McCombs To Host AI/Finance Event
Free, online conference will share practical, cutting-edge insights for deploying artificial intelligence in finance
Investigating the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on various aspects of finance, the Center for Analytics and Transformative Technologies will host its free, annual Global Analytics Summit online Nov. 21-22.
The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business has opened registration for “AI in Finance,” drawing distinguished experts from industry and academia into pivotal conversations about this new era. Business leaders, data scientists, business analysts, researchers, and students of all ages, backgrounds, and disciplines are welcome.
“Finance is so diverse, so we’ve taken best practices and case studies from different areas of finance — ranging from asset management to corporate finance to trading,” said Michael Sury, managing director for CATT and a faculty member in the Department of Finance. “Our presenters and panelists are taking a slice of each area to highlight ways in which AI can be used either to automate or to make business processes more efficient.”
Topics include agile finance to modernize the CFO function; reinforcement learning and its application to the wealth management space; and a practical, frontline survey of how AI and machine learning are shaping today’s finance landscape.
All registrants will also receive access to a special preconference workshop, “Open Source and AI: Jupyter and LangChain,” led by the co-creator of the nonprofit Project Jupyter and several of its contributors.
“This conference is designed not only to highlight academic research and the leading edge, but also to hear from industry professionals who have improved business operations, financial strategies, or investment strategies by putting these ideas into practice,” Sury said.
AI and machine learning are advanced tools for finance, requiring substantial “human overlay,” Sury said, just as the advent of spreadsheets during the 1980s allowed people to generate insights much more quickly.
“The onus now is on professionals to upskill themselves, to embrace these technologies that make what we already do much more productive,” he said. “That’s the challenge, but it also creates the opportunity.”
CATT’s annual summit attracts thousands of participants from around the world each year as one of the only analytics conferences focused on integrating academic theory with industry application. To date, the summit’s organizers report nearly 4,000 registrants from 97 countries.
