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SYNAPSE 2026: Where Tax Meets Intelligence

Join your peers at Fonoa’s free annual conference. A day for indirect tax, payments, and finance leaders to learn and network. Register today for our UK event, US locations coming soon

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Feb 24, 2026 9:00 AM
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The Brewery, London
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SYNAPSE 2026: Where Tax Meets IntelligenceSYNAPSE 2026: Where Tax Meets Intelligence

Fonoa’s annual conference is back, and this year, you may notice a theme, picked specifically to keep tax innovators on track.

Welcome aboard SYNAPSE 2026. Join us on the February 24, 2026 at The Brewery, London, EC1Y 4SA, for a hands-on journey where tax professionals, engineers, and finance teams unite to tackle the challenges that matter most.

Why attend

Synapse is designed for professionals managing complex tax landscapes across regions and technologies. Here’s what you can expect:

Innovation at scale

Industry leaders will share how they’ve scaled the tax function, from real-time reporting to AI-driven tax systems. Learn the strategies to integrate cutting-edge tech into your operations.

FOMO Tax Summit

Actionable insights

Join hands-on workshops and gain practical strategies to immediately improve your tax processes. Walk away with tools you can implement in your organization right away.
 

SYNAPSE 2026 - getting a demo

Networking opportunities

Connect with fellow tax professionals, product teams, developers, and CFOs. Share experiences and learn from others facing similar challenges across industries.

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Agenda

08:00 – 09:00
REGISTRATION, BREAKFAST, & NETWORKING
09:00 – 09:15
WELCOME

Cleared for Departure

A welcome from Fonoa’s CEO & COO to set the stage for the day’s journey, why we’re here, what’s ahead, and how indirect tax is moving into the fast lane.

09:15 – 10:00
OPENING KEYNOTE

Next Stop: Fast, Lean, AI-Native Indirect Tax

In this opening keynote, discover why indirect tax is entering a new era, one defined by speed, intelligence, and impact. We’ll explore how businesses can move beyond reactive compliance to build tax functions that deliver control, insight, and strategic value.

10:10 – 10:55
Track 1:
How to Stop Solving for Exceptions
Discover frameworks for building end-to-end, low-touch tax operations, freeing your team from exception chasing to focus on strategic work.
Track 2:
Make Your Tax Data AI-Ready
In this panel, experts explore the practical steps enterprises must take to prepare tax and finance data for AI-driven use cases.
Track 3:
Workshop - Measuring Tax Tech Maturity
This interactive working session gives you the tools to diagnose the maturity of your indirect tax operations and map a path forward.
11:00 – 11:45
Journey Stopover: Refreshment break and networking
11:45 – 12:15
MAIN STAGE: KEYNOTE

What Great Tax Teams Do Differently

In this keynote, leaders from some of the world’s most recognizable technology brands share how they’ve transformed their global tax operations. Hear how high-maturity organizations balance scale, technology, and constant change, and what it takes to align tax with product, finance, and engineering in fast-moving digital businesses. This session offers practical lessons and insights you can take back to accelerate your own transformation.

12:25 – 13:10
Track 1:
The Infrastructure Behind Mature Tax Operations
Explore how enterprises manage master data, ERP coordination, and platform design to build systems that scale.
Track 2:
Human-in-the-Loop AI for Oversight and Trust
Explore how to upskill the tax team and design processes that keep automation explainable, auditable, and accountable.
Track 3:
Workshop - Measuring Tax Tech Maturity
This interactive working session gives you the tools to diagnose the maturity of your indirect tax operations and map a path forward.
13:15 – 14:00
Journey Stopover: LUNCH & NETWORKING
14:00 – 14:45
Track 1:
Tax Operating Models of Tomorrow
See how leaders are rethinking team structures, embedding tax logic directly into finance and product, and redesigning how tax fits in the wider business.
Track 2:
The AI Tax Copilot and What’s Possible Now
See how LLM-powered copilots are being applied to tasks like risk detection, transaction classification, and reporting support, alongside current limits.
Track 3:
Workshop - Measuring Tax Tech Maturity
This interactive working session gives you the tools to diagnose the maturity of your indirect tax operations and map a path forward.
14:55 – 15:40
MAIN STAGE: KEYNOTE

How AI Will Power the Next Generation of Indirect Tax

As AI reshapes the tax function, the real opportunity isn't just in the technology itself, it's also in how we combine data, human insight, and operational design to build systems that can evolve through any era. In this closing keynote, hear from an award-winning presenter (to be announced soon!) about how the best teams think about change, design for resilience, and create the foundations that make transformation possible.

15:40 – 15:55
CLOSING REMARKS

The Journey Ahead: Turning Insight into Action

A focused close to the day, bringing together the ideas, challenges, and breakthroughs shared across sessions. This will leave you aligned on where the future of indirect tax is heading and inspired to turn today’s insights into meaningful action for your business.

15:55 – 18:25
Final Stop: DRINKS, PARTY, AND NETWORKING

Who qualifies for SYNAPSE 2026

If meet any of the following:

  • You own the transaction journey
  • You lead indirect tax strategy
  • You're driving tax technology forward
  • Your business operates at scale globally

Maximum of two people per company.

Secure your seat

Synapse is for the professionals who want to stay ahead with tax innovation, not get left behind at the station.

Our London venue is already announced, and US dates will be added soon. Register your interest for your first-class ticket today, at one of two global locations, and let’s get your tax intelligence journey on the right track.

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SYNAPSE 2026: The future of tax is here. No delays, no derailments. Just digital tax done right.

Speakers

Alexis Aimard

Alexis Aimard

Director of Product Management

Expedia Group's Director of Product Management, leveraging 15+ years of expertise. A creative problem-solver, excelling in aligning tax requirements for optimal business growth, efficiency, and user experience.

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Davor Tremac

Davor Tremac

Chief Executive Officer

Davor is the Co-founder and CEO of Fonoa, a Tax Technology scale-up focused on helping enterprise companies cope with Indirect Tax (VAT, GST, Sales tax) and compliance across 120 countries globally. Before founding Fonoa, Davor was the General Manager at Uber for Southeast Europe. He also spent ten years with McKinsey & Company, advising companies across Europe and Southeast Asia. Just after studying mechanical engineering, he designed and built race cars. Davor holds an MBA from IESE Business School.

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Sunil Dixit

Sunil Dixit

Chief Product Officer

For over 20 years, I've been on a mission to build technology that enables outdated industries like tax and payments to embrace a digital future desperately needed for growth by the world's biggest and most innovative global brands.

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Categories
Artificial intelligence
E-invoicing
Invoicing
Tax calculation
Tax data sharing
Tax ID validation
Locations
The Brewery, London, EC1Y
Feb 24, 2026
9:00 am
GMT

Speakers

Alexis Aimard

Director of Product Management
Expedia Group
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Davor Tremac

Chief Executive Officer
Fonoa
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Sunil Dixit

Chief Product Officer
Fonoa
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