09.00 - Opening Remarks from the Chair

09.10 - Managing Integration Planning Through Long Regulatory Reviews

James Harris, Principal Integration Manager, Google

09.50 – Sponsor Session

10.30 - Roche's Journey to Build a Centralized M&A Integration Capability

Sven Mengering, Director M&A Integration, Roche

11.10 – Morning Coffee and Networking

11.50 - Sponsor Session

12.30 - Each Destination Requires its Journey:

Setting up a Centralised IMO for a Divisionalised Corporation: How we tailor each integration and target model to the acquisition on hand

Nico De Pauw, Associate Director for M&A Integration, Amadeus IT Group

13.10 – Lunch Break

14.10 - Learning How to Deliver Integration & Business Results Faster

· Implications of faster due diligence for integration

· Importance of smarter basics

· Supporting a faster change journey for leaders & employees

· Benefits & risks

Caroline Bilbrough, Director of Post-Acquisition, IBM Consulting Ventures, Ecosystems & Acquisitions, IBM

14.50 – Sponsor Session

15.30 – Increasing the Speed of the M&A Integration Lifecycle

· Accelerating key business decisions between agreement of the T/S and Announce

o aligning internal stakeholders while going through DD

· Navigating a fast moving (complex and uncertain) business environment during the integration

Massimo Malizia, Director Corporate Development Integration, Cisco Systems

16.10 – Afternoon Coffee and Networking

16.50 – The Impact of AI on Managing your Deal Team and Creating Value

· How AI-Powered Operating Models Improve M&A Integration Execution

· The human factor of managing the PMI function and process

· Managing people across your function, the M&A deal team and the business, despite increase of use of AI

Mark Jacob, Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions, KARL STORZ

17.30 – The Human Side of M&A – When Strategy Meets Human Reality

Discover why the true success of M&A integration is determined not by strategy, but by the people experiencing the change.

· How human reactions—not strategy—drive most integration failures

· Why leadership alignment is the first real milestone of any integration

· The psychological journey employees go through

· The cost of silence and how communication shapes trust

· Why belonging—not systems or timelines—is the real indicator of integration success

Mona Qaddoum, Head of HR M&A, Grundfos

18.10 - Role of HR in Corporate Development: Through the Aramco Lens

Adam Tarpey, Senior Organization & Management Advisor, Aramco

Raad Sharief, HR Policy Specialist, Aramco

18.50 - Closing Remarks from the Chair and End of Day 1

19.30 - 3-Course Dinner (included for all attendees)