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Accounting Thought Leaders Focus on Disruption and Future of Profession

The Thought Leader Symposium invites select professionals from around the world who are engaged in helping shape the profession. They are all widely-respected and are frequent speakers at accounting conferences.

Mar. 05, 2018

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The accounting profession faces massive disruption in the coming years through technologies like artificial intelligence, blockchain and automation, as well as rapidly changing tax and accounting laws and regulations. What will the profession look like in five or 10 years? What other dramatic changes are coming? What can professional do in the near term to ready themselves and their firms, and to maximize their potential advantage?

Nearly 30 of the most influential thought leaders in the accounting profession gathered for CPA Practice Advisor‘s 10th annual Thought Leader Symposium in Indianapolis, March 4-6. In groups, panel discussions, and presentations from leading technology providers, these visionaries discussed and fought out the issues that will most affect professional accounting firms.

The Thought Leader Symposium invites select professionals from around the world who are engaged in helping shape the profession. They are all widely-respected and are frequent speakers at accounting conferences.

“Each year, this amazing group of key leaders of the accounting profession get together for two days and magic happens,” said Gail Perry, CPA, Editor-in-Chief of CPA Practice Advisor. “Our sponsors make this possible: ADP, Avalara, Cetrom, Intuit and Sage, and the rest is up to the thought leaders to share ideas and help each other move the profession forward.”

The Symposium was held at the Rootworks Learning Center at the PNC Center in Indianapolis.  Representing technology companies at this year’s event are: Balz Wyss and Ray Bigley from Avalara; Amy Selich, Tish Gross, Heather Sperduto and Rhonda Volmuth from ADP; Jairam Padmanabhan and Ed Kless from Sage Software; and Barry MacQuarrie and David Bergstein for Intuit.

2018 CPA Practice Advisor Thought Leaders

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