Speakers 2026

Sandra Babylon

Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Cembra

Sandra Babylon is Chief Technology Officer at Cembra, Switzerland's leading consumer finance providers. She brings more than 25 years of international leadership experience across technology, shared services, and large-scale business transformation. In leading  Cembra's technology function, she is driving automation, process excellence, and AI-enabled transformation to deliver measurable business outcomes. In addition,  she has been responsible for the company's Shared Services Hub in Riga.

Mariano Andrade Gonzalez

Director of Johnson Matthey Global Business Services

With extensive leadership experience spanning Global Business Services, HR, Finance, Procurement, and enterprise transformation, Mariano Andrade Gonzalez brings a practical perspective on what it takes to build future-ready organizations. Having led large-scale transformation initiatives, he believes the greatest challenge is not implementing technology, but enabling people to embrace and lead change.

Johnson Matthey is a global leader in sustainable technologies combining advanced science and engineering to support the transition to cleaner energy and more sustainable manufacturing.

Oscar reitsma

Global Head of Operations at Transparent Solutions

Oscar has spent the past 15 years mastering the intersection of data and process in the procure-to-pay (P2P) world, joining Transparent in 2009 to grow the company’s presence across the DACH region and Eastern Europe. Today, he leads the client-facing teams driving Transparent’s P2P services forward.

His core belief: real P2P success isn’t just about the right technology, it’s about recognising that people play an equally important role. Oscar regularly shares this perspective on international stages, including the Hackett P2P Conference, SSON Shared Services Week, and the Deloitte Shared Services Conference.

Oleh Chaharyn

Director at PwC's Lviv Service Delivery Center 

Oleh leads large-scale operations and multidisciplinary teams, with a focus on organizational growth, leadership, business resilience, and transformation in a rapidly evolving environment.


Alongside his corporate role, Oleh serves as a lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU) Business School, where he actively contributes to the development of future business leaders. Drawing on his experience leading teams through periods of significant disruption, he brings a practical perspective on resilience, adaptability, and sustainable growth.

LIGA PAULINA

Lawyer, AI Literacy Specialist, Business Consultant

Līga Paulina is a senior legal and organizational leader with 18+ years of experience across legal, regulatory, governance, and executive management roles, including Director of Legal Operation and Administrative Director & Board Member of Dynatech SIA, Dyninno Group's Global Business Services center. 


Her background includes building legal operations frameworks and legal tech solutions across multiple jurisdictions, and advising executive leadership on regulatory and structural risk during periods of rapid organizational growth. She is also an experienced trainer and facilitator, and most recently works as a business consultant on change management, helping organizations navigate structural and cultural shifts and build adaptive teams in times of uncertainty. She brings a practical, ethics-driven perspective on how legal and governance functions can move AI adoption beyond experimentation helping organizations implement AI responsibly, manage regulatory risk, and translate technology investment into measurable, accountable business outcomes.

Antonina Kurets

Head of Human Capital at PwC’s Lviv Service Delivery Center 

Antonina leads Human Capital transformation initiatives across PwC Central and Eastern Europe. She specializes in organizational transformation, workforce strategy, talent management, rewards, and operating model design, partnering with business leaders to build scalable and future-ready organizations.

Antonina is also a guest lecturer and conference speaker, with a strong interest in the intersection of business strategy, people transformation, and the evolving world of work. Her experience spans complex cross-border transformation programs, helping organizations navigate growth, change, and workforce-related challenges in dynamic environments.

Carl-Johan Hultenheim

Chief Operating Officer at Atea ASA

Carl-Johan Hultenheim joined Atea in 2003 and has been part of the company's journey for more than 20 years now. He led Atea Sweden as Managing Director from 2011 to 2020 before taking on his current role as Chief Operating Officer of Atea Group.

Before joining Atea, Carl-Johan held sales and marketing leadership roles at Reachin Technologies, Autodesk NW Europe, Intermezzo and Ferator AB. Over the course of his career, he has combined a strong commercial mindset with a passion for developing businesses, teams and customer relationships.

Carl-Johan holds an Engineering degree from Växjö University, complemented by studies in economics and business administration at Lund University and Stockholm University.