2025 CROWE // ITR ECONOMICS SUMMIT

Setting Pricing Strategies During Inflationary and Deflationary Periods

Pricing during economic volatility is a critical lever for sustaining profitability and market position. In inflationary periods, strategies like index-based pricing and transparent communication help offset rising costs while maintaining customer trust. During deflation, falling costs trigger demands for reductions, risking margin erosion and commoditization. Executives must balance disciplined pricing with delivering value, leveraging approaches like strategic pass-throughs and bundling to protect profitability and brand equity. Proactive, well-communicated pricing ensures resilience and competitiveness, empowering organizations to navigate challenges and seize opportunities in fluctuating markets.

Values Provided

1. Profitability Protection
2. Customer Trust
3. Market Resilience
4. Sustainable Growth

What Will Attendees Receive?

1. Actionable Strategies for Inflation and Deflation: Practical methods to address rising costs during inflation, such as index-based pricing, and tactics to manage price reductions during deflation while protecting margins.
2. The Importance of Pricing Discipline: Insights into balancing customer expectations with profitability, avoiding over-discounting, and maintaining value perception in volatile markets.
3. Role of Transparent Communication: An understanding of how clear, data-backed communication builds trust with customers and strengthens long-term relationships during pricing adjustments.
4. Data-Driven Decision-making: Insight into the critical role of analytics in monitoring costs, customer behavior, and competitive pressures to adapt pricing strategies in real time.

Unlocking Tax Strategies in a Changing Landscape

In the ever-evolving world of taxation, staying informed and strategically prepared is crucial for both individuals and businesses. As we navigate through new policies and economic shifts, understanding the implications of federal income tax legislation becomes more important than ever. This is why we are thrilled to invite you to our upcoming virtual conference, where we will delve into the heart of these changes with expert insights and actionable strategies.

Values Provided

1. Participants will leave the session with the ability to:
2. Identify the impact of recent federal tax law changes.
3. Explain tax planning opportunities resulting from these changes.
4. Describe how changes in tax legislation may impact corporate taxation and tax planning opportunities.

What Will Attendees Receive?

1. Overview of Proposed Legislation: Gain a comprehensive understanding of potential tax rate increases and recent administrative developments, all explained in accessible terms for non-tax professionals.
2. Current Legislative Tax Proposals: Discover the latest tax proposals and assess the likelihood of their enactment, helping you stay ahead of the curve.
3. Administrative Tax Pronouncements: Learn about recent pronouncements issued by the Treasury and how they might affect your tax planning.
4. Strategic Tax Planning: Receive expert suggestions for maximizing benefits and minimizing costs associated with these changes, tailored to both individual and corporate taxation.

Realigning Your Supply Chain

This segment of the summit will cover the following areas:

The Approach: Organizing the plate and developing a call to action in your business is the best way to manage supply chain costs as well as reduce risk in a volatile geopolitical climate

The Nuance: Key is to understand risks and levers specific to your business and industry, there is not a one-size fits all approach. Navigating tariffs is detailed and technical; requires expertise to stay current and compliant.

Execution: Requires intention and a call to action across your business. There will be required change management, and your team will need to dedicate time to drive change in a timely fashion.  Many businesses can build their approach and know their industry well; point of failure is generally during execution

Values Provided

1. Framework of thinking and organizing your supply chain and logistics footprint based on the new administration’s rhetoric and actions
2. Leveraging your organization’s data to drive analytics and insights
3. Delivering a call to action in your organization

What Will Attendees Receive?

1. Principles to take back to their org on how to proactively managing risk in their supply chain
2. Best practices and methodology on leveraging their data
3. Highlighting and emphasizing the differences between strategic sourcing vs. transactional procurement, and how to utilize to meet the changing environment driven by the new administration

AI and the Future of Business: Disruption, Opportunity, and Workforce Transformation

Artificial Intelligence is transforming industries, reshaping workforces, and creating unprecedented opportunities for innovation and disruption. This session dives into what sets AI apart from past tech revolutions, explores its future trajectory — from generative tools to AGI — and highlights its impact on business forecasting, value creation, and competition. Attendees will gain actionable insights on leveraging AI to drive innovation, mitigate workforce disruption, and build resilient strategies for the future.

Values Provided

1. Future Trends: Understand AI’s trajectory and its disruptive potential
2. Practical Insights: Consider strategies to harness AI for growth and innovation
3. Workforce Impact: Learn how AI will reshape jobs and skills
4. Strategic Action: Identify specific next steps to consider for your organization 

What Will Attendees Receive?

1. A clearer understanding of AI’s unique impact and future potential.
2. Insights into how AI is reshaping workforces and competition.
3. Practical steps for taking action with AI tools