Mike Richards talks with twins Ken and Dan Bergson about their treasury careers and what they're seeing at the AFP Nashville conference. They cover AI adoption, cybersecurity threats, and how treasury work differs across industries.
I am joined by the my first ever interview with twins with two guys that have made amazing careers. Just one of my funnest Friday afternoons.
Which one of these play guys you're.
Here at the afp. How's it been?
It's been a great experience. I really enjoyed it. I think what the AFP does is bring brings together people from all over the world, thousands of of treasury professionals or related to treasury and just being able to tap into their minds and learn about how they approach certain things and being able to really learn on how they also manage all their challenges as well. All very similar to what we're going through. Although there are different industries and different sectors, we have very similar challenges and so that's been really great and I.
Think part of that you we were just talking then about and I was asked yesterday they said how come you've managed to do 350 podcasts and you guys were about 10 episodes ago with it. I've said this so many times that Ken treasurer is here. Right. They'll do the same job exactly the same way. No different exact exactly that Any similar experience to the conference?
I think it's. I think it's a great experience. I think the AFP creates the younger all experts within our within our field and it's really good to hear from other people as well. The speakers are top notch.
I would.
Say from a technical perspective from blinking perspective I think the AFP has really brought together just a bunch of great.
People all around and when I talked earlier on in the podcast Dan Bergson good may been on the podcast a few times he said to me a schedule but AI anything AI he was going to and but it was also a shifting process. He said went to some of them they were great. Some of them were a bit yeah is that flexible to us and things like is that what you guys have been looking at or what are the things that were top of mind for you coming here?
I feature me like I said earlier every single trigger operation similar concept yeah depending on the industry in the sector but everyone has similar challenges. For example right now was really I enjoyed the session on cybersecurity and how that impacts and the policies you can put in place and things you can do to really mitigate the risk and so that is universal and all across all industries. So again even though it's treasury that's very similar across all industry inspectors for.
Me I really enjoy the clarity portion of the recession really looking at how they go about investing their short term. I said this before on the podcast. Right? We all do the same thing. What I found is that in this case, from short to mid to long investing, they just label it a little differently, but the principles are all generally all the same.
Amazing. That's how long I'm going to take for you guys. I get to meet you in real life for a couple years.
