The Beat of Finance Transformation at Accounting Summit 2025

Digital transformation is changing accounting faster than many expected. Breakthroughs in AI, mounting sustainability reporting demands, and constantly shifting regulations are pushing finance leaders to rethink how they work and how quickly they can adapt.  

In this environment, the Accounting Summit is a key platform where CFOs, financial controllers, automation experts, and technology leaders come together to dig into these challenges, share strategies, and explore what’s next for the future of finance.

On September 3–4, we’re back at Areal Böhler in Düsseldorf for the Accounting Summit, another highlight of our year and, in our CEO’s words, “a class reunion” for the industry. Hypatos is excited to join again as an exhibitor, reconnecting with familiar faces while introducing fresh insights. Once more, we’re ready to contribute our vision for how AI is redefining financial operations.

Industry Trends and Challenges

The accounting industry is changing fast, shaped by breakthroughs in technology, growing demands for sustainability reporting, and ever-changing regulations.  

According to Gartner, in 2024, 58% of finance functions were already using AI (up 21 points from 2023), a clear signal that CFOs are moving beyond hesitation and actively embracing AI’s impact on efficiency, error detection, analytics, and process autonomy.

As CFOs navigate rapid technological change, shifting regulations, and rising sustainability  demands, the Accounting Summit offers a space to exchange strategies and gain clarity.

This is where Hypatos makes the difference demonstrating how APA can transform operations and deliver process autonomy. Through our summit sessions and demos, we guide attendees through the state of the technology today, its future potential, and proven examples of early adopters achieving substantial efficiency improvements.

Exploring the ideas driving change in Accounting

The Summit is where CFOs, shared service leaders, transformation officers, and automation experts explore what’s truly possible when new technologies like Agentic AI are applied to Finance. It’s an exciting journey into the future of accounting and finance, offering a transformative experience for all attendees.

For GBS professionals, this is an opportunity to:

• Discover how AI agents are already being used to autonomously manage tasks like invoice matching, reconciliation, and compliance.

• Learn how Agentic Process Automation (APA) is solving challenges that traditional RPA and workflows cannot like adaptability, exception handling, and reasoning.

• Meet industry peers and benchmark your automation journey against leading enterprises, including Universal Pictures, whose Vice President Finance International, Ralph Tübben, is among the high-profile attendees.  
  Joining the line up, our CRO will take the stage to share practical insights on how Finance leaders can confidently manage teams composed of both people and AI coworkers.

With over 2,000 attendees, 200+ exhibitors, and 215+ expert speakers, Accounting Summit 2025 is the place to dive into key sessions, explore hands-on demos, learn form practical case studies, and network with the leaders shaping the future of finance.

At Hypatos, we believe progress happens when humans and technology truly understand each other. That’s why our AI agents are designed not just to process millions of business transactions quickly, but to do it with full context, flawless compliance, and without constant human oversight. The result? Reduced time spent on corrections and greater focus on the initiatives that move your business forward.  

Within the summit’s panel discussions, courses, and networking opportunities, Hypatos brings a decisive lens on what’s next for finance: Agentic Process Automation (APA).  

APA uses AI agents that work autonomously to manage and complete entire business processes, delivering process autonomy across functions like Accounts Payable, Order Management, and Customer Service. Our sessions and demos cut through basic AI to show where the technology stands today, where it’s headed, and how early adopters are already realizing faster, more accurate, and more adaptive operations.

Our focus this year is to show how AI Agents can fundamentally change the way finance teams work. Designed for large organizations that handle huge volumes of transactions, our technology helps move away from slow, manual bookkeeping by letting Agentic AI take care of the repetitive and complex tasks, like invoice processing and reconciliation, with little to no human involvement.

Managing Your New AI Accounting Team: How to Lead, Monitor, and Optimize Performance of AI Coworkers

This year at the Accounting Summit, Luca van Skyhawk, CRO at Hypatos, will deliver an action focused session on how Finance leaders can confidently manage teams made up of both people and AI coworkers.  

As AI agents take on more of the heavy lifting, from data ingestion to account matching and payment execution, leaders need to adapt their approach to ensure smooth collaboration, high performance, and trust in AI-driven decisions.  

In this interactive session, attendees will experience live demos of Hypatos’s newest VAT Compliance Agent and Account Matching Agent, seeing in real time how these technologies transform processes such as invoice reconciliation and cash application.  

Key Highlights:

• Best practices for leading hybrid human-and-AI accounting teams

• Using analytics and KPIs to monitor and optimize AI performance

• Ensuring AI transparency, explainability, and trustworthy reasoning

• Leveraging multi-agent conversation analysis to boost compliance and audit-readiness

• Building your AI business case and navigating pricing and vendor selection

You’ll also learn practical methods to track AI performance, interpret multi-agent conversations, ensure compliance, and make a rock solid business case for AI adoption, complete with guidance on vendor evaluation, pricing, and ROI measurement.

Stay connected with us throughout the Accounting Summit! Visit booth #J4 to see our AI Agents in action, and don’t hesitate to reach out with your questions or to schedule a personalized demo.

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