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

01:45 PM - 02:15 PM AEDT

The New Finance Architecture Problem: Everything Can Do Everything
Matthew Mowrey, VP Analyst, Gartner
Finance leaders have more technology choices than ever, yet many are less certain than ever about how their architecture should work. Planning platforms now model data. Data platforms now support analytics. Analytics tools now embed AI. AI tools now promise planning and decision support. As capabilities converge, finance teams face a new challenge: determining where business logic, analysis, governance, and decision support should actually live.

This session examines why modern finance architectures are becoming harder, not easier, to design. Learn how leading organizations cut through capability overlap, avoid costly architectural ambiguity, and build a finance technology foundation that is trusted, scalable, and ready for AI-enabled decision making. ... Show More Show Less

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM AEDT

Signature Series: Trends in the Finance Technology Market for 2027
Nick Duffy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
What technologies should finance be focusing on in 2027? Separate hype from reality in this session and learn about the technology investments other finance organizations make. Join the session to gain a research-based understanding of various technologies’ current usage and perceived value, as well as where finance leaders intend to invest in the near future. ... Show More Show Less
Tuesday, 02 March, 2027

03:30 PM - 04:00 PM AEDT

The Next Technology Stack for FP&A
Matthew Mowrey, VP Analyst, Gartner
FP&A technology is entering a new phase of evolution. Traditional planning systems, analytics platforms, data ecosystems and AI capabilities are converging to create new opportunities for forecasting, scenario planning and decision support. Yet many finance organizations remain uncertain how emerging technologies fit together or which capabilities should be prioritized first.

This session presents Gartner's strategic roadmap for FP&A technology and explains how organizations are evolving from forecasting and planning toward AI-enabled decision intelligence and enterprise simulation. Attendees will learn the technologies, capabilities and foundational requirements that will define the next generation of FP&A. ... Show More Show Less

04:15 PM - 04:45 PM AEDT

Understanding How AI is Causing Finance Technology Markets to Converge
Twisha Sharma, Sr Principal Analyst, Gartner
AI (particularly with the advent of agents) is starting to reshape the finance technology vendor landscape. Vendors are starting to expand beyond their core process areas, to offer support across increasingly end-to-end collections of processes. "We're not just an AP vendor anymore!". This breakout will help CFOs understand this evolution to the market and help them understand how to explore and manage these changes in their own portfolio. ... Show More Show Less

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Head of Business Planning and Reporting, Western Power 

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