Key takeaways
Host: Gina Schaefer, managing director, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Presenters: James Glover, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
JoAnna Scullin, senior manager, Deloitte Consulting LLP
Elizebeth Varghese, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP
1.0 Overview CPE credit | Information Technology
It’s time to move beyond the hype and get practical about FinanceAITM—a finance function that embraces artificial intelligence (AI) as a collaborator to enhance human capabilities and unlock untapped potential for growth, resilience, and innovation. But doing so does not mean moving without a plan. We’ll discuss:
- The current state of AI in Finance
- The near-term expectations ahead
- Steps to take now to prepare
Meet the speakers
Gina Schaefer
Gina is a managing director with Deloitte Consulting LLP and leads Deloitte’s US intelligent automation practice. She has more than 20 years’ experience helping drive innovative solutions, at scale, to real-world business issues. She specializes in helping large enterprises take a strategic, return on investment-focused approach to applying automation technologies to high-value, decision-making tasks, as well as to more rules-based, repetitive processes. She also focuses on full-cycle service delivery model transformation and shared services/global business services programs for a multitude of domestic and global clients. Her industry experience spans life sciences, health care, consumer products, manufacturing, retail, and insurance.
James Glover
James has more than 20 years of experience in finance transformation with Deloitte Consulting LLP with a specific focus on finance strategy and transformation enabled by emerging technologies, data and talent. He leads transformational journeys at financial services firm where he is focused on advising CFO’s on how to create value from their data, technology and talent assets. More recently, James is looking to the future of Finance and how AI and automation can deliver results in a digitally enabled, data-driven enterprise.
Elizebeth Varghese
Elizebeth is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and co-leads the Cloud Enabled Workforce practice, as well as the People in Space team. Elizebeth has more than 25 years of experience partnering with boards and C-suite leaders and managing significant P&Ls to achieve powerful business outcomes. She focuses on the enablement of technology and strategy through organization and talent initiatives by optimizing operating models, sourcing, skills, and resilience. Elizebeth is on the board of Columbia Business School’s Women’s Circle and co-chairs the Innovation and Entrepreneurship committee and also is an advisor to the SETI Institute. She holds MBAs from both Columbia Business and London Business Schools, a master’s degree in management from TISS, and an undergraduate degree in pharmaceutical sciences.
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