Event Highlights:

• Optional pre-conference workshop — CFO as a catalyst: Driving Performance and Value. The CFO can be a catalyst for identifying and driving improvements in performance and growth in long term, sustainable, shareholder value. This workshop will explore, in detail, best practices to create alignment, assess performance and identify and capture high leverage improvement opportunities. Participation will be "hands on" with examples, cases and models in this interactive session. This workshop will cover specific tools and techniques that CFOs can utilise to identify and develop to improve performance and grow shareholder value.

• Guest presentation by a leading economist. Macroeconomic development forecast in Russia in the near future. What are the effects of the global credit crunch on the Russian economy – increased costs of financial resources, investment, construction and economic slump? Will the U.S. and UK recessions lead to the fall in energy source prices and, consequently, in government revenues? Currency forecast: how will the dollar and the euro change against the rouble, and the dollar against the euro?

• Discussion: CFO as a leader of change. For any business leader, the pace of change, faster now than ever before, is a major challenge. CFOs must move from reactive to proactive, and think strategically to help their companies to win. They must define the necessary change — then participate in it — and finally, execute it. This discussion will cover the CFO’s role when it comes to organisational reform. How prepared are Russian CFOs to embrace change and lead it?

• An interview with a representative of the Ministry of Finance of the RF. Latest developments in tax regulation and new government initiatives – lowering VAT rates, pension reforms, amendments to the law on auditing activity - how will this affect business in reality? 

• Spotlight on the CFO’s Role in Talent Management: Recruiting, developing and retaining a winning finance team

• SPECIAL FOCUS ON The CFO’s Role in Risk Management 

• Master Class: Personal Efficiency Program for CFOs – How to Get Organised to Do More Work in Less Time

• 2 Cocktail receptions, including the CFO Awards Ceremony, Fine Wine tasting, and a Diamond Cocktail Reception