FEI Canada Annual Conference | Thu 0800 FEI Talks FloQast

Thu 0800 FEI Talks FloQast

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THURSDAY 8:00 AM

fei TALKS: FLOQAST

AI AGENTS IN ACTION: Empowering Accounting Teams With AI

Waseem Malik

National Sales Manager, Canada

FloQast

About the Speaker

Waseem Malik is the National Sales Leader at FloQast Canada with over a decade of experience across audit, corporate accounting, and financial technology. He began his career in the audit practice at EY, where he worked with a diverse range of clients, before transitioning into industry roles within the technology and software sectors. Having navigated the challenges of high-growth environments, Waseem has led global finance transformation projects and helped scale market leading SaaS companies in the Canadian market. Today, he leverages his deep domain expertise to help finance and accounting teams automate their workflows with AI and achieve greater operational excellence with FloQast.

About the Session

The accounting profession is at a turning point. It’s no longer just about addressing the talent shortage; it’s about reimagining how accountants work amidst a shifting workforce and growing complexity. Join FloQast for an eye-opening session that explores how purpose-built AI agents are transforming accounting operations. This isn’t generic, one-size-fits-all automation. It’s about intelligent, traceable workflows that auditors can trust. We’ll also do a live demo of FloQast Transform AI Agents, showing you firsthand how they save time, ensure control execution, and fit securely into your existing tech stack. Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how AI can empower accountants to move beyond manual tasks and step into the role of strategic business partners and trusted advisors.

Andrea Chrisman

Solutions Consultant

FloQuast

About the Speaker

Andrea Chrisman is a Solutions Consultant at FloQast with 12 years of combined prior audit and industry accounting experience. She began her career with over 4 years at KPMG in the audit practice working with both public and private clients, and then transitioned into corporate accounting in the software and technology industry for 8 years. Working in hyper-growth technology start-ups in the Bay Area, Andrea has done multiple ERP and ancillary software implementations and migrations and developed close processes from the ground up. Today she leverages this experience to bring consultative value to customers in scaling their accounting closes with FloQast. Andrea holds a degree from University of Oregon and is based in Bend, Oregon.

About the Session

Join FloQast for an eye-opening session that explores how purpose-built AI agents are transforming accounting operations. This isn’t generic, one-size-fits-all automation. It’s about intelligent, traceable workflows that auditors can trust. We’ll also do a live demo of FloQast Transform AI Agents, showing you firsthand how they save time, ensure control execution, and fit securely into your existing tech stack.

Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how AI can empower accountants to move beyond manual tasks and step into the role of strategic business partners and trusted advisors.

David Brassor

Managing Director, Consulting Services

RSM Canada

About the Speaker

David leads RSM Canada’s technology advisory practice. He has spent the last 28 years of his career working with clients globally in regard to technology execution, management, architecture, strategy and vision. David has led large, complex technology implementations both in the cloud and on-premise, and has been an interim/vCIO for numerous clients during his career which included the management of those organizations IT functions.

Prior to joining RSM in 2023, David worked at a global federal services company in the cloud first design practice in Canada and prior to that David was at a Big Four firm where he led the cloud and infrastructure practice and part of their global cloud leadership team.

Education

Carnegie Mellon University, cloud strategy
Amazon Web Services, AWS Partner Essentials
Data-driven re-Invention
Ryerson University, computer science

About the Session

Don’t miss this opportunity to discover how AI can empower accountants to move beyond manual tasks and step into the role of strategic business partners and trusted advisors.

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