Global Webinar Series on AI in Finance: Focus on North America

Global Webinar Series on Artificial Intelligence, Explainability, and Trustworthiness in Financial Services

by WAIFC, World Economic Forum, and NVIDIA

1^st series event in USA/Canada

Tuesday, May 25, 10:00-11:00 PDT / 13:00 EDT / 18:00 BST / 19:00 CEST / 20:00 AST / 21:00 GST

The potential and application bandwidth of  Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) in Financial Services is breathtaking. However, enterprise scaling and model exposure to live environments turn out to be quite challenging. Additionally, further regulation of AI is expected or has already been drafted.

In this unique series on AI in financial services across the globe we have invited thought leaders and AI personalities to discuss the latest implications, trends, strategies, and challenges. What are the global and local trends? How do financial centers, financial service companies, and financial supervisors position themselves? How are the technical and ethical challenges addressed? What are best practices, standards, platforms, and infrastructures? Where are the best talent, research, and innovation?

Join us on this very timely and exciting journey around the globe!

Key takeaways:

• Most recent global and local developments in AI use case implementations in financial services
• Explainability, trustworthiness, and the regulatory view on AI
• Impact on financial centers and the financial industry
• Standardization needs and global applicability of solutions

Agenda:

• Welcome address
  The Honourable Victor Fedeli, Ontario Minister of Economic Development, Job Creation, and Trade & Chair of Cabinet
• Introductions by 
  Jennifer Reynolds, Chairwoman, WAIFC
  Kay Firth-Butterfield, Member of the Executive Committee and Head of AI & Machine Learning, World Economic Forum
  Dr. Jochen Papenbrock, Partner Relationship Manager, NVIDIA
• Keynote by 
  Paul Edwards, former Director of the Data Science and Model Innovation team, Scotiabank, on
  “Machine learning in retail credit risk: algorithms, infrastructure, and alternative data – past, present and future”
• Discussion with industry leaders
  Ron Bodkin, VP of AI Engineering and CIO, Vector Institute for AI
  Sri Krishnamurthy, Founder, Quant University
  Dave Keirstead, VP, Head of Advanced Analytics, Canada Market, Manulife
  John Ashley, General Manager, Financial Services & Technology, NVIDIA
  moderated by Kay Firth-Butterfield, World Economic Forum
• Closing remarks
  Dr. Jochen Biedermann, Managing Director, WAIFC

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Next webinars of this series:

• Europe: June 22, 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST - Free registration
• Africa: in July
• Asia: in September
• Russia/CIS: in October
• GCC
• Latin America

Please stay tuned.

Many thanks to our media partner: Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence