The Finance AI Playbook: Where AI Is Winning and Where Errors are Still Costing You

AI is already closing the gaps that bleed margin. This session shows exactly where it's working in finance operations today and how you can put it to work now.

Wednesday, March 25, 2026
10:00 am PT | 1:00 pm ET

AP mistakes. Reconciliation gaps. Fraud. AR inefficiencies. Back-office errors stack up quickly and quietly erode EBIT — and AI is the reason the best finance teams are finally getting ahead of them. In this session, AI and finance strategist Mark McDonald from Finance Next cuts through the hype to show where AI is delivering real, measurable results in core finance operations today. 

Join us for the AI playbook on the hidden tax on EBIT, and learn:

• A measure of what back-office errors are actually costing you, and how to baseline them.

• The short list of AI use cases that are production-ready now — not pilots, not speculative ambitions, not proofs of concept.

• The 7 traps that stall or kill finance AI deployments, including inflated expectations, missing controls, and the AI automation mistakes nobody talks about.

• An adoption framework built for finance with human-in-the-loop design, audit-ready controls, and clear success criteria.
  
  

Mark D. McDonald is an AI and finance strategist with 20+ years at Siemens, a Harvard Master's in Software Engineering (AI/ML), and former leadership of Gartner's finance AI practice. He now runs Finance Next, helping finance leaders put AI to work.