We are pleased to open registration for the all-day CPE event offered by the IMA Switzerland chapter in Geneva. As always, the program is intended to be modular, and members can register for all four CPE sessions plus lunch or just pick and choose a few sessions. The all-day CPE event will be followed by a networking apero in the evening. Members can earn up to 8 CPE credits, including 2 for the mandatory annual ethics requirement, by attending the entire day.

We are pleased to continue our partnership with the Caterpillar offices in Geneva, they are kind enough to host us again this year. Since the facility has been offered free of charge for our use, and the speakers are also generously contributing their time/skills for free, we are grateful that we can offer these CPE sessions for free for our chapter members. The refreshments and the apéro will be covered, members will just be responsible for their own lunch costs.

More information about the sessions during the day:

Session 1 (2CPE; 8:30 - 10:10)

Rod Wilson, Caterpillar: Managing Shareholder Value growth in uncertain times

Rodney Wilson,  Business & Strategy Manager for Caterpillar’s Global Construction and Infrastructure Division.  In this role Rod provide leadership in the division’s Profitable Growth Strategy, Sales & Operations Planning Process, Strategy Development, Business Support and Communication.

Session 2 (2 CPE; 10:20 - 12:00)

Federico Pagiola, CSI: Strategy: "Ways employees steal and how to prevent it"

Federico provides boutique consultancy services for Governance, Risk, Compliance and Fraud via his company CSI Switzerland SA.
He will bring to the audience the reality that any company is exposed to fraud and illustrate control weakness on real life fraud cases.
This session meets the annual CPE Ethics requirement (2CPEs per year).

Networking Lunch (12:15 - 13:15)

Session 3 (2 CPE; 13:30 - 15:10)

Nina Michels-Kim, CMA, IMA Europe: Successful Conflict Negotiation

Nina Michels-Kim, CMA is IMA Director of European Operations. Previously, she worked in various financial planning, analysis and controlling roles for firms in the pharma industry for 13 years. She is also an entrepreneur, co-founder of Starling GmbH, which is a provider of digital strategy and financial services.

This session explores steps for managing conflict, a model for successful conflict resolution, as well as strategies to foster teamwork.

Session 4 (2 CPE; 15:30 - 17:10)

Philippe Palm, Caterpillar: Lean Accounting journey at Caterpillar

Philippe Palm, EAME Finance Shared Services Director at Caterpillar. In this role, Philippe is leading shared services development in EAME. He is responsible to manage all accounting aspects of 30+ Billion balance sheet.

Networking Apero (17:30 - 18:30)

We hope that many of our members take advantage of the opportunity to obtain free CPE and show their support for the chapter by attending as many sessions as possible. We are looking forward to seeing you there! Sessions are limited to maximum of 24 persons total in order to facilitate a high-level of engagement. Please reserve your space today. Deadline for registration is by morning on October 26.

If you need a parking space, which is for free, and are an external participant (not working at Caterpillar Geneva) please inform us by e-mail at imaeurope@imanet.org.

Kind regards,

Serge Rozat, CMA

Switzerland Chapter - Director of Swiss Romand Area

and

IMA Europe office team

Please contact Serge Rozat at srozat(at)gmail.com or the IMA Europe office team at imaeurope(at)imanet.org for questions or problems.