All 2027 Conference Sessions

Gartner Finance Symposium/Xpo 2027 dives deep into key topics for finance around AI, leadership, talent, strategy and more to help you address your organization's mission-critical challenges.

2027 Conference Theme

Orchestrating Enterprise Performance in an AI-First World

This year’s conference theme focuses on how CFOs must lead organizations where people and digital workers collaborate, using real-time insights. As AI risk compounds and pressure to demonstrate value grow, CFOs must unlock capacity, elevate talent and empower teams to drive performance and profitable growth.

Explore our conference sessions below, all developed with this theme in mind.

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Experience how CFOs and finance leaders gain practical insights, exchange ideas with peers and engage in relevant discussions that help them to strengthen their impact as a finance professionals.
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Monday, 01 March, 2027

09:00 AM - 09:45 AM AEDT

Gartner Opening Keynote
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10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEDT

AI Agent Governance 101: A CFOs Guide to Making AI Agents Safe at Scale
Ash Mehta, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Most finance organizations are building AI agents faster than they are governing them. For CFOs, this creates a new class of financial, operational and accountability risks that cannot be managed with traditional controls alone. This session provides a practical, 101-level introduction to AI agent governance for CFOs and finance leaders who need a clear starting point, not a technical deep dive. It explains the foundational concepts, vocabulary and governance building blocks required to scale AI agents responsibly, including how to establish policies, monitoring practices, escalation paths and human oversight. The session also explores how finance teams can maintain accountability through effective collaboration between human analysts and AI agents. Attendees do not need prior AI or technical experience. They will leave with a practical framework for understanding where AI agent risks arise, how to organize governance responsibilities and what first steps finance leaders can take now to govern AI agents safely before scale makes the risks harder to unwind. ... Show More Show Less

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT

Ask the Analyst: The Metrics That Matter: Building AI-Ready KPIs
Valeria Di Maso, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
In an AI-first enterprise, poorly designed metrics create poor decisions at scale. As organizations increasingly rely on AI to generate recommendations, automate analysis and influence decision-making, CFOs must ensure they are measuring the right things.
Join this interactive session to discuss how finance leaders select, rationalize and govern KPIs that support both human decision-makers and AI-enabled processes. Through discussion with Gartner experts and peers, attendees will explore how to reduce metric overload, build trust in performance measures and align KPIs to strategic business outcomes. ... Show More Show Less

10:15 AM - 11:15 AM AEDT

Contract Negotiation Clinic: CFO Playbook: 10 Tips, Tactics, and Tricks to Optimize Technology Vendor Negotiations
Jo Liversidge, VP Analyst, Gartner
This interactive clinic will walk through how CFOs and their teams can use this negotiation "cheat sheet" with 10 innovative and powerful negotiation tips and techniques to use as an integral part of the negotiation planning process. This cheat sheet can serve as an at-a-glance negotiation playbook for all major technology negotiations for cost optimization and risk mitigation. Clinic attendees will receive the at-a-glance cheat sheet as a take-away from this session as well as checklists and templates to put the cheat sheet in action in their organization. ... Show More Show Less

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEDT

Finance 2030: The Finance Workforce at Breakaway Firms
Nadia Bulkin, Director Analyst, Gartner
By 2030, CFOs at the breakaway firms will lead a workforce of digital talent that will regularly build new technology capabilities and accomplish core finance tasks by leveraging AI and tools. As a result, finance will scale and accelerate decision support and help overcome growth anchors. ... Show More Show Less

10:15 AM - 10:35 AM AEDT

Market Trends and Magic Quadrant for Accounts Receivable Solutions
Tamara Shipley, VP Analyst, Gartner
Accounts Receivable (AR) solutions are critical to managing DSO and cash flow. This session provides an overview of the market for AR solutions that support collections, cash applications, credit, deductions, disputes management and more. Learn how to leverage the Magic Quadrant and Critical Capabilities research to make an informed decision about the right AR solution for you. ... Show More Show Less

10:15 AM - 11:00 AM AEDT

Roundtable: Top Future Competencies for Accounting and Reporting in an AI-First Finance Function
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
As accounting work becomes increasingly automated and AI-enabled, CFOs must rethink the competencies needed for these teams to remain effective. Join this interactive peer discussion, lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert, to explore the skills that will define success for accounting professionals going forwards – ranging from risk management, to business acumen - and how to develop those skills at scale. ... Show More Show Less

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM AEDT

Signature Series: What's on CEO's Minds in 2027 and Where CFOs Fit in
Dennis Gannon, VP Analyst, Gartner
Gartner surveys hundreds of CEOs every year to learn about their mission-critical priorities for the enterprise and their expectations for the executive team. Here what they are telling us about AI ambitions, profitable growth expectations, and other top-of mind topics, along with the leveraged opportunities for the CFO to step up and support their CEO's agenda. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM AEDT

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Connagh Hopkins
Head of Business Planning and Reporting, Western Power 

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