CFO Forum 2022 | The Annual Meeting

CFO Forum is a peer-to-peer platform for CFOs from leading organizations across wide-ranging industries offers a platform to exchange ideas and take inspiration from each other’s ideas and initiatives.

The theme of the meeting was "New Growth: From disruption to transformation".
While the long-term impact of the pandemic is still unclear, the current geopolitical situation makes the major challenge of ensuring new growth even more relevant. It is increasingly important that companies don't rely on growth in isolation. Companies and their leaders need to re-assess their unique sources of sustainable & humanized growth, and the interconnected risk and short-term uncertainty and disruption in a broader sense. We must ask ourselves how we can realize ‘new’ growth in a world where inflation is a concern, supply chains remain unpredictable, natural resources are limited, talent is scarce, and geopolitics pose significant risk.

And a holistic approach to ensuring ‘new’ growth is just one piece of the puzzle. This begs the questions:

▶️ How can we ensure we remain relevant 10 years from now?
▶️ How can we deal with short-term disruption?
▶️ How can we best define value creation, and does our definition measure up to the company’s valuation?
▶️ What is the leadership role of the CFO?

Most importantly, is value creation and recognition in sync?

The 2022 CFO Forum Annual Meeting was hosted in partnership with KPMG, Marsh, ING, Nationale-Nederlanden, Spencer Stuart, Stibbe and Workday.

The speakers and contributors were Gavin van Boekel, CFO Heijmans, Carmen Dijk, Partner KPMG, Marieke Driessen, Partner Stibbe, Frank van den Driest, Founder Institute for Real Growth, Eric Kramer, Country Manager NL WPP, Derk Lemstra, Partner Stibbe, Hans Ploos van Amstel, CFO Partner Groups, Rogier Raas, Partner Stibbe, Haroon Sheikh, Senior Scientist WRR and Professor Strategic Governance of Global Technologies VU Amsterdam, Ingo Uytdehaage, CFO Adyen, Bas van Werven, News Anchor BNR Nieuwsradio.