June 11, 19:00 CEST (the evening before the conference)

General Assembly of the IBCS Association

Followed by a get-together. Don’t miss this evening networking event before the IBCS Annual Conference.

All members of the IBCS Association can join either on-site or online.

9:00

Hello, welcome and IBCS news

Moderators:
Johannes von Mulert, Board Member at IBCS Association
Edyta Szarska, Managing Partner at IBCS Institute

Presentations by new IBCS Certified Consultants:
+ Juliane Auer (MHP, Germany)
+ Marion Berg (consultnetwork, Germany)
+ Daniel Berthold (KEYE Advisory, Germany)
+ Michael Darnieder (TEDEXA, Germany)
+ Ömer Degirmenci (MHP, Germany)
+ Jürgen Gerner (SUSS, Germany)
+ Tomasz Glenszczyk (Capgemini, Poland)
+ Iwona Stasiak (Housea, Poland)
+ Grozdanka Ivanovska (INGENIUM, North Macedonia)
+ Ian Mercado (Dyflex Solutions, Australia)
+ Rodrigo Palomino CPA (Department of Energy and Economic Diversification, Australia)

and new IBCS Certified Software from:
+ Farseer
+ Infotopics
+ Microsoft

9:45

Publication of ISO 24896 “Notation for business reporting”

Diego Berea, Managing Partner at Ozona Consulting
ISO 20000-2 Co-Editor and ISO 24896 Project Leader

Angelika Vaasa, Head of Quality Coordination Unit at European Parliament
Convenor of ISO TC37/WG11

10:05

IBCS Study 2026 – final results

Arne-Kristian Schulz, Associate Partner at Blueforte
Co-author and coordinator of the study

10:25

Mission accomplished

+ What is the impact of ISO 24896?
+ Will this lead to better report composition?

Jürgen Faisst, Managing Partner at IBCS Institute

10:45

Coffee

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11:15

„I am not happy with the reports I get“

Better executive decision-making – A discussion using real boardroom cases.

Mario Laube, CEO at Erfurter Verkehrsbetriebe AG

11:35

Next chapter of IBCS

Stefanie Fröhner, Founder at DatenMenschen – Erfolg mit datAInsights

Arne-Kristian Schulz, Associate Partner at Blueforte

Bernie Smith, Founder at Made to Measure KPIs

Edyta Szarska, Managing Partner at IBCS Institute

12:30

Lunch

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13:30

News from IBCS Sponsors

IBCS Platinum Sponsor 2026 

Dipti Borkar, Vice President and General Manager at Microsoft

IBCS Gold Sponsors 2026

Holger Gerths, Product Lead Financial Management at Corporate Planning

Jie Deng, Product Manager, and
Felix Müller, Lead for Design CC Planning & Analytics at SAP

Geneve Schwan, Chief Product Officer at TRUECHART by HICO-Group

Andrej Lapajne, Founder, and
Richard Cooper, CEO at Zebra BI

14:30

Will AI power decision-making?

Panel discussion: Challenging software vendors to meet the needs of executives

Executives:

Thomas Bodé, Chief Digital Transformation Officer at MET Group
Former Vice President, Head of Data & Analytics at SWAROVSKI

Renata Neidrowska, Interim CFO at Grupa Oryx
C-level executive, Supervisory Board Member, ACCA Poland Panel Member

Xavier Subirats, Partner at AMSEL ASSESSORS
Member of Steering Committees/Boards of Directors, the Boards of the Catalan Economists Association (CEC) and the Association for Management Accountancy (ACCID)

Jürgen Faisst, Managing Partner at IBCS Institute
Former CEO of Thinking Networks AG, COO, CTO at MIS AG

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Moderator: Paul Damen, Co-Founder at Rockfeather.

Software vendors:

Holger Gerths, Product Lead Financial Management at Corporate Planning

Michael Schwan, CEO at HICO-Group

Liran Edelist, Chief Customer Officer at Lumel

Dipti Borkar, Vice President and General Manager at Microsoft

Andrej Lapajne, Founder at Zebra BI

15:00

Coffee

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15:30

AI-powered vs. human-centered composition

Brainstorming session: How AI will shape the future roles of stakeholders in reporting

Interlude: AI and/or humans creating UNIFORMCHARTs
Rolf Hichert and Fernando Fragoso, UNIFORMCHART

Presentation of round table conclusions

Round tables by stakeholders:

+ Investors, supervisory board members
Moderator: Jens Ropers, Partner at CA Akademie

+ Executives, CXO
Moderator: Markus Wolff, Co-Founder and Managing Director of chartisan

+ Analysts, controllers, FP&A
Moderator: Simone Verza, freelance Consultant and Trainer

+ Consultants, BI professionals
Moderator: Raphael Branger, Chairman of the Board of Directors at IT-Logix

16:30

Back to the origin

To open IBCS’s next chapter, we return to where it all began: communicating successfully.

17:00

End of conference Apéro (get-together)

Moderator: Johannes von Mulert, Board Member at IBCS Association

Special guest: Rolf Hichert, Former President of the IBCS Association