Gain early insights into the key trends and solutions empowering finance leaders to drive smarter, faster, and more resilient outcomes. The Gartner Finance Symposium/Xpo™ 2027 agenda is being crafted to address your top challenges, providing actionable guidance to accelerate your organization.
You can explore the 2027 topics below.
AI Economics
Assess AI costs, benefits, and business value to prioritize investments and improve returns.
AI Finance Use Cases
Discover practical ways AI improves finance activities such as forecasting, reporting, and analysis.
AI Risk & Governance
Manage AI risks and establish controls for security, compliance, and accountability.
AI Vendor Engagement
Evaluate AI providers’ contracts, costs, risks, and fit with business goals.
AI-Ready Data
Build trusted, accessible data that supports reliable AI-led insights.
Agentic AI
Understand how AI agents automate tasks, support decisions, and streamline workflows.
Change Management
Drive adoption of new technologies and ways of working through communication and training.
Enterprise Cost Management
Control costs, improve spending decisions, and optimize resources to support business goals.
Finance AI & Technology Roadmap
Create a roadmap for adopting AI and finance technologies aligned with business priorities.
Finance Decision Support & Business Partnering
Embed financial discipline into tools that help business leaders make financially sound decisions across the business.
Finance ERP Solutions & Implementation Providers
Compare ERP platforms and implementation partners to support finance transformation.
Finance Organizational & Role Design
Design finance teams and roles that support a future, AI-enabled finance function.
Finance Process Optimization
Simplify finance processes to improve speed, accuracy, and productivity.
Finance Skills Transformation
Develop skills in AI, analytics, technology, leadership, and strategic decision-making.
Finance Transformation Strategy & Vendors
Build a finance transformation roadmap and evaluate providers that can support it.
Leadership Effectiveness
Strengthen leadership skills to drive results, influence decisions, and lead change.
Market Volatility & Emerging Risks
Monitor economic shifts and emerging risks that could affect business performance.
Metrics, Analytics & Reporting
Develop meaningful measures and reports that improve transparency and decisions.
Financial, Integrated Business & Scenario Planning
Connect financial and business plans and prepare for change through scenario analysis.
Growth Investments, Capital Allocation & Cash Management
Improve investment, capital, and cash decisions to support growth and resilience.
Investor, Board & Stakeholder Engagement
Communicate strategy, performance, risks, and opportunities to key stakeholders.
Strategic Planning & Value Creation
Align strategy and investments to drive growth, performance, and long-term value.