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Webinar | ACCA

Unlocking the data and AI skills dividend

This webinar was first broadcast in November 2024 as part of ACCA's global flagship virtual conference – Accounting for the Future

Overview

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The rise of data analytics and rapid adoption of generative artificial intelligence technologies are having a dramatic impact on the financial world. But there are many interpretations of these terms, with different skills required to reap the benefits from the different technologies. In this session, experts will demystify these technologies, bust through the jargon and set out what finance professionals need to know, now and into the future.

In this webinar we look at:

  • a use case of machine learning for retail shop cost estimation
  • AI implementation
  • data integration and change management
  • organisational goals and data quality
  • combining accounting knowledge with AI skills
  • ethical considerations and AI adoption
  • diminishing returns and AI's role in decision making.

Kulsoom Bakhshi FCCA, Head of Risk Management and Analytics, Bayer
Kulsoom Bakhshi FCCA is head of risk management and analytics at Bayer Middle East. She worked in audit at KPMG and PwC before moving over to the corporate world as consultant and then financial controller with Emirates Group.

Ian Carrier FCCA
Ian Carrier FCCA recently completed a seven-year stint as senior finance business partner at Lush. A commercially focused professional with a passion for harnessing data to provide insightful business intelligence, he also spent six years in finance business partnering at CBRE UK.

Dean Hezekiah FCCA, Policy & Insights Manager – Asia Pacific, ACCA
Dean Hezekiah is ACCA’s policy and insights manager for the Asia Pacific region, based in Melbourne. Dean brings a passion for interrogating ideas into the P&I role and is especially interested in the interplay of technology and humanity in our daily lives. Prior to joining ACCA, Dean worked in academic consulting, helping education providers align their policies and courses to regulatory standards. Other roles he has held include audit and project management. Outside ACCA, Dean is an avid reader and a keen writer.

Mohamed Abdelrazek, Professor of Software Engineering, Deakin University, Australia
Mohamed Abdelrazek is professor of software engineering at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Institute at Deakin University, Australia. He is an active researcher in automated software engineering, cloud computing security, formal methods, high-performance computing, IoT and data science.

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Global

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