Why Attend the EPM Summit?
As an EPM decision-maker or influencer, you’re navigating a pivotal shift: legacy platforms like SAP BPC and BFC nearing end-of-support, while AI agents, predictive analytics, and orchestration tools redefine what’s possible. The EPM Summit—hosted by Darwin Analytics at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, February 17–20, 2026—is the only event purpose-built to accelerate your modernization journey with unbiased, immersive insights across the full EPM ecosystem.
Why This Moment—and This Event—Matters
The market is transforming fast. Organizations are reevaluating tools not just for replacement, but for true AI-driven agility in planning, forecasting, and decision-making. The Summit compresses months of fragmented research into four high-impact days—including a dedicated Hands-On Day (February 17)—letting you explore, test, and refine your strategy alongside peers facing the same challenges.
What Makes the EPM Summit Truly Unique
This vendor-neutral immersion brings together an unmatched concentration of leading EPM vendors, expert consultants, and practicing customers—all focused exclusively on elevating performance management. This density creates elevated, high-impact discussions you simply can’t replicate elsewhere:
You have options for professional development, but most fall short of the focused, EPM-specific value you need:
What You’ll Take Away
Register now and secure your spot.
As an EPM decision-maker or influencer, you’re navigating a pivotal shift: legacy platforms like SAP BPC and BFC nearing end-of-support, while AI agents, predictive analytics, and orchestration tools redefine what’s possible. The EPM Summit—hosted by Darwin Analytics at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, February 17–20, 2026—is the only event purpose-built to accelerate your modernization journey with unbiased, immersive insights across the full EPM ecosystem.
Why This Moment—and This Event—Matters
The market is transforming fast. Organizations are reevaluating tools not just for replacement, but for true AI-driven agility in planning, forecasting, and decision-making. The Summit compresses months of fragmented research into four high-impact days—including a dedicated Hands-On Day (February 17)—letting you explore, test, and refine your strategy alongside peers facing the same challenges.
What Makes the EPM Summit Truly Unique
This vendor-neutral immersion brings together an unmatched concentration of leading EPM vendors, expert consultants, and practicing customers—all focused exclusively on elevating performance management. This density creates elevated, high-impact discussions you simply can’t replicate elsewhere:
- Hands-On Exploration Without the Sales Hurdle: Skip the endless qualification calls and scripted demos. Dive straight into interactive workshops, live product sessions, and the full Hands-On Day—testing real capabilities across multiple platforms on your terms and uncovering practical fit instantly.
- Many-to-Many Intelligence: Peers + Vendors + Consultants in One Dynamic Space: Traditional evaluations are isolated and one-sided. Here, multiple customers, vendors, and independent consultants converge, sparking layered conversations. Peers pose battle-tested questions, consultants provide objective benchmarks, and vendors respond in real time—exposing nuances, refining requirements, and revealing blind spots no solo RFP can match.
- Elevate AI-in-EPM Discussions to Breakthrough Levels: The rare convergence of EPM-focused vendors, seasoned consultants, and end-user practitioners creates a perfect storm for advancing AI processes. Single-vendor views limit you to isolated features; here, ideas are stress-tested across platforms and expertise. Watch a predictive forecasting use case from one tool inspire orchestration enhancements in another, or see consultants challenge AI agent implementations with real-world consolidation constraints. These concentrated, multi-stakeholder dialogues accelerate innovation—turning “what’s possible in brochures” into tailored, high-impact process evolutions that drive measurable accuracy, speed, and insight.
- Peer-Driven Roadmaps and Unfiltered Insights: Network with practitioners who’ve migrated, scaled, and innovated. Gain candid war stories on integrations, ROI realities, and AI pitfalls—plus exclusive one-on-one advisory sessions with BPM Partners analysts.
- Experience Real Innovation in Action: Nominate challenges, witness live demos, and vote in the inaugural EPMies Awards, where vendor-consultant teams solve attendee-defined problems—showcasing what’s truly possible today.
You have options for professional development, but most fall short of the focused, EPM-specific value you need:
- Single-Vendor User Conferences: These events spotlight one platform’s strengths and roadmap, while glossing over weaknesses, undeveloped features, or opportunities to enhance processes with complementary tools from elsewhere. If you’re exploring alternatives, optimizing a hybrid stack, or seeking unbiased process improvements, you’ll lack the broader perspective needed for strategic decisions.
- Generalist Finance or Accounting Conferences: Valuable for high-level trends, but they lack deep EPM dives into tools, workflows, and innovations. More critically, you’ll network with a mix of roles—accountants, auditors, controllers with varying EPM exposure—diluting conversations. At the EPM Summit, you’re surrounded by true peers: FP&A leaders, EPM managers, and finance teams doing your exact job, facing your precise challenges. They share proven approaches, real outcomes, pitfalls avoided, and shortcuts that directly accelerate your roadmap.
- Broad AI or Technical Conferences: AI is revolutionizing EPM, but generic events overwhelm with irrelevant sessions on non-finance applications. They neglect the specialized EPM context—budgeting cycles, consolidation processes, forecasting workflows—essential for deploying AI agents, machine learning, or predictive tools that deliver tangible value in planning and analytics.
What You’ll Take Away
- Refined requirements and a clearer, risk-mitigated roadmap.
- Breakthrough AI and process ideas tailored to your operations.
- Lasting connections with peers, experts, and partners.
- Confidence to champion transformation without months of vendor churn.
Register now and secure your spot.