About the Event

The pressure to lead on AI isn’t landing the same way for every finance leader. For CFOs running lean operations, the question is existential: does this make my team faster, or does it introduce risk we can’t absorb? For finance leaders managing large or enterprise organizations, the question is structural: who owns this, how do we govern it, and how do we explain it when something goes wrong? Different stakes, different org charts, but the same functional challenge: no one handed you the curriculum for this.

What’s changed isn’t just the technology, it’s who owns it. AI has moved squarely in the finance function touching close cycles, reporting outputs, and planning processes leaving CFOs and finance leaders accountable for it whether or not they feel like experts. Leadership wants a strategy, vendors want a decision, and the landscape keeps shifting faster than any framework can keep up.

Join CFO Brew as we bring together finance leaders on opposite ends of the org chart for an honest conversation about what it actually takes to make smart AI decisions in real time, without the benefit of hindsight.

Here’s what you can expect to cover:

• How to make confident AI decisions before you feel like an expert. Hear how two CFOs – one lean, one enterprise – are building conviction and frameworks on the fly, and what they’d do differently with more time to build perspective.
• Where accountability lives when AI touches the numbers. From board or leadership conversations to audit trails, explore how finance leaders are thinking about ownership, risk, and credibility as AI becomes embedded in financial outputs.
• What it takes to move from decorative AI to autonomous AI. Learn how insightsoftware defines the difference and what embedded AI looks like across planning, close and consolidation, account reconciliation, narrative reporting, and disclosure management.