The 2026 theme is Autonomous Finance: Building Resilient, AI-Driven, Value-Centric Enterprises. Discover how to use insights, automation and AI to drive faster decisions, streamline processes and partner across the business. Explore our tracks, all developed with this theme in mind.
Explore this year’s topics
View topics for CFOs and finance executives and dive into last year’s sessions while we work on the full 2026 agenda.
Conference Topics at a Glance
AI in Finance
Discover how AI is reshaping finance — from predictive analytics and risk assessment to automation and fraud detection. Gain insights on leveraging AI for smarter decisions, enhanced efficiency and competitive advantage in the finance function.
Board, Investor and Stakeholder Comms
Master effective communication strategies for boards, investors and stakeholders. Understand how to deliver clear, actionable insights that build trust, foster transparency and support strategic decision making in finance leadership.
Change Management
Explore proven change management techniques for finance leaders. Learn how to drive transformation, overcome resistance and build lasting buy-in for new processes, technologies and organizational structures in the finance function.
Look back at 2025’s conference sessions
Hundreds of conference sessions were presented each day at the 2025 conference. While we work to develop this year’s agenda, filter to see sessions that align with your role and interests.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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