AI Agents in Finance with HPE's Chief Financial Officer (CFO) | CXOTalk 914
About this episode
Marie Myers discusses the deployment of agentic AI in finance and how to measure its business value.
Marie Myers, Chief Financial Officer of HPE, explains how she measures business value while deploying agentic AI across a 3,600-person finance organization. Her framework separates direct ROI from indirect value (speed, accuracy, fewer errors) and the operating requirements that make finance AI trustworthy at scale. YOU'LL DISCOVER ✅ How Myers separates direct ROI from indirect value, including speed, accuracy, and lower error rates ✅ Why determinism was "foundational" for finance AI, and why HPE co-engineered with Nvidia NIMs to achieve consistent answers across half a million data elements ✅ What "human in the loop" means in practice, and why accountability stays with finance leaders ✅ How Alfred (built on Deloitte's Zora platform) moved from transactional workflows to core finance operating rhythms like HPE's weekly ops call ✅ Why clean, reconciled data and a strong data layer are prerequisites for enterprise AI ✅ How HPE redesigned FP&A workflows, centralized the team, and pushed "one source of truth" before layering in agents ✅ How Myers thinks about agile experimentation, stage gates, and when to stop AI investments that will not pay off ✅…
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