This in-depth workshop will provide an overview of intelligent automation and an introduction to robotic process automation. It will include a plan for getting started and best practices for putting an organization on the road to success in this area.

This workshop will also include exercises to help you begin to:

• Identify opportunities within your own organization

• Develop a plan for introducing or expanding the use of automation in your organization

• Establish a framework for evaluating the business case for automation

This workshop will help to familiarize your team with specific roles and responsibilities during an incident, and moreover, how they, as leaders can effectively manage, facilitate, and support the response and recovery operations within your organization.

First and foremost a humanitarian crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has also disrupted businesses from Main Street to Wall Street. CFOs are under tremendous pressure to take quick, decisive actions to protect their customers, employees and businesses. Across the immediate, short, and medium term, Gartner partnered closely with over 1,000 CFOs to understand and profile their response and offer essential insights to enable success. As CFOs and their teams look to the future and aim to excel in the “new normal,” it is critical that they understand how others are shaping strategies and what will separate winners from losers.

Today leading has become increasingly difficult with a multi-generational workforce and pressures on the profession. In this session we will explore how to transform your leadership style ensuring greater alignment with those you lead either directly or indirectly. You will leave this session with several personal leadership strategies you can employ immediately.

The 2020 elections are upon us. While the Presidential election is front and center in the news media, Congressional election outcomes also significantly impact the ever-fluctuating agenda in Washington. What might we expect in terms of party majorities and their agendas in the House and Senate? Will Democrats hold the House? Will Republicans hold the Senate?

In a hilarious, multi-media intensive presentation, renowned business humorist and Chicago Tribune humor columnist Greg Schwem will make attendees howl with laughter as he explores the complex relationship between technology and the changing role of humor in the workplace.

In today's business climate, agility is everything. Companies that can respond to change in real time win big and have a true competitive advantage. And finance holds the key to business agility with modern planning processes that speed better decision making. Using a combination of scenario planning and insights from combining operational and performance data, leading CFOs and their teams are able to explore options, visualize the impact of their decisions, and optimize performance, regardless of what the future may hold. As important, building a modern finance team that can leverage emerging machine learning and intelligent planning technologies is key for today's CFOs and finance leaders.

This session will explore the critical changes that finance leaders must make to deliver the business agility today's organization's need--or risk being left behind. Join us to learn how leading brands are transforming the FP&A process and how they're planning for what's next.

This is a unique time in the evolution of the finance function. IR 4.0 brings significant changes to what is expected from finance and the office of the CFO. CFOs have an unprecedented opportunity to enable their organizations to reimagine their business model by leveraging technology. Finance leaders need to understand and recognize how they can participate in the enterprise transformation by centering their transformation around reengineering the customer experience. Based on their experience and AICPAs research, Brian Dumbill and Ash Noah will discuss a customer centric approach and what CFOs should be doing to prepare themselves and their teams to support their organizations.

This panel discussion will focus on why the diversity of gender, race, culture and generation are critical to a well-balanced leadership team.

Preparing for the unexpected. Or in most cases, preparing for what is expected. Either way, leadership change is inevitable. And how you plan for it determines its impact on you and your organization.  Organizations face constant pressure to build a strong, effective, and sustainable leadership pipeline. Like most strategic planning, this is easier said than done. When it comes to the succession planning process, many organizations are challenged to ensure their succession strategy is flexible enough to meet the needs of the organization and their employees. An adequate succession plan prevents organizations from taking a reactive approach vacancy. Instead, it proactively prepares a smooth transition plan to ensure leadership changes do not interrupt major business initiatives. The planning process and the resulting plan also deliver other benefits, including:

· Motivating employees by creating growth opportunities
· Identifying skill gaps and talent development needs
· Adapting the organization to demographic and talent changes
· Transitioning highly specialized skills into key roles
· Preserving institutional knowledge