Sage Future 2026 brought thousands of finance leaders together to explore what it takes to lead in the AI era. Explore the highlights from Sage Future in San Francisco.
"In finance, nearly right is wrong. The question isn't whether AI matters. The question is how do you use it in a way that you can really trust?"
Steve Hare
CEO, Sage
"Not a black box. A glass box. For Sage, transparency isn’t a feature, it’s a design principle."
Aaron Harris
CTO, Sage
"AI can be a tool or a weapon. Anything you can do to make it help humanity is always the best business."
Kara Swisher
Tech Journalist
"Finance is the connective tissue within the organization. Our ability to make decisions quickly is extremely important—and that requires information I can trust in real time."
Scott Krug
Senior Vice President & CFO, New York Yankees
The AI Trust Label is the first of its kind in the industry: clear, accessible information about exactly how AI works across Sage products: compliance standards, data use, safeguards, and accuracy monitoring.
Now live in Sage Intacct for tens of thousands of customers.
The Finance Intelligence Agent for Sage Intacct lets finance teams ask questions in plain language and get instant answers from their own financial data, then act on those answers directly within their existing workflows.
Every recommendation delivers clear reasoning and the supporting data behind it, allowing users to challenge, verify, or override outputs. No black box. Just finance-grade AI.
Finance leaders today are spending more than 15 hours a week manually validating AI-generated outputs. That's time AI was supposed to give back. Our research with IDC explores the real economic impact of agentic AI inside modern finance and what it takes to close the gap between AI's promise and finance leaders' trust in it.
Chicago | 27-29 April
