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Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference dives deep into key topics for CFOs and finance leaders around AI, growth strategy, cost management and more to help you address your organization’s mission-critical challenges.

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Autonomous Finance: Resetting Financial Leadership in a Changing Economy

In today’s uncertain economy, CFOs must drive cost agility, finance transformation, digital acceleration and AI adoption while leading change and upskilling their teams. This conference offers the opportunity to learn from thought leaders and CFO peers to enhance real-time decision making.

Gartner CFO and Finance Executive Conference 2025 provides a blueprint for how CFOs make the right investments and drive the right innovations while managing costs and stakeholder expectations.
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Wednesday, 10 September, 2025

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

How to Create Long-Term Value with Strategic Cost Optimization
Michelle Carlsen, Director Analyst, Gartner
Long-term value realization has become increasingly challenging, and most CFOs have already executed multiple rounds of cost reductions. This session will explore how the top finance teams use the unique selling points of their companies to develop a differentiated cost structure strategy, and how to prioritize spending on areas that will produce the best long-term returns. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

Building Leadership Competencies for the Future of Finance
Dennis Gannon, VP Analyst, Gartner
Less than half of finance employees are satisfied with people management at their company and one in four are looking for a new job. Many finance leaders struggle to deliver on digital business transformations. The best finance leaders not only wear many hats, but also find the ones that fit. Join us to look at how to build your effectiveness through a focus on key leadership competencies. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

Navigating the Hype: A Realistic Approach to AI Maturity in Finance
Matthew Kiel, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Finance is at the beginning of a long-term transition to a workplace supported by AI. Getting value from AI requires developing a competency that will deliver increasing value over time. This session will show finance leaders a structured approach to building an AI maturity that delivers value in both the short and long term. ... Show More Show Less

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM BST

Navigating the Future of Controllership: Embrace Evolving Roles and Digital Accounting
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Controllership is the largest and most underappreciated finance subfunction. Digital innovations are usurping controllership teams’ legacy responsibilities, calling into question the function’s traditional jobs and value proposition. This session will discuss how the Controllership function continues to evolve roles and workflow to capitalize on digital acceleration in accounting. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

Super-Charging Forecasting: A New Data Paradigm for Transformative Insights
Matthew Mowrey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A fundamental obstacle to better forecasting is the entrenched accounting perspective we apply to data. Join the session to learn how FP&A leaders can unlock the full potential of data by shifting to a paradigm centered on business drivers and their relationship to a forecast model. This will enable the framing of data required to provision driver-based machine learning models. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

How Finance Leaders Can Play the Right Role in AI Initiatives
Marco Steecker, Sr Director, Research, Gartner
As AI adoption becomes increasingly decentralized and domain-specific, CFOs have been under renewed pressure to reevaluate finance’s role in driving AI adoption and its impact on organizational models. Join the session to better define your role in supporting AI initiatives based on your organization’s needs and capabilities. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

Unite and Inspire: Creating a Powerful Vision for Finance Transformation
Geraldine Garaud, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A compelling vision is critical to the success of an organization’s finance transformation programs. Executive leaders should work with their teams to create a finance transformation vision that aligns with corporate and competitive strategies, supports brand values, motivates employees, and addresses customers’ needs. Join this session to craft your finance transformation vision. ... Show More Show Less

11:45 AM - 12:15 PM BST

3 Key Actions to Progress Toward an On-Demand Close
Renata Viana, Director Analyst, Gartner
Providing error-free, trusted and easily accessible financial data insights is a critical objective that corporate controllers are struggling to deliver on. This research focuses on how to make progress for an on-demand close to meet this need and enable autonomous accounting. ... Show More Show Less

02:30 PM - 03:00 PM BST

3 Building Blocks of Sustainable Finance Process Excellence
Tamara Shipley, VP Analyst, Gartner
For finance transformation leaders, achieving sustainable process excellence requires a strategic framework. This session reveals the three building blocks: an integrated system for managing performance, driving process improvement, and cultivating strong stakeholder relationships to ensure their needs are met. Learn how to construct this vital infrastructure to evolve and sustain finance operations. ... Show More Show Less

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