SAP Concur Fusion Exchange 2023
ITC Grand Central, Parel – Mumbai
A dynamic event crafted to equip CXOs with essential content and real-life case studies for pivoting growth. An all-inclusive agenda encompassing enlightening leadership keynotes, informative sessions and invaluable networking opportunities with peers. Focus points will include numerous avenues to enhance travel, expense and invoice management, and insights on how to take businesses to greater heights.
What Can You Expect?
SAP Concur Fusion Exchange India will bring together a change-driven, growth-minded community of leaders to share insights, learn from collective experience and explore the opportunities to leverage strategy & technologies to bring about sustainable business outcomes.
What’s Our AIM?
• Discuss new playbooks for executive decision-making and action in a new digital world.
• Enable leaders to have better control on business operations and compliance
• Navigate better in today’s fast-paced and complex business environment and prepare for future growth
What’s in Store
Sustainability – Discussion on how sustainability has gone beyond being a buzzword and benefited companies who have taken to sustainability initiatives.
Indian Economy & Finance Landscape – Insightful session on whether India will continue to keep the encouraging data.
AI and Innovation – AI is here to stay. Learn if finance leaders are happy with their current AI initiatives and what more can they expect using AI.
Business Environment – An interesting discussion on if Indian businesses should continue to ride the current tide given the positive signals from the Indian Economy or should they be cautious keeping in mind the global scenario.
Compliance, GST and Audit – Learn how senior finance leaders in India face a multitude of challenges despite continuing to navigate the ever-changing landscape of Goods and Services Tax (GST) compliance.
Agenda
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9:00 AM – 9:30 AM |
Registration |
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9:30 AM – 10:00 AM |
Welcome Note Ashwani Narang, Head of Spend
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10:00 AM – 10:30 AM |
Indian Economy and Landscape – |
Global economies and their banking sectors seem to face several headwinds. The effect is clearly visible in developed nations. However, the data for India is encouraging, but will it continue to remain so? History shows that every global economic crisis has some level of impact on all countries, including India, even if it comes in a smaller measure and after a long time. So, is India really ready for any effect? When will we see an impact, if any? How should finance leaders handle any effect if India feels one?
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10:30 AM – 11:00 AM |
Corporate Sustainability that Works Deeksha Vats, Group Chief Sustainability Officer Amit Madhan, President & Group Head Technology Moderator: Hoshie Ghaswalla, CEO |
Sustainability has gone beyond being a buzzword to serious on ground action for several companies. Is it helping these organizations? What exactly are they doing in this space? How they have worked for them? How are they benefiting? What do they need to watch for when implementing these initiatives?
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11:00 AM – 11:15 AM |
Tea/Coffee Break |
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Breakout sessions |
SAP Concur Innovation Series |
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11:15 AM – 11:45 AM |
Spend Management Value Pillars Mark Wilfred, Director, Solutions Consulting (SEA & India), SAP Concur Srivatsan Santhanam, VP Spend Engineering
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“Do you know that approximately 23% of expenses submitted in India are non-compliant with company policy?” Join us for an exclusive session from SAP Concur leadership on key value pillars to consider when managing employee discretionary spend.
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11:45 AM – 12:15 PM |
Innovation Story Sandeep Ujire Padvetnaya, CFO – SAP India Harish Singh, GM & Global Head Infrastructure – Wipro Jitendra Singh, CDO, JK Cement |
Customers are the biggest testimony! Hear directly from SAP Concur customers about what made them decide to go for SAP Concur and the benefits they realized to achieve their organization’s business imperatives.
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12:15 PM – 12:45 PM |
Hackathon Presentation POC |
Innovation is a tradition at SAP. Know more about SAP Concur Partner Hackathon – an initiative in collaboration with the SAP Engineering team, partners and customers to solve real-life business challenges.
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12:45 PM – 1:30 PM |
Lunch Break |
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1:30 PM – 2:00 PM |
Shailesh Haribhakti, Chairman – Blue Star India |
Given the rapidly unpredictable past few years, led by the current buoyancy in the market and the not-so-encouraging global economic scenario, it seems to be a confusing time for Indian businesses. Should they continue to ride the current tide, given the positive signals from the Indian economy, or should they be cautious, keeping in mind the global scenario? Should they continue to invest and expand, or should they preserve or build a war chest?
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2:00 PM – 2:30 PM |
AI Now and in 2025 Suhrid Brahma, COO, WNS – Vuram Jagdish Ramaswamy, President and Chief Digital Sunil Sonare, Head of IT, ITD Cementation India Ltd Manikanth Epari, Chief Technology Officer Vivek H.G., CIO, Neterwala Group Moderator: Srivatsan Santhanam, VP, Spend |
Another set of what could have been perceived as buzzwords have now been implemented, with the effects being visible. Innovation is something that organizations have been talking about for a lifetime, and they will continue to do so. AI has already arrived, and its benefits are being felt by organizations. AI is here to stay. Are finance leaders satisfied with their current AI initiatives, and what more can they expect from using AI for functions across the organization in the next couple of years?
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2:45 PM – 3:15 PM |
Compliance – GST & Audit Uday Pimrikar, Partner – Indirect Tax – EY LLP |
As senior finance leaders in India continue to navigate the ever-changing landscape of Goods and Services Tax (GST) compliance, they face a multitude of challenges. The complexity of the GST framework, coupled with the need to stay updated on the latest regulatory changes, poses significant challenges for these professionals. Additionally, managing compliance across multiple jurisdictions and ensuring that all transactions are accurately documented can prove to be a daunting task.
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3:15 PM – 4:15 PM |
Interactive Session- Sartak Palta, Deputy CFO, Legrand Moderator: Sumedha Varma, Senior Director |
Become a part of an interactive panel discussion with industry leaders on how to manage tactical spend of an organisation enabling scalable growth at an optimised cost.
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SAP Concur Value Series |
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11:15 AM – 11:45 AM |
Unleashing the Power of Sascha Van Der Zijden, VP & Head
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Hear Sascha talk about why adoption is at the heart of building a successful expense program, and know about real world strategies that can help you improve your product adoption and improve your ROI.
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Panel Discussion Unlocking Moderator: Sascha van der Zijden, VP & Head Speakers: Manjusha Nair, VP & Head APAC Service Delivery SAP Concur Andleeb Jain, CHRO – JK Cement Praveen Shrikhande, CIO – ABFRL
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Hear the adoption stories of your peers and learn best practices on what to do, and more importantly – what NOT to do. |
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11:45 AM – 12:15 PM |
Aneesh Batra, Head Customer Success |
Get an overview of the data capabilities of Concur and understand how to turn this data into usable insight.
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Navigating the Data Frontier: Moderator: Aneesh Batra, Head Customer Success for India Speaker: Sarthak Palta, Deputy CFO – Legrand Group Pratiq Shah, Deolitte |
Listen to experts talk about their experiences and best practices about using Concur Data
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12:15 PM – 12:45 PM |
SAP Concur Product Vision Srivatsan Santhanam, VP, Spend |
During this session, hear about upcoming SAP Concur product innovations, such as upcoming features and enhancements, new
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