Interrogating the Model: What-If Analysis, AI and the Psychology of Trust
A financial model is only as useful as the questions you ask of it.
Zainab Nwachuku shows how to use AI to build the formulas behind scenarios, sensitivities and Data Tables, turning a model into a tool for asking better questions. Vaughan Grandin, Head of Financial Modelling at Teneo, then explores the psychology behind trusted models: why people trust some models and not others, and what that means for the way you build yours.
Other Sessions
Jenny shows how her finance team cut reporting from days to minutes with Excel, Power Query, Power BI, AI analytics and smart alerts, told through a fun wizarding-school story.
Sloka shows how a three-statement model feeds a valuation, what models can and can't tell you about value, and where valuations most often go wrong, using no-name examples.
Carolina shows how AI reads spreadsheets, Power BI models and other files as text, so it can create and edit real files reliably. A concrete, tool-agnostic answer to hallucination worries.
Danielle shows how nested arrays solve real modelling problems, and how review habits must change when one cell can hold a whole depreciation profile or scenario path.
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Early Bird registration is open
18–19 May 2027 · London & Online. Save 20% – limited to 100 in-person and 100 online tickets.
