Workiva Amplify 2026 - when volatility is the baseline, how do CFOs meet the need to step up into a more tech-responsible role?
As CFOs become increasingly entangled with data, customer operations, enterprise architecture and AI strategy, their roles are changing fast. At Workiva’s recent annual Amplify 2026 conference in Las Vegas, three CFOs talked about how their responsibilities were changing, and how they were dealing with those changes.
Ann Dennison, CFO at healthcare company The Cigna Group, kicked off proceedings:
If you had told me five years ago that I would be spending a lot of time talking about generative AI, autonomous agents, data, and enterprise architecture, I would have said, ‘Wrong executive, you should be talking to tech’. But now I spend a lot of my days thinking about these things.
Cigna Group has built a Finance Data Office, with the aim of connecting data throughout the organization. For example, the data in sustainability reports or financial statements can now be connected back to the accounting, operational, and transactional data. Dennison...
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