The Must-Attend Event for CFOs and Finance Leaders in APAC

Name: Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference
Start: 2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC
End: 2024-02-27 00:00:00 UTC
Location: Hilton Sydney

Is your finance function structure adaptable enough to fit the rapidly changing environment? Are you keeping up with gaining and retaining talent? Are you using the right technology to meet the strategic growth goals and board’s expectations? What are leading CFOs and finance executives doing today to set their organizations apart in the next phase of the cycle?

Join us at Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference 2024 to gain the blueprint for driving profitable growth decisions and leading successful autonomous finance transformation to reduce friction, increase speed and flexibility, and drive predictive insights for the business.

Build your network over two days with CFOs and finance executives inside and outside of your industry, connect with solution providers to explore the latest technologies, and take a personalized deep dive into your most pressing challenges with Gartner experts.

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WHY ATTEND?

✨Network with experts and peers

At Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference, attendees have the opportunity to connect with Gartner experts and industry-leading CFOs and finance executives. Meet one-on-one with Gartner experts for tailored guidance to help you achieve your mission-critical priorities.

Build new relationships, broaden your perspectives and uncover ways to solve problems alongside other finance leaders. When you engage with like-minded peers, you’ll find opportunities to share your ideas and experiences.

✨ Meet Gartner experts

Our objective Gartner experts help you advance your mission-critical priorities through industry-leading insights, guidance and tools. Tap their unique expertise to make faster, smarter decisions.

Key Themes & Topics

The conference will deliver the latest Gartner research-backed insights specifically designed to help CFOs and finance leaders build their finance transformation roadmaps.

Track A
CFO: Drive Hard Trade-Offs Across the Business

Returning to profitable growth is a career-defining opportunity for CFOs. To get this right, CFOs must avoid making blanket decisions and focus instead on strategic and deliberate reallocation of resources. Learn how leading CFOs are placing bets to reduce risk while maintaining the pace of innovation and transformation.
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Track B
FP&A: Navigate Planning Complexity

Financial planning and analysis’s (FP&A’s) success will be defined by how effectively it is able to drive business performance during volatility and disruptions. Learn how to enhance FP&A’s predictive and preparedness capabilities to turn uncertainty into opportunity for your organization.
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Track C
Controller: Remove Friction From Finance

The finance function’s ability to deliver on its data and analytics promise to drive improved business decision making is being constrained by the slow pace of digital transformation in the controllership. Learn how to quickly advance the controllership’s digital maturity.
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Track D
Finance Transformation: Maximize Digital ROI

In uncertain times, organizations are focusing attention on activities that will bring immediate and short-term impact. This track provides guidance on building your technology roadmap, picking the right vendors, identifying the proper skills and sequencing change to provide a steady stream of value throughout an organization’s financial transformation journey.
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Who Should Attend

CFOs and finance executives come together to learn how to build an autonomous finance function

The conference offers strategic guidance on the trends shaping the finance function, company performance and personal effectiveness. Through an intersection of peers, thought leaders, Gartner expert and practitioner research, and technology providers, attendees explore new ways to approach critical challenges and make decisions with confidence.

Bring your team to maximize learning — participate in relevant sessions together, or split up to cover more ground and share your take-aways later. Learn more about attending as a team.

⯌ CFOs

CFOs gain strategies to build the finance organizations of the future. Attendees learn:

Top strategies to attract and retain top finance talent and evaluate digital competencies across the function
How to incorporate agility into the planning and budgeting processes, especially during times of disruption
Best practices in embedding analytics into business processes and strategic decision making
Top priorities and the best use cases for automation

⯌ Corporate controllers/chief accounting officers

Chief accounting officers and corporate controllers learn to leverage automation for increased accuracy and efficiency:

Learn best practices in reducing effort in the close and building the foundations for a digital close.
Stay up to date on business process outsourcing (BPO) trends and familiarize yourself with the BPO vendor landscape.
Learn how hyperautomation and blockchain can accelerate finance transformation and shape the future of finance.
Learn what good data governance looks like, and how it can facilitate finance analytics and insights that are most relevant for the business.

⯌ Heads of financial planning and analysis

Financial planning and analysis leaders learn how to provide more actionable and valuable finance data, for example:

Learn how to leverage predictive analysis and AI to improve decision making.
Learn how to improve the flexibility of budgeting and planning to respond to unplanned changes quickly and effectively.
Learn how to better support business decision making with realistic and trustworthy projections that inspire a clear plan of action, even without reliable recent historical data.
Learn new methods to overcome challenges related to manual processes, outdated data and technologies, and lack of data standardization.

⯌ VPs of finance transformation

VPs of finance transformation learn how to better partner with the larger organization and develop a strong business case for finance transformation:

Access forward-thinking trends and research-backed data to inform finance transformation priorities.
Gain best practices in people management for stronger, digitally competent teams that can rise to transformation challenges.
Learn how to better leverage technology innovations to increase automation and efficiency.
Develop a transformation roadmap to set the organization up for success in the future.

BECOME AN EXHIBITOR

Get exclusive access to meet the solution providers at the forefront of technology at the 2024 Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference in Sydney, Australia.

In a tech-driven world, access is everything — and Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference gives it to you. Gain access to vendors at the forefront of technology. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to meet your peers, evaluate solution providers and explore what they can do for you. Our world-class conferences help you make smarter, faster decisions and deliver on your organization’s mission-critical priorities.

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Gartner CFO & Finance Executive Conference

The Must-Attend Event for CFOs and Finance Leaders in APAC

Location

Hilton Sydney

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Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Clement Christensen

Dr. Michelle Dickinson

Nisha Bhandare

Toby Walsh

Speakers

Alex Bant

Dennis Gannon

Geraldine Garaud

Hilary Richards

Marco D'Ascoli

Marcus Marion

Mark D. McDonald

Matthew Mowrey

Nick Duffy

Shannon Cole

Sid Sahoo

Tamara Shipley

Valeria Di Maso

Vaughan Archer