2026 Roundtable for Chief Business Officers

This in-person roundtable for chief business officers focuses on addressing the most urgent challenges facing business and finance leaders in higher education today. Attendees will engage in dynamic, executive-level discussions covering key topics such as the financial state of the sector, the future of financial planning (including professionalizing financial planning functions, shifting to multi-year budgeting, and communicating financial metrics to academic decision-makers), strategies for making meaningful change within shared governance (reviewing implementation frameworks, confirming next steps, and creating enforceable action plans), and the future workforce in the context of rising labor costs and demographic decline (emphasizing automation/AI, shared and scaled services, position control, and talent upskilling). An optional session on the Edify data platform will also be available.