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- 7-18 September 2026
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Finance Innovation Series
ABOUT THIS EVENT
Discover how Agentic Financial Operations can help your finance team move faster, operate with greater resilience, and lead confidently in the AI era.
Join Blackline’s Finance Innovation Series for a range of virtual sessions designed to help you explore the latest innovations, tools, and strategies shaping the future of finance.
- Explore the latest trends and innovations in AI and Agentic Financial Operations
- Hear insights from industry leaders, Blackline experts, and finance professionals
- Curate your own agenda and select the topics most relevant to you
- Earn CPE/CPD credits while advancing your professional development
This is your go-to virtual event to understand the future of finance and discover how AI can help transform your financial operations.
Who Should Attend?
CFO, Finance Controllers, Finance Directors, VP Finance, Head of Finance and Head of Shared Services.
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Sept 7, 2026 11:30 AM GMT+08:00 | 1:30PM GMT+10:00
The Augmented Humans: How Modern Finance Captures, Creates, And Delivers Value
AI is reimagining how we work, interact, and create. Yet much of the conversation in finance moves between the fear of AI replacing humans at one end, and hype at the other. The most intelligent conversations are the ones happening in the middle. Ones that are raising important questions like how do finance professionals genuinely work with AI to build a Human-AI augmented future, and what does it take to get there?
In this session, Tariq Munir, author of Reimagine Finance, draws on his hands-on transformation experience across global companies to unpack what human-AI augmentation actually means in practice. Beyond faster emails and quicker summaries, real augmentation requires rethinking how finance captures, creates, and delivers value, from redesigning core workflows to building the mindset and skills that make AI a genuine partner in the work.
You will leave with a clear view of why this shift matters now, why finance should be leading it rather than reacting to it, and practical steps you can start applying immediately. Above all, this is a conversation about the courage and curiosity it takes to act, whatever your role, and wherever you are on the journey.
Sept 8, 2026 11:30AM GMT+08:00 | 1.30PM GMT+10:00
Beyond Month-End: EML Payments’ Global Journey to High-Frequency Reconciliations
Many finance teams struggle to scale transaction matching across multiple international payment gateways while maintaining global consistency. In this collaborative session, Shawn Burriss from EML Payments and Dan Beaufait from Clearsulting explore how EML shifted from an internally led implementation to a highly successful, global delivery model. Learn how EML maximised their BlackLine investment to achieve daily, high-frequency reconciliations across Australia and Europe with the Americas underway.
Learning Objectives:
- Explore how Clearsulting and EML’s collaborative delivery model combines internal business insight with specialised external consulting to support complex, cross-border transformations.
- Examine leadership and change management strategies that successfully bridge the gap between internal finance teams and external advisors, prioritising team well-being and operational alignment.
- Navigate the architectural design required to scale automated exception management and maintain rigorous operational control over high-volume gateway transactions.
Sept 8, 2026 1:30 PM GMT+08:00 | 3:30PM GMT+10:00
Record-to-Report Value: Driving Operational Efficiency with Agentic Financial Operations
As APAC organisations navigate multi-jurisdictional compliance and surging transaction volumes, managing the end-to-end Record-to-Report (R2R) cycle has become an unsustainable manual burden. How can your finance function scale its regional operations effectively without overworking staff, risking costly manual errors, or increasing compliance exposure? By integrating agentic AI into your financial operations, you can deploy autonomous systems that act as direct extensions of your accounting team—actively managing R2R exceptions and coordinating complex, multi-currency intercompany transactions.
Learning Outcomes:
- Explore how autonomous AI shifts daily R2R workflows, allowing teams to pivot from manual data-matching to strategic exception handling without sacrificing internal controls or auditability.
- Evaluate practical frameworks for human-AI collaboration that reduce manual workloads, protect team well-being, and mitigate the impact of the regional finance talent shortage.
- Understand the roadmap to transition your finance function from legacy, static automation to self-optimising R2R workflows that scale alongside business growth.
Sept 9, 2026 1:30 PM GMT+08:00 | 3:30PM GMT+10:00
From Production to Purchase: Automating Finance Across the Supply Chain Ecosystem with EY
Southeast Asia’s rapid multi-channel commerce growth has left finance teams grappling with unprecedented supply chain volatility and high-volume transaction matching challenges. A recent study by EY indicates that 45% of supply chain leaders expect their operations to be mostly autonomous by 2035, highlighting a massive shift toward AI-powered decision-making. How can finance leaders successfully guide their teams through this transition to agentic financial operations while maintaining control and organisational resilience?
Learning outcomes:
- Explore how autonomous AI-driven matching models adapt to Southeast Asia’s fragmented regulatory landscapes, allowing organisations to maintain financial integrity without manual intervention.
- Examine change management frameworks for AI transformation that actively support team well-being, transparent communication, and continuous capability building as daily accounting workflows evolve.
- Understand how diagnosing existing operational bottlenecks and intercompany friction points ensures long-term, sustainable AI integration across diverse regional entities.
Sept 10, 2026 11:30 AM GMT+08:00 | 1:30PM GMT+10:00
Fuelling the Momentum: Advancing Your Team from Everyday Users to BlackLine Champions
Join BlackLine’s Chief Transformation Officer, Tammy Coley (a former customer herself), and Kirsten Jury from Treasury Wine Estates, winners of the 2024 Pioneer Award at the Modern Accounting Awards. In this fireside chat, they will share proven strategies to drive deeper platform adoption, empower your people, and continuously mature your finance operations.
In this session, you will learn how to:
- Drive lasting adoption by building a supportive culture that embraces continuous improvement and change.
- Elevate your team’s experience and reduce day-to-day burnout by optimising everyday workflows.
- Strengthen governance and reduce risk by standardising processes, giving your team the visibility and control needed to safeguard financial integrity.
Sept 10, 2026 2:30 PM GMT+08:00 | 4:30PM GMT+10:00
Digital Finance Transformation at Scale: The UST Success Story
Join us for an exclusive look into how UST, a leading global provider of digital technology and transformation solutions, embarked on a highly successful journey of digital finance transformation with BlackLine. This case study delves into the complex operational challenges they faced, the automated solutions they deployed, and the remarkable results achieved across their extensive global business services network.
Learning Outcomes:
- Explore the strategic milestones of UST’s digital finance roadmap, detailing how they successfully standardized Record-to-Report (R2R) workflows and monthly reconciliations across their multinational operations.
- Examine how automating routine balance sheet substantiation and transaction matching relieves cognitive strain on accounting talent, allowing teams to shift from transaction-chasing to high-value strategic insight.
- Understand the critical change management and cultural frameworks required to support global finance teams as they transition from manual close processes to a unified, platform-first ecosystem.
Sept 11, 2026 11:30 AM GMT+08:00 | 1:30PM GMT+10:00
Navigating BlackLine – From Foundational Close to Agentic AI
Transitioning from a manual or foundational close to a more strategic model can feel like an overwhelming shift. While basic automation establishes a solid baseline, integrating intelligent AI agents allows accounting teams to focus on deeper advisory work. This “Ask the Expert” session provides a supportive space to explore how your organisation can grow beyond routine tasks and unlock more value from your existing platform.
- Explore how intelligent AI agents can adapt to your team’s existing record-to-report workflows, helping to redistribute manual burdens and elevate overall job satisfaction.
- Understand the dynamics of transitioning from a traditional close to an AI-assisted model, with a focus on practical strategies for continuous team upskilling.
- Evaluate use cases that support your accounting and finance professionals as they step into more strategic, advisory-led roles.
Sept 14, 2026 11:30 AM GMT+08:00 | 1:30PM GMT+10:00
The APAC CFO Playbook: Closing the Trust Gap in the Era of AI
Across APAC’s complex regulatory and technology landscape, CFOs face a dual mandate: accelerate digital transformation while maintaining bulletproof financial governance. As the pressure to adopt AI mounts, finance leaders are confronting a critical “trust gap”—the inability to rely on fragmented data and opaque automated tools without exposing the enterprise to operational risk.
In this fireside chat, BlackLine CFO Patrick Villanova sits down for an unfiltered, peer-to-peer discussion on navigating this exact challenge. Join the conversation to explore his firsthand framework for balancing rapid technological innovation with absolute auditability.
Learning Outcomes:
- De-Risking the AI Trust Gap: Discover how to transition from risky, disconnected manual processes to transparent, fully auditable financial systems that safeguard your balance sheet.
- The Dual-Governance Playbook: Explore practical strategies for balancing high-speed automation with essential human-in-the-loop oversight to ensure compliance across borders.
- Live CFO-to-CFO Q&A: Bring your toughest questions on managing technical debt, forging a strategic CFO-CIO alliance, and building a bulletproof business case for transformation.
Sept 14, 2026 1:30 PM GMT+08:00 | 3:30PM GMT+10:00
Predictions vs Reality: Deloitte and BlackLine on the State of APAC Finance
While net optimism among APAC CFOs remains strong at +41%, the newly released Deloitte APAC CFO Pulse Survey reveals a stark “value divide”: only 13% of organisations have scaled AI extensively, yet these “pacesetters” are twice as likely to exceed profit expectations. Join Ho Kok Yong, Southeast Asia Financial Services Leader, Deloitte, and Mike Goldsworthy from BlackLine as they unpack these findings and reveal how regional finance departments can bypass data and talent barriers to turn technology hype into quantifiable business results.
What you will learn:
- Bridging the Value Divide: How to elevate your organisation into the “13% of pacesetters” who are actively scaling AI and intelligent automation to beat profit expectations.
- Overcoming Data & Talent Barriers: Practical strategies to bypass the data quality gaps (cited by 55% of CFOs) and talent shortages (cited by 56%) holding back finance transformation.
- Transparent AI & Data Integrity: How establishing ‘glass box’ financial controls provides the trust and transparency needed to confidently scale AI and upskill your workforce.
Sept 15, 2026 11:30 AM GMT+08:00 | 1:30PM GMT+10:00
Beyond the Hype: Building the trusted AI-Ready Finance Function in APAC Financial Services
The traditional playbook for finance transformation is no longer viable. Rising implementation costs, the explosive potential of Artificial Intelligence, and the non-negotiable demands for trust and regulatory governance are forcing APAC financial services leaders to rethink their approach.
In this 60-minute session, we will cut through the noise of enterprise AI. We will explore why the Record-to-Report (R2R) process must become your AI nerve centre, the paramount importance of governance and trust by design at the centre of your decision making, unpack a proven 5-element framework for readiness, and provide a clear-eyed look at how to extract real value from your existing tech stack without falling into the trap of unsustainable, ad-hoc “do it yourself coding.”
This session is designed strictly for senior finance and transformation leaders within the Asia Pacific banking, insurance, and broader financial services sectors who are responsible for driving productivity, ensuring compliance, and modernizing the finance function.
Sept 16, 2026 11:30 AM GMT+08:00 | 1:30PM GMT+10:00
Stop Letting Close Stress Drain Your Accounting Team
We often measure the cost of manual accruals in hours, but the true toll is felt in team burnout and missed strategic opportunities. What if you could lift this burden entirely, giving your people the space to focus on the work they actually enjoy? By utilising BlackLine’s Verity Accruals, accounting teams are reducing manual effort by up to 80% and closing three days faster. This session explores how a platform-first approach to agentic AI can restore balance to your month-end close while unlocking your department’s true potential.
Learning objectives:
- Discover how shifting complex, repetitive accounting tasks to autonomous digital assistants mitigates month-end stress and cultivates a healthier, more collaborative workplace culture.
- Examine transparent communication models that help team members adapt comfortably and successfully to their redesigned, high-value roles.
- Navigate the strategic steps to connect ERP systems with secure AI agents, creating a reliable and audit-ready framework that supports human decision-making.
Sept 17, 2026 11:30 AM GMT+08:00 | 1:30PM GMT+10:00
The 2026 Insolvency Outlook: What is the Risk to Your Cash Flow?
Insolvencies are rising across APAC, putting massive pressure on credit teams. To navigate these rising insolvency risks, leadership must evolve past traditional, rigid enforcement models that create unnecessary friction with valued buyers. How can automated credit intelligence protect working capital while preserving the human side of B2B relationships?
Key Takeaways:
- Navigate the strategic balance between systemic risk mitigation and relationship management, aligning cross-functional teams around customer-first financial policies.
- Evaluate the impact of AI-driven credit monitoring on organisational structures, focusing on how automated insights empower leaders to support team well-being and make more empathetic credit decisions.
- Discover cultural frameworks for training credit teams to handle difficult, high-stakes financial conversations with distressed clients while protecting the brand’s reputation.
Sept 17, 2026 1:30 PM GMT+08:00 | 3:30PM GMT+10:00
Don’t Get Your Close Lost in an ERP Upgrade
A major ERP upgrade or migration is a critical step forward for corporate IT, but it often leaves Finance teams stranded on the sidelines, managing highly manual close processes in legacy systems. Waiting until a multi-year ERP migration is fully complete before modernising your financial close adds substantial risk, limits visibility, and stalls productivity.
In this session, we’ll explore how BlackLine integrates seamlessly with your existing systems to establish a unified, secure, and automated close process before, during, or alongside your ERP transformation. Whether you are migrating or upgrading your ERP, or consolidating a hybrid ERP landscape, you will discover how to maintain business continuity and control when you need it most.
What you’ll learn:
- Maintain Business Continuity: How to shield your daily and period-end close processes from the disruption of backend IT changes.
- Strengthen Controls & Governance: Why establishing a centralised, audit-ready control environment early protects your organisation throughout the transition.
- Accelerate Time-to-Value: A practical evaluation framework to help you decide the optimal timing for close automation—and why waiting until “after” the ERP go-live is often the riskiest path.
Sept 18, 2026 2:30 PM GMT+08:00 | 4:30PM GMT+10:00
Next-Gen Finance GCCs: Accelerating Global Value with Agentic Financial Operations
Global Capability Centers (GCCs) are rapidly evolving from traditional cost-reduction hubs into central engines of strategic enterprise growth. According to Deloitte’s latest Global Business Services (GBS) Survey, 58% of organisations have already commenced or are planning their generative AI journeys, with finance leading the deployment of these advanced digital capabilities. How can GCC leaders successfully navigate this transition to agentic financial operations to drive global resilience and continuous value creation?
Learning Outcomes:
- Explore how autonomous AI models and agentic financial operations enable GCCs to transition from manual transaction processing to strategic enterprise enablement.
- Examine how scaling digital talent competencies and prioritising team well-being can build a resilient organisational culture during AI-led finance transformations.
- Understand how diagnosing operational friction points across the global close process ensures friction-free AI integration and standardises financial workflows.
AGENDA
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1:00pm | Registration & Networking |
| 2:00pm | Welcome Address |
| 2:05pm | Keynote 1: Unlock the full value of enterprise AI |
| 2:50pm | Keynote 2: Usher in the future of work with AI agents built for the enterprise |
| 3:20pm | Explore Activations |
| 3:50pm | Keynote 3: Embracing AI for lasting advantage: A comprehensive approach to transformation |
| 4:20pm | Keynote 4: Harness hybrid cloud to power AI value at scale |
| 4:50pm | Closing Remarks |
| 5:05pm | Think Networking |
SPEAKERS
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