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Imagine if you could take 2 full days off your month-end close, how would you spend that time? Would you analyse data, develop your business strategy, or focus on upskilling? Or maybe you’d hang out with your kids, practice hobbies, or take some much-needed downtime. This might sound too good to be true, but finance professionals all over the world are already enjoying that extra time themselves. How? By replacing manual processes with automation.

In this webinar, we dig into the behaviours, attitudes, and ambitions of over 1000 finance professionals and reveal the future of the financial close.

In this session you will learn:

• The top 3 pain points that are slowing the month-end close.
• How businesses are getting insights faster through automation.
• Where businesses that are fully automated are focusing their time and attention.
• The role of cloud accounting software in achieving more automation.

Who is this event for?

If you’re a CFO, a finance leader or work within the finance department, this webinar would be ideal for you. Whether you’re looking to expand your knowledge on how businesses are getting insights faster through automation, where businesses who are fully automated are focusing their time or the role of cloud accounting software or you’re facing a business challenge in these areas, this webinar will provide valuable insights.

Key takeaways:

• How businesses are getting insights faster through automation
• Where businesses that are finally automated are focusing their time and attention
• The role of cloud accounting software in achieving more automation

This exclusive event will shed light on the latest advancements in data-driven decision-making and assess how (re)insurers are utilising advanced analytics, generative AI and cloud technologies to make better-informed decisions, enhance operational efficiency, and drive sustainable growth. It is an opportunity for senior leaders to come together and discuss shared challenges and opportunities in a relaxed and convivial setting, addressing the action and collaboration needed to ensure data and cloud transformation success across the industry.

Please note your registration is subject to approval. A member of the New Statesman Team will be in touch to confirm your participation. 

In a world where macroeconomic conditions can change the face of business in an instant, it is more important than ever for finance and IT departments to move in lockstep. Savvy finance leaders know that they have to work with their IT colleagues to achieve success; but often, the departments are so separated they have trouble understanding one another.

In this webinar we will address the critical role financial responsibility plays in the success of business, and how decision makers can work together to instil a culture of financial responsibility across an organisation. Much like a culture of security, one of financial responsibility brings many benefits, including improved decision making, increased efficiency and reduced risk. We will explore those benefits in detail and look at how IT and finance leaders can both establish and maintain that culture, with real-world examples. As well as the importance of financial responsibility, we will delve into the key components of a responsible culture, the challenges organisations face in establishing that culture, and how to overcome them. We will also address the importance of communication and transparency between departments, and how that communication can help build trust. Finally, we will look at key aspects of the modern financial world and why IT must be involved in any rollout of new finance systems: from automation to save time spent on manual processes, to open APIs encouraging integration with other applications.

This webinar, conducted by Sage and hosted by Tech Monitor, will provide IT and finance decision makers with valuable insights and practical strategies for working together.

Finding value in the hybrid cloud

As businesses around the world face up to challenging economic conditions, they are turning to the cloud in greater numbers than ever before.

And while the fully-managed, cost effective, secure and scalable environment offered in the cloud is perfect for many workloads, others cannot be as easily migrated. Data residency and other regulatory requirements, or a need for low latency, can mean businesses must keep certain information on-premises.

That’s where the hybrid cloud comes in. By combining public cloud solutions with on-premise resources (in your own or co-lo facilities), businesses can enjoy the best of both worlds, keeping costs down and potentially boosting their sustainability credentials in the process.

How can businesses successfully transition to a hybrid future? What are the main challenges involved? At this roundtable supported by Lenovo & Intel, Tech Monitor will convene senior IT leaders to discuss how organisations can navigate the hybrid cloud landscape, and how they can obtain best value for money from hybrid cloud deployments.

Topics for discussion will include: 

• Ensuring transparency in hybrid clouds
• Utilising the cloud to drive sustainability
• The evolving regulatory landscape
• Striking correct balances in managed services agreements

State-sponsored threat actors, financially motivated cyber criminals, and amateur hackers will continue to be enticed by the massive impact that can result from an attack on a nation’s critical infrastructure. The risk of a successful attack could be severe—damaged power grids could leave cities in the dark, or even put lives at risk.

A recent study shows that attacks against energy utilities are among the top three most targeted sectors for cyberattacks in the United States. In addition, Europe, Australia, and Japan have reported an increase in threats against critical infrastructure. The threat is global and the risk alarming. This exclusive Tech Monitor webinar, in association with Fortinet, will dissect the strategies security leaders can adopt to thwart these malicious attacks and stay ahead of the hackers, as well as the suite of integrated and automated technologies available to them.

Questions for discussion include:

• What are the main cybersecurity challenges facing the power and utilities sector right now? What is the current threat landscape?
• How is the ongoing modernisation of Critical Infrastructures impacting on the threat landscape?
• What strategies are security leaders adopting to effectively combat cyber-attacks? What innovative technologies are available to them?
• To what extent must technology be paired with business strategy? What must be considered to ensure you receive buy-in from the board?

Speakers:

Claudia Glover, Senior Reporter, Tech Monitor (Chair)

Agustin Valencia, OT/IoT/ICS Security Business Development Iberia, Fortinet

Swantje Westpfahl, Director (CEO) of the Institute for Security and Safety

Technology and digital services are increasingly held up as a key component of any solution to the global climate crisis and public sector organisations are under growing pressure to operate in a way that protects resources, makes good business sense and mitigates environmental impact.

Adopting sustainable IT practices not only lowers costs by reducing energy consumption and waste but also has significant potential to improve delivery, increase efficiency and develop public trust and engagement.

This exclusive New Statesman and Tech Monitor roundtable dinner will convene technology and sustainability leaders from across the UK public sector to discuss the initiatives driving meaningful action.

It will set out to identify shared challenges, potential solutions and inspire cross-sector collaboration to develop a more sustainable and digitally resilient state.

Moving to the cloud is never simple. Businesses looking to scale their operations by moving key services into the cloud are looking for a service that’s scalable, flexible and cost-effective. What they often encounter, however, is a migration exercise fraught with practical challenges and hidden costs.

The hybrid cloud offers a way for companies to avoid this quagmire. By outsourcing only a portion of its IT services off-site while building an optimised, on-premises solution to handle its most critical and sensitive functions, a business can – theoretically – have the best of both worlds. But how can organisations achieve this without compromising on security and functionality?

In a roundtable supported by Lenovo & Microsoft, Tech Monitor will convene senior IT leaders to discuss to the extent to which adopting hybrid cloud computing enables businesses to meet technical requirements while simultaneously benefiting from the flexibility of a scalable and transparent pay-as-you-go model.

Topics for discussion will include:

• Ensuring transparency in hybrid clouds
• Scaling at pace to meet evolving business requirements
• Utilising the cloud to drive sustainability
• The importance of effective cloud security
• Maintaining interoperability
• Striking correct balances in managed services agreements