Overview

Public finance leaders are entering 2026 amid continued fiscal uncertainty, yet with new tools, technologies, and insights that can make next year’s budgets smarter, faster and more resilient.

Join us as we unpack findings from Euna Solutions’ State of Public Budgeting Report 2025, which surveyed more than 100 government finance professionals nationwide. This session will explore how finance teams are adapting to shrinking revenues, inflationary pressure, and staffing shortages. It will also cover how digital transformation is changing the way governments forecast, plan, and communicate budget priorities.

You’ll learn:

Why nearly 80% of finance leaders remain confident in meeting their budget goals and what they’re doing differently.
How AI tools build agility and transparency into the budget process
How to strengthen collaboration between finance and IT teams
Ways to engage the public with clearer, more interactive financial information

As agencies prepare their 2026 budgets, this session will show how to turn this year’s lessons into next year’s advantage with real-world strategies and examples from peers who are redefining what effective, technology-powered public budgeting looks like.

Speakers

Julia Malott

Principal Product Manager, Euna Solutions

Julia Malott is Principal Product Manager of Euna Grants where she specializes in product direction, development and operations. Having begun her career in the Canadian public sector, Julia has dedicated more than a decade working supporting the public sector in municipal communications, council relations, citizen technological transformations, public permitting, procurement and grants management.

Justin Marlowe — Moderator

Senior Fellow, Center for Digital Government

Justin Marlowe is a research professor at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. His research and teaching are focused on public finance, and he has published five books — including the first open-access textbook on public financial management — and more than 100 articles on public capital markets, infrastructure finance, financial disclosure, public financial technology, and public-private partnerships. He is an admitted expert witness in federal and state courts, and has served on technical advisory bodies for the state of Washington, the California State Auditor, the Governmental Accounting Standards Board, the National Academy of Sciences, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and many other public, private and nonprofit organizations. Prior to academia, he worked in local government in Michigan. He is a Certified Government Financial Manager and an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and he holds a Ph.D. in political science and public administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Webinar

The State of Public Budgeting 2025: Turning Data Into Strategy for 2026