The Digital Accountancy Forum – Virtual Experience
Virtual Event
17th June 2021
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The Digital Accountancy Forum – Virtual Experience
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We have created an immersive online experience where leaders from accounting firms can network and learn from the comfort of your own homes. We’ll be bringing together leading accounting firms, regulators and industry bodies, consultancies and advisors, law firms and tech vendors to debate key issues impacting the sector and opportunities for growth.
Why join our virtual experience?
- Watch cutting edge presentations from 20 industry speakers
- Connect with experts from around the world including Deloitte, Xero and ACCA
- Engage in panel discussions and ask your questions directly to leading accountants
- Meet experts from around the world in our virtual networking rooms
A FANTASTIC NETWORK OF YOUR PEERS AND COLLEAGUES RIGHT AT A TAP OR CLICK OF A BUTTON
Simply register, login on the day and get ready to connect and learn. With the right network at your fingertips, learning and connecting have never been so easy.
💻 Watch live and recorded thought leadership presentations
🗣️ Take part in live Q&A with industry experts from across the globe
👩💻 One-to-one & group video chat with each solution provider
🤝 Chat & network with anyone on the platform
📊 Take part in our interactive polls
👥 Join live panel debates and discussions
🛍️ Download resources from solution providers to your event bag
TESTIMONIALS
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‘That was a superb day, it feels like we’ve been at a real, in person, conference!’ Worldwide Clinical Trials
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‘A great event, I met more people than I do at an in-person event and I’ve got loads of follow ups’ Conversis
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‘The whole setting is actually very well accomplished! Thanks again for the invitation!’ Apogenix AG

Mark Edmondson
CEO,Inflo

Kevin Lord
Head of Practice Education,FreeAgent

Helen Daly
Senior Associate,Jeremy Hyman Associates

Vipul Sheth
Managing Director,AdvanceTrack Outsourcing
Biography: I am a Chartered Accountant currently living in the West Midlands, United Kingdom. I trained with a regional firm, Rabjohns (now part of Bishop Fleming), before joining Ernst & Young and KPMG, leaving them to build an outsourcing company. My interests range from technology to sports having played football regularly and then running half marathons. I am also interested in entrepreneurship. My passion is to allow accounting professionals to deliver more for their clients. We embrace technology and this helps us drive value to accounting firms around the globe.
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Narayanan Vaidyanathan
Head of Business Insights,ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants)

Perttu Jalkanen
Co-Founder,Arex European Market Limited

Gary Turner
Managing Director, UK & EMEA,Xero

Uday Ranpara
Client Success Director,Initor Global

Mark McNee
Enterprise Business Development Manager,Receipt Bank

Jon Lisby
Founder,Global Alliance Advisory Services
Biography: Global Alliance Advisory Services www.globalallianceadvisers.com +44(0)7850 660983 Jon is the founder of Global Alliance Advisory Services (“GAAS”), the leadership support consultancy uniquely dedicated to serve international accounting networks and associations. The GAAS team comprises former CEOs and Executives based in the UK, Mainland Europe, and the USA. GAAS focuses on the development and implementation of growth strategies, facilitating merger opportunities and assisting across the broadest range of operational issues for central offices. For networks, GAAS offers an outsourced global quality management, monitoring and inspection service. Managing global independence reporting effectively is a major issue for the networks and GAAS was instrumental in the development of the Zenzero Global Alliance Hub which utilises the Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft 365 to deliver a cost effective cloud-based solution to fully automate the process. The module can also be applied to gather and collate information from the global membership such as the IAB survey requirements. Jon is best known from his days as CEO of Kreston International which he led for 13 years until 2019 having previously been Managing Partner of a 9 office UK practice. During his long career in the profession, Jon has managed accounting practices at every level - regional, national, and global.
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James Brighton
Partner,Deloitte

Zoya Malik
Group Accountancy Editor,International Accounting Bulletin and The Accountant

Joe Pickard
Editor,The Accountant

Ana Gyorkos
Group Editorial Director,GlobalData

Fraser Campbell
UK Head of Accounting and Business Advisory Services,Azets

Jeremy Hyman
CEO & Founder,Jeremy Hyman Associates

George Kizis
Business Development Manager,SmartVault

Tom Kelly
Account Director and Strategic Accountancy Lead,Modulr

Martin Bisset
Founder,The Bisset Group

Rob Brown
Founder,Business Development Academy
Biography: Rob Brown is founder of the Business Development Academy, which trains busy accountants to be confident, effective work winners. He speaks internationally on trust, likeability, reputation, networking, collaboration and sales. He is the bestselling author of Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and his TED talk ‘The Personal Brand of You' has been viewed 250K times on Youtube. Rob is host of the popular Accounting Influencers podcast which interviews top accounting leaders and global influencers about what makes good firms great and good accountants world class. He is a committed Christian, a black belt in kickboxing, enjoys backgammon, loves chocolate orange and is allergic to grapefruit.
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Chris Biggs
Managing Director,Theta Financial Reporting Limited
Biography: Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Over 25 years of experience in the accountancy profession, including the last five years leading a new firm of ICAEW Chartered Accountants and the prior ten years as a Director in PwC’s Accounting Advisory group specialising in asset finance and leasing, structured products, complex IFRS advisory and leading their IFRS 16 accounting services. Chris has a wide range of experience of delivering assurance and complex advisory services to the retail sector, lessees and lessors, asset finance businesses, global investment banks and technical accounting support and multi GAAP conversions. He has also led IFRS 16 implementation engagements to FTSE100 retailers, hospitality groups and global house-hold names. In addition to his time within the accountancy profession, he has valuable experience outside having worked for two years at the IFC, World Bank Group in Washington DC USA where he provided IFRS accounting and structuring support to investment officers and structuring teams on IFRS and US GAAP and a further year as Head of Financial Reporting Controls and Risks for a life insurance company negotiating refinancing with bankers.
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Jon Lisby
Founder,Global Alliance Advisory Services
Biography: Global Alliance Advisory Services www.globalallianceadvisers.com +44(0)7850 660983 Jon is the founder of Global Alliance Advisory Services (“GAAS”), the leadership support consultancy uniquely dedicated to serve international accounting networks and associations. The GAAS team comprises former CEOs and Executives based in the UK, Mainland Europe, and the USA. GAAS focuses on the development and implementation of growth strategies, facilitating merger opportunities and assisting across the broadest range of operational issues for central offices. For networks, GAAS offers an outsourced global quality management, monitoring and inspection service. Managing global independence reporting effectively is a major issue for the networks and GAAS was instrumental in the development of the Zenzero Global Alliance Hub which utilises the Microsoft Power Platform and Microsoft 365 to deliver a cost effective cloud-based solution to fully automate the process. The module can also be applied to gather and collate information from the global membership such as the IAB survey requirements. Jon is best known from his days as CEO of Kreston International which he led for 13 years until 2019 having previously been Managing Partner of a 9 office UK practice. During his long career in the profession, Jon has managed accounting practices at every level - regional, national, and global.
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Andrew Bone
CEO,Dayshape

Louise Wilson
Head of Finance Sector,Moneypenny

Glen Foster
Director of Accounting Partners,Xero

Richard Cassidy
CCO,Dayshape

Steve Cox
Chief Evangelist,IRIS Software Group

Solon Angel
Founder and Chief Impact Officer,MindBridge

Stuart Cobbe
Director of Growth, Europe,MindBridge

Adam Page
Partner,Deloitte
Sponsors
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Martin Bissett
Sponsorship Opportunities
To enquire about sponsorship opportunities for the conference, please contact:
Ray Giddings
Sales Director
T: +44 (0) 20 3096 2585
Speaker Opportunities
To inquire about speaking opportunities or to take part in one of our interactive sessions, please get in touch with:
Kim Palfrey
Programme Director
T: +44 (0) 20 7936 6960
E: kim.palfrey@arena-international.com