Educational Sessions

Designed by Your Peers. Built for Impact.

With 130+ sessions across seven tracks, every session is selected by a practitioner task force to ensure it delivers real-world value you can apply immediately.

No vendor bias. No fluff. Just actionable learning designed for treasury and finance professionals.

Choose from sessions across:

• Capital Markets & Investments
• Career Development
• Executive Institute
• Financial Planning & Analysis
• Payments
• Risk Management
• Treasury Management

Check out session highlights below and look for the full schedule in July.

Capital Markets & Investments

How AI is Changing the Investment Landscape for Corporate Treasurers

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Holly Olson, Corporate Treasurer, America Fujikura Ltd.

By leveraging AI effectively, organizations can achieve higher yields, lower costs, reduced fraud exposure, and faster, more informed decision-making—positioning early adopters to build a sustainable advantage over peers still reliant on manual processes and traditional tools. This session looks at how artificial intelligence is transforming corporate treasury, from enhanced cash-flow forecasting and automated portfolio optimization to real-time risk monitoring and decision-making. Discover practical applications of large language models (LLMs), predictive analytics, and generative AI across key areas such as short-term investments, liquidity management, and yield enhancement, while offering actionable guidance on adopting AI tools and navigating implementation challenges, data governance, and regulatory considerations. 

Speakers:

• Jennifer Botha, CTP, Treasurer, Snap, Inc.
• Alexander Garcia, CTP, Senior Treasury Analyst, Okta
• Linda Kalocsay, Director Treasury, Endeavor Group Holdings
• Donald Norris, Director, HSBC

Getting More from Cash: Optimizing Corporate & Treasury Investment Strategies

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Louri Amador, CTP, VP, Assistant Treasurer, PVH Corp.

Wondering how to get more from your corporate cash? This session explores how to boost yield while staying within compliance, liquidity, and risk constraints. Optimizing cash is a powerful yet underused lever for generating operating income with minimal cost—especially for organizations managing large balances, where small improvements can drive meaningful impact. Blending academic insight with real-world treasury experience, the session reframes cash investment as a disciplined optimization problem rather than a passive activity. Attendees gain a practical framework to elevate cash management from a routine activity into a strategic lever for financial performance.

Speakers:

• Cameron Bowen, Director of Treasury, Salesforce
• Rayce Coyne, Founder and CEO, Hedgehog
  
• David Linton, Portfolio Manager / Faculty Lecturer, PayPal Investment Management / Texas McCombs School of Business
• Mark Pooley, MD, Head of Corporate Cash Management, TD Securities, Inc

Corporate Bond Issuance: From Process to Strategy

Corporate bond issuance remains a critical Treasury responsibility, and today’s rate volatility and shifting investor sentiment make disciplined planning more important than ever. Knowing how to monitor markets, assess execution windows, and coordinate efficiently can materially impact a flawless execution. This session demystifies the issuance process and equips practitioners with practical tools for evaluating daily market data, managing hedging decisions, and partnering effectively with underwriters. With many companies facing upcoming refinancing needs or pursuing acquisition financing, Treasury teams must be better positioned to strengthen capital structure management and support stronger financial outcomes.

Speaker:

• Karina Inga-Kamienski, CTP, Senior Director, Capital Markets, Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Onchain Liquidity: The Coming Wave of Stablecoins and Distributed Ledger Technology

Onchain liquidity management solutions are rapidly reshaping corporate treasury operations. Treasury teams are increasingly using tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and tokenized money market funds (MMFs) to optimize working capital, streamline domestic and cross-border payments, and move collateral more efficiently through blockchain-enabled platforms. These solutions can support faster settlement, greater transparency, improved liquidity visibility, and enhanced capital efficiency. Join this expert panel as they explore how blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) may transform liquidity management in the years ahead, highlighting emerging use cases, operational benefits, and practical considerations for corporate treasury practitioners adopting next-generation digital liquidity solutions.

Speakers:

• Matt Jones, Head of Institutional Liquidity, Western Asset Management
• Justin Skaria, Treasury Director, Capital Markets, Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
• Skip Stallings, Assistant Treasurer, Franklin Templeton
• Bob Stark, Head of Product, Kyriba

Mastering Loan Commitment Letter Negotiations: Key Strategies for Success

Companies evaluate a range of strategic and operational factors when pursuing commercial loan financing, whether to support M&A transactions, fund working capital needs, or maintain access to committed credit facilities. As organizations navigate the financing process, they actively review and negotiate key engagement documents with lenders to ensure terms align with their objectives and risk profile. This session examines critical considerations for corporate borrowers in acquisition and leveraged financing contexts, with a focus on commitment letters and term sheets. Also highlighted are key negotiation points such as conditionality, “market flex” provisions, and other terms that can materially impact transaction certainty, cost, and execution outcomes.

Speakers:

• Kimberly MacLeod, Partner, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
• Ernie Bretana, VP Treasury, Performance Food Group
• Gail Ridgeway, Treasurer, NewMarket Corporation
• Emma Gram, Associate, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP

Rethinking Capital Structure: Equity, Debt and Cost of Capital

Capital structure decisions are among the most important levers in corporate finance, influencing financial flexibility, risk exposure, and long-term enterprise value. Treasury teams evaluate a wide range of funding options, including public debt issuance, private credit, direct lending, and equity-based alternatives, each with distinct trade-offs in cost, control, and strategic optionality. This practitioner-focused session brings together corporate treasury leaders to examine how capital structure decisions are made in practice. The discussion focuses on equity versus debt considerations, public versus private financing choices, and how organizations assess the full cost of capital beyond headline pricing, including embedded costs in private market solutions and the trade-offs that drive optimal financing outcomes.

Speakers:

• Ron Jedlika, Director Capital Markets, Investments and Foreign Exchange
• Daniel Martinez, Corporate Treasury Specialist, Bloomberg
• David Pellerin, Treasury Director, Circle K

Macro Market Impacts for Liquidity Investors

Liquidity investors face increasing complexity in interpreting shifting liquidity conditions and translating central bank actions into practical investment decisions. Variations in reserve levels, funding pressures, and broader balance sheet dynamics can quickly influence yields, liquidity availability, and front-end market behavior, creating challenges for day-to-day cash positioning. This session examines how these macro drivers translate into actionable signals for cash management. It also explores how they inform portfolio construction in short-duration strategies, including the design and management of separately managed accounts, and introduces an operations-focused view of digital assets within liquidity frameworks.

Speakers:

• Allison Rossi, Treasurer, Anthropic
• Patrick O'Callaghan, MD, Global Head, CPM and Prod. Strategy, Goldman Sachs
• John Olivo, MD, Global Head, Short Duration Strat., Goldman Sachs Asset Management
• Kyle McNealy, Director - Liquidity, Markets, Investments & Analytics, Meta

The House Always Wins (Unless You Know the Rules): A Credit Agreement Workshop

Credit agreements govern far more than define borrowing capacity—they directly shape a company’s operational flexibility. In this interactive session, participants work through real-world scenarios and simplified credit agreement excerpts to see how key provisions function in practice. Attendees actively perform covenant calculations, evaluate monitoring scenarios, and address compliance considerations, with discussion focused on the day-to-day challenges treasury teams face. The session emphasizes building practical, repeatable processes for covenant calculation, ongoing monitoring, and effective lender communication.

Speakers:

• Marcel Santiz, CTP, Director, Treasury, Masco Corporation
• Audrey Lokker, Senior Director, Redbridge DTA
  

Where Tax and Treasury Meet

As global organizations navigate increasing regulatory complexity and heightened pressure on liquidity, alignment between tax and treasury has become essential. Treasury manages global cash and liquidity, while tax provides the regulatory and structural guidance that determines how cash can be deployed efficiently and compliantly. Because every cash movement has a tax consequence—and every tax decision affects cash—close coordination between these functions is critical to avoiding inefficiencies, minimizing risk, and supporting informed business decisions. This session explores the growing interdependence of tax and treasury, highlighting how organizations are breaking down silos to align cash management with tax strategy. Panelists share real-world experiences where tax and cash implications are closely connected.

Speakers:

• Sean King, Legal, Tax and Business Advisor, Align Global Consulting
• Shawn Casey, CTP, Director International Treasury, McCormick & Company, Inc.
• Sonia Hollies, CTP, Senior Vice President, Global Treasurer, Perrigo Company
• Jeannot Jonas, Assistant Treasurer, Sonoco Products Company

Cash Segmentation: It’s Not a Gamble, It’s a Framework

Cash segmentation is a well-constructed plan that moves away from overallocation to deposits and money market funds. It provides a framework for balancing liquidity, capital preservation and yielding objectives amid evolving and uncertain market dynamics. This session explores how treasury practitioners apply structured cash segmentation strategies to support more effective investment decisions. Through practical examples and real-world scenarios, participants gain insights into managing cyclical cash flows, changing liquidity needs, and investment timing while improving cash allocation and liquidity outcomes.

Speakers:

• Jeff Weaver, Head of Global Liquidity Solutions, Allspring Global Investments
• Tyler Cone, Sr Treasury Manager, Investments, Palo Alto Networks
• Vanessa McMichael, CTP, Managing Director, Wells Fargo Securities
• Brandon Hillstead, Assistant Treasurer, Autodesk, Inc.
  

True, False, or It’s Complicated: Unlocking Working Capital through Treasury-Procurement Collaboration

Treasury and Procurement both play a critical role in working capital management, yet initiatives often stall not because the financial case is unclear, but because organizations underestimate the effort required to work across functions and sustain momentum. While tools and approaches are well established, progress frequently slows in execution. Using a fast-paced “True, False, or It’s Complicated” format panelists examine how Treasury and Procurement can collaborate more effectively to improve working capital and the cash conversion cycle. Panelists respond in real time to practitioner-driven statements, surfacing differing assumptions, overlooked challenges, and common execution gaps. The discussion highlights how behavior, discipline, and coordination—not tools alone—drive outcomes in practice.

Speakers:

• Steve Beussink, Director of Treasury, Advance Auto, Inc.
• Greg Hurst, Managing Director, MUFG
• Brian Mills, Director, Data Insights and Analytics, Phillips 66
• Jie Yuan, Assistant Treasurer & Executive Director, Operations Treasury, Tenneco, Inc.

Supplier Finance: Optimizing Working Capital for All Sides

Walmart has strengthened its supply chain health and delivered value to consumers by building a balanced portfolio of supplier finance programs across its global network. Through ongoing evaluation of trade finance solutions, the company has refined a strategy that better serves suppliers, enhances engagement with banking partners, and improves overall program performance. This session offers a first-hand look at that journey, featuring perspectives from Walmart and a key supplier on strategy development, implementation decisions, and long-term optimization. Speakers highlight the metrics and outcomes that matter most, along with lessons learned, areas of continued focus, and considerations for scaling supplier finance programs.

Speakers:

• Sanjay Gupta, President and Chief Customer Officer, C2FO
• Deborah Belyea, Senior Vice President, Strategic Finance, Centric Brands
• Brandy Newhof, CTP, Sr. Director, Walmart
• Alejandro Saenger, Sr Director Treasury, Walmart Chile

Career Development

Why Strategy Fails at Execution and What Leaders Can Do About It

Most organizations don’t fail from poor strategies; they fail when execution breaks down under pressure. As organizations grow, complexity slows decision-making, fragments communication, and stretches leadership behaviors beyond their effective limits. These breakdowns create real performance risk, even in financially disciplined organizations. This session explores why execution friction emerges in high-stakes environments and how leadership behavior directly shapes speed, alignment, and results. Drawing on neuroscience, real-world experience, and emerging decision intelligence, the session reframes execution as a human capability to be actively reinforced in daily work. 

Speaker:

• Heather Polivka, Founder & CEO, Awesome People Leaders

3 Strategies to Turn Siloed Teams into Collaborative Powerhouses

Organizations lose an average of $109 million per $1 billion spent on projects due to misalignment and rework. In finance, these costs are exacerbated by workforce shortages and rapid AI integration. Leaders often respond with more meetings, messaging, or offsites, only to see execution slow further. Hear from Amy Yip, a team performance expert who helps teams move beyond short-term fixes to achieve lasting alignment and measurable outcomes. In this session, understand why common approaches fail, how to spot early warning signs of misalignment, and three proven strategies to transform silos into high-performing, aligned teams.

Speaker:

• Amy Yip, CEO, Amy Yip LLC

Data Storytelling to Raise Your Profile with the C-Suite

Treasury and finance professionals sit on a goldmine of insight, yet are often seen as operational, not strategic. Constant reporting and firefighting leave little time to communicate the bigger picture while CFOs and CEOs expect finance to drive growth, unlock cash, and inform key decisions. This session demonstrates how to bridge that gap through data storytelling, turning complex financial information into clear, compelling narratives. Attendees learn simple frameworks to structure messages, engage non-financial leaders, and shift from reporting numbers to demonstrating strategic impact.

Speaker:

• Christopher R. Salem, Business Acceleration Strategist, Sustainable Success Coaching and Consulting (Div. of CRS Group Holdings, LLC)

Building Change-Ready Cultures in the Age of AI

Performing core business functions is critical as organizations adopt AI-driven tools, real-time processes, and automation. Yet even the most promising initiatives often stall, adoption lags, and ROI falls short, not due to technology, but because underlying human systems are unprepared. This session helps leaders assess cultural readiness, address resistance, and sustain adoption while maintaining governance and compliance. Explore why teams resist change, how generational dynamics influence adoption, and how to build organizational resilience. A case study demonstrates cultural diagnosis, service realignment, and stabilized transformation through operational disruption.

Speaker:

• Natasha Todorovic, Founder, Spiral Dynamics

How High Performers Handle People, Problems, & Pressure

Finance professionals work in environments filled with deadlines, demands, and constant problem solving. Yet some individuals seem to handle people, pressure, and challenges in a way that keeps them calm, effective, and respected across the organization. This session explores what sets those professionals apart. Attendees discover how subtle shifts in how they interpret situations, interact with others, and respond to pressure can dramatically improve teamwork, communication, and personal effectiveness. Additionally, participants can expect to leave with practical approaches for reducing friction, improving collaboration, and navigating daily challenges with greater confidence and control.

Speaker:

• David Suson, Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach, Proliance Group LLC

Turning Conference Networking into Career Momentum

Career progression in finance and treasury increasingly depends on influence, cross-functional relationships, and professional visibility. While technical excellence is foundational, advancement often requires being known and trusted beyond your immediate team. This session reframes networking from a social activity into a deliberate career strategy. Using AFP 2026 as a live case study, attendees learn to communicate your value with clarity and convert interactions into meaningful professional relationships. Gain practical strategies to expand your organizational impact, position yourself for leadership roles, and build the visibility necessary to thrive in today’s collaborative financial environment.

Speakers:

• Rosemary Linden, President, Momentum CFO
• Ilana Esterrich, President, Esterrich & Associates

The Identity Advantage: How Leaders Shape Trust, Judgement & Results

Treasury and finance leaders are expected to influence far beyond technical expertise while shaping trust, decisions, and performance across the organization. This session explores leadership identity as a powerful, often overlooked driver of effectiveness. Drawing from leadership science and real-world examples, Dr. Tammy Fitzpatrick reveals how the internal lens leaders operate from directly impacts judgment, credibility, and influence...especially under pressure. Participants gain a practical framework to identify patterns that limit effectiveness and make intentional shifts that strengthen trust, decision quality, and execution.

Speaker:

• Tammy Fitzpatrick, Founder/Strategic Advisor, The Fitzpatrick Collective

Elevating Your Voice: From Technical Expert to Trusted Partner

Technical proficiency is the price of entry, but it rarely guarantees career advancement. While many treasury and finance professionals excel behind the scenes, the most impactful leaders successfully bridge the gap between technical capability and organizational influence. Drawing on insights from over 450 interviews, this session explores the "recognition gap." Join Mike Richards and experienced practitioners to discover why the fastest-climbing professionals are those who are most trusted and understood cross-functionally. Gain actionable, everyday strategies to shift from a "technical expert" to a "trusted voice," effectively increasing your influence and visibility throughout your entire organization.

Speakers:

• Mike Richards, CEO & Founder, The Treasury Recruitment Company
• Trisha Fisher, Treasurer, WAFRA
• Jessica Siu, VP, Treasury, Authentic Brands Group
• Kimberly Kelly-Lippert, CTP, Treasury Manager, American Honda Motor Company

Beyond Execution: Building Credibility as a People Leader

Navigating Career Challenges explores the shift from execution to leadership—whether you already manage teams or are building your leadership brand. Treasury professionals are often valued for delivery; the challenge is being seen as someone others trust to lead. This session focuses on moving from expert contributor to credible leader by building influence, developing others, and making impact visible beyond Treasury. Panelists share practical ways to foster open dialogue, give honest feedback, create access to stretch opportunities, build cross-functional partnerships, and influence decisions without formal authority—grounded in real treasury priorities like cash forecasting, payments risk, and automation.

Speakers:

• Jessica Lupovici, Head of Sales, Global Payments Liquidity, Wells Fargo Bank
• Andrew Rush, CTP, Director, Treasury, Darden Restaurants, Inc.
• Maritza Montenegro, CTP, Senior Director, Finance Operations and Treasury, fairlife LLC

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Strategies for Advancing Underrepresented Talent

While representation in senior leadership is increasing, the work of creating truly inclusive treasury and finance organizations continues. This session moves beyond identifying obstacles to focus on the leadership behaviors that drive real change. A diverse panel of leaders discuss how to foster professional growth across different career milestones, emphasizing the measurable impact of intentional sponsorship. Whether an emerging leader or a tenured manager, attendees gain actionable insight into developing talent, strengthening leadership pipelines, and improving retention within finance organizations.

Speakers:

• Lee-Ann Perkins, CTP, Head of Treasury - Assistant Treasurer, Ankura
• Sena Mitchell, CTP, Treasury Manager, Florida Municipal Power Agency
• Melissa Cain, Treasury Manager, Travel + Leisure

The Evolving Career Path to Treasurer

The path to the Treasurer’s office is rarely a straight line, often leaving aspiring leaders wondering if they’re on the right path. While technical skills are essential, the "hidden" hurdles of career navigation and a shifting technological landscape can stall professional growth. This panel bridges the gap between ambition and achievement by deconstructing the real-world trajectories of successful executives. Panelists share the specific pivots, setbacks, and successes that defined their journeys, offering a blueprint for the modern Treasurer. Attendees gain actionable strategies to address leadership demands and navigate their own unique paths to becoming a Treasurer.

Speakers:

• Daniel Fleming, VP, Treasurer, Starbucks Corporation
• Michael Iracondo, CTP, Vice President, Treasury, The Clorox Company
• Mandana Sadigh, SVP, Treasurer, Mattel, Inc.
• Todd Kennedy, CTP, Managing Director, Scotiabank

Staying Relevant in a Career That Won't Sit Still

With 41% of employers projected to reduce their workforce over the next five years, the treasury and finance landscape is likely facing a period of unprecedented disruption. For many practitioners, the risk of redundancy or reorganization is no longer a distant "what if," but an inevitable shift as companies prioritizes upskilling and automation over traditional roles. This discussion addresses the critical challenge of maintaining professional relevance in a disrupted job market. Attendees gain insights to better align their professional development with the reskilling priorities of top employers, ensuring they don't just survive the transition, but thrive in it.

Speakers:

• Nicole Meyer, Founder & Managing Partner, The Meyer Partnership
• Raquel Alvarez Mateos, CTP, Director of Finance - Treasurer, Kearney

NextGen Treasury Leadership: Building the Talent Pipeline

The treasury and finance profession continues to evolve, and today’s leaders aren't just managing cash; they are data-driven decision-makers tasked with technology-forward risk management. But as the role grows, the talent gap widens. This session addresses the urgent need for a new hybrid professional: one who is as comfortable with digital fluency as they are with relationship management. An expert panel explores how to bridge the gap between retiring expertise and the rising "NextGen" workforce, providing attendees with actionable strategies to attract, mentor, and empower the future leaders organizations need to thrive.

Speakers:

• Jessica Siu, VP, Treasury, Authentic Brands Group
• Lindsey Tsang, Treasury, Sales Officer, Bank of America
• Jennifer Kelley, CTP, Head of Treasury, IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
• Flavia Salvaterra, CTP, Treasury Director, Kroll LLC
• Abigail Herling Blais, Senior Treasury Analyst,B WEX Inc.

Executive Institute

Exclusively for executive corporate practitioners.

How (and Why) CFOs Should Price AI Risk

AI adoption is creating new financial risks for corporations. While technical and compliance teams focus on model performance and regulatory frameworks, AI risk remains an unaccounted and material liability on financial statements. Corporate executives now have a fiduciary responsibility to quantify and benchmark AI risk in financial terms, and to enable their organizations to do the same. This talk explores how leading enterprises are turning AI risk quantification into a strategic differentiator. By quantifying and benchmarking AI risk, they empower their teams to make data-driven decisions, while their competitors remain mired in technical complexity and AI jargon. 

Speaker:

• Josh Bottum, Acting CFO, Indemnify AI, Inc.

The Hidden Tax in FX: What Dealers Know and Treasurers Often Don’t

FX pricing is often assumed to be competitive, yet regulatory data shows corporate clients executing identical forwards can face materially different costs, sometimes exceeding 50 pips above market. This dispersion is driven less by market conditions than by opaque execution practices, where weaker visibility leads to wider spreads and suboptimal outcomes. While multi-dealer platforms improve transparency, exposure remains in ERP-embedded workflows, and relationship banking alone does not ensure best execution. Leading organizations are addressing this by benchmarking pricing, using execution data, and engaging non-bank providers to strengthen negotiating power. This session reframes FX execution quality as a strategic treasury capability that impacts earnings, hedge effectiveness, and governance.

Speaker:

• Yannick Timmer, Principal Economist, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
• John Min, Chief Economist, Monex USA
• Tamir Shafer, Head of Sales & Marketing - North America, Redbridge

Financial Planning & Analysis

Next Generation AI-Powered Financial Modeling

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Kavin Soni, Senior Financial Analyst, Google

FP&A teams are under pressure to move faster, forecast more frequently, and communicate with confidence, all while managing increasingly complex models. Excel is still the backbone, but the approach is evolving. This session demonstrates how to pair modern modeling techniques with AI engines (e.g. ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude) to build models that are cleaner, easier to update, more auditable, and resilient under change. Treating AI as a practical team member, participants will learn how to translate business questions into model design, accelerate formula development, reduce manual work and errors, improve documentation, and create repeatable modeling patterns. The session is hands-on, grounded in FP&A realities, and focused on strategies you can implement immediately.

Speaker:

• Carl Seidman, Principal, Seidman Financial
  

Building a Future-Ready FP&A Operating System: Harman’s Planning & Forecasting Blueprint

Many finance organizations still run Long-Range Planning, Annual Planning, and Forecasting as disconnected cycles, resulting in misaligned assumptions, slow decisions, and quickly outdated forecasts. This session highlights how Harman Automotive is building a future-ready FP&A operating system through a Planning & Forecasting Blueprint that integrates these processes into a single, coherent annual cycle. The approach shifts from spreadsheet-driven planning to driver-based rolling forecasts completed in five working days, supported by stronger governance, a unified driver library, and a single planning engine. Participants learn to design strategy-led, scalable planning processes that accelerate decision-making, improve reliability, and create a repeatable rhythm linking strategy, execution, and performance management.

Speakers:

• Sudhakar Chandramohan, Head of Finance Transformation, Harman International
• Anders Liu-Lindberg, Partner, Implement Consulting Group

The Decisions That Make-or-Break EPM: A Playbook for Lasting Value

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Cassie Wang, Head of Finance, Lightship Security, Inc.

Organizations invest heavily in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) to deliver robust planning, reporting, and analytic capabilities, yet many fail to realize full value. EPM Initiatives often fall short when systems are selected without clear requirements, implemented poorly, or not adapted as business needs evolve. This interactive session provides a practical framework for selecting, implementing, and maximizing EPM impact. Drawing on AFP research and real-world lessons, it contrasts high-impact investments with costly missteps. Speakers explore selecting the right system, executing implementations that drive adoption, and continuously improving EPM to meet evolving business needs. Attendees leave with a roadmap to guide decisions and elevate FP&A’s strategic influence.

Speakers:

• Paul Barnhurst, FPAC, Founder, The FP&A Guy
• Rosemary Linden, President, Momentum CFO
• Philip Peck, Vice President, Finance Transformation & Advisory Services, Peloton Group

Deliver On Board Expectations with Unit Economics and Exit Readiness for Any Business

Finance teams don’t just measure results—they explain value in a way boards and investors trust. This session teaches a practical approach for using unit economics and exit-readiness disciplines to evaluate performance, set the right KPIs, and communicate what matters in the board package. Using two case studies, CFOs from a global ecommerce operator and a PE-backed cybersecurity company, participants see first-hand how investor metrics translate into operational levers that finance teams can influence and improve. Attendees gain a repeatable structure for investor-grade reporting, KPI translation, and a time-phased view on what “exit ready” looks like for organizations of type, whether public, private, nonprofit, family-owned, or growth-stage.

Speakers:

• Cassie Wang, CFO, Head of Finance, Lightship Security Inc.
• Jeffrey Zielinski, FPAC, CFO, Buyandship

Finance as Accelerator: Building the Agile Organization

What if finance could help organizations move faster? Agile organizations adapt in days while competitors take months — and finance can drive that advantage through three capabilities: Sense (spotting change early), Decide (accelerating resource allocation), and Act (turning strategy into execution). This session shares exclusive findings from new research and an upcoming white paper, alongside lessons from practitioners who built these capabilities firsthand. Learn how embedded analysts surfaced issues earlier, scenario planning replaced backward-looking variance reviews, and trusted partnerships accelerated decisions. Leave with the practical Sense-Decide-Act framework and actionable approaches to help finance become a strategic driver of organizational speed.

Speaker:

• Mitch Max, Principal Consultant, BetterVu

House Rules for Metrics: How to Build Metrics Leaders Can Trust

Metrics are supposed to create clarity, drive customer outcomes and improve profit. However, in real organizations, they can just as easily create blind spots, false confidence, and budget battles. In this case-study-driven session, we’ll walk through real-world examples where teams relied on the “right” metrics (customer profitability, benchmarks, efficiency ratios) and still made the wrong calls—until they rebuilt the measures, reconciled the data, and changed the story the metrics were telling. Participants see how metric definitions, cost-to-serve visibility, and shifting benchmarks can dramatically change perceived performance, and how FP&A partners can translate complex operational data into decision-ready insight.

Speakers:

• Lance Tylor, CEO, ActionKPI Ltd.
• Peter Geiler, FPAC, Owner, Vingolo Vineyards

Where Finance Tech and Finance Work are Heading

Technology is reshaping the office of the CFO faster than at any point in its history. This session demystifies where finance technology is headed, cutting through hype to offer candid perspectives on the evolution of AI, automation, and enterprise finance platforms. An expert panel that includes a financial modeling specialist and trainer, an EPM strategist, and an AI foundation model specialist explore what these advances mean not only for finance systems and processes, but for the skills, roles, and career paths of finance professionals. The discussion focuses on practical implications for today’s finance teams and how leaders can prepare their organizations—and their people—for what’s next.

Speakers:

• Jay Peir, Interim CFO & Head of Strategy, Pigment
• Jesse Todd, Director, Finance Transformation Consulting, Microsoft
• Carolina Lago, Managing Director, Tactic Financial

Two Clocks, One Company: Synchronizing Treasury and FP&A in Real Time

When cash, annual performance, and long-term strategy are managed separately, leaders lack a comprehensive view. Integrating these horizons improves capital allocation, reduces liquidity risks, and delivers more predictable results. Most organizations treat cash flow as a short-term issue, with forecasts disconnected from income statements, balance sheets, budgets, and strategic plans. This fragmented approach gives a false sense of control and hides risks and missed opportunities. By reframing cash flow as a strategic outcome and uniting all time horizons—liquidity, annual planning, and multi-year strategy—leaders gain a clear, forward-looking perspective on operational decisions and priorities.

Speakers:

• Mariya Guttoh, FPAC, Director of FP&A and Treasury, Payjoy
• Austin Spackman, Senior Treasury Specialist, Qualtrics
• Gabriel Vasquez, Senior Treasury Analyst, Qualtrics

Clearing the Background Check on Modern Finance: HireRight’s FP&A Transformation Journey

As HireRight, a global provider of workforce risk management & compliance solutions, grew in complexity, finance needed faster, more connected insight across customer segments, vendor performance, and labor planning. But fragmented Excel models, siloed processes, and manual effort limited visibility and slowed decision-making. With new FP&A leadership, HireRight transformed its planning, reporting, and analytics capabilities through streamlined processes, integrated three-statement financials, multi-view revenue and vendor expense models, dynamic labor planning, and automated data management. Learn how the company achieved a 360-degree view of revenue and costs, improved resource allocation, accelerated cycle times, strengthened business partnering, and enabled faster, more informed decisions.

Speakers:

• Philip Peck, VP - FP&A Transformation & Advisory, Peloton Group
• Ben Bolton, Vice President FP&A, HireRight

The "So What?" Problem: Treating Data as Communication

Data is not information until it is understood. Even the most accurate report in the world means little if leadership doesn't act on it. Effective communication is the key. Drawing on practitioner experience, communication theory and Stephen Few's influential work on data visualization, this session presents three principles that bridge the gap between technical analysis and executive action: Clarity of Intent, Audience-Centered Design, and the "So What?" Test. Rather than focusing on making prettier charts or telling better stories, this session emphasizes ensuring that message is received, understood, and acted upon. Attendees receive a practical, repeatable framework they can apply immediately to any report or presentation.

Speakers:

• Josh Owens, Partner & Chief Financial Officer, AmPhil
• Skip Kastroll, Senior Director, Insights & Analytics, AmPhil

Financial Literacy vs. Financial Intelligence

Finance teams are often technically strong but strategically late. While they deliver accurate reporting, reconciled forecasts, and solid analysis, their influence is limited when they are engaged after decisions are made and resources are already committed. This session distinguishes financial literacy—understanding and explaining results—from financial intelligence, which shapes decisions before outcomes are locked. It introduces a Financial Leadership Capability Pyramid, progressing from reporting and analysis to decision framing, capital impact evaluation, and risk containment. The session also explores why teams remain anchored in lower levels and how timing, roles, and incentives keep finance downstream. A custom assessment benchmarks current positioning and provides recommendations to strengthen strategic impact.

Speakers:

• Alina Traistaru, Principal, Fractional CFO & FP&A Consultant, Sunrise Consulting
• Oana Labes, CEO, Financiario

Make Every Dollar Count: Increasing your Return on Strategic Initiatives

In a capital-constrained environment, organizations are challenged less by a shortage of initiatives and more by how effectively they align, prioritize, and realize value from them. Success depends on disciplined portfolio management that connects investments to strategic objectives, balances risk and return, and enables continuous performance tracking. Against this backdrop, finance leaders navigating these tradeoffs explore leading practices in managing strategic capital portfolios and share how they balance top-down priorities with bottom-up business needs, dynamically reallocate capital, and strengthen governance to improve execution and outcomes.

Speakers:

• Angella Jiang, Principal Consultant, Oliver Wyman Limited
• Mykol Fero, Vice President, Enterprise Planning & Program Delivery, TruStage

Payments

When Minutes Matter: Delivering Real-Time Emergency Payments Using API Driven Instant Rails at U-Haul

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Kate Outlaw, Corporate Cash Manager, Treasury, Dillard’s Inc.

U-Haul must respond quickly when customers face service disruptions or equipment issues, yet manual processes and batch-based systems caused delays in issuing reimbursements or emergency payments. To improve responsiveness, the company built an in-house, API-driven payout platform that leverages instant payment rails to send reimbursements 24/7. This session explores how U-Haul modernized service and treasury operations by enabling store teams and agents to issue secure, trackable payments in real time. Attendees gain insights into how the company built a programmable payout system, ensured compliance and auditability across treasury, IT, and service teams, and maintained seamless nationwide integration—demonstrating how enterprises can meet rising expectations for instant customer payments.

Speakers:

• Andrew Cain, Director of Payment Operations, U-Haul International, Inc.
• Lilly Dodd, VP, Immediate Payments Product Manager, PNC Bank
  

Modernizing Refunds and One-Time Payments: Eliminating Checks, Risk, and Manual Work

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Melissa Windham, CTP, Treasury Manager, Symetra

Refunds, reimbursements, and other one-time payments remain among the most manual and complex treasury responsibilities. Reliance on paper checks, fragmented payee outreach, and disconnected workflows drives higher costs, increased fraud risk, poor payee experiences, and compliance challenges such as unclaimed property. Panelists examine how leading organizations are modernizing these “outside the AP” payments by rethinking payee outreach, payment options, and controls. Drawing on real-world examples, including high-volume, low-dollar refunds, panelists share practical approaches to reduce check volumes, improve visibility, strengthen compliance, and streamline operations. Attendees will gain actionable insights on operating models, governance, and success factors for modernizing one-time payments.

Speakers:

• Olu Adebiyi, Product Executive, Wells Fargo
• James Green, SVP, Treasury and Capital Markets, Kaufman Hall
• Donny Hoye, CEO, TailFin Payments
• Verina Kennedy, Assistant Vice President, Finance & Accounting, Service Corporation International
  

Driving Results with ACH Payments in a Dynamic Landscape

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Maggie Louie, CTP, Treasury Director, Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company

Electronic payments are becoming the backbone of modern finance, yet many organizations struggle to keep pace with evolving ACH Network capabilities. Staying current is critical to reduce delays, improve accuracy, and manage compliance risks. This session offers practical ACH strategies that drive real impact, highlighting key priorities across the payment lifecycle, including Same Day ACH expansion, new enrollment capabilities, faster ACH returns, International ACH (IAT) enhancements, and new funds availability requirements to accelerate payroll and refund payments. Participants gain actionable insights and resources to help treasury teams operate efficiently, stay agile, and optimize ACH payments for measurable results.

Speakers:

• EdaBeth Brown, Head of Order to Cash, DIRECTV
• Joe Hussey, Senior VP, Global Treasury Management, Wells Fargo
• Jane Larimer, President and CEO, Nacha

Collaborating Through Standards, Validation, and Best Practices to Prevent Fraud

As payment volumes, speed, and complexity continue to increase, fraud prevention requires deeper collaboration across financial institutions, payment networks, and end participants. This panel brings together Early Warning Services, JP Morgan Chase, and a leading payments participant to discuss how shared standards, account validation, and best practices are helping organizations prevent fraud while enabling faster, more confident payments Attendees gain practical insights into how ecosystem-wide alignment and real-world implementation of validation and risk controls are shaping the future of secure payments—demonstrating how the industry is stronger together and smarter for tomorrow.

Speakers:

• Diane A. Holbert, CTP, Partnership Relationships Director, Early Warning Services, LLC
• Jeff Crews, Senior Manager, Treasury Cash & Banking, Allstate Insurance Company
• Vincent J. Meluzio, Payments Product Solutions Director, JP Morgan

From ISO 20022 Compliance to Competitive Advantage: Unlocking the Next Wave of Value in Modern Treasury

As the industry moves beyond initial ISO 20022 migrations, corporates are increasingly unlocking the strategic value of ISO-native payment data. Far beyond compliance, structured, richer data—especially when combined with AI and analytics—is enabling measurable improvements in treasury operations. Treasury practitioners and network operators share practical use cases showing how ISO 20022 data improves liquidity visibility, strengthens cash forecasting, reduces payment exceptions, and enables faster, more confident decision-making. Standardized elements such as payer IDs and purpose codes also support automated reconciliation, reduce manual effort, and deliver more consistent, real-time insight into cash positions.

Speakers:

• Stacy Rosenthal, Head of Payments, PayPal Inc.
• Rusiru Gunasena, SVP, RTP Product Mgt and Strategy, The Clearing House
• Najeem Dayisi, Director, Payments Strategy, Delta Airlines, Inc.
• Nasreen Quibria, SVP, International Advisory, PNC Bank

The Surcharge Playbook: Insights from Teams Who’ve Done It

With margins tightening and payment costs under pressure, surcharging is re-emerging as a powerful—but complex—tool for treasury and finance teams. Building a program that is compliant, customer-friendly, and scalable is challenging in practice. In this practitioner-led panel, leaders who have launched or wound down surcharging programs share what works, what doesn’t, and what they wish they knew earlier. They cover key decisions including full vs. partial surcharging, B2B vs. C2B strategies, operational readiness, legal and card network requirements, technology considerations, customer communication, and governance. Attend this session for practical guidance to evaluate risks, make informed decisions.

Speakers:

• Ryan Soto, SVP, Head of Merchant Sales, PNC Bank
• Brenda Crowder, CTP, Assistant Treasurer, Ferguson Enterprises LLC

Instant Advantage: Using Microdeposits to Verify Accounts, Improve UX, and Pay Customers in Minutes

Converting prospects into customers can now happen the same day using instant microdeposits to verify banking details and enable immediate transactions. Instead of waiting one to two days for traditional ACH verification, organizations can confirm account ownership within minutes through instant payment rails, enabling faster validation and seamless delivery of funds such as loans, insurance payouts, or other financial incentives. This session explores how instant microdeposits improve data integrity, streamline onboarding, and strengthen the customer experience. Verified accounts enable near-instant payments, reducing delays and operational friction. The result is faster conversion, stronger trust, improved cash flow, and a competitive advantage through real-time account authentication.

Speakers:

• Cheryl Gurz, Vice President, RTP Product Strategy, The Clearing House
• Stacy Rosenthal, VP, Payment Platforms and Solutions, PayPal, Inc.
• Zach Jacob, Vice President of Partnerships, Payload

Virtual Card Acceptance: Breaking Barriers and Unlocking B2B Efficiency

Virtual cards—especially invoice-based virtual card numbers (VCNs)—are reshaping B2B payments by strengthening security, simplifying reconciliation, and reducing fraud. However, widespread acceptance still lags as merchants and acquirers navigate operational complexity, cost concerns, and legacy processes. This panel brings together industry leaders to examine why momentum around virtual card acceptance is accelerating and what must change for adoption to scale. Panelists explore the forces driving demand, share real-world lessons, and highlight how collaboration across issuers, networks, financial institutions, and acquirers reduces friction and unlock value.

Speakers:

• Alan Cummings, Director, Treasury Operations, McKesson
• Paul Uher, CTP, Senior Vice President, Wells Fargo Bank
• Mary Beth Livengood, Head of Corporate Solutions, North America, Mastercard

Why Treasury Can’t Wait: The Business Case for Instant Payment Send

As instant payments adoption grows, the real transformation for treasury and finance teams lies in send capabilities—the ability to move money instantly, with certainty, and on demand. Expanding ecosystem reach, rising expectations for real-time transactions, and increasing operational pressures make now a critical time to act. Real-time disbursements support payroll, earned wage access, supplier payments, POS transactions, and emergency payouts, while improving cash flow control. Immediate confirmation and settlement reduce return risk and exceptions. When paired with rich data, they also streamline reconciliation and enable straight-through processing. Attend this session to learn how organizations operationalize instant payments to improve liquidity, reduce friction, and build a more agile, competitive finance function.

Speakers:

• Reed Luhtanen, Executive Director, US Faster Payments Council
• Bernadette Ksepka, SVP & Deputy Head of Product Management, FedNow, Federal Reserve Financial Services, FRB Boston
• Josh Karoly, Director, Payments Product, Netflix
• Julie Offen, Faster Payments Product Management, Wells Fargo

B2B Instant Payments Coming of Age

Instant payments are moving beyond pilots and proofs of concept to become a core component of corporate treasury and working capital strategy. As treasury professionals integrate them into daily operations, they focus on where instant payments create durable enterprise value. Representing perspectives across the payments ecosystem panelists examine how instant payments are reshaping liquidity management, counterparty risk, and operating models. The discussion cuts through market noise to highlight what is changing inside large organizations, financial institutions, payment processors, and networks—what is working, what is not, and how use cases are being prioritized.

Speakers:

• Michael Thomas, Senior Vice President, Head of Instant Payments, US Bank
• Cheryl Gurz, Vice President, RTP Product Management, The Clearing House
• Dean Nolan, Head of Payment Strategy, Finzly
• Josh Karoly, Director, Payments Product, Netflix

Reducing Payment Risk Without Slowing the Business: What Actually Works

Payment risk continues to evolve as fraud tactics become more sophisticated and businesses demand faster, more flexible payment processes. Treasury and finance teams balance stronger controls with operational efficiency and minimal friction. This moderated discussion explores how corporate practitioners modernize payment controls, redesign approval structures, and improve exception workflows to better manage risk. Panelists discuss how they assess control environments, engage stakeholders, and implement process improvements that strengthen governance, enhance visibility, and support secure, efficient payments without creating operational bottlenecks. The session highlights practical strategies for balancing security, agility, and business needs in today’s evolving payments landscape.

Speakers:

• Holly Olson, Corporate Treasurer, America Fujikura Ltd.
• Kim Shalewitz, VP, Treasury, Laboratory Corporation of America
• Craig Jeffery, Managing Partner, Strategic Treasurer, LLC

From Portals to Real Time: Modernizing Treasury with Banking APIs

APIs are redefining corporate treasury by enabling secure, real-time system-to-system connectivity with banking platforms. This session examines banks’ deployment of API frameworks, including OAuth-based authentication, event-driven webhooks, and RESTful endpoints, to support open banking and automate treasury workflows for corporate clients. Attendees learn about the capabilities APIs provide, including real-time transaction data, initiation of ACH, wire, and RTP payments, account validation, retrieval of check images, and support for exception handling—all without reliance on online banking portals. A real client integration example illustrates the impact of API orchestration, including reduced data latency, fewer portal dependencies, streamlined reconciliation, and increased control, scalability, and technical flexibility for treasury teams.

Speakers:

• Tisha Dey, CTP, Director, Global Transaction Banking, Technology, BMO
• Akiko Braun, Director, Banking Development, Ria Money Transfer
• Marlys Green, Director, Treasury Controller, PDS Health

Securing the Future of ACH: Cutting-Edge Fraud Prevention for Digital Treasury Leaders

As digital transformation accelerates, ACH remains a critical component of treasury operations, even as rising volumes and increasingly sophisticated fraud schemes introduce new risks. Treasury teams must continuously evolve their defenses, leveraging advanced technologies and stronger controls to safeguard payment integrity. Industry experts use real-world case studies to outline a practical roadmap for modernizing ACH fraud prevention, examining emerging fraud tactics targeting ACH and sharing best practices for account validation, payment instruction confirmation, and strengthened governance frameworks. The discussion also highlights enhanced control tools such as ACH Transaction Blocking and Positive Pay Next Day, along with key performance metrics including fraud loss reduction and improved operational efficiency.

Speakers:

• Ana Tanaka, Associate Director, Global Treasury, Eli Lilly and Company
• Miki Mladenovic, Director, Corporate Treasury, Johnson & Johnson
• Sanchit Puri, Managing Director, Global TS Payments, J.P. Morgan Payments
• Claudio Chiorazzi, Vice President, Treasury Operations & Assistant Treasurer, McKesson Corporation

Digital Assets in Treasury: Prioritizing Use Cases and Building the Capability Stack

Digital assets are evolving rapidly, with many Fortune 500 treasurers actively exploring how to operate effectively in a digital asset ecosystem. As the vendor landscape continues to shift through acquisitions and new partnerships, treasury teams face added complexity to decision-making and implementation. This session examines how treasury teams are developing digital asset strategies and translating them into practical operating models. Real-world examples highlight emerging use cases including cross-border payments, on-chain settlement, stablecoin-enabled payment processing. The discussion also covers the infrastructure, controls, compliance considerations, and capability stack needed to support digital asset payments providing clarity on what is feasible today, where adoption is accelerating, and what remains evolving.

Speaker:

• Thomas Lenahan, AVP - Global Treasury, MetLife

Defeating Deepfakes and Vendor Compromise in Global Payments

Financial fraud is becoming significantly more sophisticated with the rapid advancement of generative AI, undermining one of Finance’s most important defenses: human judgment. Deepfake audio and video can convincingly impersonate executives, while vendor email compromise now often originates from legitimate supplier accounts—making “call-to-verify” controls increasingly unreliable. At the same time, fraudsters are compressing Treasury and AP response times to minutes, where a single misdirected payment can result in significant loss. This panel explores how finance and security leaders must shift from manual verification to a coordinated, technology-enabled defense. Attendees take away practical strategies for CFO–CISO alignment, real-time collaboration across Treasury, AP, and IT, and AI-driven approaches to detecting and preventing high-impact payment fraud.

Speakers:

• Khelan Bhatt, CEO, Aptosi, Inc.
• Moses Djibinian, VP of FP&A, Hilco
• Spencer Weed, CFO, Kruse Asset Management

From Sent to Settled: Using ISO 20022 and GPI to End Payment Uncertainty

For many treasury teams, a payment marked “sent” signals the start of uncertainty—not the end. Incomplete data, legacy formats, and fragmented bank handoffs drive manual investigations, trapped liquidity, and inefficiencies. This panel brings together a corporate treasury leader, a transaction bank, and an integration partner to explore how ISO 20022 is transforming cross-border payments into more predictable, data-driven workflows. Tracing a single payment journey, panelists highlight the shift from MT messages to ISO 20022 and how standardized formats improve data quality and visibility. Attend this session for practical insights to reduce exceptions, streamline investigations, and strengthen liquidity.

Speakers:

• Jeff Ferguson, CTP, Director - Business Development, Axletree Solutions
• Vikas Dixit, CTP, Director, Treasury Technology, Fidelity Investments
• William Vigliotta, CTP, Operations Director, Monex USA
• Kent Markham, CTP, Assistant Treasurer & Director of Risk Management, Owens Corning

Unlocking Value: Modernizing Cross-Currency Payments for Growth

Managing cross-currency payments is often complex, costly, and lacking transparency—limiting treasury’s ability to optimize liquidity and control risk. This session focuses on addressing these challenges by improving visibility across global payment flows, modernizing infrastructure with the right technology, and using data to make more informed decisions. Panelists share practical strategies for streamlining cross-border payments, enhancing control over cash movement, and shifting from reactive processes to proactive liquidity and working capital management. Leave this session with actionable steps to reduce inefficiencies, improve transparency, and strengthen their global payments strategy while positioning treasury as a more strategic driver of business value.

Speakers:

• Isabel Baransky, Head of FX Payments, Goldman Sachs
• Tofique Elder, Controller, Masterworks
• Tom Garcia, Senior Treasury Manager, Peloton
• Kijae Chung, Treasurer, Tradeweb

How to Avoid Gotchas, Hidden Fees, Bad Contract Language, and Incompatible Stacks

Selecting a payments partner shouldn’t be a guessing game—yet for many merchants, it still is. Providers promise “best pricing,” “fast onboarding,” and “full-stack capabilities,” but critical details are often buried or omitted. Designed for procurement, payments, IT, treasury, and finance teams, this session clarifies the questions to ask, pitfalls to avoid, and best practices for confident vendor selection. Panelists reveal where fees hide, where technology limitations surface, and how contract terms can quietly restrict routing, volume flexibility, and future growth—helping merchants avoid costly surprises down the line.

Speakers:

• Cathy McGarry, CTP, MBA, Director of Finance (Treasury Operations), Northwestern Medicine
• Hugh Paterson, Managing Director of Payments Advisory, Redbridge
• Joshua Moehle, Treasury Manager, Waste Connections

Stablecoins Offer Faster Settlement, Better Liquidity, Cleaner Cross-Border Flows

Payment and settlement delays are a hidden drain on treasury, tying up liquidity, disrupting payment timing, and complicating cross-border activity. As stablecoins and always-on settlement networks mature, they are evolving from speculative tools into practical payment infrastructure—reshaping how and when money moves. This session breaks down why these changes matter now and what they enable in practice: faster settlement, 24/7 liquidity access, and greater visibility into time-sensitive and cross-border payments. Attendees gain a clear, non-technical understanding of how modern settlement differs from traditional rails, where it delivers real operational value, and how to adopt these capabilities safely without disrupting core systems or bank relationships.

Speaker:

• Marc Boiron, CEO, Polygon Labs

Risk Management

Fraud in the AI Era: When M&A Deals Become Targets

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Holly Olson, Corporate Treasurer, America Fujikura Ltd.

By the end of 2026, a surge in M&A activity will likewise see increased exposure to fraud and cyberattacks, with phishing, social engineering, and payment diversion spiking during deal transitions. Misaligned policies and expanded third-party networks create additional vulnerabilities, while AI-driven attacks grow more frequent and sophisticated. Combining expert guidance with real world treasury experiences, this session outlines how Treasury teams can help mitigate these risks through consistent payment controls, enhanced fraud training, stronger identity and access management, and cross-functional coordination—helping protect liquidity, secure financial data, and preserve enterprise value throughout the M&A process.

Speakers

• Eric Hobbs, CTP, Treasury Manager, JBS USA Food Company
  
• Angelyn Pennington, CTP, Treasurer, Guggenheim Partners, LLC
  
• Larry Zelvin, Head, Security Advisory, BMO

A Detective’s View: The Decisions Behind Payment Fraud

Every major fraud starts with a decision that seemed safe, a vendor update approved, a payment rushed, or a verification step bypassed to keep processes moving. In this panel, a financial and cybercrime detective, a finance leader, and a vendor fraud expert dissect fraud at the critical intersection of treasury oversight and finance operations. Drawing on real investigations and hands-on experience, panelists reveal how vendor impersonation and process gaps succeed even when anticipated. Using the City of Vista case study, they show how treasury’s verification and approval design shapes outcomes long before money moves. Gain actionable strategies to reduce risk, strengthen collaboration, and slow high-risk decisions without compromising payment speed or trust.

Speakers

• Marc Evans, Founder, Financial & Cybercrime Detective, Fraud Hero
• Matt McDonald, Finance Manager and Deputy Treasurer, City of Vista, CA
• Angela Sarno, VP, Marketing, PaymentWorks
  

Done Deal… Now to Rebuild Treasury Post M&As

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Jeremiah, CTP, Treasury Director, Workwear Outfitters

Rebuilding and realigning treasury functions after an M&A or spin-off is a complex challenge, requiring teams to balance continuity with transformation. In this session, treasury leaders share how they navigate change, prioritize initiatives, and ensure systems are fully operational post-close. Through a case study, participants will see how a new treasury team can establish its identity by blending legacy practices with forward-looking strategies. Attendees learn how to manage transitions, strengthen change management, and optimize structures, partnerships, and banking setups to drive efficiency and long-term success.

Speakers

• Tai Lynn Carr-Fraser, CTP, VP, Global Treasury - Treasurer, Capri Holdings Limited
• Wacef Chowdhury, Director, Cash Management Sales, Standard Chartered Bank
• Peter Claus-Landi, Assistant Treasurer, GE HealthCare

FX Lifecycle & Technology Integration: Inside TechnipFMC's Transformation

As organizations scale globally, FX exposure management can become fragmented, creating inconsistent processes, limited visibility, and inefficient hedging. TechnipFMC addressed these challenges by transforming its FX hedging model to strengthen centralization, control, and operational efficiency. The initiative redefined hedging and hedge accounting policies established a centralized in-house banking and FX trading structure and implemented a standardized approach to exposure identification and consolidation. The new model streamlined aggregation and internal offsetting, supported more targeted external hedging, and improved consistency across hedge accounting processes and reporting. This session explores TechnipFMC’s journey, highlighting the organizational and operational changes required to build a more centralized and controlled global FX program.

Speakers

• Erik Smolders, Managing Director, Deloitte
• Caleb Salankey, Assistant Treasurer, TechnipFMC
• Vincent Joseph, CTP, Assistant Treasurer, TechnipFMC

What You Can’t See Will Hurt You: Data Transparency in Balance Sheet FX Hedging

FX balance sheet hedging often breaks down not because execution fails, but because aggregated exposure data creates false confidence. Treasury teams may rely on consolidated views that hide the real drivers of risk, leading to hedges that appear sound but miss important underlying exposures. Using a case study with Becton Dickinson, this session shows how limited exposure granularity below key organizational levels produced hedges that were directionally correct yet structurally misaligned. Speakers examine how incomplete data affected outcomes, exposed hidden residual risk, and ultimately changed views on hedge quality and decision-making—highlighting why stronger data transparency is essential for effective FX risk management.

Speakers

• Heather Coyle, Associate Director Foreign Exchange and Cash Flow Forecasting, Becton Dickinson
• Katya Spolidoro, Chief Solutions Officer, AtlasFX

AI in Treasury Forecasting: Revolution or Risk?

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimental technology to a practical treasury tool, with strong potential to improve account analysis accuracy, cash forecasting, and liquidity planning. Vendors are increasingly promoting AI-driven forecasting engines that analyze historical patterns and external signals to predict cash flows with greater speed and precision than traditional methods. However, these capabilities also introduce risks, including algorithmic opacity, dependence on data quality, and the potential for small input errors to scale into systemic forecasting distortions. This debate-style session brings both perspectives together, with panelists arguing for and against broader AI adoption in treasury. Key topics include cash forecasting, account analysis automation, anomaly detection, liquidity optimization, and working capital prediction.

Speakers

• Will Grace, Founder + CEO, DeNovo Treasury
• Zoya Lieberman, CTP, Managing Director, Lieberman Financial Group
• Kevin Olsen, SVP Innovation, Pidgin

Maintaining Treasury Continuity: When a Treasury Lead Suddenly Leaves

Treasury teams are often small but hold significant autonomy over cash management, system access, and sensitive financial data, creating key-person risk when responsibilities are concentrated in a few individuals. This panel explores real-world scenarios where sudden departures exposed gaps in access controls, approval workflows, system credentials, and institutional knowledge. Panelists discuss how organizations maintained payment continuity, restored access, and re-established operational control under pressure. The session highlights practical strategies to reduce key-person dependency, strengthen segregation of duties, and improve resilience in treasury operations.

Speakers

• Laurel Egan Kenny ,Turningpoint Communications
• Raymond Vines, CTP, FPAC, Instructor, Coburg University
• KLaurel Egan Kenny, President, Turningpoint Communication

Invisible FX: Managing the Hidden Cost in Cross-Border Payments

Most treasury teams focus on large FX trades and major exposures, while thousands of smaller “invisible” FX transactions within AP and AR workflows often go unmanaged. These low-value, high-volume payments can sit outside treasury oversight, creating hidden costs, fragmented liquidity, and inconsistent pricing. This session takes a closer look at why these flows persist due to decentralized processes and limited transparency, and how treasury can regain control. A corporate practitioner shares their FX strategy and approach to identifying and surfacing these transactions, supported by a case study on improving visibility across fragmented payment streams. It also highlights how centralization, transparency, and automation can unlock value in FX operations, applying the CLEAR framework—Centralize, Leverage, Embed, Automate, Review—to improve control and efficiency.

Speakers

• Oliver Pryke, VP, FX Sales Origination, Barclays Bank
• Rónán Clifford, Treasury Manager, Honeywell

The True Cost of Hedging: Pricing, Process, and Bank Economics

As interest rate volatility persists, corporate hedging activity remains elevated—and so do the costs. In the 2026–27 marketplace, those costs extend well beyond quoted pricing, encompassing strategy, execution, legal and regulatory requirements, operations, accounting, and technology. This panel of senior treasury practitioners discusses how organizations are evaluating the full cost of hedging, including both visible and hidden drivers, and how bank relationships and share-of-wallet considerations influence pricing, execution quality, and transparency. The focus is on practical approaches to quantifying total hedging costs, identifying inefficiencies, and using data, process, and governance to improve decision-making and outcomes.

Speakers

• Brian Frey, VP, Treasurer, Brunswick Corporation
• Jackie Bowie, Managing Partner, Head of EMEA, Chatham Financial
• Meena Dafesh, SYSCO

Treasury Management

Bank Accounts, Signers, and Controls: The Risk Nobody Owns

Bank account governance is often fragmented across Treasury, Accounting, Legal, and HR, creating unclear ownership, inconsistent controls, and increased exposure to fraud, audit findings, and operational disruption. Issues such as account sprawl and outdated signers frequently go undetected until an incident or audit reveals the gaps. This session uses a real-world case study to highlight where bank account and signer governance commonly break down, and the risks created by limited visibility and unclear accountability. The session concludes with a practical approach to defining ownership, standardizing account lifecycle management, and strengthening signer access controls to reduce risk and improve governance.

Speakers:

• Holly Olson, Corporate Treasurer, America Fujikura Ltd.
• Emil Ashford, CTP, AVP Treasury Operations, Walker & Dunlop

Intra-Company Fraud: How It Happens and How to Stop It

Organizations continue to face significant losses from fraud, with threats coming not only from external bad actors but also from within. Internal fraud remains a persistent risk, particularly for organizations relying on outdated systems, weak controls, and limited oversight. In many cases, these vulnerabilities are only exposed after significant losses occur. This session examines how internal fraud occurs, why traditional defense mechanisms fall short, and what modern control environments require. It explores real-world patterns of fraud, including control gaps, behavioral indicators, and systemic weaknesses that enable internal abuse.

Speakers:

• Matt O'Neill, Founder/Partner, 5OH Consulting
• Jerrod Gray, CTP, Director, Treasury Services, Jack Henry
• Roderick Brown, Senior Product Manager, Truist Financial

How to Play Your Cards Right: Winning RFPs, Bank Fees & Fair Deals

Controlling banking and payments costs while maintaining critical relationships is a constant challenge for treasury teams. Yet determining whether fees are fair—and whether an RFP will truly deliver the best outcome—remains complex and often opaque. This interactive fireside chat brings together perspectives from corporate treasury, banking, and consulting to examine how organizations evaluate bank fees, manage RFPs, and negotiate more effectively. Through real-world examples and candid discussion, the session cuts through complexity to highlight where value is gained—or lost—in the process.

Speakers:

• Stephanie Xu  Redbridge USA
• Bibitayo Abikoye, Treasury Manager, Amazon
• Audrey DeWolf Attrill, CTP, Treasury Director, Nationwide
• Bridget Meyer, CTP, Senior Director, Redbridge USA
• Daniel Gill, CTP, Head of Industry Advisory, Zafin

Digital Assets: From Fringe to the Forefront

The past several years has brought rapid change in digital assets, reshaping how corporate practitioners think about money movement, settlement, and financial infrastructure. As traditional finance converges with the digital economy, experimentation has evolved into practical application, making foundational knowledge increasingly important across treasury functions. Attend this session as speakers examine how organizations at different stages of digital asset maturity are approaching adoption, from early exploration to scaled implementation. The discussion highlights real-world use cases, lessons learned, and practical considerations for integrating digital assets into existing operating environments, including workflow integration, adoption drivers, and how organizations can assess where these capabilities fit within their financial ecosystems.

Speakers:

• Ritu Kothari, Global Head of NBFI Client Coverage and Sales, BNY
• Roy Ben-Hur, Managing Director - Blockchain and Digital Assets Financial Services Leader, Deloitte
• Juliette Simmons, Senior Manager of Global Cash Management, PayPal
• Renaat Ver Eecke, CEO & Board Member, Ripple Treasury

Rethink, Rebuild, Reinvent: Inside the Treasury Modernization Journey

Treasury teams often fall into an “implement and ignore” trap when deploying modern systems—missing crucial opportunities to reassess and optimize their processes as business needs, risks, and technologies evolve. In this engaging panel discussion, Treasury leaders share their journeys through treasury modernization—highlighting their strategies for success and the challenges and pivotal lessons learned along the way. Speakers explore how and when Treasury leaders should assess their current processes and technology stacks to stay ahead in an evolving landscape.

Speakers:

• Christine Jensen, CTP, Head of Treasury, Cloudflare 
• Raquel Grady, Advisory Manager, Deloitte
• Katie Chew, Managing Director, Treasury Operations, United Airlines

Inside a TMS Implementation: What Really Goes Right and Wrong

Implementing a Treasury Management System (TMS) is often a major step toward improving efficiency, visibility, and control within treasury operations. While a well-executed implementation can streamline processes and support better decision-making, the journey is frequently complex—requiring careful coordination across data, processes, integration, resourcing, and change management. This session takes a practical, end-to-end look at the TMS implementation lifecycle, from RFP development and vendor selection through process design, testing, and go-live. It highlights where implementations commonly succeed, where they go off track, and the trade-offs teams must manage along the way.

Speakers:

• Sarah Watson, CTP, Vice President, BMO
• Eric Hobbs, Sr. Treasury Manager, JBS USA Food Company
• Tracey Knight, Principal Consultant, Real Treasury
• Thelma Oke-Ifidon, CTP, Treasury Manager, Samuel, Son & Co.

Bank Relationship Management: Successful Partnerships and Fatal Flaws

Managing bank relationships is a significant and time-intensive part of treasury, requiring a balance of internal needs, share of wallet considerations, and ongoing engagement. Bank relationship managers also operate under competing targets and priorities, which can shape the dynamics on both sides of the partnership. This session focuses on improving alignment between treasury teams and banks through more effective meeting cadence, stronger idea exchange, and clearer understanding of each party’s priorities. It highlights what distinguishes strong relationship management and the common pitfalls that can undermine it.

Speakers:

• Ken Markowitz, Senior Director - Corporate Treasury, Colgate-Palmolive Company
• Todd Kennedy, CTP, Managing Director, Scotiabank
• Dennis Morais, Director Finance & Assistant Treasurer, Valvoline Inc.
• Jackie Nutt, Senior Director, Capital Markets, Walmart Inc.

Implementing In-House Banks: As Relevant as Ever in Today's World

In-house Banks (IHBs) are a core feature of high-performing treasury organizations, combining a legal entity, liquidity structure, systems, and governance to operate as an internal “bank” for the enterprise. When effectively designed, an IHB reduces external banking activity, streamlines intercompany transactions, and strengthens control over global cash and FX positions. More advanced models can also enable cashless intercompany settlement and support payment and receivables on behalf of (POBO/ROBO) structures where permitted. This session focuses on the key success factors for designing and operating an effective IHB, including structure, governance, systems alignment, and operating model considerations that drive long-term efficiency and resilience.

Speakers:

• Yon Valtchev, Treasury Markets Specialist, Bloomberg
• Kelvin Ang, Principal, Client Advisory, Citi
• Gregg Murphey, Assistant Treasurer, Novelis Inc.

Cash Forecasting as a Strategic Weapon: What Separates Confident Treasurers from Reactive Ones

Cash forecasting is central to liquidity, funding, and growth decisions, yet many organizations still rely on reactive processes that limit visibility and slow decision-making when it matters most. Forecasting maturity often determines whether treasury can anticipate challenges or is forced into last-minute responses. This session shows how strong cash forecasting can become a strategic capability that builds confidence, supports capital allocation, and strengthens enterprise resilience. Drawing on real-world experience during periods of extreme volatility, including banking sector stress and international expansion, it highlights how forecasting discipline improves preparedness and decision quality.

Speaker:

• Nilufar Salama, Head of Treasury/Treasury Manager, Nebraska Furniture Mart, Inc.

From Treasury Systems to CFO Insight: Turning TMS and Fintech Data into Enterprise Value

For many organizations, treasury management systems and fintech platforms are now the system of record for bank transactions and cash forecasting. The challenge is no longer connectivity, but how to securely share treasury-validated cash data across the enterprise to meet CFO and senior leadership expectations. This session outlines a practical approach for integrating TMS or treasury platform data into enterprise analytics environments or data lakes. A trusted, treasury-owned view of cash can be combined with accounts receivable and payable data, sales pipeline signals, and macroeconomic indicators to enhance liquidity dashboards and decision-making. By sharing governed, validated cash insights instead of re-ingesting raw bank data, organizations improve forecast transparency, strengthen variance analysis, and increase enterprise-wide liquidity visibility and control.

Speakers:

• Scott Taylor, Sr. Program Director, Treasury, High Radius Corporation
• Glisson Inguito, CTP, Treasurer & Director - Treasury, Konica Minolta
• Bob Stark, Global Head of Market Strategy, Kyriba

Beyond the Close: How Treasurers are Value Creators with M&A Deals

Mergers and acquisitions are no longer episodic events—they serve as a core growth lever across industries. Many deals fail to realize their full value because post-close integration creates challenges across treasury, liquidity, payments, banking structures, and operating models. This panel examines how treasury leaders can move beyond execution to play a central role in driving integration success and value creation, using examples from large, complex global transactions to highlight what works, what fails, and how teams can better prepare treasury functions to integrate quickly, reduce risk, and capture synergies.

Speakers:

• Netra Kumar, Managing Director, Bank of America
• Mahaveer Jain, VP and Corp Treasurer, Cencora
• Ben Wood, Senior Treasury Director, Medtronic

Modern Trade Finance, Minus the Hype: How Treasurers Go Digital with Confidence

Trade finance is going digital, but many Treasurers still grapple with manual processes, unclear governance, and uneven partner readiness. Digital trade workflows can deliver meaningful value, but only if Treasurers pick the right pathway and embed governance that scales. In this session, panelists explain how they went about modernizing guarantees and letters of credit using secure e presentation, structured bank to corporate messaging (e.g., MT798), and bank agnostic portals, without overspending or adding control risk. Attendees leave with a checklist and decision criteria to select the right technology pathway by maturity and budget, to enhance operational efficiency and compliance.

Speakers:

• Germania Pena-Spaulding, Trade Finance Treasury Manager, Honeywell International Inc
• Lydia Lopiparo, MD, Global Head Core Trade Finance, TD Securities

Beyond the Buzz: What Stablecoins Mean for Corporate Treasury and What to Do Next

Stablecoins are increasingly positioned as a new settlement mechanism for moving money faster and with greater transparency, but their practical impact on corporate treasury is still evolving. As financial institutions begin integrating digital asset rails, treasurers must assess how stablecoins may fit into broader payments, liquidity, and cash management strategies amid a growing and complex set of digital cash options. This session examines stablecoins through a practitioner lens, clarifying how regulated stablecoins differ from speculative crypto assets, where institutional adoption is emerging, and what treasury teams should understand before engaging. Regulatory considerations, operational impacts, and the data and policy foundations required for readiness are also covered.

Speakers:

• Garima Thakur, CTP, Global Treasurer, Creative Artists Agency
• Nick Zarras, Treasury Manager, Market Axess
• Brett Turner, Founder and CEO, Trovata

From Automation to Autonomy: How AI Will Redefine the Treasury Function

AI is shifting treasury from task automation toward real-time, intelligence-driven decision-making with direct impact on forecasting, liquidity, risk, and controls. As these capabilities mature, treasurers must adapt to a blended human and digital workforce while redefining governance, talent, and accountability models. This panel examines how AI is reshaping treasury strategies, technology architecture, and the role of the treasurer, focusing on what organizations are already applying today and what is emerging next. How banks and technology providers are embedding AI into workflows such as fraud detection, bank account management, and operations is also discussed.

Speakers:

• Tony Masone, VP and Treasurer, Amazon.com Services LLC
• Zack Anderson, Chief Data & Analytics Officer Payments, JP Morgan
• Naman Kuwadia, CTP, Partner (Principal), PwC
• Mike Richards, CEO & Founder, The Treasury Recruitment Company

From Legacy to Leadership: How Upgrading a Basic TMS Turned Treasury into a Strategic Powerhouse

Many treasury organizations struggle not because they lack systems, but because their existing TMS no longer supports the speed, scale, and insight required in a global operating environment. This session follows a treasury transformation journey, showing how a centralized digital backbone enables near real-time global cash visibility, improves forecasting, strengthens controls, and supports better decision-making. Beyond technology, the discussion focuses on change management, data standardization, and user adoption, demonstrating how a modern TMS can shift treasury from a transactional function to a strategic driver of enterprise value.

Speakers:

• Patricia Lau, Head of Treasury Americas, Asia & Oceania, Hunter Douglas
• Ruediger Stubben, Head of International Treasury, Hunter Douglas

Get Your Ducks in a Row: Demystifying Virtual Accounts

Uncertainty in the interest rate environment and ongoing concerns about economic slowdown continue to drive treasurers to seek greater visibility and control over cash flows. Virtual accounts (VAs) offer a powerful mechanism to streamline payables, receivables, and in-house bank structures, but scaling them beyond pilots often proves challenging within existing treasury operating models. This session examines the practical steps required to move from pilot to production, focusing on the organizational and change management considerations that enable successful adoption. It highlights how virtual accounts can centralize payments, reporting, and liquidity management, while simplifying complex account structures and improving control.

Speakers:

• David Hall, Assistant Treasurer, Frontier Communications
• Ani Majumder, Head of Strategic Liquidity Solutions, Goldman Sachs
• Marc Blass, VP & Treasurer, Sodexo, Inc.

AI in Action: Real-World Treasury Automation

AI is no longer theoretical in treasury—it is already being embedded into daily operations to automate processes, improve accuracy, and enhance decision-making. This session focuses on practical, real-world applications of AI within treasury functions, highlighting how organizations are applying it across cash management, payments, liquidity forecasting, and in-house bank (IHB) operations. Through a “from the trenches” discussion, corporate treasury practitioners share live use cases and lessons learned from deploying AI in both front-end desktop processes and complex backend integrations. The discussion centers on what has generated measurable efficiency gains, where outcomes fell short of expectations, and how teams addressed implementation and adoption challenges.

Speakers:

• David Tao, Director, Client Advisory, Citi
• Jason Palomino, Sr. Director, Treasury, ServiceNow, Inc.
• Elmer Dispo, CTP, Senior Treasury Manager, Workday

The Optimized Treasury: How Leaders Scale Insight and Control

Treasury and finance teams are operating in a world that moves faster, carries more risk, and demands far greater visibility into every dollar. As complexity grows, the expectations on treasury are shifting too—from executing transactions to helping steer the business with better insight and control. Finance leaders on this panel share how they’ve reworked treasury operations to keep up with that pace of change. The conversation focuses on what happens when technology, people, and processes actually work together—powered by data and automation—to improve decisions, tighten controls, and scale operations without creating more friction or overhead.

Speakers:

• • Mark Brousseau, President, Brousseau & Associates
• Brian King, Vice President and Head of Finance, Capstan Medical
• Anthony Matusich, CFO, Founders Circle Capital

Stablecoins in Treasury: Practical Use Cases, Risks, and Readiness

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Glisson Inguito, CTP, Director of Treasury, Corporate Treasury, Konica Minolta

Treasury teams are increasingly expected to provide guidance on stablecoins as part of payments modernization, liquidity management, and faster settlement. With regulatory frameworks and market practices evolving, organizations risk either dismissing stablecoins prematurely or engaging without fully understanding implications for controls, liquidity, and risk. This session offers practitioners first-hand insights into how stablecoins are being evaluated for cross-border payments, intraday liquidity, and international scaling, particularly in markets where traditional banking slows expansion. Panelists share benchmarking insights, adoption trends, and practical guidance on governance, controls, counterparty risk, regulatory compliance, and operational readiness, helping attendees confidently assess stablecoins’ potential role within their treasury environment.

Speakers:

• Christine Jensen, CTP, Head of Treasury, Cloudflare
• Joseph Neu, Founder and CEO, NeuGroup
• Leland Rodger, Treasurer, Stripe
• Kammy Tsang, Sr Director, Head of Global Cash Mgmt., PayPal
  

From Separation to Success: Treasury Essentials During Spin-Off

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: Alicia Martinez, CTP, Assistant Treasurer, CFA Institute

Corporate spin-offs and divestitures are powerful strategies for unlocking value and meeting evolving investor and regulatory demands. Each transaction—from simple carve-outs to complex, global deals—presents unique challenges, placing Treasury in a central role. Whether structured as an asset sale, equity spin-off, or hybrid, separations create opportunities to shape liquidity, funding strategy, capital structure, risk management, and post-close operations. This panel features treasury leaders and advisors with hands-on experience executing spin-offs under tight timelines. Attendees gain practical insights, proven playbooks, and lessons learned to make assets separation-ready, build a fit-for-purpose treasury, and drive transformations with speed, confidence, and lasting impact.

Speakers:

• Moz Chhagan, Director, Corporate Finance and Treasury, PwC
• Laura Howley, CTP, Assistant Treasurer, The Boeing Company
• Hyesi Jun, Head of Liquidity Solutions, US, Deutsche Bank
  

From Forecasting to Foresight: How Lumen Uses AI to Transform Enterprise Treasury

✨Recommended by AFP 2026 Task Force Member: David Deranek, CTP, Senior Director Treasury Operations, Health Care Service Corporation

As expectations rise to scale efficiently, automate processes, and adopt AI-enabled workflows, legacy forecasting approaches are proving insufficient. Lumen’s Finance and Treasury teams rebuilt cash forecasting using a governed “gold layer” of data across SAP on Azure and Databricks, paired with AI/ML models that deliver near-real-time, explainable forecasts. The transformation improves liquidity visibility, investment returns, vendor discounting, and scenario planning, including stress testing. This session shares the architecture, data foundations, governance, including GenAI-driven variance analysis and the operating model that sustains it, along with candid lessons and practical patterns for turning pilots into measurable enterprise impact.

Speakers:

• Maximillian Chen, Assistant Treasurer, Lumen Technologies, Inc.
• Idilio Monciváis, Director of Financial Intelligence and Data Architecture, Lumen Technologies, Inc.
• George Poppen, CTP, Director - Treasury, Cash Management, Lumen Technologies, Inc.
• Akhil Sharath, Senior Manager, PwC

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