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CTP FP&A CTP FP&A FP&A CTP CTP 12 20+ 125+ 6,500 INNOVATIVE HOURS OF EDUCATIONAL TREASURY FEATURED NETWORKING SESSIONS AND FINANCE SPEAKERS EVENTS PROFESSIONALS Register by September 15 to save $200 + www.AFP2017.org FP&A Contents CTP CTP 1–3 4–6 7–16 17–19 20–21 What We Are CTPFeatured Educational Pre-Conference AFP Executive CTP Excited About Speakers Sessions Workshops Institute 22–23 24–27 28-29 30-31 32-33 Networking Exhibitors and Experience Convince Registration Events Sponsors San Diego Your Boss Information FP&A AFP 2017 Task Force Did you know that the AFP 2017 program is created by a select group of your corporate practitioner peers? Their goal is to create an educational agenda that addresses the challenges, trends and innovations in the treasury and finance profession. CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR Emmanuel Caprais Saumya Mohan Vice President Americas Region Strategic and Treasurer Financial Planning & Tesla Analysis ITT Corporation FP&A TREASURY MANAGEMENT PAYMENTS TRACK GLOBAL TREASURY & FINANCIAL PLANNING & TRACK Charles Ellert, PMP FINANCE/RISK MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS TRACK Stephen Chiu, CTP Manager, Payment Strategy TRACKS Irena Barisic, FP&A Director, Global Treasury Verizon Communications, Inc. Ping Chen Deputy Chief Financial Officer World Vision International Debbie Kamilaris Senior Director, Capital The Brookings Institution Clifford Ejikeme, CTP Senior Finance Manager Markets & Treasury Planning Emmanuel Caprais Vice President, Treasury Consumer Business Pfizer, Inc. Vice President Strategic and A&E Television Networks, LLC Development Frederick Schacknies Financial Planning & Analysis FP&A Saumya Mohan Johnson & Johnson Vice President & Assistant ITT Corporation Americas Region Treasurer Tom Wolfe, CTP Treasurer Peter Geiler, FP&A Hilton Worldwide, Inc. Tesla Senior Director, Global Johnnie Goodner, CTP Treasury Grady Walker Vice President, Finance & Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporate Finance Executive Treasury Corporation Sally Beauty Michael Trzupek FP&A What We Are Excited About at AFP 2017 CTP CTP CTP CTP Innovation Series and Learning Lounge FP&A This winning combo is back for AFP 2017. Check out a quick hitting, Innovation Series presentation on a hot topic, then follow the speakers to the Learning Lounge to dig deeper and ask the questions you want answered. Learning Lounge sponsored by Deutsche Bank LinkedIn Corner Meet with a trained consultant to learn the Do’s and Don’ts of creating an impactful LinkedIn profile. Plus, a headshot photographer will be available to complete your profile makeover. Sponsored by Discover FP&A AFP Aware introduces: Wellness Zone — NEW for 2017 Attend a wellness session led by one of the Top 25 Health Promotion Professionals in the nation, Lance Breger. Come learn different techniques to channel your energy and promote a productive and healthy workplace environment. Sessions include: FP&A + Secret Muscle + 2-Minute Stress Less Tension Release Desk Moves + Factors for Laser-Focus + Buff Brain See more sessions at www.AFP2017.org www.AFP2017.org Revised 07/27/2017 1 WHAT WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT Payments Hub Payments is moving at the speed of tech and the Payments Hub is at the center of it all. PAYMENTS SESSIONS + Leveraging Payment Analytics to Reduce Costs + Faster ACH is Here: Taking Advantage of Same-day ACH + Beam Me Up: Efficiencies in Payment + Can We Pay You Now? and Remittance Processing Verizon’s ACH Journey + What the Evolving Global Payments Eco-System Will Mean for You PAYMENTS HUB CHALLENGE Problem Solved in Less Time Than Your Lunch Break We’re giving vendors just 15 minutes to help solve one of your biggest issues: reducing B2B transactions made via check. Put their innovative solutions to the test at the Payments Hub Challenge. PAYMENTS BREAKFAST Monday | 8-9:30 a.m. Sponsored by Vantiv Federal Reserve’s Strategies for Improving the U.S. Payment System Explore the prospect of future changes and the implications of upcoming projects for improving America’s payments ecosystem in this riveting discussion that payments practitioners should not miss. ALSO LOCATED IN THE PAYMENTS HUB: Payments Roundtable Payments Reception Sunday | 1:30-3 p.m. Sunday | 3-4 p.m. Sponsored by China UnionPay USA LLC Sponsored by China UnionPay USA LLC www.AFP2017.org Revised 07/27/2017 2 WHAT WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT AFP MindShift Technology will have a major impact on the way you work in the years to come. Throughout AFP 2017, look for AFP MindShift sessions, events and exhibitors who will offer practical solutions to make technology work for you. AFP MINDSHIFT SESSIONS + Diving into Disruption: Leveraging Fintech AFP MINDSHIFT BREAKFAST to Optimize Your Invoice-to-Cash Cycle Tuesday | 8-9:30 a.m. + Fintech & Millennials: The Perfect Storm Blockchain + The Late, Great Purchasing Card: How Virtual Technology is Transforming Revolution Procurement, Payment, Reporting and RE DON TAPSCOTT + Leverage the Cloud Services Without Co-author Sacrificing Security! Blockchain Revolution and Wikinomics + Lockbox Automation Using Artificial Author Intelligence and Robotics The Digital Economy AFP MINDSHIFT MEET TAPSCOTT at his book ROW EXHIBITORS signing following the breakfast. Finastra Early Warning Tesorio SwapsTech Versapay www.AFP2017.org Revised 07/27/2017 3 CTP FP&A Keynotes Program as of 7/13/17. Subject to change. MIKE ROWE CTP Television Host and Narrator FP&A FP&A Lessons from the Dirt Mike Rowe earned the title “dirtiest man on TV” from his hit TV series, Dirty Jobs, which took him to all 50 states to complete 300 different jobs. Listen as Rowe shares the surprising lessons he has learned on CTP Sunday the road as an apprentice and the reality that a little elbow grease goes a long way. In the process, he reminds us of the enormous but forgotten benefits of hard, honest work, and how it affects everything from our national identity to our infrastructure and the economy. After his candid Get a preview of this presentation, be keynote with the AFP sure to drop by the Conversations Podcast AFP Membership Center, featuring Mike Rowe in Booth 1735 to snap a at www.AFPonline.org/ pic with the dirtiest man Conversations. on television at the FP&A Mike Rowe Selfie FP&AStation. SHANKAR VEDANTAM Author, The Hidden Brain Social Science Correspondent, NPR Finance & The Hidden Brain Shankar Vedantam offers unique insights into how our unconscious biases—what he calls the hidden brain— affect the decisions we make both personally and as groups and organizations. Like a puppeteer CTP Tuesday behind a curtain, biases don’t just live in our individual brains; they play CTP a major role in the influence of the success or failure of organizations. Join Vedantam as he explores how the behavior and decision making of FP&A individuals and organizations are shaped by hidden psychological factors they rarely stop to consider. MEET VEDANTAM Get a preview of this at his book signing keynote with the AFP following this Conversations Podcast featuring Shankar Vedantam keynote. at www.AFPonline.org/ Conversations. CTP FP&A FP&A www.AFP2017.org Revised 07/27/2017 4 Breakfast and Luncheon Program as of 7/13/17. Subject to change. Speakers Some programs have eligibility requirements. AFP Executive Breakfast AFP MindShift Breakfast Monday | 8-9:30 a.m. Tuesday | 8-9:30 a.m. MICHAEL BESCHLOSS DON TAPSCOTT Presidential Historian Co-author, Blockchain NBC News and PBS NewsHour Revolution and Wikinomics Columnist, New York Times Author, The Digital Economy Sponsored by Royal Bank Leadership From the Board Room Blockchain Revolution to the Oval Office The technology likely to have the greatest impact on the global economy has arrived: blockchain. The second (Limited to executive-level corporate practitioners) generation of the digital revolution—powered by blockchain Drawing on his years studying leadership, Michael Beschloss technology—is bringing us the Internet of value: a distributed shares revealing leadership secrets and some of the most platform that can help users reshape the world of business. lethal mistakes made by Presidents and other towering Don Tapscott argues that blockchain technology will not only figures in history. Treasury and finance executives will walk transform financial services, but also the structure of the away with key elements that make up an impactful leader corporation, while having profound implications for as Beschloss shares stories, invaluable lessons learned, competitiveness, business strategy and leadership. and insights on how we can apply the best from pivotal Get a preview of this session with the AFP leadership moments to our own lives and organizations. Conversations Podcast featuring Don Tapscott at www.AFPonline.org/Conversations. Certification Luncheon FP&A Luncheon Tuesday | 12-1:45 p.m. Tuesday | 12-1:30 p.m. RANA FOROOHAR JER THORP Global Business Columnist Co-Founder and Associate Editor Office for Creative Research The Financial Times Former Data Artist in Residence Sponsored by PNC New York Times Are Companies More Powerful Than Making Data More Human Countries? 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