Why CwX 2026 is the can't-miss event for audit and accounting leaders

Nearly a year ago, I had the pleasure of hard-launching my tenure as Caseware’s CMO at CwX, our flagship event experience designed to unite top firms, industry authorities and technology pioneers. This preceded a global CwX series, that circled the globe, with each event improving over the next. We featured inspiring speakers like AI expert Yves Bollinger at CwX Germany, and EY Oceania Digital Assurance Leader Christina Larkin in Australia, finally wrapping with three-time kickboxing world champion Remy Bonjasky in the Netherlands and I'm still riding the wave. Hundreds of accounting professionals sharing success stories, diving into breakthrough product innovations and asking the kind of passionate, curious questions that only come from people who truly live and breathe this work every day. For me, that's the magic of CwX: technological innovation meets genuine human connection, refreshingly honest insight and a shared hunger to tackle real challenges and propel the profession forward together.

And now? We're already looking ahead to the next chapter.

Lessons from CwX 2025: AI, a seamless platform & guided transformation

We at Caseware believe the best roadmaps are built when real conversations with the practitioners who use our software every day engage with technology innovators. Across every region this year, three things came through clearly: you want AI you can trust, a platform solves for your end-to-end workflow in the #agentic age, and practical guidance on bringing your teams through transformative change, not just the technology pitch, but the human reality of it.

Some of the most compelling moments didn't happen on stage. They happened in tech lounges and hallway conversations, in the questions people asked when the formal sessions wrapped and the room relaxed. That candor about talent pressures, messy data, and the relentless pace of change is exactly what shapes our direction.

Your insights don't just inform our roadmap. They are our roadmap.  

Introducing CwX 2026: InnovAtIon in motion, Advancing your firm into the agentic age

CwX 2026 comes to the Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 21–22, 2026 (with pre-conference programming beginning May 20).

The theme, Innovation in Motion: Advancing your firm into the agentic age, isn't just a tagline. It reflects exactly where the profession stands right now: AI has moved from conversation to implementation, engagements are being reimagined from end to end, and the leaders who are pulling ahead are the ones who've figured out how to bring their people along for the ride confidently, even when the ground keeps shifting. That's what CwX 2026 is built around.  

AI+HI inspiration you won’t want to miss

More than just a beautiful beachfront venue, CwX brings together an extraordinary line-up of speakers who reflect the depth and ambition of that theme.

Colonel Eileen Collins will take the mainstage as our headline keynote. As the first woman to pilot and command a NASA Space Shuttle, and the first space shuttle pilot to lead a team after the Columbia disaster, Eileen knows something about operating at the frontier of disruption  analytics and process,  and where trust and leadership are the only options. Her story is one of precision, courage and the kind of mission-driven focus that resonates deeply with firms navigating their own transformation journeys right now.

Joe Lazer is the best-selling author of The Storytelling Edge and his latest book, Super Skill: Why Storytelling Is the Superpower of the AI Age, which makes his presence at CwX 2026 feel less like a booking and more like a thesis statement. Joe's core argument is one this audience will recognize immediately: as AI takes on more of the technical load, the leaders who win will be the ones who can communicate with clarity, earn trust and bring people with them. At CwX, he'll be speaking directly to the question that keeps coming up in every firm conversation we have: not whether to adopt AI, but how to lead people through it.

Combined with leadership panels, hands-on training tracks and the return of the CwXpo exhibit hall, featuring live demos and interactive partner kiosks, this is shaping up to be our most exciting event yet.

And yes, there's also sunshine

And yes, setting is part of the appeal. The Marriott Harbor Beach puts the Atlantic Ocean directly outside your window. Between sessions, between conversations, between the moments that will reshape how your firm thinks about AI and audit workflows, you'll have ocean breezes, warm evenings and a backdrop that makes it just a little easier to think big. Bring your family or friends and stay a little longer!  

Pack something lighter than your usual conference attire.

The real heart of CwX is you

CwX isn't just the keynotes or the product demos, it's the incredible generosity of the people in the room. Leaders freely share hard-won lessons. Practitioners compare notes on what's actually working. Customers give us feedback that genuinely reshapes our direction.

Transformation doesn't happen just because of software. Real change comes from the people who use it, the processes that evolve around it and the leadership that drives it forward. CwX is where all of that comes together.

We can't wait to see you in Fort Lauderdale.

Register for CwX 2026 → https://reg.eventmobi.com/cwx-2026/register  

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