IBCS Annual Conference 2023

June 30, 2023
Hotel Sheraton Zurich
Zurich, Switzerland

The General Assembly of the IBCS Association takes place on the evening before the conference.

The IBCS Annual Conference is the place where IBCS Certified Consultants, Analysts, and Software vendors exchange experience. Business analysts from finance and other departments, as well as BI specialists on the way of implementing a consistent report notation meet their peers, thought leaders, consultants, and software developers.

Ticket Categories

IBCS Certified Consultants: Free of charge.
IBCS Certified Analysts: 450 EUR until May 31 (900 EUR from June 1).
Representatives of IBCS Certified Software vendors
: 900 EUR.

Please register. Once we have verified you are eligible for the selected ticket category, you will receive your booking confirmation.

50% discounts for low income countries on request.

PROGRAM

10:00

Hello and welcome 

Johannes von Mulert, Board Member at IBCS Association

10:15

Consistent design as one prerequisite for report automation 

Moderator:
Esin Özkan, Trainer for data analytics at 4e.academy

Speaker:
Jürgen Faisst, Partner at IBCS Institute

10:45

Impact of AI on the future of business reporting

Moderator:
Tomasz Zieliński, Chairman of the board at Akademia Controllingu Sp. z o.o.

Speaker:
Przemysław Biecek, Full Professor, Entrepreneur, Changemaker, AI/ML expert

Additional panelist:
Jürgen Faisst, Partner at IBCS Institute

11:15

Coffee

11:45

IBCS and ISO Standards

Moderator:
Jürgen Faisst, Partner at IBCS Institute

 

Speaker:
Diego Berea, Managing Partner at Obsidian Soft and Ozona Consulting, ISO 20000-2 co-editor

12:30  Parallel workshops

(1) Challenges in scaling outliers

Moderator:
Mladen Meter, Managing Director at Business Effectiveness

Panelist:
Dietmar Pascher, Partner and Trainer of Controller Akademie AG

 

(2) Dilemmas about visualization of predictions to the Board

 

Panelists:
Edyta Szarska, Trainer at the IBCS Institute, founder of Controlling Partner

Holger Gerths, Managing Director at HI-CHART, a Corporate Planning company

Mario Rosenfelder, Managing Director of consultnetwork GmbH

13:00

Lunch

14:00  Parallel workshops

(1) Notation manual for IBCS compliance?

Panelists:
Raphael Branger, Partner at IT-Logix AG

Lars Schubert, Founder of graphomate

(2) Action plan for Young Generation IBCS skills

Moderator:
Simone Verza, Freelance Consultant and Trainer, Controlling blogger and podcaster

 

Panelists:
Severin Willig, Manager at PwC

Sebastian Baumhauer, Senior Consultant at D ONE

14:35

Do we need new IBCS templates?

Moderator:
Edyta Szarska, Trainer at the IBCS Institute, founder of Controlling Partner

Speaker:
Rolf Hichert, President of the IBCS Association

15:15

Coffee

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15:45

Does more flexibility help selling IBCS?

Moderator:
Paul Damen, Data & Analytics Consultant at Rockfeather

Speaker:
Gopal Krishnamurthy, Founder and CEO at Lumel (Inforiver, ValQ, XViz & BI Hub)

16:05

My Christmas wish list for features in reporting software

Box openers:
Rolf Hichert, President of the IBCS Association

Markus Wolff, Co-Founder and Managing Director of chartisan

16:30

Conference conclusions

Johannes von Mulert, Board Member at IBCS Association

17:00

End of the conference and Apéro

 

The exact topics might change slightly.