Event Details
Date: Thursday, 15th October 2026
Time: 10.30 am–11.30 pm
Location: Online
What Finance Directors need to know about the rapidly changing AI landscape
AI is moving rapidly beyond drafting emails and summarising documents. It can now interrogate management packs, challenge assumptions, check financial models, explain variances and support forecasting and reconciliation. But is Claude genuinely better than Copilot? Which tools can finance teams trust, and where could they deliver a meaningful return?
In this practical 45minute session, the team from Prosper AI will provide a balanced and independent assessment of the rapidly changing AI landscape for finance. We will examine what is driving interest in Claude, how its capabilities compare with Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini and specialist finance applications, and whether any of these tools offer meaningful advantages for particular types of finance work. Rather than championing a single platform, we will focus on where AI can save time, strengthen analysis, and improve decision-making, while addressing the accuracy, confidentiality, and control issues that Finance Directors cannot afford to overlook.
By the end of the session, attendees will understand:
Why finance professionals are talking about Claude, where it appears to outperform Copilot and why “which tool is best?” may be the wrong question.
Where AI can create immediate value in finance, including management pack review, variance analysis, forecasting, model checking and reconciliation.
Which AI tools are best suited to different types of finance work, and when an existing Copilot licence, a frontier AI tool or specialist finance software may be the better choice.
How Finance Directors can use AI personally, as an analyst, decision challenger, research assistant and board preparation partner.
How to identify and test the right first use cases, while protecting confidential data, retaining control of the numbers and measuring the return.
