2026 UK & Ireland CFO Community Inner Circle

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Join UK & Ireland's top CFOs for an intimate networking dinner and facilitated discussion on key business challenges. Enjoy a relaxed evening of dinner and drinks with your peers to share best practices, make new connections and build professional relationships.

Join your peers to discuss the most critical issues impacting CFOs today:

Driving strategic insights and measurable value through technology investments

Establishing yourself as a catalyst for enterprise agility and resilience

Building future-ready finance teams

Agenda

12 May 2026

16:30 - 17:30 Executive Networking Reception

17:30 - 18:30 Discussion Topics

Accelerating Finance Transformation – Strategies for Resilience and Impact

As the boundaries of the finance function expand, digital acceleration and AI adoption have become central to the CFO agenda. With 84% of finance teams in planning or deployment with AI as of 2025, today’s finance leaders are uniquely positioned to drive cost-efficient growth and build resilient, future-ready teams. However, they must do so while balancing enterprise cost discipline and accelerating strategic investments amid persistent economic headwinds, regulatory shifts, and technological evolution.

The challenge: making every investment count, accelerating transformation with limited technology budgets, and ensuring finance remains the engine of strategic insight and innovation.

Discussion Questions:

How are you prioritising and scaling AI to deliver measurable business value in today’s finance environment?
What steps are you taking to evolve team skills and structures for digital acceleration and transformation?
How do you balance cost discipline with bold investments in technology and talent?
What approaches are most effective for managing risk and compliance while enabling innovation and sustainable growth?

18:30 - 19:00 Networking Break

19:00 - 20:30 Summary Discussion & Dinner

20:30 - 21:30 Social Hour

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Gartner facilitates exclusive, C-level communities by personally qualifying and understanding the priorities, challenges and interests of each member.

Our selective approach maintains the high quality of the network and ensures top-level discussions with peers from the world’s leading organizations.

Each application will be reviewed, and once your participation is confirmed, you will have access to year-round community programs.

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To ensure peer connections and conversations at the highest level, members must meet the following criteria:

- C-level or senior most executive for respective function

- Organization revenue of $500M+

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Barber-Surgeons Hall

Community Programme Manager

For inquiries related to this community, please reach out to your dedicated contact.

Yasmine Shirwa

Community Programme Manager

+44 7711 977098

yasmine.shirwa@gartner.com