The CFO Agenda: Two new challenges in 2027 E-Invoicing & AI adoption in finance
A private breakfast for CFOs and finance leaders navigating two of the biggest changes hitting finance teams in the UAE.
Every CFO is hearing the same thing: you need to adopt AI.
But what does that actually mean for a finance team?
Do you build internally? Buy an AI finance platform? Add AI on top of your ERP? Start with reporting, analysis or forecasting? How much can you actually trust AI with? And how do you make sure the numbers are still right every time?
At the same time, UAE businesses are preparing for another much more immediate change: e-invoicing.
Tax Star and Kudwa are bringing together CFOs and finance leaders for a practical conversation around both — how to prepare for e-invoicing, and how to make the right decisions around AI in finance.
E-Invoicing: Are you ready?
Led by Tax Star
What CFOs need to know about the UAE e-invoicing rollout, the decisions that need to be made now, and the practical challenges businesses are encountering as they prepare.
AI in Finance: What should you do?
Led by Kudwa
Everyone wants AI in finance. Far fewer teams know what they should actually do next.
We’ll discuss what CFOs are trying today, what makes sense to build internally versus buy, where AI can already transform reporting and analysis, and where reliability, traceability and complexity make finance fundamentally different from other AI use cases.
The question isn’t whether AI is coming to finance. It’s how you should adopt it.
What we’ll discuss
E-Invoicing
What businesses need to have in place ahead of the UAE rollout
The implementation decisions CFOs need to make now
Common challenges across systems, entities and finance processes
AI in Finance
Build vs. buy: what should finance teams actually own?
AI on top of your ERP vs. a dedicated finance intelligence layer
What can AI reliably automate today?
Reporting, consolidation, variance analysis and forecasting: where is the real value?
Why reliability and traceability matter when AI touches financial numbers
What does the finance team look like when AI does more of the repetitive reporting and analysis?
No AI hype. No generic transformation talk. A practical discussion about what CFOs should actually be doing today.
The Panel
Friday, 16 October · AXD Space, Al Quoz, Dubai
8:30 — Breakfast & Networking
9:15 — Panel Discussion
10:15 — Open Q&A
10:45 — Networking
11:00 — Close
Limited to 45 CFOs and senior finance leaders.