Future of Finance & CFO Select
Executive Leadership Summit
Main Day Three - Tuesday, June 9, 2026
8:00 am - 8:55 am
Executive Breakfast: Strengthening Connections on Day Two
Gather for an energizing Executive Breakfast as we come together for Day Two, deepening the relationships we've built. This is a chance to continue conversations from yesterday, share insights, and discuss how we can stay connected and support one another in our ongoing journeys beyond the event.
8:55 am - 9:00 am
Chairperson's Welcome
Natalie Laackman -
CFO,
Medspeed
9:00 am - 9:45 am
Fireside Chat: The CFO’s Mandate in an Age of Volatility
Jennifer R. Reilly -
SVP Head of Strategic Finance Business,
MassMutual
Volatility is the new baseline. CFOs must decide whether their organizations will merely absorb shocks—or turn disruption into strategic advantage.
• Rethink “resilience” not as protection, but as offense.
• Decide what to control, hedge, or abandon, and prioritize people in decision-making.
Pinky Raina, CFO, Ideal Industries
Global trade realignments are breaking long-standing cost structures. Winners redesign P&Ls to exploit volatility.
• Use scenario modeling to turn tariffs into competitive advantage.
• Align procurement and pricing strategies to protect margin.
A series of 25-minute consultative meetings with service providers that can help provide insights and value to your roadmaps, strategies, and plans for the quarters to come: based on mutual availability and personal preference.
1:1 Business Meetings
10:15 am - 10:40 am 1:1 Business MeetingsA series of 25 minute consultative meetings with service providers that can help provide insights and value to your roadmaps, strategies, and plans for the quarters to come: based on mutual availability and personal preference.
This is an opportunity to select some common challenges that you would like to collaborate with your peers on. In groups of roundtables, we will discuss and explore ideas and areas of opportunities.
Challenge Rounds
10:15 am - 10:40 am The Future-Ready CFO: Architect of the Enterprise2030 won’t tolerate passive finance leaders. The future-ready CFO is strategist, technologist, and provocateur—capable of dismantling today’s operating model to build tomorrows.
• Recast finance as a predictive, adaptive function driving enterprise reinvention
• Embrace the uncomfortable: transformation requires people, trust, and judgment, not just technology
10:45 am - 11:15 am
Networking Break
11:15 am - 11:45 am
Talent 2030: Building the Future Finance Workforce
Susan McKeon -
Chief Financial Officer/Associate Laboratory Director for Business Services,
Brookhaven National Laboratory (part of the Department of Energy)
By 2030, nearly half of today’s finance roles may no longer exist — but new, tech-enabled roles will emerge faster than most organizations can adapt. CFOs must lead the redesign of work, blending generational strengths, digital fluency, and strategic curiosity into a cohesive, high-performing team.
• Map the mix of skills and experiences that will thrive amid automation, AI, and analytics
• Rebuild development models to elevate judgment, communication, and business partnership — not just technical proficiency
Dr. Susan McKeon, Chief Financial Officer/Associate Laboratory Director for Business Services, Brookhaven National Laboratory (part of the Dept. of Energy)
Susan McKeon
Chief Financial Officer/Associate Laboratory Director for Business ServicesBrookhaven National Laboratory (part of the Department of Energy)
A series of 25-minute consultative meetings with service providers that can help provide insights and value to your roadmaps, strategies, and plans for the quarters to come: based on mutual availability and personal preference.
1:1 Business Meetings
11:45 am - 12:10 pm 1:1 Business MeetingsA series of 25 minute consultative meetings with service providers that can help provide insights and value to your roadmaps, strategies, and plans for the quarters to come: based on mutual availability and personal preference.
This is an opportunity to select some common challenges that you would like to collaborate with your peers on. In groups of roundtables, we will discuss and explore ideas and areas of opportunities.
Challenge Rounds
11:45 am - 12:10 pm Defending Value: CFOs and the New Era of Cyber RiskCyber incidents are now balance-sheet events. CFOs must lead risk governance linking cybersecurity, insurance, and financial exposure.
• Quantify cyber risk in terms boards understand — dollars and reputation
• Build joint accountability between Finance, Risk, and Technology for prevention and recovery
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Executive Luncheon
Cost efficiency no longer impresses the market; reinvention does. CFOs must shift from guardians of margin to architects of growth.
• Balance short-term pressure with long-term transformation bets
• Pivot finance’s narrative from “savings” to “value creation,” emphasizing strategic judgment
Here’s your chance to connect with your peers and discuss challenges in an unscripted format.
This is an opportunity to select some common challenges that you would like to collaborate with your peers on. In groups of roundtables, we will discuss and explore ideas and areas of opportunities.
2:10 pm - 2:15 pm
Event Concludes
A series of 25-minute consultative meetings with service providers that can help provide insights and value to your roadmaps, strategies, and plans for the quarters to come: based on mutual availability and personal preference.
This is an opportunity to select some common challenges that you would like to collaborate with your peers on. In groups of roundtables, we will discuss and explore ideas and areas of opportunities.
