E-INVOICING EXCHANGE SUMMIT - Dubai, Feb 10-12, 2025

Johannes researches, organizes and runs knowledge and networking platforms that help the industry to benefit from new technologies and cope with changing legal and regulatory frameworks. His events make sure that all stakeholders learn, discuss and network with like-minded experts, practitioners and thought leaders. His main focus lies on E-Invoicing since 1999, carrying out the E-Invoicing Exchange Summits in Europe, Asia and the US, the E-Rechnungs-Gipfel in Germany, and the Swiss Payment Forum in Zurich.
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Governments and tax authorities are driving the need for businesses to adopt E-Invoicing across the globe. As more countries across the Middle East mandate E-Invoicing, tax becomes an integral part of day-to-day finance and commercial operations, this session will explore the key changes, trends, opportunities and challenges to businesses and their stakeholders. Kamila from Avalara will provide insights in relation to the major changes across people, process and data. Kamila will bring some of these issues to life be looking at recent or upcoming mandates as case studies, including looking at UAE and KSA. The session will include:
+ Increased visibility of taxpayer and tax due to live sharing granular data
+ Real time validation and checks leading to increased importance of correct VAT calculation at time of issue of invoice
+ Alignment of business process with tax reporting processes
+ Shift from ERP Tax Codes to Tax category and VATEx codes
+ Impact to Accounts Payable processes – how to receive from vendors?
+ Impact to Accounts Receivable processes – how to send and share with customers?
+ Impact to business stakeholders – is your E-Invoice human readable for key stakeholders?
+ Tax and compliance process benefits resulting from E-Invoicing and E-Reporting including increased automation of GST returns, incentives and digital archiving

+ Intelligent Technologies in Tax Management
+ Enhancing VAT Compliance in MEA
+ Real-Time Compliance via Cloud-Based Platforms
+ Data Reconciliation & Automation
+ Benefits for Tax Authorities and Enterprises

+ Why is there a continuous rise in e-invoicing regulation globally? 
+ The positive impacts of e-invoicing beyond compliance
+ E-invoicing in the UAE and Gulf region – how to prepare for what’s to come 
+ Use Case – Saudi Arabia

+ How businesses can prepare for the future of digital transactions
+ Opportunities and challenges for businesses in Gulf region when adopting E-Invoicing
+ Optimizing E-Invoicing workflows with automation and AI: Gain efficiency and accuracy, realize cost savings
+ Digital Transformation Success Story: Saudi Arabia

+ How AI will change all areas of working life
+ How repetitive tasks will be completely taken over by AI
+ Opportunities & challenges for E-Invoicing and other industries

All participants and speakers are invited to enjoy dinner and refreshments in a casual atmosphere. Use this perfect opportunity to intensify your business contacts and grow your network.

This presentation will provide the considerations for global E-Invoicing readiness.

+ Overview of the Real-Time Economy concept
+ Examples of how standardised business data, like E-Invoices, form a crucial part of real-time and automated data exchange, including data-driven standardised business reporting
+ How public and private sector can provide more personalised services based on high quality business data
+ Example how E-Invoicing enables value added services for SMEs

In this presentation you will hear about services offered by LATAM tax administrations to taxpayers, other government agencies and for the society in general using information gathered from E-Invoicing. Businesses, citizens, and public administrations receive additional benefits from the sharing of selected E-Invoicing data, and with this for example governments are able to better control their expenditures, reduce toll fares for unloaded trucks, and citizens will find better times - with less consumers - to go to a particular shop.
+ Benefits for citizens of using information extracted from E-Invoicing
+ Benefits for other government agencies of using information extracted from E-Invoicing
+ Comments on the secrecy of the information gathered along the E-Invoicing process, and how to realize the full potential of interchanging information

Discuss the most pressing business-relevant topics with your peers and gain valuable information.

The term "4-corner model" is bandied about throughout our community and it represents essential network topology concepts in document interchange interoperability. But not everyone has heard or has understood the term before. This roundtable session visually demonstrates for non-technical audiences the important principles of different network topologies and why the 4-corner model works so very well for the exchange of electronic invoices and other documents.

We will discuss the E-Invoicing solutions supported by SAP Document and Reporting Compliance for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and the roadmap for other countries in the MENA region such as UAE and Oman. Moreover, we will highlight the benefits and challenges of implementing E-Invoicing in these markets and share best practices and tips on how to ensure compliance and efficiency. Join this session to learn more about the E-Invoicing landscape in MENA and how SAP can help you navigate it successfully.

+ Addressing Operational Challenges
+ Assessing the Impact on Business Operations
+ Implementing Best Practices for Practical Execution

+ The Emirates is a high tech country - is there any value in European Blueprints?
+ Embedding E-Invoice in society context
+ Customs + transport surveillance + E-Invoicing
+ How to make the economy stronger with the E-Invoice

For an incredibly long time now, countless attempts to replace physical invoices with electronic ones have taken place. While in the early 2000s, only a bunch of idealists were pushing for this obvious digitization benefit, it seems that through more and more legislative changes, the electronic invoice finally receives the attention it deserves.
+ But is it really prudent to just respond to government mandates? 
+ Do governments even consider business process optimization?
+ And what about things like data privacy and risk management?
+ How is this all connected to seemingly irrelevant processes like risk management?
Let's go on the journey of connecting things. Explore the agendas of governments, taxpayers and software/service providers and see what is to be considered to make change a reality.

+ Discussing UAE E-Invoicing Requirements
+ Possible agenda or the local service provider community
+ Networking with the community