Closing the AI Execution Gap: A 90-Day Adoption Plan for Finance Teams
Most finance teams have run an AI pilot or two. Some have built a handful of useful prompts or automated a few reports. But when it comes to actually restructuring how the team works, most are stuck.
The gap between experimentation and execution is real, and closing it requires clarity on which workflows are ready for AI, how roles need to evolve, and what governance looks like when machines are doing work that used to require human review.
In this session, Glenn Hopper, Head of AI at VAi Consulting and author of The AI-Ready CFO, shares a practical operating model and a 90-day plan to move your finance team from testing AI to running on it.
About the speakers
Glenn Hopper
Managing Director and Head of AI, VAi Consulting
Glenn Hopper is Managing Director and Head of AI Practice at VAi Consulting, where he leads enterprise AI transformation for finance teams. He brings more than 20 years of CFO experience across PE-backed companies spanning retail, legal tech, entertainment software, and international operations. Glenn hosts the FP&A Today podcast and co-hosts Future Finance with Paul Barnhurst, covering AI and technology transformation in corporate finance. He is the author of Deep Finance: Corporate Finance in the Information Age and AI Mastery for Finance Professionals, with his third book, The AI-Ready CFO, forthcoming later this year from Wiley Finance. Glenn teaches AI-in-finance courses for Duke Fuqua Executive Education, LinkedIn Learning, Corporate Finance Institute, AICPA, and Harvard D^3. He holds a Harvard ALM in Finance, an HBS Analytics certificate, and the FMVA designation. He is also a U.S. Navy veteran.
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