By Alexei Alexis
Publication Date: 2025-11-18 09:38:00
Artificial intelligence is already having an impact in corporate finance — but success depends on strategic and disciplined adoption.
It’s one of the central themes that emerged as senior finance leaders from major U.S. companies such as Alphabet, Meta, HP, IBM and ServiceNow highlighted lessons learned from some of their organizations’ AI initiatives during a virtual conference last week hosted by Financial Executives International.
The Nov. 11–13 event explored “challenges and emerging opportunities” reshaping modern finance teams, with AI dominating discussions on the third day.
“I think embedding responsible technology principles and governance from design to deployment to monitoring will really be a differentiator in the long term for companies,” Denise Lucas, a vice president and assistant controller at IBM, said during a Thursday panel discussion exploring strategic AI use cases across the finance…
