AFP 2026 (Association for Financial Professionals Annual Conference): Overview & Attendee Guide

If treasury, payments, or FP&A is your world, AFP is the week the whole profession ends up in one building. AFP 2026, the Association for Financial Professionals Annual Conference, runs November 8-11, 2026 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. It's billed as the largest treasury and finance conference in the world, and in a normal year it draws north of 7,000 corporate finance, treasury, payments, risk, and FP&A professionals.

Quick disambiguation before you read further: this is the finance AFP (Association for Financial Professionals), not the fundraising one (Association of Fundraising Professionals, which runs AFP ICON). If you came here for treasury, payments, cash management, FP&A, or the CTP and FPAC credentials, you're in the right place. This guide covers the basics, who should actually go, the agenda by track, pricing with the current date windows, certification, hotels and travel, and how recurring finance reporting fits into the week.

TL;DR

• AFP 2026 is the Association for Financial Professionals Annual Conference, the largest treasury and finance event in the world, aimed at corporate treasury, payments, FP&A, and finance leaders.
• The basics: November 8-11, 2026, Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Las Vegas. 140+ sessions across treasury, payments and fraud, risk, FP&A, technology and AI, and leadership tracks, plus six keynotes and a large exhibit hall.
• Pricing: Early-bird (through June 26) is $1,399 member / $1,794 non-member for the full conference. Standard (through October 2) is $1,800 member / $2,195 non-member. Insider, team, and day-pass rates are lower (full table below).
• The agenda is live. Seven learning areas, industry roundtables, and CTP, FPAC, and CCM certification programming with CPE credit.
• For treasury and finance teams whose ERP, TMS, and BI data has to land in board decks, cash-position reports, and variance reviews, Rollstack automates that delivery layer, connecting your reporting tools to slide and document templates that refresh on schedule.

AFP 2026: The Basics

• Dates: November 8-11, 2026
• Venue: Mandalay Bay Convention Center
• Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
• Format: In-person; session recordings are typically available on-demand to members afterward via AFP's learning platform
• Full-conference ticket: $1,399 member / $1,794 non-member through June 26; $1,800 member / $2,195 non-member through October 2  
• Certification: Programming for CTP, FPAC, and CCM credential holders; CPE credits for eligible sessions
• Expected attendance: 7,000+ treasury, payments, and finance professionals
• Best for: Corporate treasurers, FP&A teams, payments and risk professionals, controllers, finance-systems and BI leads, CFOs

The full-conference badge covers the keynotes, all educational sessions and roundtables, the exhibit hall, networking events, and certification-eligible CPE sessions. Register or check the latest pricing at the official page: conference.financialprofessionals.org.

What is treasury and corporate finance reporting?

You know this part, so here's the short version. Treasury and corporate finance teams sit on a real data stack now: an ERP (SAP, Oracle, NetSuite), often a treasury management system, bank portals feeding cash and liquidity data, and an FP&A or BI layer (Power BI, Tableau, Anaplan, Pigment, Excel) that turns it into forecasts, variance analysis, and cash positions.

That stack is good at producing numbers. The problem is the last step. Every cycle, someone still rebuilds the board deck, the weekly cash-position report, the variance review, and the FP&A update by hand: export, paste into PowerPoint, reformat, check against last month. It's the slowest, least strategic part of a finance team's week, and the schedule never stops.

That's the gap Rollstack closes. It sits downstream of the ERP, TMS, and BI layer and turns trusted finance data into refreshed PowerPoint, Google Slides, Word, and Google Docs, whether that's a board deck, a liquidity report, or a financial reporting pack. For AFP attendees, the useful question isn't only "how do we get cleaner data?" It's "how does that data reach the room where the decision gets made, without eating two days of someone's month?"

What is the AFP Annual Conference?

The AFP Annual Conference is the flagship event of the Association for Financial Professionals, the certifying body behind the CTP (Certified Treasury Professional) and FPAC (Certified Corporate FP&A Professional) credentials. It's been the gathering point for corporate treasury and finance for decades, and it's the largest event of its kind worldwide.

The conference is deliberately practitioner-led and sales-free in the sessions: AFP markets the educational program as 140+ sessions delivered by working finance professionals rather than vendors. Content spans the full corporate-finance surface area, from cash management and capital markets to payments fraud, risk, FP&A, and the technology and AI reshaping the function. Around the sessions sits a large exhibit hall, industry-specific roundtables, certification programming, and the networking that genuinely is the reason a lot of people come back every year.

If your team holds CTPs or FPACs, this is also the event where a lot of CPE credit gets earned in one trip, and where the certification community gathers in person.

Is AFP the finance conference or the fundraising one?

Both organizations use the initials "AFP," and it trips people up every year. This guide is about the Association for Financial Professionals (treasury, payments, FP&A, corporate finance), whose annual conference is at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, November 8-11, 2026.

The other "AFP" is the Association of Fundraising Professionals, whose annual event is called AFP ICON and serves nonprofit fundraisers. Different organization, different audience, different event. If you're here for cash management, treasury, or FP&A, you want this one.

Who should attend AFP 2026?

AFP is broad, so the honest answer to "is this for me?" depends on your role. It's worth prioritizing for:

• Corporate treasurers and treasury analysts who manage cash, liquidity, bank relationships, debt, and investments and want practical sessions on capital markets, working capital, and treasury technology.
• FP&A professionals and finance managers focused on forecasting, budgeting, variance analysis, and the FPAC credential.
• Payments and fraud professionals dealing with payment operations, real-time payments, and fraud prevention, which is one of the most active tracks.
• Risk and controllership leaders who need to benchmark controls, compliance, and risk practices against peers.
• Finance-systems, FinOps, and BI leads responsible for the tooling and reporting that the rest of finance depends on.
• CFOs and finance VPs who care less about the mechanics and more about strategy, talent, and where the function is heading.
• Solution providers and partners in the treasury, payments, banking, and finance-technology ecosystem who sell into this audience.

If you're early in a treasury or FP&A career, the event is still worth it, but spend your time on the foundational sessions, the certification programming, and the roundtables for your industry rather than trying to cover every advanced capital-markets talk.

AFP 2026 agenda overview

The AFP 2026 program is published, with 140+ sessions building out across the learning areas below. The smart way to plan your week is by track, not by session count. Here are the ones to prioritize and who each is for.

Treasury and Capital Markets

Best for treasurers, treasury analysts, and cash managers. Prioritize this if your work centers on liquidity, working capital, investments, debt, bank relationships, and interest-rate strategy. This is the historical core of AFP.

Payments and Fraud

Best for payments operations, treasury, and risk professionals. Prioritize it if you're dealing with real-time payments, fraud prevention, B2B payment modernization, or payment-rail strategy. One of the most heavily attended tracks.

Risk Management

Best for risk, compliance, and controllership teams. Prioritize this if you're benchmarking enterprise risk, financial risk, FX, or fraud controls against how peer companies handle them.

Finance and FP&A

Best for FP&A teams, finance managers, and anyone pursuing the FPAC credential. Prioritize it if your problems are forecasting accuracy, planning cycles, scenario modeling, and turning analysis into decisions leadership acts on.

Technology, Data, and AI

Best for finance-systems leads, FinOps, and forward-looking treasury and FP&A teams. Prioritize this if you're evaluating treasury technology, AI in finance, automation, and the data tooling underneath the function. This is where the reporting-and-delivery conversation lives.

Leadership and Career Development

Best for managers and aspiring finance leaders. Prioritize it if you're building a team, navigating a promotion, or thinking about the next decade of the finance career path.

Executive and Practitioner Forums

Best for senior practitioners and executives who want peer-level, restricted-room conversation. AFP also runs industry roundtables for financial services, retail, manufacturing, education, NGOs, insurance, healthcare, and energy and utilities, which are some of the most useful sessions for comparing notes with people who have your exact constraints.

Speakers to watch at AFP 2026

AFP 2026 is built around six keynote speakers spanning finance, leadership, and the broader business and economic outlook, plus the 140+ practitioner-led sessions. As of June 22, 2026, AFP has confirmed the six-keynote format but has not yet published the individual keynote names on the conference site.

Historically, AFP keynotes pull from economics, business, leadership, and public life, and the main stage is the part that gets recapped everywhere afterward. The reason to actually be in the room is the breakout and forum sessions: a treasurer walking through how they restructured a cash-pooling setup, an FP&A leader showing the forecasting process they rebuilt, a payments team explaining how they cut fraud losses. Those specifics don't make it into the summaries. Check the official AFP 2026 program for speaker announcements as they're posted.

Training, certification, and CPE at AFP 2026

AFP is the certifying body for the CTP (Certified Treasury Professional) and FPAC (Certified Corporate FP&A Professional) credentials, and the conference is one of the biggest in-person moments for both communities. Programming includes sessions geared to CTP, FPAC, and CCM credential holders, a certification keynote luncheon, and a wide set of sessions that earn CPE credit for eligible attendees.

If continuing education is part of why you're attending, plan your schedule around the CPE-eligible sessions early and keep track of credits as you go. For anyone studying toward the CTP or FPAC, the in-person community and the certification programming are a concrete reason to make the trip, and an easy line item to justify internally. Confirm current certification details and any exam logistics on the official conference site.

Expo hall, sponsors, and partner events

The AFP exhibit hall is large, and it's where the treasury, payments, banking, and finance-technology ecosystem shows up in force: banks, payment providers, TMS and ERP vendors, FP&A platforms, and the data and reporting tools that sit around them. Expect multiple sponsored stages, a tech zone with product demos, and industry luncheons threaded through the days.

It's worth walking the floor with a short list of problems rather than a list of booths. One pattern you'll notice: the ecosystem is excellent at producing data and dashboards, and noticeably thinner on what happens to that data afterward. Most finance teams still hand-build the board deck, the cash-position report, and the FP&A update every cycle, no matter how good the upstream tooling is. That gap is worth keeping in mind as you evaluate vendors, and it's the part we'll come back to in the Rollstack section below.

Is AFP 2026 worth it?

For most corporate treasury, payments, and FP&A professionals, yes, especially if you own a function or are responsible for benchmarking how you do things against peers.

The strongest case isn't the keynote. Main-stage content gets recapped within days. The value is in the practitioner sessions, the industry roundtables, and the hallway conversations: how another treasurer handled a banking transition, how a peer FP&A team shortened its close-and-report cycle, what's actually working in payments fraud right now. AFP is also unusually good for the certification communities and for the kind of vendor and banking conversations that are easier to have face to face than over email.

AFP 2026 is most worth it if you are:

• Running or scaling a treasury, payments, or FP&A function and want peer benchmarks
• Pursuing or maintaining a CTP or FPAC credential and want CPE in one trip
• Evaluating treasury technology, payments infrastructure, or finance reporting tooling
• Responsible for board, executive, or investor reporting and want to see how peers handle it
• Looking to build a network in corporate finance that pays off long after the week ends

It may be less urgent if you're very early-career and your manager would rather you start with AFP's regional or virtual programming, or if your role is narrow enough that the on-demand recordings would cover what you need. For most people who own outcomes in finance, though, the in-person week earns its budget.

AFP 2026 pricing and registration

Full-conference pricing steps up as the event approaches. AFP prices by membership status, and there's an additional "Insider" rate if you've attended at least three of the last six AFP conferences (you qualify automatically).

Full conference (four days):

Team and day-pass options:

• Team passes (3+ from the same company): $1,199 per person early (by June 26), $1,500 per person standard (by October 2), $1,750 per person premium (by November 3).
• One-day pass: $1,199 early, $1,245 standard.
• Two-day pass: $1,600 early, $1,950 standard.
• 2027 AFP FP&A Forum attendees: an extra $300 off conference pricing.

Non-members can join AFP during checkout to pick up the member rate, which is often worth the math if the membership savings plus member benefits beat the non-member premium. Prices and windows shift on the published deadlines, so confirm the live tier on the official AFP 2026 registration page before you book. The next big cutover is standard pricing closing October 2, after which on-site rates apply.

AFP 2026 promo code or discount code

As of June 22, 2026, AFP has not published a general public promo code for AFP 2026. The confirmed ways to pay less are the official rate structures: Early-bird pricing through June 26, Insider pricing if you've attended three of the last six conferences, Team pricing for groups of three or more from the same company, joining AFP to access the member rate, and the $300 discount for 2027 AFP FP&A Forum attendees.

If your employer is an AFP corporate member or you belong to a regional AFP association, check whether a member or chapter code applies before you register. If a public sponsor or partner code becomes available, we'll update this section.

Hotels and travel for AFP 2026

The venue is the Mandalay Bay Convention Center at the south end of the Las Vegas Strip. AFP books its room block through an official housing agent, Convention Management Resources (CMR), and that's the place to start: book through the official link rather than a third-party site, both for the negotiated rate and because the room block can fill before the event. Reservations need to be in by October 12, 2026, and CMR can be reached at 800.618.4242.

The most convenient places to stay are the hotels on the Mandalay Bay campus, since you can reach the convention center without leaving the property: Mandalay Bay itself, plus Delano and the Four Seasons (both inside the Mandalay Bay tower complex). Luxor and Excalibur sit just north and connect via the free tram, which is the cheaper-but-still-walkable option. Confirm the exact room-block properties and rates through AFP's official housing link before booking.

A few logistics specific to this venue:

• Mandalay Bay is the closest major resort to the airport. Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) is only a few minutes south, which makes arrival and departure easier here than at almost any other Strip convention venue. Plan on a short rideshare or taxi.
• The Strip is long and Mandalay Bay anchors the far south end. If you stay at a mid-Strip or north-Strip hotel to save money, budget real travel time. Walking distances in Vegas are deceptive and convention-week traffic is slow.
• November is convention season. Book early. Overlapping events compete for inventory and the best-value rooms go first.

Practical tips for AFP attendees

• Register before the June 26 early-bird cutoff if you already know you're going. The jump to standard pricing is a few hundred dollars per person, and more again on-site.
• Stay on the Mandalay Bay campus if you can. Not having to commute the Strip every morning is worth a lot over four days, and it's the closest cluster to the convention center.
• Plan sessions by problem, not by title. The convention center is large. Group the sessions you want by topic and by location so you're not crossing the building every hour.
• Prioritize the industry roundtables. The peer conversations with people who share your exact constraints are often more useful than the headline sessions, and they fill up.
• Track your CPE as you go. If you're earning credit toward a CTP or FPAC, log it during the event rather than reconstructing it later.
• Bring a layer. Las Vegas convention centers run cold, regardless of the weather outside.
• Leave room for the exhibit hall and the hallway. The unstructured time is where a lot of the value is. Don't pack the schedule so tight you can't have a real conversation.
• Pace your evenings. Vegas makes it easy to overdo the dinners and receptions. The best peer conversations often happen later in the week, and you'll want energy for them.

AFP 2026 dress code

Business or business casual. AFP draws a corporate-finance crowd, and the room skews a notch more formal than a typical tech conference: think slacks and a collared shirt or a blazer, with suits common among senior treasury and banking attendees and on the exhibit floor. You won't be out of place in a polo and chinos for the sessions, but err toward business casual if you're meeting bankers or executives.

Two practical notes regardless of how you dress: wear shoes you can walk in, because the venue is large and the Strip is larger, and bring a layer for the air conditioning.

Where Rollstack fits for treasury and finance teams

Treasury and FP&A teams have spent years getting the data layer right: the ERP is connected, the TMS pulls bank data, the FP&A and BI tools produce clean forecasts and variance analysis. The work that's still manual is everything after that: the board deck, the weekly cash-position report, the monthly variance review, the investor update, the FP&A pack. Those get rebuilt by hand, every cycle, from data that already exists somewhere.

That's the layer Rollstack automates. It connects to the BI and reporting tools sitting on top of your finance data (Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Google Sheets, Excel) and pushes live numbers into PowerPoint, Google Slides, Word, or Google Docs on a schedule. One template can generate many versions, so a board deck, a set of business-unit variance reports, or a batch of investor updates can refresh and ship in a single run. That makes it relevant for AFP attendees working on:

• Board and executive reporting
• Cash-position, liquidity, and treasury reports
• Monthly and quarterly variance and FP&A reviews
• Investor and lender updates
• Business-unit or regional finance reporting that has to be produced at volume

The fair objection is "our FP&A or BI tool already exports to PowerPoint." It does, but those exports are static. They don't refresh, don't schedule, don't distribute, and don't scale to a stack of business-unit decks. Rollstack handles the full recurring cycle, which is the part most finance teams still do by hand. For regulated finance teams in particular, the financial-services reporting angle covers governance, version control, and security.

One concrete example: SoFi's finance team uses Rollstack to compress its review-cycle slide prep from 6 hours to 45 minutes, running thousands of visualization updates a month across its reporting decks. Same data, same decision in the room, far less work in between. Teams at companies including T. Rowe Price, Monzo, and Vanta use Rollstack for recurring reporting in finance and regulated environments. If you're at AFP thinking about the gap between your finance data and the reports leadership actually reads, the broader report generation in the modern data stack framing covers how it fits together.

Your treasury data is current. Your board deck shouldn't be three days old. Rollstack connects your BI and reporting tools to PowerPoint, Google Slides, Word, and Docs, then refreshes and delivers the recurring decks on schedule. See it in action.

Livestream, virtual access, and on-demand sessions

AFP is an in-person conference at its core. Historically, session recordings are made available on-demand to attendees and members afterward through AFP's BlueSky / Path learning platform, and members receive an annual LMS credit that can be put toward conference recordings. As of June 22, 2026, AFP has not confirmed a separate live-streamed virtual pass for AFP 2026.

If your goal is purely to catch the keynote content and a handful of sessions, the on-demand recordings may cover it. If you're there for certification, the roundtables, the exhibit hall, and the peer conversations, none of that translates to video, and in-person is the stronger call. Confirm the current virtual and on-demand options on the official conference site before deciding.

AFP 2026 FAQ

When is AFP 2026? AFP 2026 runs November 8-11, 2026.

Where is AFP 2026? The Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the south end of the Strip. It's the closest major resort venue to Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), a few minutes away by rideshare or taxi.

Is AFP the treasury and finance conference or the fundraising one? This is the Association for Financial Professionals conference, focused on treasury, payments, and FP&A. It's a different organization from the Association of Fundraising Professionals, which runs the AFP ICON event for nonprofit fundraisers.

How much does AFP 2026 cost? Full-conference early-bird pricing (through June 26) is $1,399 for members and $1,794 for non-members. Standard pricing (through October 2) is $1,800 member and $2,195 non-member, and on-site rates after October 2 are $2,074 member and $2,469 non-member. Insider, team, and day-pass rates are lower. Check the official registration page for the live tier.

Is there a promo code for AFP 2026? As of June 22, 2026, AFP has not published a general public promo code. The confirmed savings are the official rates: early-bird through June 26, Insider pricing (attended three of the last six conferences), Team pricing for groups of three or more, joining AFP for the member rate, and a $300 discount for 2027 AFP FP&A Forum attendees.

What is AFP Insider pricing? Insider pricing is a lower rate for attendees who have been to at least three of the last six AFP annual conferences. If you qualify, it's applied automatically.

Who should attend AFP 2026? Corporate treasurers, FP&A professionals, payments and fraud specialists, risk and controllership leaders, finance-systems and BI leads, and CFOs and finance VPs. It's also a major event for the CTP and FPAC certification communities.

Is AFP 2026 worth it? For most people who own a treasury, payments, or FP&A function, yes. The strongest value is the practitioner sessions, industry roundtables, certification programming, and peer networking rather than the keynotes, which get recapped online afterward.

Are there certification or CPE opportunities at AFP 2026? Yes. AFP is the certifying body for the CTP and FPAC credentials, and the conference offers programming for CTP, FPAC, and CCM holders plus CPE credit for eligible sessions.

Will AFP 2026 be livestreamed or available on demand? AFP is primarily in-person. Session recordings are typically available on demand to members afterward through AFP's learning platform. A standalone live virtual pass for 2026 is not confirmed as of June 22, 2026, so check the official site.

What should I wear to AFP 2026? Business or business casual. The finance crowd skews a little more formal than a tech conference, with suits common among senior treasury and banking attendees. Bring comfortable shoes and a layer for the AC.

What hotels are near AFP 2026? The Mandalay Bay campus is the most convenient: Mandalay Bay, Delano, and the Four Seasons connect to the convention center, and Luxor and Excalibur are a short tram ride away. Book through AFP's official housing agent (CMR) by the October 12, 2026 deadline.

How does Rollstack fit with treasury and finance reporting? Rollstack automates the recurring reports that sit downstream of your ERP, TMS, and BI tools, connecting them to PowerPoint, Google Slides, Word, and Docs so board decks, cash-position reports, and FP&A updates refresh and ship on schedule instead of being rebuilt by hand. Book a demo to see it with your own reporting.