‘s all in your head!" In the speech by Wolfgang Fasching you will learn more about the power of thoughts and how they influence and shape our lives. Learn more about how you can make great effects  with simple changes.

Wolfgang Fasching
Extreme athlete
Sportagentur Fasching, Lambach

12.55 pm Closing words

FH-Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Heimo Losbichler
FH Oberösterreich
Chairman of the ICV Board
Chairman of the Board of the International Group of Controlling IGC