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November 17, 2026
Embassy Suites Magnificent Mile
511 North Columbus Drive
Chicago

CFO Summit
Chicago

Your 2027 plan won't survive the year exactly as written. The real test is what you're building in now to defend it anyway, against tariffs, AI bets, and a board that wants proof, not projections.

Join 75 CFOs for a day built on what's actually holding up under pressure.

Attendance is complimentary and by invitation only, with 8+ CPD credits to be earned.

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By November, most 2027 budgets will have just cleared sign-off.

Request your invite to join CFOs already building in ways to defend it once reality moves:

β†’ See exactly how fast peers are moving to re-cut a signed-off budget once Q1 numbers shift, what evidence actually triggers it, and who has the authority to approve it without restarting the full budget cycle.

β†’ Get specific on what other CFOs are choosing to absorb versus pass on when costs move mid-year, and where their read on the number differs from yours.

β†’ Hear exactly how peers are defending a plan to the board once the numbers underneath it have already started to shift.

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Oliver
Diehm
Regional CFO | N. America
Brose
Delphine
Le Romain
Vice President of Finance, Americas
Dyson
Cindy
Villafuerte
Chief Financial & Diversity Officer
Special Olympics Illinois
Amit
Singhi
CFO
Humanetics
Ahmet M.
Eryaman
CFO, North America
Fulton Market Group
Kelsey
Inzerillo
CFO
Creative Memories
Mike
Matthews
CFO
Krueck Sexton Partners
Dave
Sackett
VP of Finance
Persimmon Technologies
Lizveth
Mendez-Witt
CFO
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β†’ The AI accountability map – where peers are actually letting AI touch the forecast, pricing, or close, and how they're structuring sign-off.

β†’ A redesigned team blueprint – how CFOs are restructuring finance now that automation owns more of the transactional work, and exactly where they're still refusing to hand over judgment.

β†’ A capital allocation gut-check – how peers are deciding what actually gets funded, cut, or delayed.

β†’ A CFO network worth keeping – candid, off-the-record conversations with peers carrying the same budget and board pressures.

November 17, 2026
Embassy Suites Magnificent Mile
Chicago

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November 17, 2026
Embassy Suites Magnificent Mile
Chicago

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Own the AI forecast

AI is doing more of the modeling, but authority over the forecast doesn't move with it. What properly trained data and a real audit trail actually look like, and why "the model said so" isn't an acceptable answer when a number misses.

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Borrowed conviction

How CFOs win boardroom arguments before they can fully prove the numbers, and what it costs them when they're wrong.

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Margin under pressure

Capital and sourcing calls when the cost pressure isn't only coming from inside the business. Tariffs, rates, and input costs as the sharpest current case, and where CFOs are choosing to absorb, automate, or pass it on.

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The 2027 budget gets approved, then reality moves. How much has to shift before you actually reopen it, and what it costs to wait too long, or move too fast.

When the plan breaks

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Where the job actually sits now: less owning every approval yourself, more setting the guardrails that let your VPs and directors make the call without you, and knowing when that's actually working.

The modern CFO

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Strengthen your strategic leadership and elevate your impact as CFO by driving enterprise-wide planning, performance, and transformation.

Strategies to succeed

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Break the cycle

Step out of budget-defense mode for one day and get a clear read on which parts of your 2027 plan are actually built to bend.

Collaborate

Trade perspectives and real mistakes with peers carrying the same tariff exposure, AI bets, and board scrutiny you are.

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Leave with a specific answer to the question every CFO in the room is quietly asking: what happens when this plan doesn't survive contact with reality.

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