Seats at CFO Nexus are limited, because the quality of conversation depends on the right people being in the room.
This is a space where finance leaders can speak frankly, among peers who face the same decisions.
Register your interest to join the conversation.
You have sat through enough vendor pitches and monologues that had little relevance to your actual challenges.
CFO Nexus is built for something different … a room where mid-market CFOs and finance leaders benchmark themselves against peers, pressure-test their hardest decisions, and have the frank, senior-level conversations that simply don’t happen anywhere else.
No presentations dressed as insights. No theory disconnected from your Monday morning.
Just the dialogue your role demands.
Registration
Welcome Note:
RK, CEO, Nexus42
A short welcome to set the tone for the morning. Why this room, why now, and what everyone walks out with.
Opening Keynote:
The FY2027 Mandate for the Finance Leader. 7 Forces. 21 Moves. 9 Months to go in this FY.
RK, CEO, Nexus42
Enterprise problems, and a fraction of the resources. The cyber loss was IT’s; the AI spend someone else’s budget. Now the board asks finance for the numbers on both, and on the cash, the hurdle rate, the supplier that might not last the year. Bigger remit, same team, money that costs more. Not a showcase, not a tour of headlines … a room doing your job, against your deadlines, comparing what works. You leave with moves, not random notes.
Scorekeeper to architect. The same FY2027 agenda as the ASX 200, on a fraction of the resources. Speed is the advantage. Seven forces, three moves each: the role, AI, data, cyber, volatility, capital, talent. 21 moves. 10 months. Not headlines. What 107 mid-market finance leaders told us, January to July 2026. Everything this morning maps to these forces.
Solution Partner Panel: The Connected, AI-Ready, Defensible Finance Function
The keynote hands you the mandate. This panel is the build side that makes it real; the AI that acts on your numbers, the security that defends them, the data that connects them, the systems they run on. Four partners. One stack. No pitches. Each takes the room through the questions a mid-market CFO is actually carrying.
AI
Cybersecurity
Data & Integration
Systems & Technology
Morning Tea
CFO Panel: The Finance Leaders Agenda
The solution partner panel told you what is possible. This one tells you what is real.
The NeXchange
Every other session has someone at the front who came prepared. This one does not.
The questions go up on screen, one at a time, and the answers come live from the floor. The hard ones. The questions finance leaders turn over on the drive home and never say out loud in public. Where are you really with AI? What aren’t you telling the board? Where are you behind?
You hear how a room of your peers actually answers, and you learn, fast, where you sit against them. No theory, no vendor, no safe answer. The room, talking to the room. The most honest thirty minutes of the year, and the reason most people come back.
Lunch and Networking
Every solution provider at CFO Nexus is here because they passed our curation process, not merely because they paid for a slot.
We select partners whose expertise maps directly to the functional challenges mid-market finance leaders are navigating right now: FP&A, ERP transformation, tax complexity, cash flow visibility and GRC. If it’s not relevant to you, it doesn’t make the room.
By involving partners in our agenda design from the start, not as sponsors but as subject matter contributors, we ensure their knowledge addresses real problems rather than manufactured ones.
They are here to build relationships and help you make better technology and advisory decisions. Not to close a deal on the day.
Your dedicated partner at Peninsula, Leanne Avery supports NDIS providers across Australia with trusted Employment Relations and Workplace Health and Safety expertise. Backed by Peninsula’s deep experience in the disability services sector, Leanne delivers end-to-end support including HR and WHS advisory, workforce obligations, unlimited tailored documentation, and unlimited 24-hour support.
NDIS providers benefit from tailored guidance on interpreting the SCHADS award, managing employee relations, contracts, policies, and Fair Work obligations, ensuring service continuity and reduced legal risk. Through Peninsula’s 24/7 dedicated Health Care Providers advice line and proactive approach, Leanne helps providers focus on care delivery while safeguarding their teams and operations. As the NDIS landscape evolves, Leanne offers clarity, confidence, and consistency for providers navigating complex employment obligations.
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No, and that’s the founding principle of CFO Nexus. Every partner in the room has been selected for functional relevance to mid-market finance challenges, not for their marketing budget. Partners contribute to the agenda as subject matter experts, not as presenters buying airtime. The peer roundtable and keynote sessions are entirely independent of partner involvement. If a session doesn’t serve the finance leaders in the room, it doesn’t make the agenda.
Attendees are mid-market CFOs, Finance Directors, Financial Controllers and Senior Finance Managers from Australian-based businesses, typically operating between $50M and $500M in revenue. Numbers are strictly capped to protect the seniority and quality of conversation. This is not a 150 person conference. Every registration is reviewed to ensure the right composition of the room.
The sessions are built around the decisions mid-market finance leaders are navigating right now … margin compression, automation investment, ERP complexity, cash flow visibility and board-level reporting. Speakers bring real cases and honest numbers from their own organisations. You won’t receive a slide deck of frameworks you already know. You will leave with peer-validated perspectives you can apply immediately.
Because the challenges facing a CFO running a $50M business are fundamentally different from those facing a Big 4 enterprise or an early-stage startup, and most finance events are built for one of those two extremes. Mid-market finance leaders deal with enterprise-level complexity without enterprise-level resources. This event is built specifically for that reality, which is why the conversation in the room is more relevant and more actionable than at a general finance conference.
The agenda is built around the issues mid-market finance leaders are dealing with in 2026; AI acceleration and what it actually means for finance teams, margin compression and how peers are responding, ERP and systems transformation, automation and productivity, and the evolving role of finance in board-level strategy. Sessions are practitioner-led, not vendor-driven, and the peer roundtable gives attendees the ability to shape the conversation in the room.
CFO Nexus is designed for mid-market CFOs, Finance Directors, Heads of Finance, Financial Controllers and Senior Finance Managers. If you own or influence financial strategy, budgets or transformation in a business operating between roughly $50M and $500M in revenue, this event is built for you. If you’re from a large enterprise or a vendor organisation, this event is not the right fit, and we would rather be honest about that upfront.
Please complete the registration form on this page with your name, company and job title. Places are subject to approval to ensure the right composition of attendees. You’ll receive a confirmation email within 24 hours along with the full agenda and event details. If you have any questions before registering, contact us directly.
Yes. Morning tea and lunch are provided. The day runs from 9:30 AM through to approximately 1:30 PM, giving you the afternoon back.
Please note your requirements in the registration form or contact us directly after registering. We’ll confirm all arrangements with you ahead of the event. Our venue is fully accessible.
CFO Nexus is complimentary for qualified finance leaders. Places are limited and subject to registration approval to ensure the right mix of seniority and function in the room. If your registration is approved, you’ll receive confirmation within 24 hours.
We will be completely candid about how Nexus42 works.
CFO Nexus has commercial relationships with its partners. The sponsorship from our partners helps make the event possible. We do not pretend otherwise. What that money does not buy … is the agenda.
Our Head of Programs and Content, RK, decides who speaks, what is discussed, and which sessions make the cut, on a single test:
Does it help the leaders in this room make a better decision?
Our organisational mission is to enable better decision making across Australian organisations. This test enables our mission.
The partners are in the room because their expertise is genuinely relevant to enabling better decision making, and never because of what, or how much, they spend.
A partner’s support does not get them a script, a sales slot, or a say in the running order. If a session cannot earn its place on merit, it does not run.
That line between funding and content is the entire reason this room is worth your time.
