This session will focus on recent FASB and SEC rulemaking and highlight the resulting impacts to accounting and financial reporting matters that may impact your company's financial statements.

This session is a practitioner's view of how to lead finance transformation in today’s environment of constant change. There are two sections to the conversation. The first is how to transform finance and the second is the role of finance as organizations transform. The main idea: Finance must transform to support organizations that are transforming.

A Chief Accounting Officer & Corporate Controller will share in experiences and insights learned from CEOs and CFOs that aid in the development and success of Controllers.

Join this interactive discussion with a diverse group of executives that will share personal experiences around inclusion, diversity and equity.  This session will provide insights into challenges, opportunities and key considerations these leaders have faced throughout their career.  Did you know that diverse teams outperform non-diverse teams 9 out of 10 times?

Ethics in beliefs. Integrity in daily actions. Controls to block those facing temptation. Plus compliance and audit experts to verify actual results. These are the four foundations of any meaningful Business Ethics and Fraud Risk Management initiative. Short on theory and deep into suggested road-tested actions, this lightning-fast session we’ll leave you with six specific steps to take to make your ethics and prevention programs come alive for employees.

This session discusses covers the effects of COVID on the casino from the beginning of the pandemic until current.  Time will be allowed for Q & A at the conclusion.

As a Finance leader you recognize the urgent need for transformation in your business’ products, services, manufacturing and delivery strategies, and employee and customer experiences. You see it in the financial results, the trends, and the pressure on the CEO who is now relying upon the CFO and their team more than ever to be a strategic change partner. If the pace of change pre-covid wasn’t enough of a stimulant, the aftereffects of the pandemic are focusing Boards and the C-suite on innovation as a priority in all aspects of the business model.

But where do you begin?

How can the CFO and their team partner with the CEO and the rest of the organization to enable innovation? What is the role of the finance function in defining, executing, and achieving innovation results that create stakeholder value?

In this closing session, Amy Radin, a corporate innovation trailblazer and author of the award-winning book, The Change Maker’s Playbook: How to Seek, Seed and Scale Innovation in Any Company, will provide insights and answers to these critical questions, and send you off energized, and with practical advice, tips, and tools to help you adopt the necessary mindset, skills, and capabilities you will want to have for this next era in business.

The CFO role is evolving, and all members of the finance function have a unique opportunity to use their historical mandate in new ways to connect the dots between innovation strategies and financial outcomes -- supporting decisions that unlock growth and manage the inevitable risks of change, ensuring that the organization executes for success.