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CFO Connect Summit 2026

The CFO Connect Summit brought together 1,500 finance professionals and leading experts
for 3 days dedicated to AI in finance.

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Learn | October 13

Learn how modern CFOs are building trusted AI workflows and creating a more strategic, efficient operating system for finance.

The Operating System of the Modern CFO

In this opening keynote, Spendesk Founder Rodolphe Ardant introduces the central question of the Summit: What does finance look like when AI becomes part of the operating system rather than another tool bolted onto the side?

Speaker:

  • Rodolphe Ardant, Co-founder and President

Building an AI finance Workflow: Step by Step Workshop with Nicolas Boucher

In this practical workshop, Nicolas Boucher takes you through how a one-off AI output can become a repeatable finance workflow.

He walks through how to connect finance data, audit an AI-generated CFO dashboard, and reuse the same process each month with skills and scheduled tasks.

Speaker:

  • Nicolas Boucher, Founder at AI Finance Club

Designing Finance Workflows Around Agents & Automation

This panel discusses how finance leaders can identify the right workflows for agents, design safe handoffs between people and systems, and decide when a successful pilot is ready to scale.

Speakers:

  • Tom Kelly, Director at Oracle NetSuite

  • Drey Kenfack, CEO and Founder at Crediflow

  • Ervin Alliu, Co-founder at Mrava

  • Zeno de Cock, Director, Accounting Systems at SoundCloud

Build vs. Buy: The CFO’s Playbook for AI Finance

This panel explores how finance leaders can identify the right workflows for agents, design safe handoffs between people and systems, and decide when a successful pilot is ready to scale.

Speakers:

  • Pauline Gilkman, Co-founder and CEO at Payflows

  • Chris Eary, Finance Director, R&D at DeepL

  • Mamta Lal-Patel, VP Finance, Feedzai

The Finance Talent Shift: Hiring for AI-Enabled Teams

This discussion explores how AI is changing finance roles, hiring criteria, and team design. The panel focuses on real hiring decisions, which skills finance leaders should prioritise, and how to assess judgement, adaptability and AI fluency in candidates.

Speakers:

  • Michiel Boere, CFO at Remote

  • Dav Masaon, Co-founder at Zanda

  • Jonas Blaschke, COO and CFO at Nosh.bio

  • Sylvia Rabemanantsoa, VP Finance at Riot

Beyond Spreadsheets: Building the AI-Enabled FP&A Function

Practical insight into when spreadsheets become a constraint on decision-making speed, how to build a more connected and continuous planning process, and how to measure whether AI is improving decisions versus when it's simply producing analysis faster.

Speakers:

  • Jorge Lluch, COO-CFO and Co-founder at Abacum

  • Sahil Kamani, Senior Financial Controller at Elli

  • Jeremy Zheng, FP&A & Controlling at flaconi

  • Dhanashree Nene, Finance Manager, FP&A at Amazon

Engage | October 14

Learn how to govern AI responsibly, scale international finance teams, and turn tax and treasury from compliance challenges into strategic control.

AI Governance, Liability & Risk: What CFOs Need to Know

The opening session of Day 2 examined the finance implications of AI governance, including ownership, liability, auditability, vendor responsibility, data risk and human oversight.

Our panel considered how these issues affect forecasting, reporting, controls and decision-making and discussed what remains the CFO’s responsibility when AI is supplied by a vendor.

Speakers:

  • Ghania Aslam, Managing Director at Blulotus

  • Vulnavia T. Gura, CFO at Stealth Co.

  • Bruno de Oliveira, Director, Finance & Data Analytics at Planhat

  • Carsten Gerger, VP Finance at Lucanet

The Operational Realities of Scaling International Finance Teams

A close look at the practical challenges of scaling finance across countries, entities, currencies, tax regimes, and local ways of working.

This talk focuses on standardisation, local requirements, data, compliance and decision-making as complexity increases.

Speakers:

  • Gal Aharon, Senior Director, Accounting Operations at Deel

  • Lucile Cornet, Partner at Eight Roads

  • Jonathan de Groot, VP Finance at Easol

Tax for the Office of the CFO: From Compliance to Control

Discover how tax, e-invoicing and structured transaction data affect finance operations, controls and visibility across markets.

Our panel considered how e-invoicing and live reporting influence finance operations, how to manage different country requirements without creating fragmented processes, and how compliance can improve data quality, visibility and control.

Speakers:

  • Geoffroy Riquet, Regional Sales Manager at Avalara

  • Egor Zabralov, CFO at Artec 3D

  • Fiorella Barchetta, Community Manager at CFO Connect

The Treasury Risks Every CFO Should Understand

As finance becomes more AI-enabled, reliable cash data, clear ownership and resilience under pressure become increasingly important. The discussion covered key treasury risks, ways to improve liquidity visibility and cash-flow forecasting, and how to strengthen control around financial risk.

Speakers:

  • Pierre Patcina, General Manager at Spiko

  • Pauline Babel, CFO at Spendesk

  • Darya Fadeyeva, Director of Finance at Mondu

Act | October 15

See the platforms and tools driving modern finance, celebrate the year’s standout tech stacks, and explore how to build an AI-native finance team.

From Strategy to Execution: AI in Finance at Everphone

The opening keynote on the final day focused on turning finance strategy into practical implementation. It explored how to translate an AI strategy into an actionable plan, prioritise workflows by value, risk and readiness, and define ownership and measures for the next 90 days.

Speaker:

  • Dr. Veronika von Heise-Rotenberg, CFO and MD at Everphone

AI DemoDay

Quick, 15-minute live demos of the top AI finance tools, designed to give you a fast, practical look at how leading CFOs are using them today.

Featured Platforms:

  • Spendesk

  • Drivetrain

  • Floqast

  • Remote

  • Zenskar

The TechStack Awards 2026

Discover the findings from this year’s Top CFO Tools report. In this session, the CFO Connect team reveal the leading tools across nine categories, from ERP and cloud accounting to the AI tools earning a permanent place in the finance stack.

Speakers:

  • Chloe Dormand, Community Lead at CFO Connect

  • Fiorella Barchetta, Community Manager at CFO Connect

Building the AI Finance Team

We closed the Summit with a practical look at what it means to build an AI-native finance team. This keynote brings together the themes explored throughout the week across technology, workflows, talent, governance and implementation.

Speaker:

  • Rodolphe Ardant, Co-founder and President at Spendesk

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