2024 Desmarais Global Finance Lectures
The Desmarais Global Finance Lectures is a conference series that brings together thought leaders and decision-makers from academia, public policy, and the business world with the goal of promoting thought exchange, dialogue, and the exploration of solutions to global challenges in finance and economics.
The topic for the 2024 Desmarais Global Finance Lectures is 鈥淣avigating the (Responsible) Uses of AI in Finance鈥, and the conference is co-organized by the Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre and the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Initiative at the Desautels Faculty of Management. It will feature an academic keynote address by Lin William Cong, Rudd Family Professor of Management and Professor of Finance at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, and a private/non-profit sector keynote by Evan Miyazono, Founder and CEO of Atlas Computing. Lin William Cong holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Stanford University, and Evan Miyazono holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech.
The keynote speakers will be joined by Mitali Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Organization at 不良研究所; Segun Bewaji, Lead Economic Advisor at Payments Canada; and Marc Tass茅, CEO of SIRA International Risk Advisors and Professor at the University of Ottawa, for the panel discussion
Date: Thursday, October 3rd, 2024
Time: 3:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location: The Donald E. Armstrong Building | Room 365/370
Desautels Faculty of Management, 不良研究所
3420 Rue McTavish, Montr茅al - QC
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Program
3:00 PM |
Registration and Coffee |
3:15 PM |
Welcoming Remarks |
3:30 PM |
Keynote 鈥淏uilding Specialized and Robust AI Models for Finance鈥:, Professor of Management & Professor of Finance at Cornell University |
4:15 PM |
Break |
4:30 PM |
Keynote 鈥淎I Safety via Compliance: The Potential of Specification-Based AI Agents鈥:, Founder and CEO of Atlas Computing |
5:15 PM |
Break |
5:30 PM |
Panel Discussion 鈥 鈥淎I Governance: Navigating Ethical and Regulatory Frontiers鈥:Mitali Banerjee, Assistant Professor of Strategy & Organization at 不良研究所 |
6:30 PM |
Networking |
7:30 PM |
End
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Organizers
David Schumacher
Director of the Desmarais Global Finance Research Center
Associate Professor, Finance
Katrin Tinn
Director of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Initiative
Assistant Professor, Finance
We thank our supporters and sponsors
We are proud to announce that our event has been awarded a Platinum Sustainable Event certification by the 不良研究所 Sustainable Events program run by the .