Agenda Day 1, Tuesday, October 8th, 2024: (see Agenda Day 2) (back to Merger Integration Event Summary)
(time zone used is Central European Time)
09.00 – Opening Remarks from the Chair
Amanda Scott, Global Mergers & Acquisitions Leader, WTW
09.20 – Successfully Navigating Reductions in Workforce During Corporate Transactions
· Manage key integration challenge and conflicting news
· How to mitigate key risks as part of the integration plan
· Navigating legal complexity and different local requirements linked to labor relations
· Managing operational challenges
· Advantages of people-centric technology
Jana Mercereau, M&A Consulting Leader Europe, WTW
Sibylle Kampschulte, Head of HR M&A DACH Region, WTW
10.00 - Unlocking Synergies: Global Integration of Monsanto into Bayer across +60 Countries, preparing for SAP S4 Hana
· Our Bayer-Monsanto integration journey
· Managing critical global interdependencies.
· Overcoming the challenges of transitioning to SAP S/4HANA and its impact on the integration strategy and operating model
· Phased and innovative decoupling of organizational, legal, regulatory, system, and process interdependencies
· Implementing a decentralized, framework-based collaboration model with empowered teams and global coaching
· Accelerating unified customer-facing operations, integrated portfolio offerings, and synergy realization
Bjoern Leschny, Deputy Head Regions Asia Pacific and LATAM / Global PMI Lead, Bayer
10.40 – IT as a Deal-Enabler and Value-Driver in a Transaction
· Discussion around IT Challenges of Integrations & Divestments and their link to Business
· Best practices to secure an Integration: The Capgemini M&A Factory Approach
· Best practices to secure a Divestment: Capgemini's carve-out preparation journey
Youssef Sbai Tanji, VP, Head of IT Mergers & Acquisitions, Capgemini Invent
11.20 – Morning Coffee and Networking
11.50 – Next Generation M&A Integrations : Leveraging Zscaler’s cloud delivered capabilities to integrate at speed, without risk or complexity
Paul Vohra, Managing Director, Zscaler M&A
Stephen Singh, Global VP, M&A/Divestiture, Zscaler M&A
12.30 – Building an M&A Capability from Scratch
· Looking at your stakeholders and business case: How the business case influences behavior in integration
· Building a knowledgeable project team willing to get their hands dirty
· Building these integration capabilities in an immature organisation
Daniel Quick, Head of M&A Integration, Endava
13.10 – Lunch
14.10 – Siemens Portfolio Companies: Value Creation from Non-Core Assets through a Private Equity Approach
· Transforming non-core and underperforming businesses into high-value stand-alone portfolio assets
· Implementing full-potential plans and accountability structures and strategic re-positioning
· Delivering a triple win in the exit: for Siemens, for the best owner and for the team
Dr. Horst J. Kayser, Chairman Portfolio Companies, Siemens
14.50 - A Well-Oiled M&A Machine / Managing M&A Integration without a Dedicated Team
· An End-to-End M&A function: to handle all stages from start to integration or separation
· Using a agile and flexible playbook to form the basis of an end-to-end M&A process
· Internal and external tools and resource management
Friederike Hertenstein, Head of Corporate Development CoE for GTM & Industries, SAP
Matthias Homann, VP Post-Merger-Integrations, Global Sales Operations – Business Growth Initiatives, SAP
15.30 – The Beauty of Integration
· Key learnings from recent integrations
· Insight on change management
Cyrille Carillon, Chief Integration Officer, L’Oreal
16.10 – Afternoon Coffee and Networking
16.40 – Integration into Large Corporate Structures: Creating and Protecting Value
· Value creation: driving synergies and how we use our synergies prediction model.
· The importance to decide on integration model (end state operating model) early in the deal process.
· Protect value through (1) nurture culture of the acquired business / maintain the secret sauce and (2) implementing minimum mandatory standards (sharing our best practices in this space).
· Role of a dedicated corporate development integration team: Building bridges between our internal subject matter experts (we want to do it all and everything is a priority) and the business (we don’t want any of this, it will slow us down).
Joost van Rossum, M&A Integration Manager, Unilever
17.20 – A Case Study Example / Lessons Learned from our Divestment Project
Joost ten Hag, Head of M&A Integration and Disentanglement, Philips
18.00 – HR Lessons Learned from a Spinoff, Using AI as a Success Factor
Tyrone Smyth, Former Director HR Business Development APJ EMEA & Global Complex Deals, IBM
18.40 - Closing Remarks and End of Day 1
Drinks Reception, Dinner (included for attendees)