While AI dominates executive conversations, CFOs face the critical challenge of translating hype into sustainable, enterprise-level strategic value. Moving beyond basic operational tactics, this panel explores the strategic priorities driving modern finance leadership. Learn how forward-thinking CFOs leverage intelligent automation and AI agents to modernise the close, mitigate risk, and elevate accounting functions from transactional centers to strategic growth drivers—all without causing operational disruption.

Plus, gain early visibility into exclusive product highlights that will shape your long-term technology roadmap.

Roll up your sleeves for a technical masterclass led by FloQast's Forward Deployed Accountants (FDAs), our front-line technical and accounting experts. This session moves past the slides and into the software, featuring a live build of a custom AI Agent from scratch. Our FDAs will walk you through the architectural logic of "Agentic Accounting," demonstrate how to define parameters, set human-in-the-loop triggers, and connect your GL data safely. Whether you are a Senior Accountant or a CAO, you will walk away with the practical, technical skills needed to start building and deploying agents immediately.

Join this session to:

• Architect Audit-Ready Agent Logic: Master the inputs you provide and the questions you answer during the build, so the agent produces outputs you can confidently put in front of an auditor.
• Establish Human-in-the-Loop Governance: Design and implement review checkpoints within your automated workflows, ensuring that AI agents never execute actions without proper oversight and control.
• Operationalise the Build as a Playbook: Capture the agent as a living, executable process document — your single source of truth — and maintain it close after close, so every build remains a durable asset.

If an AI agent makes a material error, who is responsible? Across the UK and Europe, "I didn't know the system did that" is no longer a defence. As AI agents take on preparer roles across journal entries, reconciliations and financial reporting, finance leaders face a control problem their existing frameworks weren't designed for: auditors and boards now expect evidence of how an automated process reached its conclusion, not just that it did.

This session covers what good agent governance looks like in practice — how to maintain a clean audit trail when the preparer isn't a person, where to build monitoring into the deployment lifecycle, and how to turn agent-driven processes into evidence that stands up to scrutiny.

Accounting teams are moving from experimenting with AI to running on it — and the ones furthest along are seeing returns well beyond hours saved. Drawing on FloQast's 2026 State of Accounting AI research and the Accounting AI Maturity Index, this panel brings together accounting leaders who've made the climb for a candid look at what separates the teams scaling AI from those still finding their footing.

Join this session to:

• Benchmark your team with the Accounting AI Maturity Index: See where you sit across the five-level progression, how you compare to peers, and what the next level up looks like.
• Hear what the climb actually looked like: Leaders share how they moved from spreadsheet-managed closes to deployed AI agents — and what they'd do differently.
• Turn unlocked capacity into business impact: Take away a framework for reinvesting hours saved into analysis and business partnering, and for tying AI deployments to outcomes your CFO cares about.