Hong Kong, March 12, 2014 /Xinwengao.com/ - In the last few years FP&A professional roles have changed compared to 10 years ago. Whilst there are still some similarities, financial forecasting & planning professionals are now seen to be more of a business partner and a trusted leader. The FP&A Innovation Summit will enable attendees to learn, develop and implement the skills and tools required to the new responsibilities FP&A professionals face. These skills are vital in today’s market, as it will enable organizations to expand both locally and globally.

“This summit is a must attend for all finance professionals looking to strive in the industry” said Elaine Li, International Events Director at the Innovation Enterprise. “Over 100 finance professionals will be attending this exclusive summit to gain valuable insight from Fortune 500 companies.”

This summit hosts an outstanding line-up of over 20 distinguished speakers, who hold key leadership positions in Fortune 500 companies. Jinfu Chan CFO at GE Capital will be conducting a keynote presentation on ‘FP&A and Business Partnership. ’ The presentation will cover examples of what drives a successful FP&A team in a global business environment. A variety of elements will be covered from getting the right data to the right people to working closely with other business functions.

GE Capital will be joined by leaders from Alcatel-Lucent, Philips, Vodafone, Bacardi-Martini and many more, for two days of inspiring presentations, networking and discussions on the future of financial forecasting & planning.

The schedule for the summit can be viewed on the link below:
http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/fpa-hongkong-2014/schedule

About IE.: Innovation Enterprise, a CFO Publishing company is an independent business-to-business multi-channel media brand focused on the information needs of Senior Finance, Operations, Planning, Strategy, Decision Support & Advanced Analytics executives. Products include IE.Summits, IE.Finance, IE.Analytics, IE.Operations, IE.Strategy, IE.Membership and IE.Insights. Whether it’s delivered online, or in person, everything IE produces reflects the company’s unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.

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Singapore, February 10, 2014 /Xinwengao.com/ - With the vast amount of data now available, Big Data is a top priority for the world’s leading organizations. However, 40% of companies based in Asia have admitted that they do not have a big data strategy in place. The Big Data & Analytics Innovation Summit this February 27 and 28 is the ideal platform to share challenges and best practices with those leading big data & analytics initiatives. This executive led summit will include keynote presentations from the Singapore Post, Lenovo, CERN, AbbVie, Standard Chartered Bank & many more.

The summit will explore themes such as ‘How to Turn Big Data into Big Revenues,‘ ‘How to See and Understand Big Data’ and ‘Leveraging Data Warehouse & Business Intelligence Technologies.’ Brian Hills, Head of Business Intelligence at Skyscanner is just one of the keynote speakers set to share their insight working in the complex Big Data environment.

In his presentations entitled, ‘Creating Analytics Teams to Deliver Success,’ Brian will discuss how the key ingredient to a successful data-driven culture is the support of a highly effective analytics team. In his role Brian was responsible for creating the new analytics team at Skyscanner and he will share his experiences and challenges with the audience.

Key topics in this presentation include creating an effective team calibrated to the business, recruiting and growing talent, using the team to drive change within the business and the common pitfulls and challenges that the team faced. Having established a data science team, attendees are sure to learn from the way that challenges were overcome at Skyscanner and how these solutions can be applied to their own data science teams, however well established.

Understanding and implementing data technology is crucial for organizations like Skyscanner to achieve a competitive advantage. Investing in big data and predictive analytics has become a top priority for modern businesses and this summit provides the perfect opportunity to network with the top minds from Fortune 500 organizations.

“This summit will help your business understand and utilize data-driven strategies” said Jing Jia, International Events Director for IE. – Innovation Enterprise “Data is changing many business functions and now is the time to understand and take control of your data.”

For more information please visit: http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-singapore-2014 or contact Ryan Yuan at ryuan@theiegroup.com

About IE.:
IE.- Innovation Enterprise is an independent business-to-business multi-channel media brand focused on the information needs of Senior Finance, Operations, Planning, Strategy, Decision Support & Advanced Analytics executives.

Products include IE.Summits, IE.Finance, IE.Analytics, IE.Operations, IE.Strategy, IE.Membership and IE.Insights.

Whether it’s delivered online, or in person, everything IE produces reflects the company’s unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.

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Hong Kong, February 10, 2014 /Xinwengao.com/ - The Predictive Analytics Innovation summit will offer more than 20 keynote presentations from industry heavyweights, interactive workshops with case studies across a combination of all audience and experts. This must-attend event will be taking place on March 27 & 28 at Intercontinental Grand Stanford Hotel.

Following the success of the Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit in 2013, it was praised for it’s high-class content and interactive format; The Innovation Enterprise are pleased to bring this cross-industry innovative summit back to Hong Kong this spring.

Across the two days delegates will have ample opportunities to hear insights from key industry leaders including, Estee Lauder, Prudential, HSBC, British American Tobacco, Citi, Aegon, UBS, AIA & many more.

The agenda covers hot topics and advanced methods such as customer insight, risk management, analytics in retail banking, CRM analytics, modeling governance, leveraging analytics to improve strategy, and many other innovative applications that benefit organizations in new and creative ways.

Organizations are looking to predict how customers will respond in the future, and realizing their historical data is an untapped resource. Beyond standard business reports and sales forecasts, predictive analytics offers actionable predictions for each customer. These predictions deliver more relevant content to each customer; improving response rates, click rates, buying behavior, retention and overall profit.

“With the explosion in complexity and volume of data in the last few years, analytics leaders have been forced to face the challenges posed by more complex models and an increased demand from actionable insight.” Said Elaine Li, International Events Director from IE., ‘The Predictive Analytics Innovations summit will bring the leaders and innovators from the industry together for a summit acclaimed for its insight into analytics and customer behaviour. This must-attend conference is for everyone who is pushing their business to the next level.”

For a complete list of speakers, agenda, and registration details for The Predicative Analytics Innovation Summit, visit: http://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/predictive-analytics-hong-kong-2014

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ABOUT IE.

The Innovation Enterprise is a business-to-business multi channel media brand that shares the knowledge of innovators through its research, conferences, communities, training and virtual & on-demand content.

It focuses on the information needs of Senior Finance, Operations, Planning, Strategy, Decision Support and Advanced Analytics executives.

Products include IE.Summits, IE.Finance, IE.Analytics, IE.Operations, IE.Strategy and IE.Membership. Whether it’s delivered online, or in person, everything IE produces reflects the company’s unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.

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