Premier one-day CFO conference celebrates 23rd year offering insights and expertise from MIT Faculty and leading financial executives
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., October 01, 2025–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The MIT Sloan CFO Summit, the premier conference for CFOs, celebrates its 23rd anniversary connecting senior financial leaders across a broad mix of businesses and sectors. The nation’s preeminent one-day CFO conference, to be held Thursday, November 20, 2025, attracts 400+ CFOs and senior financial executives.
With its theme of “Change Management: How CFOs Lead, Structure, and Manage Change,” the conference features panel sessions that include AI Do’s and Don’ts; Beyond Business Basics; CFO Career Paths; Focus & Flex for Change; Risk & Resilience; and Tech Talk: Evaluating New Software.
“We are very deliberate in offering topics and speakers who can address the challenges and opportunities faced by today’s CFOs,” said Jeremy Seidman, Executive Chair of the MIT Sloan CFO Summit. “In turn, our CFO audience knows the value of being in the room with best-in-class leaders sharing their real-world experiences.”
Founded in 2002, the event brings together financial executives and leading faculty from MIT to learn and discuss high level strategies, practical insights and the integration of knowledge, experience and creativity. This year’s speaker line-up includes CFOs from Alnylam, Boston Dynamics, Fundrise, Itaú Unibanco, Navan, Pegasystems, Rocket Software, Swoop, XPO and more.
Conference highlights include:
Morning fireside chat with Nelson Repenning, Distinguished Professor of Organization Studies, MIT Sloan and Jason Child, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, Arm Holdings
Special presentation of The Compass Within: Core Values, Robert Glazer, Chief Executive Officer, Acceleration Partners
Keynote panel featuring Walden Siew, Bureau Chief, CFO Journal/The Wall in conversation with John Dietrich, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, FedEx and Scott Roe, Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer, Tapestry
Closing keynote conversation with Eric So, Distinguished Professor of Global Economics and Behavioral Science, MIT Sloan and Jeff Hoffmeister, Chief Financial Officer, Shopify
About the MIT Sloan CFO Summit
The MIT Sloan CFO Summit is the nation’s premier CFO event. Started in 2002, the Summit brings together leading faculty from MIT and financial executives from around the world. The annual event offers a day of practical education, peer networking and thought-provoking discourse on the future of finance, accounting, and business. The day includes presentations, panels, keynote speakers and networking. The Summit is part of the CXO Series produced by the MIT Sloan School of Management, one of the world’s leading academic sources of innovation in management theory and practice, and the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association. The annual events, organized by alumni volunteers, promote the MIT philosophy of “mens et manus,” or “mind and hand,” by bringing together the academic research from MIT Sloan with today’s corporate leaders. For more information and to register, visit www.mitcfo.com.