Future of Finance MEA | Egypt 2026

Registration

13-Week Cash Flow Forecast: Build It Live

Hands-on construction of a 13-week rolling cash flow model. Participants map receivables, payables, and liquidity buffers in real time — leaving with a working template and a methodology deployable in their business the next day

Morning Coffee & Networking

Structuring a Credit Facility: From Term Sheet to Drawdown

Walk through the anatomy of a corporate credit facility covenants, security packages, drawdown mechanics, and pricing structures. Real term sheets dissected, with participants stress-testing their own financing structures against lender expectations.

Welcome & Opening Remarks

Business Partnering in Practice: Influencing Without Authority

Practical role-play and case studies on how FP&A leaders engage business units — challenging assumptions, landing difficult messages, and building credibility outside the finance function. Build the tools to be a genuine strategic partner, not just a scorekeeper.

The AI-Generated Board Pack: How Finance Teams Are Reclaiming 40 Hours a Month

The board pack isn’t a reporting exercise it’s the moment finance either earns or loses its seat at the table. Finance leaders share how AI tools are compressing the data to in sight cycle auto generated variance commentary, dynamic narrative, exception-flagging and what that frees finance to actually do with the recovered time.

Executive Presence: Finance Communication Under Pressure

High-intensity communication workshop for senior finance professionals structuring board presentations, delivering difficult news, handling pushback, and building the personal presence that makes finance leaders heard at the executive table.

Liquidity Under Pressure: Redesigning Your Cash Architecture for Volatile Conditions

When rate cycles shift overnight and FX bands break, your liquidity framework either absorbs the shock or amplifies it. Treasurers share how they rebuilt cash structures tiers, buffers, sweep logic to hold their ground in conditions that rewrote the rulebook.

Scenario Modelling Masterclass: From Single Plan to Decision Engine

Replace static forecasts with dynamic scenario engines. Participants build a live Excel model with macro-linked drivers, sensitivity toggles, and automated output tables — fully structured around their own P&L and ready for board presentation.

The Relationship Banker Is Dead. Long Live the Relationship

Digital channels killed the branch visit. Platform banking is replacing relationship managers. And yet the corporates who navigate credit cycles, covenant breaches, and refinancing windows with the least pain are still the ones who built genuine trust with the right people. What does banking relationship management look like when the relationship has gone digital?

Islamic Finance in Practice: Structuring Sharia-Compliant Deals

Deep-dive into murabaha, ijara, sukuk, and musharaka mechanics. Real deal structures worked through by participants — focused on Egyptian and GCC applications and what treasury teams need to know before engaging Islamic finance windows.

Banking Sector Keynote Address Presented by Main Banking Sponsor

Automate Your Month-End Close: AI & RPA in Finance Operations

Live demonstration of robotic process automation and AI tools eliminating repetitive close tasks — journal entries, reconciliations, variance commentary, and inter-company eliminations. Participants assess automation potential in their own close process.

The CFO in the Spotlight: Communicating Through Uncertainty When Everyone Is Watching

Currency devaluations. Profit warnings. Regulatory announcements. The moments that define a finance leader’s reputation aren’t the ones they planned for. How do CFOs and senior finance executives communicate with boards, investors, media, and staff when the numbers are hard and the pressure is high — and come out with credibility intact

Working Capital Deep-Dive: Mapping and Releasing Trapped Cash

Structured workshop to map the full cash conversion cycle payables, receivables, and inventory and identify specific release points. Participants leave with a working capital action plan tailored to their own business and sector

Coffee Break & Exhibition

Unit Economics as the Language of Capital Decisions

P&L tells you what happened. Unit economics tells you whether to double down or cut. From customer acquisition cost to lifetime value, from product-level contribution margins to segment-level capital efficiency — how FP&A leaders are translating unit economics into the language boards use to allocate capital.

Financial Institute Keynote Address Presented by Main Financial Institute Sponsor

Supply Chain Finance in Practice: Unlocking Value Across Your Entire Vendor Base

Most supply chain finance programs capture 20% of the opportunity. This session maps the full working capital chain — from anchor buyer to tier-2 supplier — showing where the real cash is trapped and how to free it without adding risk to either side of the relationship.

Egypt’s Instant Payment Revolution: What the New Infrastructure Means for Corporate Treasury

InstaPay crossed 10 million users faster than any payment system in Egypt’s history. The rails are built — but most corporate treasury functions are still routing through the same channels they used in 2019. What does real-time settlement, richer transaction data, and open API infrastructure actually change for how companies collect, pay, and forecast?

Networking Lunch

The Yield Equation: Where Idle Corporate Cash Belongs in 2026

In a rate environment unlike anything seen in a decade, leaving cash in a current account is a decision — and an expensive one. This session benchmarks the yield landscape available to Egyptian corporates: money market instruments, T-bills, short-duration funds, and what it actually takes to deploy them safely.

Green Finance & ESG-Linked Lending: The New Cost of Capital for Egyptian Corporates

Sustainability-linked loans and green bonds are no longer a European export. Egyptian banks are pricing ESG metrics into credit terms — and international development finance institutions are making them a condition of access. What do finance teams need to measure, report, and prove to unlock the pricing advantage?

Closing Remarks & End of Conference