Every CFO in this room will make a high-stakes call this year without complete information. The question isn't whether that happens, it's whether you have a repeatable way to do it well, or whether you're just getting lucky some of the time. This keynote breaks down what confidence actually is as a practice, not a personality trait: how leaders build a track record that lets people trust a call before the results confirm it was right, and what changes when everyone around you has access to the same AI and the same data. Most opening keynotes promise a framework. This one is closer to a habit: a specific, repeatable way to make and defend decisions under incomplete information, that holds up regardless of what the rest of the day covers. Key takeaways: - A working definition of confidence as a decision-making practice, not a personality trait - Why judgment, not information, is the actual scarce resource inside most finance functions right now - A repeatable way to build a track record that earns trust before results confirm you were right