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Technical Skills series: AI and modern tech for finance professionals

Technical Skills series: AI and modern tech for finance professionals

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Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Feb
10
Tue
12:30
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14:00 HKT
Schedule Type Title: Weekdays
Schedule Description: Unlock AI’s hidden potential: Discover free, paid, and built-in tools across everyday apps to transform your workflow.
Sessions: 1
Session Hours: 1.50
On-demand
12:30 - 14:00 HKT
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Unlock AI’s hidden potential: Discover free, paid, and built-in tools across everyday apps to transform your workflow.

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10/02/2026 12:30 - 14:00 HKT On-demand

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AI is reshaping the modern workplace, and while Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT dominate the headlines, there’s much more to explore. From Excel to Teams to PowerPoint - and even standalone apps - powerful AI-driven features are already embedded in the tools we use daily. In this practical session, FCA and Microsoft MVP David Benaim will reveal which tools are free, which require payment, and which have been hiding in plain sight for years, ready to boost your productivity.

Whether you’re looking to streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, or unlock hidden capabilities, this webinar will help you make the most of AI across your everyday business applications. Join us to discover how to work smarter, not harder.

The Technical Skills series helps finance and business professionals master advanced tools and techniques to work smarter. Each session focuses on practical, hands-on insights - from Excel innovations to AI-driven solutions - designed to boost accuracy, efficiency, and collaboration.

Key Takeaways

  1. Automate Complex Tasks: Use AI to write Excel formulas, extract data from web sources, images, and PDFs effortlessly.
  2. Boost Productivity: Generate first drafts of proposals, workplans, and reports quickly with AI-powered tools.
  3. Advanced Analytics Made Easy: Leverage Python now integrated into Excel for deeper insights and smarter financial analysis.
  4. Smarter Collaboration: Combine AI with the latest spreadsheet features to create meeting notes, action points, and streamline workflows across apps.

CPD hours

ICAEW's revised Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Regulations bring in new CPD requirements. This includes a minimum number of hours and an ethics requirement. Attending this webinar could contribute up to 1 hour 30 mins of verifiable CPD, providing you can demonstrate that the content is relevant to your role.

A copy of the webinar booking confirmation email is accepted as evidence of verifiable CPD. Click here to use ICAEW’s self-assessment tool to help you work out how much CPD you will need to fulfil each year.

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About the speaker

David Benaim FCA, Founder and Trainer, XLConsulting Asia
After 5 years at Deloitte London where he qualified with ICAEW, David moved to Cambodia in 2013 and has worked with over 100 organisations and provided corporate training in Excel and more to over 3,000 participants.

David has also held the prestigious Microsoft Excel MVP award for over 5 years, which places him in the top 100 or so Excel users worldwide, has a YouTube tutorial channel with over 20,000 subscribers (www.youtube.com/@learnspreadsheets) and gives dozens of seminars and webinars each year all over related to Excel and PowerPoint. David is also a regular blog writer for ICAEW including a quarterly digest on what is new in business technology.
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