AI x Finance #03: Markets, Models & Institutions

Description An evening on AI in finance and economics, moving from complex-systems thinking about markets and investment to trustworthy financial forecasting and the realities of enterprise deployment. Matei P. Mihalca, Albi Isufaj and Amin Debabeche will speak. Agenda 18:00 Doors open 18:30-19:00 - Talk 1: Whither AI in Finance and Economics? (Matei P. Mihalca) 19:00-19:30 - Talk 2: Knowing When to Trust a Forecast (Albi Isufaj) 19:30-20:00 - Talk 3: Enterprise Adoption of AI in Finance (Amin Debabeche) 20:00-21:00 Networking 21:00 Doors close Talks Talk 1: Whither AI in Finance and Economics? Speaker: Matei P. Mihalca (CREF, Sakana AI) Abstract: We’ll review what might be considered stages in the development of AI applied to finance and economics, what each stage accomplished, and the direction in which we are going. We’ll argue that the rise of AI is changing what is possible in economic understanding but the guidance of a worldview is required to make the most of that potential. Complex systems offer such a worldview. AI’s successful future use in investment is arguably premised on the integration of human insights in an industrial, automated process at scale – grounded in ontology that’s not only operational platform but epistemological foundation. The computational study of technological innovation and the capture of its economic value through investment will be presented as a case study. Bio: Matei P. Mihalca is Advisor to Sakana AI and an affiliated researcher at the Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi in Rome, where he works on complexity economics and the computational study of innovation. Matei’s career spans Goldman Sachs Asset Management, AQR, Merrill Lynch, Macquarie, and CITIC Capital, and he co-founded Forward Partners. Matei earned an MA and pursued doctoral studies at Harvard University, and earlier studied in Beijing, China, as well as in his native Romania. Matei was named a Young Asian Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2003. Talk 2: Knowing When t