Keynote: Autonomous Finance: From Road Map to Reality | Finance Connect at SAP Connect

Watch the full Finance Connect 2026 keynote, live from Las Vegas. SAP leaders and customers show how Autonomous Finance is moving from road map to reality, with agentic AI innovations, live demos, customer proof points, and new capabilities across finance, payments, performance management, and governance. What you'll see: ➡️ Autonomous Finance — how SAP is helping finance teams move beyond efficiency to deliver business outcomes with AI that is accurate, reliable, compliant, and grounded in business context ➡️ Joule for finance — AI-powered assistants that help finance teams work across accounting, billing, planning, consolidation, disclosure, governance, risk, compliance, and more ➡️ Customer proof points — PwC, ITOCHU, and Winncom Technologies share how they are using SAP solutions to improve adoption, reduce manual work, and scale finance innovation ➡️ Autonomous Performance Management — SAP’s vision for connected enterprise performance management across planning, consolidation, disclosure, and business steering ➡️ SAP Pay — payment execution embedded directly in SAP Cloud ERP to help simplify payments, reduce manual reconciliation, and improve visibility ➡️ Governance, risk, and compliance — new AI-enabled capabilities for signal analysis, remediation, access governance, and auditable human-in-the-loop controls Customers featured: PwC, ITOCHU Corporation, Winncom Technologies Speakers: David Imbert, Chief Marketing Officer, Financial Management, SAP; Lawrence Martin, General Manager & Chief Product Officer, SAP Finance & Spend; Catharina Riedl, Chief Revenue Officer, Finance, SAP; Peter Graulich, Chief Revenue Officer, SAP Finance & Spend Management; Jill Notz, Chief Accounting Officer & Business Services Leader, PwC US/MX; Shusaku Harada, IT Strategist and CSO of CISD, ITOCHU Corporation; Vladimir Fedoroff, CFO, Winncom Technologies Chapters: 0:00 — Opening: Finance in high-stakes business moments 1:50 — Welcome to Finance Connect 2026 2:38 — Why finance needs AI that delivers business outcomes 3:45 — Autonomous Finance recap from SAP Sapphire 4:28 — Customer momentum and early adopter feedback 5:48 — SAP Business AI Platform and Joule Work for finance 6:16 — Customer panel: PwC and ITOCHU on Autonomous Finance 7:10 — Building the foundation with SAP Cloud ERP and clean core 9:23 — Why ITOCHU started with finance 10:50 — PwC: Billing assistant and user adoption 13:29 — ITOCHU: Accounting assistant and data analysis 14:44 — PwC: Billing assistant value case and ROI 15:48 — ITOCHU: Reducing operation hours with AI 18:29 — New Autonomous Finance announcements 19:21 — Enterprise financial consolidation and SAP Pay 20:33 — Autonomous Performance Management vision 24:03 — Live demo: CFO sensing, planning, consolidation, and disclosure 27:40 — Enterprise Performance Management adoption paths 29:45 — SAP Pay announcement 30:46 — SAP Pay for embedded payment execution 32:12 — Winncom Technologies: SAP Pay customer story 36:40 — SAP Pay outcomes: automation, reconciliation, and cash flow 41:28 — Governance, risk, and compliance deep dive 43:12 — New GRC agents for signal analysis and remediation 44:06 — Live demo: Governance assistant for segregation of duties 46:47 — Live demo: Access Governance and Security Assistant 48:23 — Foundational finance investments beyond AI 50:24 — Why SAP Business AI is grounded in business process context 52:33 — Closing: Continue the Autonomous Finance conversation Explore SAP solutions for finance: https://sap.to/6059BG236R Follow us on social: LinkedIn: https://sap.to/6050BG0v3M Instagram: https://sap.to/6052BG0v3O Facebook: https://sap.to/6053BG0v3P Threads: https://sap.to/6054BG0v3u About SAP: As a global leader in enterprise applications and business AI, SAP stands at the nexus of business and technology. For over 50 years, organizations have trusted SAP to bring out their best by uniting business-critical operations spanning finance, procurement, HR, supply chain, and customer experience. For more information, visit: https://sap.to/6055BG0v3R #SAPFinance #AutonomousFinance #BusinessAI