AI in Finance: From Automation to Decision Intelligence

**Event Summary**
Join us for an engaging session exploring how AI is reshaping the finance function—from foundational automation to advanced, data-driven decision-making. Through real-world examples and live use cases, we’ll look at how teams are applying AI today to improve efficiency, accuracy, and strategic insight across finance operations.

**Opening: Introduction of the Prague Finance Site**
**Speaker**:[ ](linkedin.com/in/rociosoteloinandalucia/?skipRedirect=true)**[Rocio Sotelo](linkedin.com/in/rociosoteloinandalucia/?skipRedirect=true) \- Director\, Finance**
Rocio will introduce the Prague-based finance hub and share her perspective on how AI and automation are transforming the finance function. She will highlight practical use cases, key opportunities, and challenges finance teams face when adopting these technologies, as well as how leaders can drive this transformation while enabling more strategic, data-driven decision-making.

**Talk 1: AI and Automation in Finance**
**Speaker:**[ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirill-babenko-865b0610b/)**[Kiril Babenko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirill-babenko-865b0610b/)** **\- Senior Sales Finance Manager**
Kirill will provide a ground-level look at how we’re using AI to solve the “human search engine” problem in Sales Finance. He’ll go under the hood of an AI agent that translates plain English into SQL, delivering governed data insights from Snowflake directly into Slack.

**Talk 2: Accruals AI Assistant**
**Speaker: [Stepan Suprun](https://www.linkedin.com/in/stepansuprun/)** **-** Finance Manager International FP&A
Stepan will share how we’re prototyping an AI-powered accruals assistant to streamline the month-end process. The solution ingests POs and invoices, then suggests accruals with clear, transparent explanations.

**Time Agenda:**
**17:00–17:30** – Doors open and registration with snacks and beer
**17:30–17:35** – Introduction
**17:35–18:05** – Talk 1: AI and automation in finance
**18:15–18:35 –** Talk 2: Accruals AI assistant
**18:35–20:00** – Networking time
**20:10** – Doors close