Managing International Growth March 18-19, 2O2O | Intercontinental San Francisco
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The 6th annual conference on Managing International Growth March 18-19, 2O2O | InterContinental San Francisco Bringing together treasury leaders from the world’s Early bird discount top MNCs and fast growth companies Book by Friday February 7 and save up to $8OO www.eurofinance.com/sanfrancisco Official sponsors Managing International Growth Join to hear thought provoking big picture plenaries, Why attend? Who should attend? fireside chats and case studies from the best in class treasury teams across various industries. • Hear direct from treasurers who have • Corporate treasurers, CFOs and finance successfully entered new markets directors who need to know, the latest The US West Coast is nursery to dozens of fast-growth start-ups and • Discover the latest technologies that can trends in international treasury and risk innovators in tech, pharma, healthcare and finance. The treasurers support your global strategy management of these firms face unusual and complex challenges as they balance • Examine risk strategies that work in • Financial institutions, technology and boosting the business with the daily chores of managing cash, complex markets system providers who want to meet with treasury decision makers and better funding and risk. From smaller start-ups to household names, these • Learn how to avoid the common pitfalls understand the challenges they face companies and their finance functions need to use the latest of international regulatory and tax techniques and technologies to keep that growth going and jump the changes hurdles that could slow them down. But it is not just the dazzling • Understand how to effectively manage world of start-ups. Every treasurer of every company with international liquidity international growth plans faces a myriad of obstacles and opportunities across the treasury agenda from financing expansion • Network with an unrivaled senior to ensuring adequate working capital to getting the day to day cash audience of 2OO+ delegates management operations efficient and ensuring risks are mitigated. • Benchmark your operations with EuroFinance’s March 2O2O San Francisco event delivers the peer treasurers from all industries presentations, case studies and technical breakouts that fast-growth companies need to keep on track. This event offers big picture sessions around the global economy and its challenges for companies; the latest tech developments offering real opportunities to solve finance function pain points; regulation and other current trends. Afternoon sessions are divided into in-depth sessions split between two streams. Managing International Growth: Facing the Future 2 Corporate seniority of corporates discovered Corporate new vendors and/or attendance 62% 83% treasury solutions of which were of corporates said this is 49% senior corporates 77% the best treasury event ( Group Treasurer / VP Treasurer they attend / Head of Treasury / CFO level ) Corporate companies that attended last year’s conference included: • AA.T Kearney • Bechtel • Fluor Corporation • Lam Research • Salesforce • Varian Medical • Adobe • Box • Flex • Levi’s • Sanmina Systems • Aerojet • Broadcom • Gensler • Lime • ServiceNow • Volvo • Rocketdyne • CDK Global • Google • Logitech • Shopify • Warner Bros. • Agilent • Cisco • Hitachi Data • Maxim Integrated • Square • Western Digital Technologies • Deliveroo Systems • Microsoft • Starbucks • Wilbur-Ellis • Airbnb • Disney • HP • Nvidia • Stripe • Workday • Align • Driscoll’s • Hyundai • Oracle • Synopsys • Zendesk Technologies • Dropbox • ICD • PACCAR • Tesla • Alphabet • eBay • Infobox • Pattern Energy • Uber • Amazon • Equinix • Informatica • Postmates • Veritas • Aon • Eventbrite • Ingram Micro • Prologis Technologies • Applied Materials • Expedia • Intel • Pure Storage • Atlassian • Fitbit • Intuit • Ring Central • BioMarin • Five Guys • Juniper Networks • Rio Tinto Pharmaceutical • Enterprises • KLA • Sage Managing International Growth: Facing the Future 3 Plenary sessions Monday March 18, 2O19 Plenary sessions What’s driving or not driving the global It’s tough out there and companies may Teasing out the trends that impact the economy and what matters for companies have to change business now US companies have gotten used to an easy It’s a big picture world right now. Mega Economies have stopped working the way ride from their domestic tax, employment, trends in politics, economics, trade, we expect. The link between employment data protection and anti-trust regimes. But technology, regulation and the environment and inflation seems broken. A quarter of all when they try to export their business matter more than the details. Has the tech investment-grade bonds now have negative practices elsewhere, it’s a different story. In bubble burst? What does the US-China trade yields. Central bank balance sheets bulge Europe and Asia, investors, and more war mean for business? Is Europe falling to with the bonds they have bought. The role of significantly governments, are looking much pieces? What does business look like after those banks and their governments in fiscal harder about how tax and regulatory the next round of digitalisation, after and monetary policy is blurring. The rules of arbitrage, monopoly practices and unfair automation and AI get to grips with Big Data? business are in flux too. Political turmoil employment strategies, rather than genuine Will a quarter of all investment grade bonds matters more than the normal rules of the innovation, lie behind outsize profits at some stay at negative yields? Listen to our expert market. The continued move towards global firms. In Europe the low to non-existent snapshots and join in their discussion with a supply chains and the digital reinvention of taxation paid by key digital platforms is a treasurer about what each of these trends sectors as far apart as taxis, pizzas and target. Some companies misuse of private mean. healthcare collides with nostalgic populism customer data to generate ad revenues has Are the China days over? and its desire to reassert nation states and been punished with large fines. Others have their boundaries. New generations of been hit with a billion dollars of fines for The escalating tariff fight between the U.S. consumers demand sustainability from misuse of data and selling product below and China creates problems for markets, driving leaders to seek profits with cost. And online content providers are under manufacturers there. These firms need to purpose. And all the while, more than a scrutiny for how they manage, promote and look at moving production to unaffected decade after the financial crisis, debt levels monetize that content. In Asia, chasing countries in Asia, such as Vietnam and continue to rise, and a private equity bubble Chinese business comes at the cost of Thailand, or even to Mexico. But which looks set to burst, if it hasn’t already. So why censorship, nixed M&A deals and blacklisting countries are most attractive from the point is the new thinking that emerged after threats. How can fast-growth US innovators of view of wages, taxation and proximity to previous crises missing this time round? Is avoid the regulatory backlash? Learn from high-tech supply chains? And what about the Chinese model showing the deficiencies the firms who have experienced it. Taiwan? in the neoliberal consensus and will populism GDPR plus CCPA ...equals what? overturn it? And what can companies do to ensure that they avoid extinction in what Surveillance capitalism has a problem. seems awfully like the transition to a new Customers have woken up to the fact that era? they are giving away billions of dollars of value for free and regulators have noticed that firms from search engines to loyalty card schemes are not very good at explaining what they are doing with data, nor at keeping Managing International Growth | San Francisco 2O2O 4 Plenary sessions Monday March 18, 2O19 Plenary sessions it safe and private once they have. So what The big debate: will regulation kill Going for Green: sustainability impacts us does giving people the right to see their data innovation? all, can treasury contribute and help the do to the businesses that monetize it and bottom line? It may not be treasury but the whole idea of how much of a risk are companies really technology and what it can do has always Environmental, social and corporate facing? fascinated. And, the lesson that technology governance (ESG) is becoming a critical part Which bubble is bursting what? has and always will disrupt relates to any of corporate reputation, driving not just industry or profession. From developments customer retention and loyalty but also It’s not just WeWork. A host of IPOs have in flight, urbanization, computers and investor and other stakeholder behaviour. So disappointed. But are investors tired of tech? energy, the effects have always been how can treasury contribute to companies’ Or are they tired of things masquerading as economic and social – and so political. But overall ESG efforts? One easy step is to tech, or whose tech is no barrier to entry? the difference today is that the effects of the ensure that any service provider to treasury And which investors? Venture capital flows latest developments are beginning to be – including banks - is itself a responsible and into fintechs and cybersecurity start-ups are seen not as progress - not lifting people sustainable partner. This idea can be still strong. Private equity is still buying big from poverty and bondage - but as extended to the supply chain