Karen Walker at Palm Beach CorpGov Forum: AI ROI Needs Agent Visibility

The panel put a CFO's lens on AI adoption rather than an engineer's. Karen Walker of Sysdig framed measurement and governance as a single problem: without knowing where agents run and what they do, a finance team has neither ROI nor oversight. That connects the two halves of the CFO's job, funding and control, which are often handled separately.

Candice Wilson of EisnerAmper offered a deliberately small starting point, funding the mundane and picking one process to show results in 90 days. The advice runs against large, enterprise-wide rollouts and suggests the panel saw scope discipline as the practical path to proving value.

Katie Creaser of ICR, the moderator, summed up the tension the panel returned to: adoption moves at a rapid pace but has to be safe, with too much critical data moving around organizations. For the CFOs in the room, the session treated visibility and safety as preconditions for the ROI conversation, not afterthoughts.