The 2025 SaaStr Annual CFO Summit will explore how autonomous AI is redefining finance leadership, shifting the role from traditional controlling to strategic orchestration of growth and automation. As agentic AI increasingly handles back-office tasks, this exclusive gathering of 200+ finance leaders and AI experts will examine how smaller teams, faster decision-making, and automated processes are becoming competitive advantages in modern finance.
The big picture: The May 2025 event positions finance automation as a transformative force that’s fundamentally changing the CFO role into something closer to a Chief Automation Officer.
- The summit will bring together elite financial leaders including OpenAI’s Controller and executive representatives from SnapLogic, A16Z, Guru, and Emergence Capital.
- The half-day program will run from 1-4pm on Tuesday, May 13, 2025, concluding with networking opportunities over coffee and drinks.
Key agenda highlights: The summit features three main sessions focused on the evolving finance function in an AI-native business environment.
- “The CFO is Dead. Long Live the Chief Automation Officer” will feature insights from SnapLogic’s CFO, OpenAI’s Controller, and A16Z representatives on the fundamental transformation of finance leadership.
- “Agentic Finance – Turning Cost Killers into Growth Dealers” will explore how automation is shifting finance from a cost-control center to a strategic growth driver.
- “Death to Deloitte – The End of Traditional Finance Consulting” will examine how AI is disrupting conventional finance advisory services.
Networking opportunity: An optional CEO-CFO meetup will connect 100 top CEOs with leading CFOs and VPs of Finance, creating high-value relationship-building opportunities for participants.
- This exclusive networking session appears designed to facilitate strategic partnerships between executive leadership and finance teams in an increasingly automated business landscape.
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