The CFO Agenda for 2026: How Finance Leaders Win the Efficiency War with AI Explores how CFOs can turn competing priorities into competitive advantage by reimagining how finance work gets done.
Originally aired Feb 24, 2026
For CFOs and other finance leaders, 2026 won't be defined by a single strategic priority—it will be defined by tension. Cost control and growth. Risk management and innovation. Discipline and speed. CFO priorities are tightly clustered, and that's not a failure of focus—it's a reflection of reality. Finance leaders aren't choosing one path forward; they're expected to execute across all of them at once.
For a deep dive on what's to come this year, join us for a free webinar, The CFO Agenda for 2026: How Finance Leaders Win the Efficiency War with AI, presented by Oracle NetSuite and Entrepreneur.
In this webinar, moderated by Dr. Jill Schiefelbein, business and finance leaders will hear from Tom Kelly, Senior Director of Product Marketing and Management for the Oracle NetSuite Global Business Unit. Drawing from NetSuite's CFO Agenda 2026 insights and real-world customer data, Kelly explores how CFOs can turn competing priorities into competitive advantage by reimagining how finance work gets done.
As Kelly will explain, the mistake many organizations make is trying to manage this complexity with better planning or tighter sequencing. CFOs don't need better tradeoffs—they need leverage. Automation and AI provide that leverage by accelerating analysis, surfacing insight, and orchestrating workflows, enabling finance teams to move faster without sacrificing control or governance.
In this session, you'll explore how today's most effective CFOs are using AI not as a future experiment, but as a practical execution engine.
What you'll learn:
- How CFOs can execute multiple competing priorities at once by using AI and automation as strategic leverage—not tradeoffs
- Why AI investment has become a near-term necessity, driven by competitive pressure, rapid ROI, and growing talent constraints
- How modern ERP systems and agentic AI make the Zero Day Close achievable, enabling faster, higher-quality financial insights
- How AI elevates finance talent by shifting teams from manual work to judgment, orchestration, governance, and strategic partnership
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