24 June 2026 09:00 - 09:10
Chairperson opening remarks
Set the stage for a day of high-impact learning, debate, and peer collaboration. The chairperson will frame the key challenges facing CFOs today, from volatile markets and tech disruption to investor scrutiny, and highlight the themes that will drive actionable insights throughout the summit.
24 June 2026 11:10 - 11:55
Panel - The CFO as enterprise value architect: Orchestrating capital, risk, and investor confidence
The modern CFO is no longer just reporting performance to investors. They are actively shaping how the company is valued, how risk is priced, and how capital is deployed across the business. This panel focuses on how CFOs translate strategy into a credible value story across equity holders, lenders, rating agencies, and boards, while balancing growth investment with resilience.
The discussion will get into capital allocation trade-offs, how macro risk and geopolitical exposure are being priced into strategy, and how CFOs maintain investor confidence during periods of transformation, M&A, or volatility. Expect a candid look at where value is created or quietly destroyed long before it shows up in reported numbers.
Key takeaways:
- Balancing growth investment vs capital preservation in uncertain markets
- Aligning internal strategy with external investor expectations and market signals
- Where capital strategy fails when risk is treated as a compliance exercise
24 June 2026 16:55 - 17:00
Closing remarks
The chairperson wraps up the day with final insights, audience reflections, and themes to take back to your organization.
24 June 2026 13:55 - 14:40
The Four CFO Archetypes
In this hands-on, interactive experience, you’ll dive into the four core CFO archetypes, identify your dominant working style, and explore how it shapes the way you lead, influence and make decisions.
You’ll move through two breakout rounds:
- First, connecting with peers who share your archetype to compare strengths and patterns
- Then joining a mixed group of contrasting archetypes to uncover collaboration gaps, challenge assumptions and learn from perspectives radically different from your own.
The four CFO archetypes:
1. The Strategic CFO (AKA The CEO’s Strategic Partner): A future-focused business architect who blends financial rigor with enterprise strategy, helping shape markets, models and long-term direction.
2. The Transformation CFO (AKA The Change Agent): A reinvention-driven leader who modernizes systems, processes and structures while managing the people side of change to deliver sustainable evolution.
3. The Digital CFO (AKA The Tech-Forward Pioneer): A technology-enabled strategist who uses automation, AI and real-time data to accelerate insights, improve decisions and transform how finance operates.
4. The Operational CFO (AKA The Process Optimizer): A hands-on efficiency expert who relentlessly improves processes, strengthens controls and enhances daily operational performance across the business.