Somewhere in your 2027 plan, a GPU cluster and a new hire are competing for the same dollar, and neither budget owner knows it. In most companies, IT owns the compute line, the business owns headcount, and the trade-off between them gets made team by team, one approval at a time. This panel puts the whole decision on one table. It brings together CFOs who’ve had to make the call, including one who runs IT as well as finance and owns both sides of the budget. Expect a frank comparison: how each of them measures a return on compute spend, how hiring plans changed as a result, and where the trade-off went wrong before anyone noticed. Key takeaways: - How to put compute and headcount spend on the same basis - Who should own the trade-off, and how to stop it being decided piecemeal - The early signs a compute investment isn’t paying back