Videos from June 5 Day 3 – Part 1 Day 3 – Part 2 Day 3 – Part 3 Day 3 – Part 4

Session	Time	Speaker	Presentation title	Room
Early Birds Coffee (doors open)	8:30
WELCOME WORDS	9:00	Elina Koskentalo		Auditorium
Evolvement in Digital Financial and Sustainability Reporting
	9:05	Eduardo-Javier Moral Prieto	ESEF/CSRD/EEAP	Auditorium
	9:35	Richard Bössen	European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)	Auditorium
	9:55	Marc Houllier, Corporatings Maximillian Müller, University of Cologne Eduardo Moral Prieto, ESMA Taras Piterskikh – Hero Christoph Wallek -PWC	CSRD First filings insights	Auditorium
Coffee Break	10:30
Transforming Business Reporting with AI and Taxonomy-Driven Tools
	11:00	Revathy Ramanan	Using XBRL data with AI	Auditorium
	11:00	XBRL Europe ESEF BPTF	Meeting	C2.02
	11:00	XBRL Europe SRWG	Meeting	C2.03
	11:20	Steve Berdah	Impact of AI on insurance-related XBRL filings.	Auditorium
	11:35	Aneet Kumar / Srinivas Murty	Reducing sustainability reporting burden and data accuracy challenges with a taxonomy-driven approach and AI	Auditorium
		XBRL Europe ESEF BPTF	Meeting	C2.02
	11:50	Vergil Lamech	Bringing Intelligence in Regulatory Reporting (Enhancing Financial Reporting with AI and ML)	Auditorium
		XBRL Europe ESEF BPTF	Meeting	C2.02
	12:05	XBRL Europe ESEF & ESG HUB / working group teasers	Thomas Verdin	Auditorium
Lunch	12:30
WELCOME WORDS	13:30			Auditorium
Better data – Assurance and Data Quality
	13:35	Tomas Toomse-Smith, FRC Anton Heitz, PwC Richard Bössen, EFRAG René van der Meij, SBR Nexus	Aspects of data quality	Auditorium
	14:05	Jon Rowden	Controls approaches to ESEF compliance	Auditorium
	14:20	Anushree Joshi	ESEF / CSRD Reporting / Tagging and Technical Implementation / Data Quality & Validation	Auditorium
	14:35	Paul Warren	Next Steps for the XBRL Standard: A preview of the OIM Taxonomy – A fundamental set of simplifications and enhancements for digital reporting.	Auditorium
	14:50	Thomas Verdin	Quiz
Coffee Break	15:00
XBRL Europe Working Group Presentations and Plenary Closing
	15:30	Liv Watson	Web 3.0 – New working group kick-off	Auditorium
		Banking and Insurance working group	Meeting	C2.02
		OAM working group	Meeting (restricted)	C2.03
	15:50	Hania Othman	Leveraging Web 3.0 on statutory reporting	Auditorium
		Banking and Insurance working group	Meeting	C2.02
		OAM working group		C2.03
	16:05	Eric Cohen	The Green Ledger: Synergies with Existing and Emerging XBRL Europe Initiatives	Auditorium
		Banking and Insurance working group	Meeting	C2.02
		OAM working group	Meeting (restricted)	C2.03
	16:20	Kristiina Häkkinen	Sharing business data across borders in a harmonised way – xEBR wg POC	Auditorium
		Banking and Insurance working group	Meeting	C2.02
		OAM working group	Meeting (restricted)	C2.03
Quiz results and ending ceremony	16:35	Thomas Verdin		Auditorium

 

Speakers

Anushree Joshi Aparajit – Iris Business Services

Anushree Joshi Aparajit is the Head of Customer Success at IRIS CARBON®. With over 13 years of experience and deep domain expertise in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), and bridges the gap between complex regulatory technology and client outcomes. 

Anushree holds key roles in leading initiatives around client onboarding for fortune 100 companies, product education, and data standardization using XBRL and is passionate about leveraging structured data to enhance transparency, compliance, and decision-making in the financial ecosystem. 

Anushree is a qualified Chartered Accountant and an ESG enthusiast, and regularly contributes to industry discussions on SaaS growth, client advocacy, and digital reporting transformation. 

Steve Berdah – UBPärtner

President at UBPartner

 

 

 

 

Richard Bössen – EFRAG

Richard Bössen is a digital reporting XBRL expert and joined the EFRAG staff in April 2023 and is responsible for the development of digital sustainability XBRL taxonomies (ESRS and Article 8). He is chair of international XBRL Standards Board (XSB). Before Richard joined EFRAG, he was Head of XBRL at AMANA consulting and provided XBRL reporting software solutions to large, listed companies, audit firms and supervisory authorities. Richard was part time seconded from AMANA consulting to EFRAG from Summer 2021 till March 2023 and supported the PTF on the preparation of the XBRL taxonomy for the ESRS.

 

Eric Cohen – Cohen Computer Consulting

Eric Cohen is an original founder of XBRL and continues to shape its evolution across regulatory and sustainability reporting. As contributor of the foundational work behind XBRL Global Ledger (XBRL GL), he advanced XBRL’s vision beyond surface-level reporting to enable seamless data exchange across audit processes internationally. His pioneering work spans traditional financial reporting and non-financial information management, with particular depth in sustainability reporting digitalization.

Cohen leads Canada’s mirror committee to ISO/TC 307 Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies and remains active in multiple standards development initiatives. Through Cohen Computer Consulting, he specializes in emerging accounting and audit technologies, bringing practical implementation experience to regulatory challenges. As adjunct professor at multiple universities, he bridges academic research with industry application in emerging technologies.

His extensive writings on XBRL implementation and sustainability reporting digitalization reflect both historical perspective as an original founder and forward-looking insights into regulatory technology adoption across European markets.

Marc Houllier – Corporatings

Marc Houllier is the CTO at Corporatings, a data provider that uses highly-structured data, such as XBRL, to provide powerful insight capabilities into corporate data.Obtaining high quality sustainability data is one of the top priorities of his customers, and Marc believes digitalisation has a very strong role to play in bringing that about; he is a member of EFRAG’s ESRS Digital Reporting Consultative Forum and of the IFRS Taxonomy Consultative Group, and co-chairs the XBRL France working group on sustainability reporting.

Aneet Kumar – Ez XBRL Solutions Inc.

Aneet Kumar is the President and Co-Founder of EZ XBRL Solutions and EcoActive ESG, companies advancing financial disclosure and sustainability management through technology. With over 30 years of experience leading global teams, she has helped develop solutions that address complex regulatory requirements in Finance and ESG. 

Her work emphasizes practical innovation—applying technologies like AI and automation to simplify reporting, improve data quality, and ensure compliance with evolving global standards. Deeply committed to sustainability, she is passionate about building solutions that help companies gain deeper insights into their data to drive meaningful impact. 

Vergil Lamech – XBRL and Product Expert

Vergil is a seasoned XBRL professional at DataTracks, bringing over 15 years of experience in the digital reporting space, including more than 6 years leading product strategy and development. He has spearheaded the implementation of XBRL solutions for over 10 regulatory frameworks including the SEC (US), ESEF (EU), HMRC (UK), ACRA (Singapore), and SSM (Malaysia) across multiple jurisdictions, with a focus on taxonomy modelling, platform innovation, and regulatory compliance. His contributions have been instrumental in shaping DataTracks’ suite of XBRL/iXBRL solutions used by corporates worldwide. Vergil holds master’s degrees in commerce and business administration and is an active member of the ESEF Best Practice Task Force, contributing to the advancement of structured reporting standards in Europe.

René van der Meij  – SBR Nexus – XBRL europe

René van der Meij joined the executive committee of XBRL Europe in 2020 and became the co-chair of the ESG working group. Besides to his work at XBRL Europe, René is CTO at SBR Nexus, a cooperation of the three Dutch Banks (ABN-AMRO, ING and Rabobank) enabling businesses to report their data conform standards to the Dutch Banks.

 

Eduardo Morial Prieto – ESMA

Eduardo Moral has been working as a senior policy officer at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) on topics related to audit, corporate reporting, credit rating agencies (CRAs) and securitisation since 2013. Eduardo is currently working in the implementation of the European Single Electronic Format (ESEF), the legislative proposals on the European Single Access Point (ESAP), Article 8 Taxonomy Regulation and the digitalisation of the sustainability information. Previously, he worked six years at the European Commission – DG FISMA, CRA and Audit Unit— where he participated to the development of the CRA3 and Audit Regulation as well as setting up the equivalence regimen and cooperation with third country auditors’ oversight bodies. Eduardo is a Spanish national, and began his career as a supervisor in the Spanish oversight authority for auditors (ICAC) and previously, for insurance entities and pensions funds (DGSFP). He holds masters degrees in law and economics from Deusto University, Bilbao.

Maximiluan Muller – University of Cologne

Max is a Professor at the University of Cologne and co-founder of the Sustainability Reporting Navigator, a platform dedicated to analyzing the adoption of sustainability reporting standards. He is also an Affiliated Faculty Member of the ESMT Institute for Sustainable Transformation and a Principal Investigator in the DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centre Accounting for Transparency. Max has collaborated extensively with industry and policy stakeholders, including leading studies on ESG reporting readiness, serving as an advisor to organizations in ESG and quantitative asset management, and contributing as a member of the Working Group on Corporate Reporting at the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft e.V. He also serves on the Sustainability Advisory Council of DHL.

Srinivas Murty – EZ XBRL Solutions

Srinivas Murty, Cofounder and Vice President of EZ XBRL Solutions, brings over 35 years of experience in software engineering, financial accounting, and solutions development. He has dedicated the last 15 years to establishing EZ XBRL as a leader in regulatory compliance reporting for Finance and ESG.

 

 

Patricia Myles -DFIN – XBRL europe

Based in London, Patricia Myles holds the role of Global Regulatory Compliance and Strategy Consultant within the Capital Markets division at DFIN. Her focus in this role lies within the US SEC and European ESMA IFRS Financial Reporting and ESG regulatory reporting requirements relating to corporate digital reporting. She is responsible for leading the company’s initiative on the provision of software solutions and consultative services to an international client base.

Patricia is active at European level in working groups focused on education and advocacy for regulatory and policy change including currently as co-chair at the XBRL Europe Sustainability/ESG Working Group. Patricia earned her CPA qualification from The Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland, a Diploma in IFRS with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and holds a Certificate in ESG Investing from the CFA Institute.

Taras Piterskikh – Hero Group

Taras Piterskikh is a seasoned finance partner and controller turned sustainability reporting professional. In his role at hero group he is leading  the group-wide CSRD implementation.

Taras has hands-on experience in implementation of end-to-end CSRD and TCFD compliant sustainability reporting. In-depth knowledge of sustainability and due diligence reporting frameworks and legislations (CSRD/ESRS/GRI/SASB/CSDDD/LkSG/Modern Slavery Act, etc).

 

Revathy Ramanan – XBRL International

Revathy Ramanan is the Guidance Manager at XBRL International, where she leads the development of guidance, explores new ways of analysing XBRL data, and supports strategic and operational initiatives. With over 15 years of experience, she has worked extensively on taxonomy design and the implementation of XBRL reporting systems for regulators worldwide. Revathy holds degrees in Business Analytics, Management Accountancy, and Commerce, and is based in Mumbai, India.

Jon Rowden – Friend Studio

Jon Rowden works with Friend Studio, a Design Agency whose Reportl software have been developed to maximise the benefits of the XHTML format, enabling digital-first reporting that takes ESEF requirements in its stride.
An auditor by training with a background in regulation and controls, Jon is a member of XBRL UK and a former member of XBRL Europe’s executive committee and Accountancy Europe’s ESEF Advisory Panel. For fifteen years he was responsible for XBRL services at a networked accountancy firm.

Thomas Toomse-Smit – FRC

Thomas is the Head of Innovation at the Financial Reporting Council the UK regulator covering accountants, auditors and corporate reporting. At the FRC he focuses on Digital Reporting Quality, use of XBRL data via the CODEx project and of course AI in corporate reporting. Before the FRC Thomas led the production of the annual report at a FTSE 100 insurer, and prior to that was an auditor in the UK and the US.

 

Thomas Verdin

Chair of XBRL Europe – Eurofiling Trustee – Managing Director BM&A – BM&A Advisory & RegTEch

 

 

Christoph Wallek – PWC

Christoph is a Director in the Capital Markets & Accounting Advisory Services team at PwC in Frankfurt and Certified Auditor. He has been with PwC for more than 10 years and is responsible for Accounting Advisory and the audit of national and international companies regarding financial and non-financial information across all industries. Christoph has extensive knowledge and experience in corporate reporting, in CSRD and EU Taxonomy implementation integration into group reporting, and implementation of reporting tools.

Paul Warren

Technical Director at XBRL International & Founder at Mythic Beats Ltd

 

 

 

Kristiina Häkkinen

Kristiina is involved in the taxonomy development of the Finnish Patent and Registration Office and structured data, particularly the broad adoption of the digital financial statements in inline XBRL. Kristiina has participated in the national Real Time Economy initiative, researching the benefits of structured data. In the Nordic Smart Government and Business program Kristiina was contributing to the creation of semantic data models.