24 June 2026 09:00 - 09:10
Chairperson opening remarks
Set the stage for a day of high-impact learning, debate, and peer collaboration. The chairperson will frame the key challenges facing CFOs today, from volatile markets and tech disruption to investor scrutiny, and highlight the themes that will drive actionable insights throughout the summit.
24 June 2026 11:25 - 12:10
Panel - The CFO as enterprise value architect: Orchestrating capital, risk, and investor confidence
The CFO’s role has evolved far beyond reporting and controls. Today’s CFO is an enterprise value architect, responsible for balancing growth, risk, liquidity, and capital allocation while building confidence with investors, boards, and employees. As market volatility, higher capital costs, and AI-driven transformation reshape business, finance leaders are increasingly expected to guide strategic decision-making and value creation.
This panel explores how CFOs deploy capital, measure enterprise value across different business models, and evaluate AI investments. Panelists emphasized that lasting value comes not only from financial performance, but also from governance, operational discipline, stakeholder trust, and effective transformation.
Three key takeaways
Capital allocation is critical: Value creation depends on disciplined investment decisions and managing tradeoffs between growth, risk, and return.
AI is a transformation challenge: Success comes from clear objectives, measurement, governance, and adoption—not technology alone.
Value goes beyond financials: Trust, operational effectiveness, and strong governance are often the biggest drivers of long-term enterprise value.
24 June 2026 16:45 - 17:00
Closing remarks
The chairperson wraps up the day with final insights, audience reflections, and themes to take back to your organization.
24 June 2026 14:10 - 14:40
The Four CFO Archetypes
In this hands-on, interactive experience, you’ll dive into the four core CFO archetypes, identify your dominant working style, and explore how it shapes the way you lead, influence and make decisions.
You’ll move through two breakout rounds:
- First, connecting with peers who share your archetype to compare strengths and patterns
- Then joining a mixed group of contrasting archetypes to uncover collaboration gaps, challenge assumptions and learn from perspectives radically different from your own.
The four CFO archetypes:
1. The Strategic CFO (AKA The CEO’s Strategic Partner): A future-focused business architect who blends financial rigor with enterprise strategy, helping shape markets, models and long-term direction.
2. The Transformation CFO (AKA The Change Agent): A reinvention-driven leader who modernizes systems, processes and structures while managing the people side of change to deliver sustainable evolution.
3. The Digital CFO (AKA The Tech-Forward Pioneer): A technology-enabled strategist who uses automation, AI and real-time data to accelerate insights, improve decisions and transform how finance operates.
4. The Operational CFO (AKA The Process Optimizer): A hands-on efficiency expert who relentlessly improves processes, strengthens controls and enhances daily operational performance across the business.