London · 23 June 2026 · Limited seats
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Upcoming EventBusiness Breakfast
How CFOs get AI to work on data that was never built for it.
A private breakfast and networking in London for finance leaders.
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
8:30 – 11:00 BST
Rosewood London
Limited seats
About this breakfast
Why we are bringing this room together.
The CFO role is shifting. Boards want less time spent on closing and reconciling. CEOs want predictions, strategic input and decisions shaped before they are made. Most finance teams are caught between the two, and AI is supposed to be the answer, on data that was never built for it.
“My biggest problem isn't the tool that connects on top. It's how to guarantee the underlying data is correct.”
CFO, industrial services group · Prague, April 2026
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Program
The morning, start to finish.
8:30
30 min
Doors open
Coffee, breakfast, informal introductions.
9:00
40 min
Guest speaker sessions
Jiří Maňas · ex-CIO, Tesco
Guest CFO
Selected guests share first-hand experience from their own transformations: what the data work actually took, where AI is genuinely working today, and where the gaps still are. Part speaker session, part open discussion.
Between them, our guests have led data and finance transformations across more than 20 countries, connecting dozens of ERPs and cutting reporting time by more than half.
9:40
30 min
Coffee & open conversation
Stretch, refill and open conversations.
10:10
20 min
The steps that prepare your finance team for the AI era
Michal Hruška · Head of Solution Engineering, Keboola
Data consolidation across ERPs. Consolidated reporting across entities. AI agents that work on governed financial data. Live, with real examples from Home Credit and Creditinfo.
10:30
30 min
Open conversation
The agenda ends here. Questions, reactions, comparisons from your own context. The conversation goes where the room takes it.
Jiří Maňas
CTO, Keboola · Ex-CIO, Tesco
The person who ran the data and technology spine of Tesco, Britain's largest retailer. Now building the platform that turns multi-entity ERP data into something AI can actually read.
Also helped transform one of Europe's leading pan-European logistics real estate companies, P3 Logistic Parks, consolidating financial data across 11 countries and 14 systems in 8 weeks alongside the existing ERP.
Keboola team in the room
Michal Hruška
Head of Solution Engineering, Keboola
Built and led Financial Intelligence at Home Credit across 12+ markets. Translates platform reality into how Keboola lands inside complex finance functions.
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Štěpán Pittauer
Financial Intelligence Consultant
Hands-on lead behind Keboola's finance deliveries for Home Credit and Creditinfo. Specialist in governance, semantic models and certified reporting outputs.
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Martin Lepka
CMO, Keboola
Runs marketing and demand at Keboola. Last six months in 1-on-1 conversations with finance leaders across the UK, DACH and CEE. Curated this exact group of people around one table.
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From previous events.
We see the CFO role shifting in every room we walk into. Boards want less time spent closing books and reconciling numbers. CEOs want a finance leader who predicts, challenges assumptions, and helps shape decisions before they are made. The gap between those two demands lands squarely on the finance team.
We have taken this conversation into rooms across the US, Prague and London. Here is what we have been hearing.
01
The question changed
70% of CFOs ranked AI for financial workflows a top-3 priority for the next six months. The question is no longer if. It is how.
02
The accuracy gap
A CFO showed us a year-end cash forecast that was 30% off, because the data sat in OLAP cubes built for humans, not for AI.
03
Excel is not the enemy
The pain is not the spreadsheet. It is that numbers do not match across ERP, BI, and the board pack.
04
CFOs are quietly building
Roughly a third are personally using Claude, Claude Code, or Cursor, bypassing IT entirely.
05
Working AI beats AI
Most attendees had already tried AI on finance data and watched it not work. That shared experience is what made the conversation real.
The venue
Rosewood London.
A private dining room reserved for the morning. Grade II listed landmark in the heart of Holborn, two minutes from the tube and a short walk from the City.
Organised by
Keboola.
2008
Founded in Prague
70%
Reduction in FP&A reporting time at Home Credit
8w
To first value alongside existing ERPs
Since 2008, Keboola has helped organisations turn complex financial data into reliable decisions. We organise this breakfast because it is the conversation we have with finance leaders every week. We thought it deserved a better setting.
The platform behind this work is Keboola Financial Intelligence, built specifically for finance teams running multi-entity organisations. It consolidates data across ERPs, governs it, and creates the layer that AI can actually work with.
Backed by Viking Global Investors · vikingglobal.com
Finance teams that trust Keboola
In collaboration with
This breakfast is brought to the London finance community in partnership with Global Tech Advocates — Future of Work, a community connecting senior finance and technology leaders across the UK.
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