Sovos Always On: San Diego

8:00am-9:00am Registration and Coffee Mingle

9:00am-9:10am Welcome Keynote

Kevin Akeroyd, CEO, Sovos

9:10am-9:30am

9:30am-9:50am

Charles Ladesuru, Research Manager for Enterprise Solutions at IDC

9:50am-10:20am

Cyrille Sautereau, President FNFE-MPE and CEO at Admarel Conseil

10:20am-10:40am VAT Beyond ViDA: Collecting Insights and Perspectives from Germany

Giacomo Luchetta, Founding Partner at Synthesia

10:40am-11:10am Coffee Break

11:10am-11:30am Seamless Digital Exchange: Driving Business through the DBN Alliance Network for North American Enterprises

Dolf Kars, Chair Board of Directors at DBNAlliance Network

11:30am-11:50pm Advancing Compliance in Germany: The Next Era of E-Invoicing with AI

Georg Geberth, Chairman of the Board at IDSt and Director Global Tax Policy at Siemens

11:50pm-12:30pm E-invoicing in Germany and Europe – Opportunities and Challenges for Multinational Companies

• Bianca Wöhrer, Tax Advisor & Teaching and Research at Vienna University
• Alexander Kollmann, Vice Chair at CIAT

12:30pm-13:00pm Enterprises Panel Discussion: How Organisations are Handling Tax Compliance Strategies

Peter Daniel, Sr. Director Accounting at Iqvia

Thomas Kicken, Director Indirect Tax at NXP

13:00pm-14:00pm Lunch Break

14:00pm-14:30pm Key Trends Data Driven Compliance 2025

• Christiaan van der Valk, General Manager Indirect TaxTech & VP Regulatory at Sovos
• Ryan Ostilly, VP Product Management at Sovos

14:30pm-14:50pm SMBs in Germany: Market Trends and the Key to Success

Richard Luthardt, Strategy and Innovation at Datev

14:50pm-15:15pm Key Success Factors in the Brezilian Case and future challenges in LATAM

Vinicius de Freitas, Auditor Fiscal at CIAT

15:15pm-15:35 Coffee Break

15:35pm-16:00pm TBC

16:00pm-16:20pm TBC

16:20pm-16:40pm TBC Latest e-Invoicing Reporting and Trends for Global Companies from billentis

Marcus Laube, Owner & CEO at billentis & Secretary General, GENA

16:40pm-17:00pm Peppol Interoperability: Streamlining E-Invoicing and Tax Reporting

Lefteris Leontaridis, Head of the Operating Office at OPEN PEPPOL

17:00pm-18:00pm Key Takeways & Happy Hour