EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Modernizing CapEx for the AI Era

Rethinking Project Evaluation in an Uncertain Environment

 

  • 📅 28th May 2026
  • 🏢 12-Micron in Sydney
  • 🕒 12:00 – 3:00 PM AEST

EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Modernizing CapEx for the AI Era

Rethinking Project Evaluation in an Uncertain Environment

 

  • 📅 28th May 2026
  • 🏢 12-Micron in Sydney
  • 🕒 12:00 – 3:00 PM AEST

EXECUTIVE ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

Modernizing CapEx
for the AI Era

Rethinking Project Evaluation in an Uncertain Environment

  • 📅 28th May 2026
  • 🏢 12-Micron in Sydney
  • 🕒 12:00 – 3:00 PM AEST

Join face-to-face with industry leaders

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The Challenge of Evaluating AI Projects

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping capital-intensive industries. Yet many finance leaders are still expected to evaluate AI-enabled initiatives using capital investment frameworks designed for predictable, asset-heavy projects.

AI investments often involve uncertain timelines, evolving cost structures, cross-functional impact, and benefits that extend beyond traditional ROI metrics. For CFOs and finance executives, this raises a critical question: how do you allocate capital with discipline while supporting investments that may not fit conventional evaluation models?

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Prepare Business Cases for Project Evaluation

10-15 Senior Executives

Perform Scenario-based Sensitivity Analysis

Superb 3-Course Lunch

100% Peer-level Dialogue

What You Can Expect

This executive roundtable will bring together senior finance leaders to share perspectives on how capital investment evaluation is evolving in response to AI-driven transformation. The discussion will explore how finance executives are approaching AI investment decisions, balancing innovation with financial discipline, and adapting capital planning frameworks to support greater transparency, agility, and strategic alignment.

Topics may include the changing nature of AI investment evaluation, lessons from early AI initiatives, and how capital allocation processes may need to evolve as AI becomes embedded across business operations.

Key Discussion Themes

1. The AI Investment Landscape

How is the current wave of AI innovation influencing the types of investments finance leaders are being asked to evaluate? What opportunities and risks are emerging across different industries?

2. Lessons from Early AI Projects

For finance executives who have already approved AI-related projects, how closely have outcomes aligned with the original business case? What lessons have emerged around timelines, cost structures, and realized benefits?

3. Balancing Innovation with Financial Discipline

How do finance leaders balance the need to invest in strategic innovation while maintaining capital discipline and accountability to shareholders?

4. Evaluating AI Business Cases

When AI initiatives involve uncertain timelines, evolving cost structures, and cross-functional impact, how can finance leaders build business cases that committees can confidently evaluate?

5. Modernizing Capital Planning Processes

Many finance teams acknowledge that traditional, spreadsheet-based capital planning processes are struggling to keep pace with AI-driven investment cycles. How should capital planning frameworks evolve to support faster, more strategic investment decisions?

6. The Future of Capital Allocation

Looking ahead, how do finance leaders expect capital allocation models to change as AI becomes embedded across operations, technology platforms, and business processes?

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Discussion Leaders

Richard Frykberg

Richard Frykberg

Chief Executive Officer at IQX Business Solutions

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Richard Frykberg is Chief Executive Officer of IQX Business Solutions and a specialist in capital investment governance and enterprise financial systems. With more than 30 years’ experience working with large, complex organizations, he has helped finance leaders modernize how capital investments are evaluated, prioritized, and governed.

A Chartered Accountant by training, Richard has spent much of his career working at the intersection of finance, technology, and operational governance. His work focuses on designing frameworks that improve capital project evaluation, portfolio prioritization, and the integration of investment decision-making with core financial systems.

Through his leadership at IQX and the development of solutions such as Stratex Online, Richard brings a practical perspective on modernizing CapEx processes to improve investment outcomes, strengthen governance, and support more dynamic capital allocation.

Grant Slinger

Grant Slinger

Chief Operations Officer at IQX Business Solutions

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Grant Slinger is Chief Operations Officer at IQX Business Solutions, where he works with finance, IT, and operational leaders to strengthen the governance and execution of critical business processes, with a particular focus on capital investment management, project execution and enterprise decision-making.

With more than two decades of experience supporting large organizations through operational and financial transformation initiatives, Grant has helped companies introduce greater discipline and transparency into complex processes such as capital investment evaluation, supplier governance and project controls. His work focuses on automating and structuring business processes so that organizations can improve oversight, support better capital allocation decisions and ensure that approved investments are executed with stronger governance and accountability.

Grant also brings deep experience working within SAP-based enterprise environments, where many organizations manage their financial governance and operational processes. Through this work he has been closely involved in helping organizations translate financial policies, investment controls and approval frameworks into practical, system-driven processes that improve visibility, strengthen governance and support more informed decision-making across the business.

Venue and Event Summary

Venue

12-Micron (Private Dining Room)
Tower 1, Level 2/100 Barangaroo Ave, Barangaroo NSW 2000

Time

Suggested Arrival Time: 12:00 PM (AEST)
Start Time: 12:30 PM (AEST)
Finish Time: 3:00 PM (AEST)

Food and Drinks

Enjoy a three-course culinary experience coupled with local wines provided by IQX | Stratex Online. Welcome drinks are available on arrival.

Venue and Event Summary