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10:00am - 10:50am EDT - May 6, 2021

Thursday

While many CFOs are accelerating investments in digital technologies through intelligent planning, machine learning, and analytics, they also need to invest in a future-forward finance capability by redefining roles, empowering workers with skill development, and working with their CHROs to reimagine the finance workforce holistically. Join this session to learn how Workday is creating a finance talent team and finance technology solutions that allow humans and machines to each do what they do best



Objectives:
  • Identify a vision for Finance's role in digital transformation
  • Determine how to create opportunities for Finance to learn digital skills that deliver business value
  • Recognize the role of technology in empowering the finance function of the future
Thursday

Now more than ever, finance and accounting organizations are under increased pressure to maximize efficiencies, increase the use of automation, and provide insightful, real-time analytics to the business in order to make faster, business critical decisions. The recent pandemic highlighted that traditional risk-prone manual processes hinder the ability to produce necessary financial statements, track key metrics and deliver those effectively.

Join this session with Trintech to learn how to holistically address the financial close by combining effective processes and technology that increases the overall efficiency and effectiveness of your processes while simultaneously reduces your costs and risk.



Objectives:
  • Recognize why organizations need to make bold investments in finance for business survival and growth
  • Determine how the right technology will bring standardization and automation to critical financial processes
  • Assess the ROI your organization can achieve with financial close automation
10:00am - 10:50am EDT - May 7, 2021

Friday

The term "Digital Transformation" has been tossed around in recent years to describe a technology-first means to transform businesses. But what IS digital transformation, really? IT modernization? Process automation? Or a human-focused business imperative?



Objectives:
  • Assess how to deconstruct digital transformation to show how replacing manual processes with digital processes puts people first, rather than make them obsolete
  • Identify how technologies like artificial intelligence and big data serve the transformation by elevating the work of humans
  • Recognize that human-centric digital transformation is a critical enabler for companies to anticipate and prepare for change
Friday

Today, more and more we are seeing the challenges facing Finance and Accounting professionals. If there is one thing that 2020 has taught us, now is the time for finance to redefine it’s mission to achieve its long-stated goal of becoming a more strategic partner with the rest of the organization.



Objectives:
  • Recognize the importance of Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
  • Identify how agile planning with CPM makes planning easier and faster with automation and improved collaboration