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Join Europe’s largest in-house M&A Integration Forum (focusing on the entire M&A and Divestment deal cycle), this October 7-8th in Amsterdam. Chaired by WTW.
venue: NH Barbizon (inside St. Olaf’s Chapel) Videos from the 2025 event here:(same location this year)
Guest Speakers: (View Full Agenda) (View Speaker Bios) (Download Agenda)
James Harris, Principal Integration Manager, Google
Caroline Bilbrough, Director of Post-Acquisition, IBM Consulting Ventures, Ecosystems & Acquisitions, IBM
Bjoern Leschny, VP of Mergers and Acquisitions Integration Global, Novo Nordisk
Anna Reva, Head of M&A Integration, IKEA Group (Ingka Investments)
Massimo Malizia, Director Corporate Development Integration, Cisco Systems
Americo Fernandez, M&A Deal Integration Program Manager, AkzoNobel
Hollie Jones, Director, Integration Design & Governance, Ricoh Europe
Peter Wallace, Senior Manager, Merger Integration Programmes, Ricoh Europe
Jana Mercereau, Head of M&A for Europe, WTW
Christian Heydrich-Ziyarifar, Senior Project Manager - M&A Integration, Delivery Hero
Staci van Schagen-Toback, Head of PMI Excellence, ZEISS
Bernard Gudowski, Head of Post Merger Integration and Separation, Six Group
Nico De Pauw, Associate Director for M&A Integration, Amadeus IT Group
Sven Mengering, Director M&A Integration, Roche
Alistair Stephen, Senior Director Integration, Equinix
Kristian Luoma, Co-founder, In Parallel
Matthijs Diepenhorst, M&A Integration and Disentanglement Program Director, Philips
Raad Sharief, HR Policy Specialist, Aramco
Mark Jacob, Manager, Mergers & Acquisitions, KARL STORZ
Adam Tarpey, Senior Organization & Management Advisor, Aramco
Matthias Wiltschek, Head of Post-Merger Integration, RHI Magnesita
Sid Chakraborty, M&A Consulting Leader, WTW
Simon Kjær, PMI Project Director, Novo Nordisk
Key Topics: (View Full Agenda) (View Speaker Bios) (Download Agenda)
Akzo Nobel Case Study: AkzoNobel India Separation
Amadeus Tailoring Integration and Target Models of very Diverse Deals: the Role of a Centralised IMO in a Divisionalised Corporation
Aramco Role of HR in Corporate Development: Through the Aramco Lens
Cisco Increasing the Speed of the M&A Integration Lifecycle
Delivery Hero How a Digital-First global company set up a Central M&A Integration function
Equinix Managing your M&A Team in Light of the Impact of AI
Google Managing Integration Planning through Long Regulatory Reviews
IBM Learning How to Deliver Integration & Business Results Faster
IKEA Group How can M&A Integration Influences the CEO and Senior Management of a Target
Novo Nordisk Case Study: Novo Nordisk’s Acquisition & Integration Journey in Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Oaklin & The Access Group Accelerating Agentic AI in M&A and Integration: The First Steps in Organisational Readiness and Adoption
Philips Key Lessons from Divestitures - that Strengthen Acquisition Execution
RHI Magnesita How our Company went from No PMI Team to a Central PMI Function
Ricoh Europe From Standalone to Integration: Building & Embedding Integration into Ricoh Europe M&A Programmes
Roche's Journey to Build a Centralized M&A Integration Capability
Vinted Building an Integration Capability in a Digital-First Company
Zeiss Saving an Integration Gone Wrong
Lead Sponsor and Chair:
At WTW, we provide data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital. Leveraging the global view and local expertise of our colleagues serving 140 countries and markets, we help organizations sharpen their strategy, enhance organizational resilience, motivate their workforce and maximize performance.
Working shoulder to shoulder with our clients, we uncover opportunities for sustainable success—and provide perspective that moves you.
Learn more at https wtwco.com/en-nl
Event Sponsors:
BTD is founded on the simple principle that more value can be realised from our client’s acquisitions. We are a global boutique firm with 20+ years serving clients across a variety of industries and geographies. Our support and tools are tailored to equip leaders to identify and deliver deal objectives, minimise risk and reduce business disruption. Partnership with BTD begins pre-deal and produces an ability to deliver and track inorganic growth success, which becomes a core capability and differentiator.
In Parallel empowers enterprises and people to do the right things right. Our Intelligent Management System automates monitoring, reporting, and planning. The result is better management, better execution, and a more resilient org.
Capgemini Invent is the strategy, transformation, and digital innovation consulting brand of the Capgemini Group. Combining expertise in strategy, technology, data, AI, and design, we help organizations drive growth and transformation. Our M&A team supports clients throughout the deal lifecycle, delivering strategic, operational, and technology-led value creation from deal assessment to post-merger integration.
Exhibition Sponsor:
StrategyBridge – The new standard of business & market analysis
StrategyBridge is a leading provider of data-driven company and market analysis for transaction business. The platform combines AI-powered technology with deep corporate finance expertise, enabling robust analyses in hours rather than days — in the words of our clients: "Faster, better, higher quality - it's simply more enjoyable to work with."
At the core of the solution is a global database of approximately 50 million companies — public and private. Building on this, StrategyBridge supports systematic longlisting as well as in-depth analyses - including competitor benchmarking, industry analysis, company valuations, and forecasting. Our clients benefit from greater speed, superior analysis quality, and an all-in-one platform with structured, comparable data.
This year’s event is held in St. Olaf’s Chapel, constructed in 1440