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IN-PERSON
Chicago CFO Executive Summit
November 13, 2025 | Convene at 311 West Monroe Street
November 13, 2025
Convene at 311 West Monroe Street
Collaborate with your peers
Get together with Chicago's top CFOs to tackle shared business challenges and critical priorities facing your role today. Participate in this one-day, local program with peer-driven topics and interactive discussions with your true C-level peers.
Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CFOs today:
Understanding the Evolving Standards for AI in Finance
Enhancing Cost Efficiency Through Connected and Clean Data
Transforming Finance Talent to Bridge Future Skill Gaps
Chicago CFO Governing Body
The Governing Body Co-Chairs shape the summit agenda, ensuring that all content is driven by CFOs, for CFOs.
Governing Body Co-Chairs
Pat Jermain
Plexus
CFO
What to Expect
Interactive Sessions
Hear from CFO practitioners and thought leaders on how they're solving critical challenges impacting your role today in Keynote sessions, and join smaller, interactive discussions with your peers in Breakout and Boardroom sessions.
Community Networking
Make new connections and catch up with old friends in casual conversations during dedicated time for networking designed to better acquaint you with your Chicago CFO community.
Peer-to-Peer Meetings
Connect with like-minded peers in a private, one-on-one setting through Evanta's Peer-to-Peer Meetings. You will be matched with peers in your community based on your shared interests and priorities.
Agenda
Coming Soon
The CFO Executive Summit agendas are driven by the mission-critical priorities identified among the community. Each agenda is uniquely crafted ‘by CFOs, for CFOs,’ and will be available closer to the gathering. All topics and sessions will be inspired by the following themes.
Understanding the Evolving Standards for AI in Finance
Most finance teams are in the preliminary phases of integrating Artificial Intelligence. Confronting unforeseen challenges, modern CFOs are seeking to leverage the capabilities of automation and AI to elevate process efficiency and foster organizational agility. In 2024, an increasing number of finance teams will embrace AI-driven tools, leveraging them to proactively navigate risks, strategically allocate capital, and analyze critical decisions.
Enhancing Cost Efficiency Through Connected and Clean Data
In today's dynamic business environment, the recipe for business agility and increased profitability lies in data connectivity. In an era saturated with data, the swiftness with which businesses process information and embrace new technologies to leverage that data is essential for maintaining competitiveness. CFOs in 2024 are prioritizing data-connectivity and credibility to bolster the resilience of their finance teams.
Transforming Finance Talent to Bridge Future Skill Gaps
The future workforce transcends traditional finance and accounting skills, emphasizing a recalibrated composition of digitally adept finance partners. Gartner research anticipates a dramatic talent shift by 2026, with half of new employees originating from non-finance and accounting backgrounds. CFOs must commit to investing in training and retraining initiatives, cultivating a blend of digital and soft skills within their current teams to address today’s evolving skill requirements.
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