When: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 • 4:00–7:00 p.m
Where: Pine Valley Country Club
Hosted by FEI Fort Wayne, Corsica & Hylant
CFOs sit at the intersection of capital allocation, risk management, and execution, where every technology dollar must translate into measurable business value. In this executive session, Garrett Wiesenberg will share a pragmatic, finance-first approach to funding and governing digital transformation, grounded in how initiatives actually succeed or fail inside operating companies.
Rather than focusing on tools or architectures, this session frames transformation as a portfolio of investments that must be sequenced, governed, and measured against outcomes finance leaders care about: revenue acceleration, margin protection, cash efficiency, and risk reduction.
Drawing from real-world engagements, Garrett will walk through how organizations modernize finance operations, analytics, and security while avoiding common failure modes—such as fragmented spend, mounting technical debt, and unclear ownership. Attendees will learn how to evaluate initiatives using clear value levers, establish guardrails that protect margins, and align technology leaders and vendors to outcome-based accountability.
You’ll leave with a practical scorecard for prioritizing initiatives, a funding and governance model that supports execution, and a framework to align CIOs, business leaders, and partners around results the finance function ultimately owns.
Learning Objectives
- Build a board-ready investment thesis that ties digital initiatives to revenue, margin, cash flow, and risk, with clear KPIs and decision ownership.
- ·Prioritize and sequence transformation initiatives using a Strategy → Investment → Outcome scorecard to reduce technical debt and execution risk.
- Establish governance and controls that embed cybersecurity, data stewardship, and compliance into the operating model.
- Evaluate ROI beyond cost reduction by applying value levers such as cycle-time compression, forecast accuracy, working-capital efficiency, and risk-adjusted returns.
- Mobilize cross-functional execution by aligning finance, IT, and business leaders around time-boxed initiatives and outcome-based accountability models.