How can Finance Survive Today's Business Pressure? Optimising an Increasingly Difficult Role…
Stefan Goehring - Head of Solutions "Office of the CFO", SAP Australia & New Zealand

Stefan Goehring is the Head of Solutions for the Office of the CFO in Australia and New Zealand for SAP. The solution suite includes solutions for Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) as well as Corporate Performance Management (CPM). He and his team are responsible for strategically positioning new solutions in the arena of GRC and CPM and to support companies in transforming the Finance functions. Stefan joined SAP in 1994 as a consultant for Financial Applications, where he was involved in a number of international implementation projects. He subsequently joined Corporate Marketing in March 1998 where he was responsible for the world wide positioning and messaging of SAP’s Financials solutions. In July 2000 he took over the new responsibilities as Head of Business Development mySAP ERP and SAP GRC in Asia Pacific Japan before he took on his current role. Stefan holds a Master Degree in Economics and Business Administration from University of Mannheim (Germany).

Dashboards - Going from Hype to Reality, the Rohm and Haas Transformation
Michael V. Masciandaro - Director Business Intelligence, Rohm and Haas Company (USA)

Mike Masciandaro has been with Rohm and Haas for 28 years - 15 in the Business Intelligence realm. Initial data warehouse efforts were custom solutions with many and diverse source systems. Over the last 6 years, Rohm and Haas transformed itself with the implementation of a single instance SAP system.

Mike leads the Business Intelligence effort that includes BW, their Enterprise Portal, a progressive dashboarding program and most recently integration into Knowledge and Competitive Intelligence.

Implementing an Enterprise Wide Performance Management Solution with SAP
Russell Dawson - Program Director - Managing Performance, National Foods Limited

Russell has been working for FMCG companies for 13 years. Currently he heads up the implementation team of SAP BI 7 at National Foods. This project covers finance, supply chain, sales & marketing, risk, environment and HR information. Russell has been employed at National Foods for 7 years in various finance roles. These have included management and senior management accounting roles in supply chain reporting along with business analyst roles. Russell has an MBA, CPA and a Bachelor of Business. Time away from work is spent with his wife, watching sport and playing golf.

How Can You Get the Support You Need if You Can't Prove the Value of What You're Doing? How Valuing Innovation and Service Productivity Can Get You the Funding and Support You Need
Ken Standfield - Chairman, International Intangible Management Standards Institute

Ken Standfield is internationally recognised as one of the best in the world at financially valuing and financially reporting pain points, risks, and opportunity costs associated with knowledge, collaboration, and processes on a time, cost, and revenue basis. His breakthrough work facilitates the conversion of previously unknown costs into controllable costs to provide new methods to reduce costs and boost shareholder value. His work allows accessible performance improvement to be financially valued at an organisational, divisional, business unit, product, service, and transaction level thereby enhancing the effectiveness of project, change, and risk management initiatives. He is an expert an objectively financially valuing and systematically financially reporting the business impacts of innovation, especially that associated with the purchase/sale of new products and/or services on cost savings, productivity/ revenue improvements and opportunity cost/risk reduction. Past clients include Westpac, National Australia Bank, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Australia Post, and other top-tier organisations. He is the Chairman of the International Intangible Management Standards Institute, a seasoned international keynote speaker, Chairman of the Global Cost to Value Taskforce, and Consulting Director of Service Productivity Pty Limited.

Special Guest Speaker - Tawera Nikau: Refusing To Quit