Agenda

Tuesday, September 29

schedule
10:00 AM onward
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Atrium

Registration Open

Ease into the day with coffee, breakfast, and rich conversation. Networking begins here — before the first session even starts.

schedule
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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Bayview

Scaling Spend Management from 50 to 5,000 Employees

What works at 50 employees breaks at 500 and completely falls apart at 5,000. Finance leaders who have graduated through different growth stages share what scaled, what didn't, and the decisions they wish they'd made earlier so you don't have to learn the hard way.

schedule
12:15 PM – 1:05 PM
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Seacliff

How Healthcare Finance Teams Move Fast Without Breaking Compliance

Healthcare finance is a special kind of tightrope — move too slow and you fall behind, move too fast and compliance comes knocking. Hear from peers who've figured out how to run a modern, automated finance operation without triggering a regulatory nightmare.

schedule
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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Bayview

The Fraud We Caught (and the One We Missed)

One fraud attempt got flagged in time. But another one didn't. A finance leader shares both stories — what the controls caught, what slipped through, and exactly what they changed after. You'll leave knowing which fraud patterns to watch for and which controls to turn on tonight.

schedule
1:30 PM – 2:20 PM
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Seacliff

Lights, Camera, Control: How Media Finance Teams Manage Chaos Across Multiple Productions

Crew per diems in three cities, equipment rentals nobody approved, and a post-production invoice that doesn't match any budget line — sound familiar? A media finance leader shares how they brought order to the chaos of managing spend across multiple simultaneous productions without adding headcount.

schedule
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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Bayview

Beyond Time and Money: The Human Impact of Financial Automation

Everyone talks about the ROI of automation. But nobody talks about the controller who finally stopped working weekends, or the analyst who reclaimed their weeknight on the couch instead of a spreadsheet. Finance professionals share how automation changed not just their workflows — but their careers, their teams, and what they actually spend their days doing.

schedule
2:45 PM – 3:35 PM
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Seacliff

Mission Over Manual Work: Modernizing Finance for Nonprofits and Education (Without Losing Your Mind)

Every dollar has a donor, every grant has a restriction, and your finance team is probably three people doing the work of ten. A nonprofit finance leader gets real about managing restricted funds, surviving audit season, and modernizing their stack without disrupting the mission.

schedule
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Bayview

Replacing the Legacy Stack: How We Migrated to a Modern Finance Platform

Ripping out your legacy finance stack is the project everyone knows they need to do and nobody wants to start. A finance leader who's been through it shares the real timeline, the vendor breakup conversations, and the gotchas nobody warned them about — so yours goes smoother.

schedule
4:00 PM – 4:50 PM
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Seacliff

Professional Services: Managing Distributed Teams and Client Billing

Distributed teams, client-billable expenses, multi-entity headaches — professional services finance has its own special flavor of complexity. Pull up a chair and swap solutions with peers at consulting, legal, and agency firms who deal with the same mess you do.

schedule
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
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Bayview

Treasury and Cash Management: How We Centralized Everything in Ramp

Migrating treasury sounds great in theory but terrifying in practice. Hear from a Ramp customer who shares the full experience — the migration, the surprises, and the visibility they gained on the other side — so you can decide if consolidation is worth the leap for your team.

schedule
6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
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Hyatt Embarcadero

Welcome Reception

The first night sets the tone. Grab a drink, make the introductions you've been putting off, and meet the people you'll be learning from all week.

Wednesday, September 30

schedule
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
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Main Stage

Welcome & Product Keynote: The Future of Autonomous Finance

Your finance team spends too much time on work that shouldn't require a human. Ramp's leadership lays out the roadmap for autonomous finance — where AI agents run the repetitive stuff and your team gets back to the work that actually moves the business. This is your look at what Ramp is building and why it matters for your next 12 months.

schedule
11:00 AM – ~12:30 PM
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Main Stage

How AI Is Blowing Up SaaS Pricing — and What Finance Teams Should Do About It

Your vendors are quietly swapping flat licenses for token credits and usage-based pricing — and your budget didn't get the memo. You'll learn how to spot hidden AI surcharges in your contracts, model token-based costs before they spiral, and negotiate like you actually have leverage (because you do).

schedule
11:00 AM – ~12:00 PM
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Bayview

Power User Lab: Advanced Automation, Integrations, and API Deep Dive

Power users, unite. This is for pros who have outgrown the basics — a technical deep dive into advanced automations, custom integrations, and API-driven workflows. You'll unlock capabilities you didn't know existed and leave with code snippets and configs you can implement immediately.

schedule
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
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Main Stage

The K-Shaped Economy: Why AI Adopters Are Pulling Ahead

There's a growing divide between finance teams leaning into AI and those still "evaluating." This session puts hard data behind that gap — and hands you the exact framing you need to walk into your next board meeting and make the case that waiting is the riskiest move of all.

schedule
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
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Bayview

How TF Do I Use AI?: What to Automate vs. What Needs You

You've heard "use AI" a hundred times. Cool — but which finance tasks do you hand off, and which ones blow up if a human isn't in the loop? This session is designed to kick start your AI journey without the hype or overpromises. You'll stress-test real scenarios like approvals, categorization, and fraud detection, and build your own automate-vs.-human framework.

schedule
1:30 PM – ~2:20 PM
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Seacliff

How to Achieve Zero-Touch Month-End Close

What if close just… happened? This session walks through how Ramp's auto-reconciliation, smart categorization, and real-time reporting can take manual close tasks off your plate entirely. You'll see it live, identify which of your manual steps can die first, and stop dreading the last week of every month.

schedule
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
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Main Stage

From Zero to AI: How We Went from Spreadsheets to Agents

Nobody's first attempt at AI adoption goes smoothly. Three finance leaders get honest about the false starts, the skeptical CFO, and the moment things actually started working. If you're early in your AI journey and tired of vendor case studies that skip the messy parts, this is your session.

schedule
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
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Bayview

Hands-On Lab: Configure Your First AI Spend Policy in Ramp

Bring your laptop. You'll configure a real AI spend policy inside your own Ramp environment with guided support from Ramp's product team and a customer power user who's already done it. You're not leaving with notes — you're leaving with a live policy running in your account.

schedule
2:30 PM – ~3:20 PM
location_on
Seacliff

The Compounding Effect: How Using More Ramp Products Changed Our Finance Org

They started with credit cards. Then added bill pay. Then procurement. Then banking. Somewhere along the way, the value started compounding in ways they didn't expect. Hear a Ramp customer break down the real math and help you figure out what to adopt next.

schedule
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
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Main Stage

How We Close the Books in 48 Hours (Down from 15 Days)

A controller walks you through exactly how their team went from a 15-day close to 48 hours — which workflows they killed, which automations they built, and what they had to change about their team's culture to make it stick. This is the playbook you'll take back to work on Monday.

schedule
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
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Bayview

Agentic AP: Watch Ramp's AI Process 100 Invoices Live

You probably processed invoices manually this week. Some got stuck in an approval chain. At least one had the wrong GL code. Now watch Ramp's agentic AP system chew through 100 invoices on stage — then open your own account and configure your approval automation before you leave the room.

schedule
3:30 PM – ~4:20 PM
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Seacliff

Treasury on Ramp: Cash Management, Visibility, and Control at Scale

You're probably managing cash across more accounts, tools, and dashboards than any one person should. This deep dive into Ramp Banking shows you what consolidating treasury into a single platform actually looks like — and whether it makes sense to stop juggling.

schedule
4:30 PM – 5:15 PM
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Main Stage

What the AI-Native Finance Team Looks Like in 2027

Some finance roles are about to change dramatically. Others don't exist yet. This session skips the hand-wavy futurism and gets specific — which roles evolve, which emerge, and what your org chart should look like if you start restructuring around AI next quarter instead of next decade.

schedule
4:30 PM – 5:15 PM
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Bayview

Workflow Design Masterclass: Automating Approvals, Receipts, and Reimbursements

Your approval workflows made sense when you set them up, but have they kept up with your business? In this hands-on session, you'll redesign and pressure-test your approval, receipt, and reimbursement workflows with peer feedback — and leave with something you can deploy the week you get home.

schedule
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
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Off-site

Invite Only Dine Arounds

Thursday, October 1

schedule
9:00 AM – ~9:50 AM
location_on
Bayview

The AP Manager's Playbook: How Top Teams Run Accounts Payable on Ramp

Two AP managers open up their actual playbooks and show you how they run accounts payable day to day, from invoice intake to payment execution. Steal what works, skip what doesn't, and compare notes with people who get it.

schedule
10:15 AM – ~11:00 AM
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Bayview

AI Bootcamp

Most finance teams aren't failing at AI because the tools aren't good enough — they're failing because nobody told them where to start. This hands-on bootcamp walks you through Ramp's practical playbook: which workflows to automate first, how to get your team on board, and what to actually do Monday. Live demos and Q&A throughout.

schedule
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
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Main Stage

Keynote: In Conversation With Shaun White, moderated by Ramp CEO & Co-founder, Eric Glyman

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Shaun White didn't just compete at the highest level of sports, but he redefined competitive snowboarding. In conversation with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman, Shaun shares what actually goes into peak performance: the years of preparation no one sees, the setbacks that sharpened his edge, and how the same conviction that made him the best in the world is now driving what he's building next. A conversation about competing, evolving, and what it means to be relentless in whatever arena you're in.

schedule
12:30 PM onward
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Departures

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