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Stay Curious, Take Responsibility: AI & High-Performance Tax Teams | Christian Klein
Christian Klein, VP Accounting, Reporting and Tax at Autodoc, joins Tax Leaders Unplugged to discuss how he is using AI to scale a finance and tax function under two-digit growth, and why culture decides whether that works. He shares: - How Autodoc moved from collecting 60 AI ideas to 5 products in development, 2 of them already live, by enabling people before buying tools. - Real outcomes, including a daily reconciliation cut from 3 hours to 5 minutes and a standing target of at least 20% effic
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June 17, 2026
Stay Curious, Take Responsibility: AI & High-Performance Tax Teams | Christian Klein
Christian Klein, VP Accounting, Reporting and Tax at Autodoc, joins Tax Leaders Unplugged to discuss how he is using AI to scale a finance and tax function under two-digit growth, and why culture decides whether that works. He shares: - How Autodoc moved from collecting 60 AI ideas to 5 products in development, 2 of them already live, by enabling people before buying tools. - Real outcomes, including a daily reconciliation cut from 3 hours to 5 minutes and a standing target of at least 20% effic
May 25, 2026
AI and Data for Tax Research | Luis Nouel from IBFD
Luis Nouel, Manager Latin America, Africa-Middle East and Bulletin of International Taxation Teams at IBFD, joins Tax Leaders Unplugged to discuss how tax research actually gets done and where AI fits in. We recorded at IBFD HQ in Amsterdam. Luis brings 33 years in tax, more than 18 of them at IBFD, and currently leads the Latin America, transfer pricing and VAT teams. We covered: - How a tax research workflow runs in practice, from mapping cross-border consequences to working country chapters b
April 9, 2026
From Accountant to Head of Tax | Sara Spring from Oatly
Sarah Spring, Head of Tax at Oatly, joins Tax Leaders Unplugged to share her path from finance and accounting into tax leadership, and what it takes to become a real business partner inside an international company. She explains why tax teams need to stop acting as a clean-up function and instead get involved before key decisions are made.With a team of just four, Sarah also shares how she approaches tax transformation in practice, from VAT automation to better use of existing systems. A key the
Feb. 16, 2026
From VAT to Value: Powered by Tech and Diversity | Nora Bafrouri from Trane Technologies
Nora Bafrouri, Global VAT and Tax Technology Lead at Trane Technologies, joins Tax Leaders Unplugged to discuss how indirect tax teams can move from compliance to measurable business value.She explains how she built a highly automated VAT operating model across 44 jurisdictions, why tax authorities are increasingly data-driven, and how a structured KPI dashboard helped her reposition VAT as a business partner. She shares:• How misalignment between VAT and technology priorities was solved by brin
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