Webinar

Firm Leaders Discuss AI Trends in Audit

AI in audit is moving beyond pilots, copilots and isolated productivity gains. The bigger question is what happens when AI becomes part of how audit work is actually performed. Join a panel of experts from BDO UK, Moore South Africa and Forvis Mazars UK for a candid, vendor-neutral panel on what’s working in practice, what remains difficult and what audit leaders should prioritise now.

What you’ll hear from the panel:

Separate AI hype from production reality: what has moved into everyday audit work, what has disappointed, and where firms are seeing real value.

Examine how AI changes the audit itself, from audit quality and professional judgement to scepticism, review and accountability.

Understand why AI pilots stall, and what it takes to embed AI in the operating model across workflow, governance, talent and firm economics.

Prioritise what to accelerate, what to avoid and what to challenge heading into busy season.

Speakers

Dimitar Stanimiroff

GM EMEA · Suralink

Dimitar Stanimiroff is GM EMEA at Suralink, where he works with leading accounting firms across Europe to reimagine client collaboration and operational efficiency through agentic automation. He brings an operator's lens to the profession – having spent over 15 years as GM EMEA for some of technology's most ambitious businesses, helping turn companies like Crossbeam, Handshake, and Stack Overflow into category leaders across European markets. He has founded two startups and actively invests in early-stage technology companies. That outsider perspective informs how he thinks about the structural shifts now facing accounting: the automation of knowledge work, the redefinition of talent, and what it means to build and own a global firm in an era of agentic AI. At this year's Forum, he'll explore how firms that move decisively on these questions won't just survive the transition – they'll define what comes next.

Prasad Prabhakaran

Head of Applied AI · Forvis Mazars

With more than 20 years of experience across Microsoft, Samsung, startups, and consulting, I focus on turning emerging AI technologies into scalable products, platforms, and operating capabilities.

Bianca Bester

Head of Audit Technology · Moore South Africa

Experienced Audit Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the accounting industry.

Claire Collins

AI in Audit Lead · BDO UK

Audit Partner at BDO LLP, member of the UK Firm’s Audit Executive leading on Audit Optimisation.