Potential Proposal Topics

FINANCE & FINANCIAL PROCESSES

Solutions Center: Specific approaches common FP&A challenges, often a "how to" workshops that teaches a specific skill. Please specify if your audience should bring a laptop.

  • Overheads, allocations and expense cubes, oh my!
  • How to rationalize your product portfolio
  • The logic behind algorithmic forecasts
  • Investment management: building the case, tracking performance
  • Applying macroeconomic forces inside your company (how to model inflation, FX, taxes, etc.)
  • Profitability analytics at multiple levels
  • Building AI into my budget / variance / analytics processes

Hot Topics: Panels, Case Studies and Presentations about effective practices.

  • Building a world class FP&A function
  • Metrics and performance management
  • Integrated business planning
  • Process automation versus optimization

TECHNOLOGY & DATA

Solutions Center: Specific approaches common FP&A challenges, often a "how to" workshops that teaches a specific skill. Please specify if your audience should bring a laptop.

  • Build a dashboard
  • Data analytics with CoPilot
  • Applying technology to management reporting
  • 10 Excel tips to improve your modeling
  • What do I need to know about data? Wrangling and data prep in various tools
  • Building AI into my budget / variance / analytics processes

Hot Topics: Panels, Case Studies and Presentations about effective practices.

  • Use case of AI, Agents and ML
  • Transformation case study
  • BI, AI and Data Management

PERSONAL & TEAM EFFECTIVENESS

Solutions Center: Specific approaches common FP&A challenges, often a "how to" workshops that teaches a specific skill. Please specify if your audience should bring a laptop.

  • How to manage up and across
  • Project management for finance
  • How to run business performance review meeting
  • Meeting management and facilitation
  • Difficult conversations: saying No, conflict management and working with people
  • What makes a great slide deck?
  • The personal skills of building models

Hot Topics: Panels, Case Studies and Presentations about effective practices.

  • Tech up your FP&A team
  • Business partnering
  • Organizational design for FP&A
  • Build a growth culture
  • Building AI into my budget / variance / analytics processes
SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL

If you have started or already submitted a proposal, you can return to the proposal later, until the close of the submission window, July 17, 2026, to add final edits before final submission.

Please contact Marcia Solomon at [email protected] or call (301) 961-8858 if you have any questions about submitting a proposal.

Speakers are responsible for their own travel arrangements/hotel accommodation. AFP does not pay honoraria for speaking on an educational session at 2026 AFP FP&A Forum. For information on hotels within the AFP block and travel information, click here.

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