Our Gartner finance experts, who are at the top of their fields, helped attendees address their most critical challenges. Learn more about the top takeaways from each of the 2022 agenda tracks.
Our Gartner finance experts, who are at the top of their fields, helped attendees address their most critical challenges. Learn more about the top takeaways from each of the 2022 agenda tracks.
CFOs learned how to advance digital leadership to prepare the function for the future of finance and successfully engage with the board on strategic topics such as environmental social governance, blockchain, digital assets and Web 3.0.
Finance leaders learned about the changing landscape of outsourcing providers, how to evaluate their function’s digital competencies and actions to take toward an autonomous future.
Finance leaders learned the top trends and practical use cases of technology innovations such as AI, robotic process automation, machine learning, hyperautomation, graph databases, blockchain, digital twins and digital tokens.
Finance executives learned how other finance leaders are creating digital-first process infrastructures, running successful integrated business planning, moving to continuous accounting, and automating invoice to cash and run better scenarios for the business.
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 09:30 AM - 10:15 AM EDT
Mary Mesaglio, Managing Vice President, Gartner
Dennis Gannon, VP, Research, Gartner
CFOs are driving the business to meet the rapidly evolving needs of customers, investors, employees, competitors, and the Board. CFOs are also navigating through rising inflation, supply chain constraints, a tight labor market, ESG demands, regulatory uncertainty, and the continued reopen. The rising needs of stakeholders and macro pressures act as a catalyst for CFOs to “digitally elevate” and deliver more real-time, predictive, errorless, always-on support to drive profitable and sustainable decisions. CFOs now have a platform to build a roadmap that is digital-by-default and transform workflows toward a future autonomous state. Join this keynote to learn how to leap-frog forward on your digital journey. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
David Cearley, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Strategic technology trends have the potential to both create opportunity and drive significant disruption. Companies must examine the impact of these trends individually and collectively. Business models and operations must shift appropriately, or organizations risk losing competitive advantage to those who do make the shift. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Kristin Moyer, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Stakeholder pressure is driving an increased focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues. The CFO role is expanding beyond financial impact to also include societal impact. This session will include the steps to advance an ESG program and the unique role CFOs have to play. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Avivah Litan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
CFOs must prepare for a world where digital currencies are widely accepted and used. Our research outlines the different functions digital currencies, including Bitcoin, have in an organization as well as the multiple risks that they pose. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Vince Keenan, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Melanie O'Brien, VP, Team Manager, Gartner
Join this session to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on starting an ESG program and learn what peers are thinking and doing in this space. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Business Management and Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Christopher Mixter, VP, Research, Gartner
Digital transformation requires an agile funding model that allows the organization to pivot quickly and adapt to rapidly changing market, customer and business needs. The product-based funding model provides the framework for this level of financial agility. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM EDT
Tammy Shoham, Director Analyst, Gartner
Corporate real estate leaders can increasingly use new workplace and building technologies to make their office portfolios smarter, more efficient, more sustainable, and better for employees’ health and wellness. Join this session to ask a Gartner expert your top questions and learn which technologies your peers have adopted, what they do, and which functionalities you need to improve the workplace experience. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Business Management and Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM EDT
Ashwani Gupta, Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert on how CFOs are finding and retaining digital skills. This session is for organizations over $2 billion USD in revenue.
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM EDT
Sanjay Champaneri, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on how CFOs must plan when building and negotiating an outsourcing contract for digital transformation services. This session is for organizations under $2 billion USD in revenue. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Mary Mesaglio, Managing Vice President, Gartner
We’re halfway through 2022 and the crises just keep coming. Leaders are expected to guide their people through a raft of big problems: from Covid to geopolitical tensions to social justice to inflation. It’s tough out there. Meanwhile, organizations continue to transform and you must find a way to motivate your people in the face of all this. CEO and board expectations haven’t abated because we’re all feeling the fatigue. This session gives practical tactics for how to continue your digital acceleration while keeping your people – and yourself – safe and whole. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Dennis Gannon, VP, Research, Gartner
Over 80% of CFOs say their organizations are accelerating their digital investment in 2022, but only a third are confident in their assessment of where digital investing will create economic value. In this session learn how CFOs can boost digital value realization by reducing 'digital friction' and embracing the role of 'digital activist' for the enterprise. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Galliopi Demetriou, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Technology spend is increasingly occurring across the enterprise with the democratization of IT. Poor returns on bloated technology spend are just two of the risks compounded by a lack of enterprisewide financial transparency and alignment to strategy. Use an Enterprisewide Technology Financial Plan with your C-Suite to establish the guardrails for technology spend and value, regardless of where the budget sits. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 02:00 PM - 02:45 PM EDT
Rajesh Kandaswamy, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this session with peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions around how to prepare for blockchains in your business applications. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Business Management and Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Tammy Shoham, Director Analyst, Gartner
Many prepandemic offices were underutilized and reinforced institutional hierarchies by design. Will the pandemic be the disruptive force that ends the old paradigms and ushers in a new era for office space? Or will office changes be incremental tweaks to past trends? Hear Gartner’s corporate real estate expert discuss the future of office and what you should do today to prepare for the new, hybrid workplace. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
After long being heralded as the future of finance, finance business partners' value proposition is now coming under scrutiny due to business digitalization, autonomous finance plans, and questionable decision support returns. Join this breakout to explore emerging decision support models in order to assess whether finance business partners should feature in your autonomous finance plan. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
The pace of change has been unprecedented, and it shows no sign of abating. Most of the resources dedicated to managing change are spent on large, periodic changes such as a major system upgrade, company relocation, or M&A activity. But the volume of small changes, such as changes in job responsibilities or a new boss, far outpaces the larger changes, and the collective impact can be more disruptive for employees. During times of change, employees exert more effort to get their work done, impacting their mental energy. Learn how to equip your team with tools to not just cope with but thrive in the face of change. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Tammy Shoham, Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert on the topic of remote work and the implications it has on your talent and strategy. This session is for organizations over $2 billion USD in revenue.
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Clement Christensen, Director Analyst, Gartner
CFOs often find it difficult to define the scope of early investments in analytics COEs: They want to produce early success but are wary of investing too much too soon. Minimum-viable analytics COEs support the quick wins that build momentum while avoiding overinvestment in capabilities or tools. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Ashwani Gupta, Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert on how CFOs are finding and retaining digital skills. This session is for organizations under $2 billion USD in revenue.
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 02:50 PM EDT
Matt Williams, Director, Quantitative Analytics and Dat, Gartner
Traditional benchmarks only provide static guidance on how your team compares to peers. Join this session to learn how Gartner's Finance Cost Curves help Finance leaders predict their function's spend relative to similarly-sized industry peers. (Credits: 0.4; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Sanjay Champaneri, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CFO's are now primarily using an outsourcing service provider to get access to technologies, transformation expertise and operational agility — priorities that have become even more critical for finance organizations since the pandemic. This session will help CFO's better understand the current BPO market and what you need to consider in partnering with a BPO provider to accelerate your finance digital transformation program. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Mohnish Wadhwani, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Business Unit CFOs must elevate the contribution of their finance organizations from transactional and reporting activities to business partnering and value creation activities. Join this session to learn about the building blocks model from transactional finance to value creation and the critical enablers (such as role decoupling, finance digitalization, change management, and business partners). (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Vaughan Archer, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The lack of clarity on finance's digital competencies is the biggest barrier to upskilling finance talent. Finance leaders will learn in this session which digital competencies matter most in finance and the knowledge, skills, and abilities their teams need for attaining these digital finance competencies which in turn help attract and regain key finance talent. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Clement Christensen, Director Analyst, Gartner
The journey to becoming an AI-driven finance organization is a multi-year odyssey. But it begins with a compelling cast of characters that will move the story forward. For finance, this is the AI Generation; A new breed of finance employees that speak data and write in Python. This session will help Finance leaders understand how to attract and manage a new breed of employee. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:20 PM EDT
Matt Williams, Director, Quantitative Analytics and Dat, Gartner
Traditional benchmarks only provide static guidance on how your team compares to peers. Join this session to learn how Gartner's Finance Cost Curves help Finance leaders predict their function's spend relative to similarly-sized industry peers. (Credits: 0.4; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Mike Helsel, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Early missteps in creating a Finance IT organization can lead to wasteful technology spending and abandoned digital initiatives. Apply the lessons learned from early adopters of Finance IT to supercharge finance function digital transformation. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EDT
Tammy Shoham, Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert on the topic of remote work and the implications it has on your talent and strategy. This session is for organizations under $2 billion USD in revenue.
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM EDT
Sanjay Champaneri, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on how CFO's must plan when building and negotiating an outsourcing contract for digital transformation services. This session is for organizations over $2 billion USD in revenue. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Peter Nagy, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Most CFOs want to redefine FP&A's scope, but only 10% of FP&A teams consider the opportunity-costs of unique FP&A activities when evaluating the team's responsibilities. This can marginalize enterprise-critical activities while harming FP&A's capacity to deliver high-value support. Join this session to learn how to evaluate FP&A’s activity scope based on enduring sources of comparative advantage. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Ashwani Gupta, Director Analyst, Gartner
Digital competency development through on-the-job learning doesn’t need to be limited to high-profile RPA, ML or NLP projects. Learn about six on-the-job digital learning opportunities that make learning a part of everyday work and drive learning application. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Mohnish Wadhwani, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Speed and agility in decision making is a clear competitive advantage and the Business Unit CFO is best positioned to unlock these capabilities. The role is evolving from cost optimization towards value creation enabled by digitalization and business partnering. Join this session with your peers to ask your most pressing questions to a Gartner expert around how to leverage the Building Blocks Model to revamp the finance function and create enterprise value. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Finance ; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM EDT
Grant Nelson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Use this Hype Cycle to help orchestrate financial data management and governance investments by evaluating key trends in the evolving landscape. (Credits: 0.4; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
Matthew Mowrey, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Join this session to learn about the key trends in core, supportive, analytics, and optimization finance technology trends through the Finance Technology Bullseye. We will review adoption level, client value, and future investment sentiment, in addition to some critical trends all finance leaders need to be aware of. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EDT
Sanjay Champaneri, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Coordinating interdependencies of process, operation and systems across digital finance transformation initiatives is challenging yet key to success. Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions on how a digital twin of a finance organization or process helps finance leaders with better visibility, delivers situational awareness and supports the identification of business and technology solutions based on capabilities required by prioritized use cases. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Business Management and Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI is fundamentally rewriting the rules of forecasting and planning. Using simple automation routines, FP&A leaders can turn existing prediction models into powerful scenario planning tools that not only evaluate a full range of possible scenarios but also assist with making optimal business decisions. This session will walk through the technical steps necessary to exploit the power of machine learning to develop scenario plans that deliver on the promise of an AI-driven finance organization. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Rajesh Kandaswamy, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this session with your peers to ask your most pressing questions to a Gartner expert around where and when should you employ blockchain in accounting and for payments. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Business Management and Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:15 PM EDT
Grant Nelson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Are your queries SQL'ing? Are your relational databases incapable of healthy relationships? Though available for more than two decades, most FP&A and finance leaders are unaware of or seldom use graph technology. By exploring graph technologies' basic constructs and use cases, executives will soon realize significant benefits. Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions. This session is for organizations over $2 billion USD in revenue. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:20 PM EDT
Nisha Bhandare, VP Analyst, Gartner
Integrated invoice-to-cash applications helps organization improve their collections processes, drive cash flow and enhance the customer experience. This presentation delivers focused insight into vendors' product offerings and how they rate against common client-usage scenarios to enable finance leaders identify the vendor best suited to support their digital transformation. (Credits: 0.4; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Cesar Lozada, Director Analyst, Gartner
While CFOs struggle to appropriately fund digital investments using rigid project-based funding models, CIOs add to the confusion by focusing on siloed, technology-centric, and short-sighted initiatives and cost management. To improve success of digital business initiatives, CFOs must reassess the nature of their engagement and collaboration with CIOs to focus on technology-driven business outcomes and corporate financial performance. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:45 PM EDT
Grant Nelson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Though available for more than two decades, most FP&A and finance leaders are unaware of or seldom use graph technology. By exploring graph technologies' basic constructs and use cases, executives will soon realize significant benefits. Join this session with your peers to ask a Gartner expert your most pressing questions. This session is for organizations under $2 billion USD in revenue. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM EDT
Grant Nelson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Orchestrate analytics’ investments by evaluating analytics’ trends toward fully autonomous AI, augmented analytics and analytics enablement. (Credits: 0.4; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 10:30 AM - 10:50 AM EDT
Sanjay Champaneri, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
CFOs seeking to successfully deliver digital finance transformations for back- and middle-office operations must prioritize the use of AI solutions contracted through business process outsourcing providers as the most viable option. This presentation will give CFOs a breakdown view into three predictions around the growing use of AI-driven technologies via the finance and accounting outsourcing market. (Credits: 0.4; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Frances Karamouzis, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Hyperautomation is inevitable and irreversible. The pandemic has led to the distributed enterprise and hybrid work environments where the default is digital. All of this requires some form of automation, augmentation and the common denominator of acceleration. Any CFO or finance leader that has an underpinning of patch work technology requiring manual or high cycle processes can benefit from this session. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Avivah Litan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
Blockchain underlies the novel concept dubbed Web 3. Finance leaders should engage with the concept through investing in innovations that create new financial opportunities and revenue streams. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Business Management & Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
The rapid adoption and evolution of AI and Machine Learning will change the capabilities and expectations from the finance function. This session will discuss how the landscape has already changed, preview the changes ahead, and share what executive finance leaders need to know to prepare for a truly AI driven future of finance. (Credits: 0.5; Field of Study: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
David Cearley, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner
A repeatable innovation process that brings Technologists and business users together is essential for meaningful, sustainable innovation. Create or reignite an innovation process that surfaces great ideas, nurtures progress while managing risk, and drives the best opportunities forward to deliver real value. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:00 PM EDT
Grant Nelson, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Use this Hype Cycle to help orchestrate financial data management and governance investments by evaluating key trends in the evolving landscape. (Credits: 0.4; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 03:30 PM - 04:15 PM EDT
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert on advancing process automation with RPA and ML. This session is for organizations under $2 billion USD in revenue.
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 12:30 PM - 01:00 PM EDT
Regina Crowder, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
Linear plans limit flexibility in the IBP process to account for uncertainty and respond to varying conditions. This research helps FP&A leaders develop contingency responses by embedding scenario planning capabilities in the IBP process. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM EDT
Nick Duffy, Director Analyst, Gartner
Finance leaders working to improve the quality of their reporting, analytics, and decision support often find that the data quality is their biggest hurdle. Join this session to learn why finance's traditional data governance paradigm is failing, and how to reset the paradigm to one sufficient for organizational decision making. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI is not about software, it’s about skills. New skills will be necessary for a wide range of staff, including managers and leaders. Join this session to ask a Gartner expert how to develop an organizational AI proficiency and what your peers are doing in this space. This session is for organizations over $2 billion USD in revenue. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Business Management and Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 02:30 PM - 03:15 PM EDT
Pritika Bhattacharjee, VP, Research, Gartner
As finance technology continues to evolve, the potential to create continuous accounting processes begins to make the reality of real time analytics and hyper efficient processes possible. Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert to share and learn how technology is promising this new reality and how this can bring a new dynamism to finance's core mission.
Monday, June 06, 2022 / 04:00 PM - 04:30 PM EDT
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Flexibility in how budgeted resources are re-allocated as needed in-year is the critical action for meeting goals in the annual plan. However, many organizations struggle with removing traditional budget anchors to realign resources for greater enterprise financial agility. Learn how to break down two main impediments to in-year resource allocation flexibility: budget-based incentive structures and large notional parts of the budget like IT funding. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 10:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT
Regina Crowder, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
A key to Integrated Business Planning success (IBP) is aligning metrics that aid in trade-off decisions, yet one of the biggest challenges organizations face is selecting too many or misaligned metrics. FP&A leaders can use this research to vet and incorporate relevant metrics into the IBP process. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Mark D. McDonald, Sr Director Analyst, Gartner
AI is not about software, it’s about skills. New skills will be necessary for a wide range of staff, including managers and leaders. Join this session to ask a Gartner expert how to develop an organizational AI proficiency and what your peers are doing in this space. This session is for organizations under $2 billion USD in revenue. (Credits: 0.8; FOS: Business Management and Organization; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 10:30 AM - 11:15 AM EDT
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Join this peer-to-peer discussion lightly facilitated by a Gartner expert on advancing process automation with RPA and ML. This session is for organizations over $2 billion USD in revenue.
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 12:00 PM - 12:30 PM EDT
Hilary Richards, VP Analyst, Gartner
Even as controllers are automating the close, they are still expecting detailed information from their teams that is not only painful for teams, but is increasing financial reporting risk. Learn how controllers remove unnecessary work from the accounting close period. (Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)
Tuesday, June 07, 2022 / 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM EDT
Tamara Shipley, VP Analyst, Gartner
Leading companies evolve invoice-to-cash (I2C) from a set of transactional processes to an automated, and integrated end to end process to one that is a win win with customers, driving commercial advantage and collaborative customer engagement. This session will discuss the I2C Maturity Model and evolution across people, process, technology and customer for the laggards and leaders in I2C. Where do you want to be?(Credits: 0.5; FOS: Finance; Delivery Method: Group Live; Program Knowledge Level: Basic; Prerequisites: None; Advanced Preparation: None)