Sessions
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Session 1The Next Era of Finance and Enterprise Performance
Explore how AI is reshaping finance leadership, decision-making and execution across the enterprise.
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Session 2The Maturity Model: From Aligned Plans to Orchestrated Execution
See how mature finance teams move beyond planning to connect decisions, execution and trusted financial outcomes.
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Session 3Building What's Next: The Vena Roadmap for Planning, Close and Performance
Discover what’s next for Vena, from AI agents and advanced planning to automated close and consolidation in Excel and Power BI.
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Session 4Why Usability Wins: What the Nucleus Report Reveals About Planning Adoption
Learn why adoption drives planning ROI and how familiar tools like Excel and Power BI help improve performance.
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Session 6AI Readiness: Governing the Foundation Before You Orchestrate
Get a practical roadmap for aligning data, governance and teams before embedding AI agents into planning workflows.
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Session 7FP&A as the Orchestration Layer of the Enterprise
See how FP&A is evolving from forecast owner to performance driver across data, AI, decisions and outcomes.
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Session 8Building CFO and Board-Level Forecast Credibility
Learn how to build executive confidence in your forecast and package your work to earn trust before the meeting starts.
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Session 9Demystifying IT for Finance: How Architecture, Governance and Data Models Shape Decision Velocity
See how architecture, data models and governance can speed up planning and help Finance partner with IT more effectively.
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Session 10The Orchestrated Office of Finance: Unifying Financial Close and Planning Into a Strategic Flow
Discover how unifying close and planning helps Finance build confidence, reduce friction and lead business performance.
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Session 11Governing AI and App Development Without Slowing Innovation
Learn how to balance innovation, security and governance as teams build apps and AI workflows in enterprise platforms.
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Session 14Women in Finance: Building Influence and Leadership in a Transforming Industry
Hear candid perspectives on influence, credibility and navigating change as women in finance leadership.
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Session 15Funding Innovation in the AI Era: Discipline, Risk and Return
Explore how executives build disciplined AI investment cases, govern spend and measure realized value.
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Session 18Multiplying Impact: The New Finance Skills That Matter in an AI-Driven Enterprise
Identify the skills finance teams need now, from technical literacy to storytelling and cross-functional influence.
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Session 19Choose Your Denali: What Climbing North America's Highest Mountain Taught Me About Leading Big Organizational Transformations
Discover change leadership lessons from an 18-day expedition through extreme conditions and uncertainty.
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Session 20Decision Velocity or Accuracy? What Actually Drives Performance
Join a candid discussion on whether real performance comes from perfect forecasts or faster action on imperfect information.
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Session 21The Next 24 Months: Economic, Policy and Market Signals CFOs Must Plan For
Learn which macroeconomic signals matter most and how to build them into faster planning and decision frameworks.