AI IN ACTION
FINANCE FOCUS
12 NOVEMBER 2020 16:30 – 18:30 PM CET
CYBERSPACE AGENDA AND NETWORKING
Limited availability. Book early to avoid disappointment.
Fancy 5 with Deloitte, a private consultation with Artificial Solutions, a startup mentor session with Oracle for startups, a virtual hug on bias in data from ETIQ, a pow wow on AI with Radix, a super session with SAS, a meeting of minds with the endless startups via StartupAmsterdam, a supersonic meeting with Invest in Canada | Investir au Canada, a chat on data with ScaleOps.AI, a 121 direct with the brains at KPMG, a voice convo live with Cognigy, a personal mtg with Pluralsight, a zig zag with Xilinx, a brainstorm with Brainpool AI, a discussion with Aligned Research Group LLC.
HEADLINER STAGE
Chair’s opening remarks
16:30 – 16:50
USE CASE AI technology for finances
Manuela M. Veloso Head, JPMorgan Chase AI Research
16:55 – 17:35
PANEL DISCUSSION How is AI redefining financial services?
Raul Escribano, SVP Innovative Products, Mastercard
Yehuda Dayan, Head of Data Science, Citi Group
Michael Birkebæk Jensen, Partner, KPMG Denmark
Neil Sanyal, Vice President, Morgan Stanley Research
Ivana Bartoletti, Co-Founder, Women Leading in AI Network
17:40 – 18:00
USE CASE Automated decisions: what are the ethical and legal implications for the finance sector
Ivana Bartoletti, Co-Founder, Women Leading in AI Network
Chair’s Closing remarks
18:00 – INSPIRED AI MEET UP
Network and connect with our global community of multi-disciplinary experts, business leaders, heads of government, policy makers, startups, investors, academics and media worldwide! With automated 1-2-1 chat roulette, our Networking Lounge on the platform, visiting our Cyberspace area to find virtual booths hosted by our sponsors and partners or connecting with specific contacts in a private meeting as an Inspired Citizen – cyber networking made easy.
STREAM 1
16:30 – 17:00
CYBERSPACE Megatrends and AI
Megatrends, the powerful and transformative forces that could change the global economy, business, and society, are not only opportunities, but also necessary for driving long term growth to your investments. This session will discuss these megatrends, what they mean to the investment community, and how they are captured, monitored, and inferred through AI, NLP, and Big Data technologies.
Simon Powell, Global Head of Thematic Research, Jefferies
Shankar Vaidyanathan, Founder and CEO, Noonum
16:50 – 17:20
FOCUS SESSION How to boost your Customer Service with AI – three practical Use Cases in Banking
In this session you can discover how to apply AI in different scenarios in the banking industry. We’ll go through the possibilities of fully AI-driven virtual agents that strive to help customers directly, hybrid approaches that keep human agents in the loop, and the breakthrough agent-assist technology that proactively shows relevant data and provides guidance in a conversation between human agents and customers.
Sebastian Glock, Senior Technology Evangelist, Cognigy
17:00 – 17:30
CYBERSPACE Automated Valuation Models: A Machine Learning Approach
David Kroon, Researcher, Ortec Finance
17:50 – 18:00
START UP SHOWCASE Untangle the data yarn: from text to business knowledge
Alvise Sembenico, CEO, Intrical AI
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MANUELA M. VELOSO
Head, AI Research | JPMorgan
Herbert A. Simon University Professor | School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
MANUELA M. VELOSO
Head, AI Research | JPMorgan
Herbert A. Simon University Professor | School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University
Manuela M. Veloso is the firmwide Head of AI Research, which pursues fundamental research in areas of core relevance to financial services, including data mining and cryptography, machine learning, explainability, and human-AI interaction. The team partners with applied data analytics teams across the firm as well as with leading academic institutions globally.
Professor Veloso is on leave from Carnegie Mellon University as the Herbert A. Simon University Professor in the School of Computer Science, and the past Head of the Machine Learning Department.
With her students, she had led research in AI, with a focus on robotics and machine learning, having concretely researched and developed a variety of autonomous robots, including teams of soccer robots, and mobile service robots. Her robot soccer teams have been RoboCup world champions several times, and the CoBot mobile robots have autonomously navigated for more than 1,000km in university buildings.
Professor Veloso is the Past President of AAAI, and the co-founder, Trustee, and Past President of RoboCup. Professor Veloso has been recognized with a multiple honors, including being a Fellow of the AAAI, AAAS, ACM, IEEE. She is the recipient of several best paper awards, the Einstein Chair of the Chinese Academy of Science, the ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award, an NSF Career Award, and the Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research.
RAUL ESCRIBANO
SVP Innovative Products
Mastercard
RAUL ESCRIBANO
SVP Innovative Products
Mastercard
YEHUDA DAYAN
Head of Data Science
Citi Group
YEHUDA DAYAN
Head of Data Science
Citi Group
Yehuda Dayan is Head of Data Science at Citigroup inc, Global Data Insights unit. Dr. Dayan joined the firm in 2014, and previously co-headed Citigroup’s Research Innovation Lab. Yehuda has been a data scientist and statistician for over 10 years, consulting on numerous political and marketing campaigns, audience measurement and estimation problems. He has a PhD. and MSc. in Statistics from the London School of Economics, a BSc. in Statistics and Economics from Tel Aviv University. Located in London, he is a Royal Statistical Society Fellow.
MICHAEL BIRKEBÆK JENSEN
Partner
KPMG Denmark
MICHAEL BIRKEBÆK JENSEN
Partner
KPMG Denmark
“Michael Birkebæk Jensen is a Partner in KPMG Denmark, leading the NewTech division, with a special focus on brining emergent technologies into the major companies in Danish market. Michael have helped some of the largest financial players in Denmark adopt new technologies such as ML and have experienced first-hand how these technologies will change the future of the financial sector. Michael is also head of a small NGO that looks at the interplay between democracy and technology.”
NEIL SANYAL
VP Research
Morgan Stanley
NEIL SANYAL
VP Research
Morgan Stanley
IVANA BARTOLETTI
Co-Founder
Women Leading in AI Network
IVANA BARTOLETTI
Co-Founder
Women Leading in AI Network
Ivana Bartoletti is a Privacy and Data Protection professional, a media commentator and a public speaker. She is Director of Technology at Deloitte and advises businesses and organisations on best practice and how to comply with privacy legislation at the UK, EU and global level. She works across all sectors, from finance to adtech, and within the energy market. Ivana has extensive knowledge of the Privacy and ethical challenges in the smart and digital economy, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and the Internet of Things.
Ivana worked for seven years as an Information Governance Manager at the NHS Counter Fraud and Security Management and has held senior management roles at Barclays Bank and Sky TV. In 2012, she received the Best Personal Achievement in the Public Sector Award for introducing new safety policies on hospital premises.
Ivana is an International public speaker and commentator on privacy, digital rights, data ethics and regularly features on the BBC and other outlets.
ALVISE SEMBENICO
CEO
Intrical AI
ALVISE SEMBENICO
CEO
Intrical AI
Alvise is a recent graduate of MSc AI at the UvA and a co-founder of Intrical AI. He believes that Machine Learning can bring tremendous changes to the financial sphere. With Intrical AI Alvise aims at transforming texts and data into business knowledge.