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Caroline
McAuliffe
SVP and Head of Corporate Finance
Fannie Mae
Caroline McAuliffe is Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Finance at Fannie Mae, where she drives enterprise-wide FP&A and sourcing activities. A strategic finance leader, she specializes in transforming Finance and Procurement into trusted partners that shape business direction and drive enterprise performance. Caroline has led large-scale modernization initiatives spanning automation, AI deployment and talent transformation. Recognized for her ability to mobilize organizations around change, she elevates Finance as a catalyst for insight, agility, and enterprise performance.
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29 October 2027 16:15 - 16:45
The day after: Turning conviction into action when you're back at your desk
Every summit ends with good ideas. Most of them evaporate by the following Tuesday, back inside the same meetings, the same reporting cycles, the same inertia that existed before anyone got on a plane. This closing keynote is about turning a day of conviction into decisions that actually survive contact with your own organization: which one idea to act on first, who needs to hear about it before you do anything else, and how to defend a new call using everything the day covered, judgment, capital, talent, and resilience, without waiting for permission that isn't coming. Most closing keynotes summarize. This one is closer to an assignment: leave with the one decision you're actually going to make differently starting Monday, not a list of things you found interesting. Key takeaways: - A simple filter for choosing the one idea from today worth acting on first, instead of trying to apply all of them at once - How to bring a new conviction back into an organization that didn't spend the day in the room with you - What the confidence premium looks like in practice, six months from now, not just as a theme