A day in the life of a Synergy 2026 corporate tax professional attendee

No two days at Synergy 2026 look the same. This is one version of what’s possible, built around real sessions, real conversations, and real momentum.

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6:45 AM – Rise and shine

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7:00 AM – Bring Your Research into CoCounsel Tax & Audit

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10:30 AM – Corporate Professionals General Session

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11:50 AM – Lunch and networking

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1:00 PM – Defending the Return: Tax Positions, Risk and Penalty Avoidance in 2026

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4:10 PM – CoCounsel Tax for Complex Multi-Jurisdictional Issues

6:45 AM – Rise and shine

The alarm goes off, and you’re already thinking about yesterday’s Leading Through AI Transformation session, a candid, lessons-from-the-inside look at how Thomson Reuters itself has guided teams through AI adoption. It reframed change management as a leadership problem, not a technology one, and you’re still thinking that over. Today’s lineup looks even better.

7:00 AM – Bring Your Research into CoCounsel Tax & Audit

You start the day learning to leverage CoCounsel Tax & Audit for generative-AI-powered research. The session walks through the platform’s navigation, runs through practical research scenarios, and shows how to generate artifacts (IRS response letters, control deficiency memos) straight from AI-driven findings. You leave with a clearer sense of how to assess the quality and reliability of those outputs before they go anywhere near a client file.

10:30 AM – Corporate Professionals General Session

The general session opens with a wave of new capabilities across the tax portfolio. The roadmap reads like a direct answer to what your team’s been asking for, and you jot down a few notes on where things are headed next.

11:50 AM – Lunch and networking

You chat with a VP of Tax from a retail company, and the conversation moves fast. You share the same workflow headaches, same data integration gaps, same manual processes that need to be automated. At lunch, you sit with tax professionals from manufacturing, financial services, and healthcare. They’re from different sectors but share the same stressors.

1:00 PM – Defending the Return: Tax Positions, Risk and Penalty Avoidance in 2026

This session gets into the standards governing tax return positions (substantial authority, reasonable basis, disclosure requirements) and walks through the preparer penalty regime under §6694. You come away with practical strategies for documenting and defending positions, including how recent IRS guidance on adequate disclosure changes the calculus.

4:10 PM – CoCounsel Tax for Complex Multi-Jurisdictional Issues

The day wraps with an advanced look at using CoCounsel Tax for multi-jurisdictional corporate tax issues, going beyond the basics into CoCounsel Conversations and Workspaces, plus building templates for recurring cross-jurisdictional problems. You leave thinking hard about which of your own team’s recurring issues could be templated the same way.

What comes next

You find a quiet corner and call your director, and you can’t wait to get into it. The CoCounsel Tax research capabilities and the multi-jurisdictional workflows are worth building a case for right now. You talk budget and timing, and you’re already drafting the summary in your head.

Back at the hotel, you go through your notes, a clear, confident view of what’s possible for your team, and a growing list of people who’ve already proven it works. Before bed, you outline tomorrow’s sessions and write down your follow-ups.

• Connect with today’s panelists about their AI implementation experience
• Review the disclosure and penalty-avoidance strategies and share them with the team
• Schedule time with Thomson Reuters to discuss CoCounsel Tax for multi-jurisdictional workflows

The past few days have done more than fill a notebook. You’ve seen new capabilities in action, met people solving the same problems you are, and come away with a real sense of where tax technology, and your own department, could go next. That’s what change looks like.

Your own day at SYNERGY 2026 is still unwritten. Register now and start building it.