Name: IBM's Transformation Edge: A C-Suite Reinvention Series hosted by theCUBE and IBM
Start: 2026-06-16T11:30:00.000Z
End: 2026-06-16T11:35:00.000Z

Modern finance is shifting from stewardship to a co-leadership role in AI strategy. During "IBM's Transformation Edge: A C-Suite Reinvention Series hosted by theCUBE and IBM," theCUBE examines how CFOs are using decision intelligence and IBM’s hybrid cloud to drive enterprise reinvention. Our analysts focus on the move from cost control to value creation, exploring how AI-led automation accelerates outcomes and long-term competitive advantage. Don’t miss theCUBE’s coverage for the full discussion.

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Reinventing the Enterprise — Together

An exclusive C‑suite series on cross‑functional leadership, AI‑driven transformation and enterprise reinvention.

As AI fundamentally redefines how enterprises operate, leadership alignment has never been more essential. The C‑suite must collaborate and reimagine how strategy, talent, data and operations come together and drive enterprise transformation.

Leveraging IBM’s “client-zero” experience, this series brings CFOs, CHROs and CIOs together for unfiltered conversations on the AI inflection point. Learn how to turn disruption into competitive advantage.

Session 2 recap — The CHRO+CFO Partnership: Turning AI Ambition into Enterprise Performance

IBM CFO Jim Kavanaugh and CHRO Nickle LaMoreaux discuss why AI transformation depends on finance and talent leaders working from the same playbook. They explain how IBM connects investment strategy, workforce planning, skills development and operating models to turn AI productivity into measurable business value. The conversation also covers IBM’s Client Zero approach, intelligent workflows, workforce economics and the growing need to decide where technology should take on work and where human expertise matters most.

SiliconANGLE Article: Why AI is forcing the CFO and CHRO to rewrite the enterprise together There was a time when the org chart told you how the company worked. Finance managed capital. Human resources managed people. Information technology managed systems. Operations managed workflows. AI is blowing that model apart, creating a new discipline of “workforce economics,” where human talent, digital labor, technology investment and productivity increasingly have to be managed as one interconnected system.

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Community Interview – Scott Grossman, CFO, Ensono

As part of IBM’s Transformation Edge CXO community program, this interview brings a CFO lens to the AI-driven reinvention of the enterprise, featuring Scott Grossman of Ensono. He highlights how Ensono is embedding AI into its hybrid IT services to shift from reactive operations to predictive, revenue-generating models powered by its own “client zero” innovation approach. Grossman underscores the evolving role of the CFO — from cost controller to growth-oriented operator — balancing governance with experimentation while navigating new AI economics. Ultimately, he emphasizes that competitive advantage will come from integrating technology, talent and clients into a unified, AI-driven growth strategy.

The AI-era CFO: Why standing still is the riskiest move The AI-era CFO can no longer assume that waiting is the safest decision in business — protect the capital, study the market and let someone else absorb the early risk. That traditional playbook is becoming dangerous. AI is changing too quickly, spreading too broadly and cutting too deeply across the enterprise for leaders to wait until every cost is predictable and every return is guaranteed. The risk calculation has flipped. Inaction is no longer the conservative choice. It may be the most expensive one.

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Session 1 Recap — IBM's Transformation Edge: Why the Modern CFO Is Becoming the Enterprise’s AI Co-Architect

A unified C‑suite operates as a single leadership body with a shared mission: enterprise‑wide reinvention. Each role serves as a distinct — but interconnected — force in transformation.

The CFO is the agent of transformation, steering financial strategy, investment prioritization and value creation. TheCUBE sits down with SVP and CFO of IBM Jim Kavanaugh to discuss the changing role of the CFO.

Upcoming Sessions:

CHRO as the steward of culture, powering organizational skilling, adoption and workforce resilience
CIO as the technology orchestrator, aligning digital platforms, data and innovation to enable new operating models

IBM's Transformation Edge: Why the modern CFO is becoming the enterprise's Al co-architect There are moments in tech when the stack shifts. And then there are moments when everything shifts. This is the latter. After three decades in Silicon Valley — and now building a bridge between Palo Alto and the New York Stock Exchange — one thing is clear: This Al cycle isn't another wave like cloud or mobile. It's a full-system rewrite — of infrastructure, applications, operating models and now leadership.

Speakers

“IBM's Transformation Edge” convenes CFOs, CHROs and CIOs around the most critical topics shaping modern enterprise reinvention.

Hosted by SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s John Furrier and featuring IBM SVP and CFO Jim Kavanaugh

HOST

John Furrier

Co-Founder & Co-CEO

SiliconANGLE Media, Inc.

Jim Kavanaugh

IBM

SVP, CFO

Scott Grossman

CFO

Ensono