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
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