COVID-19 was only the latest in a series of episodes that have illustrated just how much uncertainty our society, our leaders, and our organizations must contend with. The opportunities to learn, respond, and thrive will shape the future of businesses long after the short-term challenges are left behind.
Business must continuously look forward, seeking new avenues to evolve and grow, in ways that create greater value. Looking to the future means challenging the basic assumptions about who we are as a business, anticipating, and then seizing opportunities that will allow the business to thrive.
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Tuesday, 22 November 2022
9.00 - 9.45 Economic climate and recovery prospects for 2023 with special guest speaker Dr. Kirida Bhaopichitr, Research Director, Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI)
- Highlights of key recent global events, zooming in on the impact on the Thai economy
- Industry snapshots and what we can look out for in the coming years
9.45 - 10.15 The power of Innovation
- Creating new products is only one of many ways to innovate. The Ten Types of Innovation® framework provides a way to identify new opportunities beyond products and develop viable innovations.
10.30 - 11.30 Panel: Orchestrate your business to the future
- Our experts discuss opportunities and risks in a world impacted by health, geopolitical, climate and economic changes. Hear more about trends and enablers and how to and take advantage of new opportunities.
Language: TH
13.00-15.00 Panel: Get Your Business Tomorrow Ready
- Overview of finance role in Enterprise Life Cycle Stage
- Accounting Operation Process Enhancement
- How to raise fund for expanding your business – M&A/ Global Offering
- The CFP as the Driver of Sustainability
15:30 – 17:30 Ready for the IPO Spotlight?
15.30 - 16.30 Interview session ‘Strategies for Going Public: Opportunity in uncertainty’
- Market update on IPOs trends in 2022
- Benefits of a Listing Status
- Key success factors for the IPO process successful
- Potential timing of the next IPO window
16.30 - 17.30 Panel: ‘Preparation for going public - preparing to perform a higher standard’
- Overview of SEA IPO capital market 2022
- Lessons learned by Company’s going public
- IPO readiness: Important considerations
- Financial Reporting
- Internal Control
- Tax & Legal
Language: TH
15.00-16.00 ESG views by Rahul Kar, Director in Financial Advisory of Deloitte & Touche Financial Advisory Services
- Sustainable Finance in the capital markets is increasingly being used to finance and refinance, at preferential commercial terms, projects that intend to deliver sustainability benefits in addition to profits. We will discuss the trends and activities in SE Asia and capital market structures available to companies to benefit from this.
- ESG Due Diligence and valuation impact in a transaction is key information for the investment committee exploring a Target. Hence, ESG Due Diligence results are now needed as integral to both buy-side and sell-side valuation assessment, including an assessment in qualitative format when quantitative information is not available.
- Monetization of environmental attributes and products create additional revenue potential on annual basis to certain investments in specific types of projects that help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Global push by countries and corporates to decarbonize is assisting with the creation of new assess classes and derivatives that help generate additional revenues.
16.15-17.15 Executive talk with Khun Danai Pathomvanich (Dan), CEO of NR Instant Produce Public Company Limited (“NRF”)
Language: EN/TH
Wednesday, 23 November 2022
09.30-10.30 The Outlook on Digital Assets
Emerging technology, blockchain and digital asset tokenization promises great benefits, but also entails new risks. This session is designed to help you understand the dimensions of digital assets, benefits and risks, industry insights and metaverse applications to encourage responsible and immersive innovation. You will learn the steps to a blockchain-enable strategy for your organization.
10.30-11.30 Digital Assets: Exploring the possibilities
It has been more than a decade since the blockchain was introduced to the world as the underlying technology enabling cryptocurrencies. As an innovative technology, its unique features of immutability in a distributed ledger and the security of transactions recorded on the blockchain has also spawned many other use cases. The advent of blockchain contributed to pioneering ideas and endeavours in DeFi, NFTs, metaverses and Web3. Multiple new emerging economic models have iterated rapidly in a short span of time.
Digital Assets is one of these innovations. Applications for these in the financial industry has grown substantially and use cases for real world assets have not been left behind. What lessons can we learn from the last decade? How can we imagine new concepts?
Exploring the possibilities.
Language: EN
10.00-10.45 Tech Trends 2022 – Engineer your tech- forward future
- Technology has been a driver of business disruption for the past decade and has significantly shaped the landscape of innovation in Thailand.
- This session will explore how key technologies are maturing to build a better future in a post Covid19 world and discuss how businesses in Thailand can benefit.
10.45-11.15 Private Debt: Opportunities for the Thai capital market
- Private debt, defined as debt financed by non-banks in private markets, has gained popularity in the US, Europe, and even elsewhere in Asia. However, the asset class is still nascent in Thailand.
- This session will look at the opportunities and challenges for the private debt ecosystem in Thailand—to help address financing needs of businesses, as well as portfolio diversification needs of investors.
11.15-12.00 From the Great Resignation to the Great Reimagination
- From Great Resignation to Great Reimagination explores changes that have taken place, since COVID-19 and those that need to take place in response to the recent challenges.
- The Presentation will explore this narrative along with Deloitte’s 10 Rules of Modern Work. These rules explain how to navigate the new world of work by applying them to our day-to-day activities to build a fulfilling and successful work life regardless of the disruptive external forces around us.
Language: EN
Remote Work
- Employment trends, points of focus and overall considerations
- Thailand’s Long-term Resident Program (LTR), categories, conditions, and privileges
Transfer Pricing Update
- DGN 407, new APA Guidelines, CbCR MCAA updates
Updates on amendments of corporate laws
- Overview of traditional and alternative fundraising for corporate funding
Customs and trade update, case studies covering:
- Investigation on origins of non-preferential goods
- One-stop Services for Additional Duty Payment Program (OSS) and rejected cases
- Customs value and prospective TP adjustment
New 5- year investment promotion strategy
VAT Updates
- Advanced information preparation for VAT refund audit
- E-Tax Invoice trends in SEA
Language: TH