KPMG

Big Four professional-services firm (audit, tax, advisory). Appears in this vault as the host of an annual tech and innovation symposium in Utah, which Nathaniel Whittemore has presented at in consecutive years — making it a useful longitudinal read on what enterprise buyers are actually asking about AI.

Why it earns a page here

The year-over-year comparison between Whittemore's 2025 and 2026 talks at this event is the backbone of 6 Questions Shaping Enterprise AI (AI Daily Brief) — the shift from if questions ("how do I convince my org this is real", "how do I show ROI") to how questions (redesign, cost provisioning, enablement). That comparison only works because it's the same room a year apart.

• Steve Chase — KPMG panelist at the 2026 symposium. His contribution is the warning against "trying to simply bolt on an AI strategy to existing processes and systems" — cited on Capability Gap as a primary mechanism keeping realized value below the technical ceiling.

Relevance to the audit question

KPMG is also, incidentally, an instance of the disruption Whittemore raises in question 5 — "What is, for example, an audit if agents can be doing a lot of that work, and if they can be doing it not just on a one-off basis, but on a persistent basis?" The Big Four are simultaneously advising on agentic transformation and exposed to it in their own core product. Worth watching as a live case of AI-Native Service Companies pressure on incumbent professional services.

Cross-references

• 6 Questions Shaping Enterprise AI (AI Daily Brief) — the symposium read-out
• Capability Gap — Steve Chase's bolt-on warning
• AI-Native Service Companies — the disruption vector aimed at audit/tax/compliance