Global Reboot Geopolitics, tax systems and society in flux
2023 KPMG EMA Tax & Legal Summit
12-14 September 2023: Berlin, Germany
Tuesday 12 September
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MESAC regional update lunch
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Legislative changes are occurring at an unprecedented pace throughout the world, making it critically important for tax and legal executives to stay on top of the latest reforms and developments and understand how local country changes interplay with the global tax landscape. Grab your lunch, and join one of three regional legislative updates for Africa, Latin America and MESAC. Each session will focus on providing the most up-to-date legislative advancements that may impact your organization in the respective region. After the sessions, you will have time to network with the presenters before heading to the opening plenary.
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Latin America regional update lunch
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Legislative changes are occurring at an unprecedented pace throughout the world, making it critically important for tax and legal executives to stay on top of the latest reforms and developments and understand how local country changes interplay with the global tax landscape. Grab your lunch, and join one of three regional legislative updates for Africa, Latin America and MESAC. Each session will focus on providing the most up-to-date legislative advancements that may impact your organization in the respective region. After the sessions, you will have time to network with the presenters before heading to the opening plenary.
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Africa regional update lunch
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Legislative changes are occurring at an unprecedented pace throughout the world, making it critically important for tax and legal executives to stay on top of the latest reforms and developments and understand how local country changes interplay with the global tax landscape. Grab your lunch, and join one of three regional legislative updates for Africa, Latin America and MESAC. Each session will focus on providing the most up-to-date legislative advancements that may impact your organization in the respective region. After the sessions, you will have time to network with the presenters before heading to the opening plenary.
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Welcome lunch
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A buffet lunch will be served to welcome guests to the EMA Tax & Legal Summit in Berlin.
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Plenary 1: The new geopolitics of tax
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This opening plenary session will look at the fall-out from trade wars, inflation, global conflicts, the pandemic, tax protectionism and the trend toward deglobalization. As supply chains and tax strategies are reshaped, how should those leading tax function manage such unprecedented developments?
During this plenary, Alex Kazan (the Chief Commercial Officer of Eurasia Group) will outline the new geopolitical reality, you will hear from Dr Florian Toncar (Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry of Finance) as to the impact of geopolitics closer to home and will debate the practical implications of tax issues arising from geopolitical change with an expert panel consisting of Sylvia Heckmeier (Head of Tax at Merck), Jeff Connell (Head of Corporate and UK Tax at Shell) and Asif Khokar (Head of Tax for Engie (AMEA)).
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Jeff Connell
Head of Corporate and UK Tax
Shell International Ltd
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Vicki Heard
EMA Region Head of Tax and Legal Services, KPMG International; and Partner, UK
KPMG International
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Sylvia Heckmeir
Head of Group Tax
Merck KGaA
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Asif Khokhar
Head of Tax, EMEA
ENGIE
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Tim Sarson
Value Chain Management Partner and UK Head of Tax Policy
KPMG UK
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Barbara Serra
Journalist, TV Presenter, Documentary-maker
Author
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Mathias Oberndörfer
Managing Director
KPMG Germany
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Alex Kazan
Chief Commercial Officer
Eurasia Group
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Dr Florian Toncar
Parliamentary State Secretary
German Federal Ministry of Finance
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Break
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Please make your way to your session from 16:15 onwards
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Sector insight sessions
During the Day 1 satellite sessions, you can select between attending a sector insight session or a practical tradecraft session in relation to technology.
Each sector session will allow you to hear thought provoking insights, on the issues most relevant to you, from KPMG professionals and external speakers, while allowing you to build your network with peers with similar interests.
While it is expected for many delegates to align themselves to a sector session in which they operate, this is not mandatory.
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Tradecraft: How technology is expected to change the tax function as you know it
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Technology is moving fast and tax teams are quickly evolving their skills to respond to the plethora of external demands. This session aims to show you some technologies that are being embraced by tax teams as well as emerging technologies that will likely benefit tax teams. The session will then explore the different ways tax functions have organized themselves and consider how technology is quickly changing the traditional setups.
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Madelein Van Zyl
Partner, Tax Technology and Transformation
KPMG South Africa
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Amar Thakrar
Partner, Tax Transformation
KPMG UK
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Stuart Tait
Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Tax & Legal
KPMG UK
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Christian Stender
Partner, Tax
KPMG Germany
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Consumer and retail
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Carol Newham
Partner, ESG Tax & Legal Partner Sponsor
KPMG UK
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Matt Whipp
Partner, Global Transfer Pricing Services
KPMG UK
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Franz Kirch
Partner
KPMG Germany
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Energy and natural resources
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Jörg Ufer
Partner International Transaction Tax, Head of ENR Tax Germany
KPMG Germany
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Claire Angell
Partner, Head of Tax for Energy and Natural Resources
KPMG UK
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Stephan Freismuth
Director, Indirect Tax Services
KPMG Germany
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Financial services
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Raluca Enache
Head of KPMG EU Tax Centre
KPMG International
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Marco Müth
Head of Real Estate Germany, EMEA Lead Asset Management Tax & Legal
KPMG Germany
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Thomas Brotzer
EMA Head of Insurance Tax
KPMG Switzerland
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Jens Siebert
Partner, Management Consulting Financial Services
KPMG Germany
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Christian Fischler
Senior Manager Financial Services Tax
KPMG Germany
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Industrial manufacturing and automotive
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André Jacobs
Partner
KPMG Meijburg & Co
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Peter Schalk
Global EMA and German Head of Automotive Tax Partner, Indirect Tax Services
KPMG Germany
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Dr Karoline Kampermann
Head of the department for economic policy, foreign trade & customs, SME and taxation
German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA)
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Julia Ruf
Partner, Value Chain Transformation
KPMG Germany
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Life sciences
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William Gull
Life Sciences Tax Lead
KPMG UK
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Koen Van Ende
Partner
KPMG Belgium
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Andrea Tolley
Global Head of Tax and Legal for Life Sciences and Partner
KPMG UK
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Simon Knightbridge
Partner
KPMG UK
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Klara Gießler
Manager, Strategy Group
KPMG Germany
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Technology, media and telecommunications
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Anna Scally
Partner, Head of Technology and Media
KPMG Ireland
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Summit reception dinner
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Join us at Café am Neuen See for an informal reception dinner, allowing for networking and reflection. The light-flooded barn offers a country house atmosphere in all seasons. The mix of wood, glass and stone in the middle of the Tiergarten makes you forget the hustle and bustle of Berlin. Spend special moments in this small oasis of calm and be enchanted by the wonderful view of the lake the perfect setting for a relaxing evening.
During the evening you will be taken to the world of modern and cosmopolitan country house cuisine with European and international influences.
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Wednesday 13 September
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Plenary 2: Consensus in crisis
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This second plenary session will consider some of the latest attempts to deliver global consensus and agreed international tax norms. Accepting that this goal is a way off it will explore ways of navigating the fragmented reality facing Heads of Tax across the world.
The session will include a keynote speech from David Bradbury (Deputy Director of the OECD) and a facilitated discussion with Logan Wort (Executive Secretary of the African Tax Administration Forum). We will also be joined by guest speakers including Kris Bodson (Senior Director EMEA Tax and Policy at Johnson & Johnson), Troopti Desai (Executive of Group Tax, MTN Group) and Thorsten Lang (Vice President, Global Head of Indirect Taxes and Supply Chain at HP) who will share their views on the current international tax system. This will be followed by second panel discussion exploring ways through the compliance, disputes, and data maze.
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Troopti Desai
Head of Tax
MTN Group Limited
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Preshnee Govender
Associate Director, Africa Tax Coordinator
KPMG South Africa
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Dominique Cardle
Principal - Controllership & Tax - Transformation
The Walt Disney Company
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Kris Bodson
Senior Director, EMEA Taxation and Policy
J&J
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Danielle Rolfes
Partner in Charge, Washington National Tax
KPMG US
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Thorsten Lang
Vice President
HP
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Vinod Kalloe
Head of International Tax Policy
KPMG Meijburg & Co
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Logan Wort
Executive Secretary
African Tax Administration Forum
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Barbara Serra
Journalist, TV Presenter, Documentary-maker
Author
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David Bradbury
Deputy Director
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Break
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Please make your way to your session from 11:30 onwards
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Tax technical sessions
During the Day 2 satellite sessions, you are able to decide between joining a practical tax technical session or a practical tradecraft session in relation to technology. Note that the tradecraft session is a repeat from Day 1.
Each highly interactive tax technical session will focus on the practical implications of developments, rather than the theory.
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Tradecraft: How technology is expected to change the tax function as you know it
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Technology is moving fast and tax teams are quickly evolving their skills to respond to the plethora of external demands. This session aims to show you some technologies that are being embraced by tax teams as well as emerging technologies that will likely benefit tax teams. The session will then explore the different ways tax functions have organized themselves and consider how technology is quickly changing the traditional setups.
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Madelein Van Zyl
Partner, Tax Technology and Transformation
KPMG South Africa
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Amar Thakrar
Partner, Tax Transformation
KPMG UK
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Stuart Tait
Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Tax & Legal
KPMG UK
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Christian Stender
Partner, Tax
KPMG Germany
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Complying with minimum tax
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Clara Guasch
Director, International & Corporate Tax Services
KPMG Spain
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Ivor Lacroix
Tax Partner
KPMG Meijburg & Co
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Claus Jochimsen-von Gfug
Tax Partner
KPMG Germany
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Kevin Tipton
Director, Global Compliance & Transformation
KPMG UK
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Navigating the ESG environment
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Carol Newham
Partner, ESG Tax & Legal Partner Sponsor
KPMG UK
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Tasneem Kadiri
Tax Director
L'Oréal
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Tim Sarson
Value Chain Management Partner and UK Head of Tax Policy
KPMG UK
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Richard Marcos
Partner
KPMG US
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Preparing for global tax policy developments
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Raluca Enache
Head of KPMG EU Tax Centre
KPMG International
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Margaret Shore
Vice President, Tax & Customs
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners Plc
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Jaime Salmerón
Regional Tax Lead BENELUX | EU Tax Policy
Repsol
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Danielle Rolfes
Partner in Charge, Washington National Tax
KPMG US
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Vinod Kalloe
Head of International Tax Policy
KPMG Meijburg & Co
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Conrad Turley
Tax Partner
KPMG UK
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Taxing the digital economy
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Matthew Herrington
Partner
KPMG UK
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The secret to operational transfer pricing
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Robert Vos
Tax Director
Alcon Inc.
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Andrea Tolley
Global Head of Tax and Legal for Life Sciences and Partner
KPMG UK
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Magdalena Bonna
Partner
KPMG Germany
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Javier Reche
Senior Tax Manager
Robert Bosch
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Marie-Madeleine Diem
Senior Manager Tax
Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate Center GmbH
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Unpacking global trends in tax controversy
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Aldo Mariani
Head of Global Tax Dispute Resolution & Controversy Services
KPMG International
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Angela Savin
Partner (Solicitor), KPMG Law Head of Direct Tax Dispute Resolution
KPMG UK
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Sandra Knaepen
Co-Head of Tax Certainty Unit, Acting Head of TTP
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
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Harm Mark Pit
Policy advisor MAP and arbitration
Netherlands Tax Administration
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Lunch
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Plenary 3: Society and inequality
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The final plenary session will look at the ways in which societal trends and pressures are shaping attitudes to multinationals and taxation. You will hear from a range of fantastic speakers who will consider societal shifts and growing inequality, how A.I. may reshape the world we operate in and consider how best tax professionals might influence future developments.
Our keynote speakers include Dr Oby Ezekwesili (Economic and Human Capital Policy Expert), Miriam González Durántez (International Trade Lawyer) and Wolfgang Dierker (Head of Corporate, External and Legal Affairs, Microsoft Germany). We will also hear from several panel speakers including Abdi Aidid (Head of Innovation at Blue J and Assistant Professor at University of Toronto), Alexia Scott (Global Head of Tax at L’Oreal) and Bettina Rodenberg (CVP Global Tax and Trade at Henkel).
The session will conclude with a final debate considering the go forward position and reflections of the conference.
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Bettina Rodenberg
Global Head of Tax & Trade Group
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
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Dr Oby Ezekwesili
Economic Policy Expert & Senior Economic Adviser
Africa Economic Development Policy Initiative
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Wolfgang Dierker
General Manager, Corporate, External & Legal Affairs (CELA)
Microsoft Germany GmbH
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Abdi Aidid
Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Strategist, Legal Innovation
Blue J
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Alexia Scott
Senior VP – Global head of Tax
L’Oréal Group
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David Linke
Global Head of Tax & Legal Services
KPMG International
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Vicki Heard
EMA Region Head of Tax and Legal Services, KPMG International; and Partner, UK
KPMG International
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Melissa Geiger
Global Leader, Strategic Corporates, Tax & Legal
KPMG International
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Christian Stender
Partner, Tax
KPMG Germany
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Miriam González Durántez
International Trade Lawyer
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Barbara Serra
Journalist, TV Presenter, Documentary-maker
Author
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