Episode 22

Why It's Good that Accounting & Fintech Events Are Now Back Face to Face

Episode 22. In today's news episode, the Accounting Influencers Podcast reviews a real live accounting fintech event as big face to face gatherings return for accountants and software vendors.

Key shownotes from the whole interview include:

➨ Initial impressions on walking into Accountex North Live, one of the UK's biggest accounting and fintech events

➨ How allowing more space for social distancing makes events seem less busy

➨ Two notable absentees in the software vendor space and why they might have chosen not to exhibit

➨ Which topics and seminars accounting practitioners attended most, and why this is not good

➨ The massive UK government turnaround on the Making Tax Digital initiative, now deferred for 12 months

➨ Which vital topics were not valued nor well attended by most short sighted accounting practitioners

➨ The need for accountants and CPAs to get closer to their clients as we head into post-Covid recovery

➨ Why this event signals a return (not a rush) to 'in person' events across the UK and other countries

➨ A signpost to Europe's biggest agnostic accounting and fintech event in London 2022 - Accountex

➨ Shout out to the Digital Accounting Forum, Accounting Web Live and Digital Accounting Show events

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Rob Brown

Rob Brown is the founder and host of the Accounting Voices Podcast, the flagship solo show of the Accounting Voices Network. Each episode offers sharp analysis and commentary on the trends, ideas and people shaping the global accounting profession.

Through this Accounting Voices Podcast, Rob helps accounting firm leaders, decision makers and professionals stay relevant and make sense of disruption in areas like AI, automation, M&A, private equity and soft skills beyond the tech. His perspective blends clarity, insight and curiosity, making complex issues relevant and practical for professionals and decision makers across accounting and finance.

He also leads two monthly panel shows, Accounting M&A and Accounting AI, which bring together senior voices to explore consolidation, strategy and the impact of technology on firms and people.

Rob is the author of the bestselling book Build Your Reputation (Wiley) and a TEDx speaker whose talk The Personal Brand of You has more than 400,000 views. Over his career he has hosted and moderated more than 1,000 conversations with accounting and fintech leaders worldwide.

Based in Nottingham UK, Rob is a stroke survivor living with epilepsy, a black belt in kickboxing, a decent chess player and an average player of four musical instruments.