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• MORNING
8:00 AM
Accreditation
Collection of credentials and access to the theater.
08:20
Opening
Insights and data from research we conducted with over 350 finance leaders.
8:30 AM
CASE STUDY
Moderator: Vera Bermudo
CFO, Corporate Advisor, Professor at FGV, Writer, Co-founder of Wakaro
Dayse Guelman
VP of Finance & Supply LATAM
Anglo Gold Ashanti Case:Cost Management as the DNA of the Business
Cintia Tachibana
CFO Marketplace
Case Ifood:AI-native finance - The new reality
José M. Schlichting
Commercial Head
Case Catalysis:Financial Arm, the bank that already exists within your company.
9:20 AM
Lecture
The council's agenda for 2027
The topics that will be discussed at the board meeting in the next cycle and what the board expects to hear from those responsible for finance.
André Coji
Full Member of the Board of Directors, Fiscal Council, and Audit Committee
09:40
Lecture
The Economic Scenario: Brazil and the World on a New Political and Geopolitical Playbook
Roberto Dumas
Professor of International Economics and Chinese Economics
10:10
Coffee Break & Networking
30-minute break for coffee and interaction among the executives in the room.
10:40
Q&A Panel
Planning in a scenario of uncertainty: the analysis that underpins the 2027 budget.
High interest rates, exchange rates, and costs are simultaneously squeezing margins. The panel discusses this analysis around a single question: how to build the 2027 plan before the scenario resolves itself.
Moderator: Vera Bermudo
CFO, Corporate Advisor, Professor at FGV, Writer, Co-founder of Wakaro
Fernanda Barrocal
CFO Brazil
Thiago Urbonas
CFO Brazil
Andrea Pinto
CFO South America
11:20
Lecture
Market analysis and innovation
Gustavo Araújo
Co-Founder & CIO
11:45
Lecture
Panic, sweat, and coffee. What crises teach us about credit.
Daniel Oya
CBO and CFO
12:05
Talk
Deciding before the outcome: what Brexit taught us about planning under uncertainty.
How to plan, protect cash flow, and decide where to invest when the scenario is still uncertain: the experience of someone who faced these decisions in the financial sector during Brexit.
Moderator: Ricardo Rezende
CMO - 7th Experience
Lucianna Raffaini
CFO
12:20
Lunch and Networking
A 1 hour and 30 minute break with real opportunities for networking and exchanging ideas with peers in the field.
• AFTERNOON
1:50 PM
Q&A Panel
Cash, credit, and working capital under evolving rules.
The tax system is changing in stages, and the timeline for this change has already shifted once. The panel brings together those who manage cash flow and working capital under these conditions to discuss what can be decided now, what needs to be finalized at all costs, and what is still a gamble.
Moderator: Otavio Fossa
CEO and Founder
Andre Paes
CFO Regional
Fausto Moreira
CFO
Thiago Agda
CFO
2:30 PM
lecture
ReformTaxEconomic
Planning, Real Impact, Opportunities
Paulo Duarte
Partner and Head of Indirect and Customs Taxes
2:55 PM
Lecture
The Stomach of Capital: Who decides the speed of AI in your company?
Why do VC, private equity, public capital, holding companies, and family-controlled companies have opposing appetites for risk, timing, and power shifts in the face of AI's J-curve, and how to read the capital structure to know which transformation your shareholders will actually finance?
Filipe Santos
Chief AI Officer
3:15 PM
Lecture
Brazil 2027: The economic scenarios that will guide financial decisions.
Where are interest rates headed, where are the risks of rising inflation, and how could the economic slowdown impact your 2027 budget?
Pedro Renault
Superintendent of Economic Research
3:40 PM
Coffee Break & Networking
30-minute break for coffee and networking among leaders.
• END OF DAY
4:10 PM
Q&A Panel
The finance leader that 2027 will require.
Guardian of capital in an environment of permanent uncertainty, owner of a machine that AI redesigns before the return is measured, and responsible for a team that the market competes for and whose classic formation is changing in nature. The panel discusses the role, not the current situation: what the next cycle demands of those who lead finance.
Moderator: Otavio Fossa
CEO and Founder
Antonio Crespim
Chief Financial Officer LATAM
Julien Gazier
CFO
Carlos Rosetti
CFO
4:50 PM
Lecture
AI applied to Finance: from promise to practice
Juliano Kimura
Head of Ecosystem
5:15 PM
2027 in Play: The Council
During the event, anonymously share a strategic dilemma your company faces for 2027. The Council will select two real-world scenarios and analyze possible paths forward from three perspectives: taxation, macroeconomics, and governance.
Two real dilemmas for the audience.
Three supplementary readings.
No ready answer.
Moderator: Oliver E. Cunningham
CEO
Paulo Duarte
Partner and Head of Indirect and Customs Taxes
Pedro Renault
Superintendent of Economic Research
James Isaac
Board Member and Professor at IBGC
5:35 PM
Fireside
The CFO that 2027 will require
Moderator: Ricardo Rezende
CMO - 7th Experience
Antonio Crespim
Chief Financial Officer LATAM
5:35 PM
What CFOs are thinking between the two rounds of voting — live anonymous poll.
5:45 PM
Closing
Official closing of the event.
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