Finance in flow #1
Is SaaS Dead? A Conversation With Elias Apel and Kevin Smith about AI, Cloud and the Future of Finance
In the premiere episode of Finance in Flow, recorded live at Lucanet World 2025, host and CEO Elias Apel sits down with Kevin Smith, Lucanet’s Chief Technology Officer, for a wide-ranging conversation on the SaaS model, the future of finance, technology, and the CFO’s evolving role.
Reflecting on the energy and momentum from the event in Berlin, Elias and Kevin discuss the accelerating pace of change in the finance world and the critical importance of real-time insights. A major theme of the episode is artificial intelligence - how it’s transforming both Lucanet’s platform and internal development processes, and what it means for customers beginning their AI journeys. Kevin shares Lucanet’s newly launched CFO Solution Platform and the vision for embedding AI directly into finance workflows and explains why the move to the cloud is foundational for enabling powerful, scalable, and trustworthy AI capabilities.
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