Breakfast Spendesk x La French Tech Hamburg: Transforming Corporate Finance Through AI & Smart Spending
How fast-growing companies are rethinking the way they manage money, from procurement to real-time visibility.
Growth changes everything about how a company spends money. What starts as a founder's card and a spreadsheet quickly becomes a web of expense claims, purchase orders, supplier invoices, subscriptions, and budget owners across departments — and finance teams lose sight of it. Spreadsheets and siloed tools were built for a world where spend was reviewed months later, once the numbers had already happened.
Fast-growing companies are now rethinking spend management from the ground up: bringing procurement, payments, and expense management into a single flow; replacing after-the-fact control with smart budgets and approval before money leaves the company; and giving finance teams real-time visibility into every euro spent, across every team, card, and supplier. The result is not just cleaner books — it is faster decisions, stronger cash discipline, and employees who no longer fight internal processes to do their jobs.
Is "real-time spend control" a buzzword, a competitive advantage, or the new baseline for scaling companies? Join us to find out.
What to expect from this session?
This session explores how modern spend management actually works in high-growth companies. We will look at the full spend lifecycle: from procurement and supplier onboarding, to smart corporate cards and budget ownership, to accounts payable automation and real-time reporting for finance leaders.
Together, participants will discuss practical approaches to rethink the way their companies manage money — eliminating manual expense reports, embedding control into every payment, and turning spend data into a strategic decision-making tool rather than a monthly reconciliation exercise.
Who should attend?
The event targets finance leaders and CFOs of scaling companies as well as founders, operations and procurement managers, developers and product people building fintech tools, students, and anyone interested in the future of financial operations. It is especially relevant for teams who want to bring visibility, control, and automation into the way money is spent, approved, and reported in their organisation.
Agenda
8:30 – Doors open, get-together & coffee
8:45 – Welcoming Words and short introduction by House of AI and La French Tech Hamburg
8:50 – Spendesk Presentation: "The Future of Spend Management" - how fast-growing companies are rethinking the way they manage money, from procurement to real-time visibility – VP Sales, Spendesk
9:30 – Q&A
9:30 onwards – Networking
The Organisators
About Spendesk
Spendesk is Europe’s leading AI-powered spend management and procurement platform, transforming the way companies manage their spending. It is also the first profitable spend management solution in Europe.
By simplifying procurement, payment cards, expense management, invoice processing, accounting automation, and corporate travel management, expanding in 2026, Spendesk sets a new standard for spending at work for companies with up to 1,000 employees. Its single, intelligent solution makes efficient spending easy for employees, while giving finance leaders the visibility and control they need across all company spend, including in multi-entity structures.
Trusted by thousands of companies, Spendesk supports more than 200,000 users. With offices in the United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Germany, Spendesk also puts community at the heart of its mission through CFO Connect.
For more information, visit www.spendesk.com/press .
About La French Tech Hamburg
La French Tech Hamburg is a community of volunteer founders and tech & investment enthusiasts in Hamburg. La Tech Hambourg aims to create a unique Franco-German ecosystem locally, regularly bringing together innovative French and German start-ups, local businesses, investors, decision-makers and community builders. Follow La French Tech Hamburg on LinkedIn: la-french-tech-hamburg