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2023 NYU Stern Fintech Conference

Autonomous Finance: Facts and Fakes

8:30 AM-2:15 PM EST | VIRTUAL WEBINAR

Join top Fintech academics, leading Fintech investors, innovative Fintech startups, and forward-looking Financial institutions. This year's theme is artificial intelligence and fintech, including both the light and dark sides of automation. Art is generated by AI DALL E 2.


Speakers

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8:30 AM - 8:35 AM, Welcome and Opening Remarks

Kathleen DeRose, Director of the Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation & the Fubon Fintech Initiative, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance and Academic Director, MS in Fintech

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8:35 AM - 9:05 AM, Opening Keynote

Frances Haugen, Advocate for accountability & transparency in social media

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9:05 AM - 9:55 AM, Research Session 1: “Controversy and Opportunity in the Digital Assets Space."

Professor David Yermack, Moderator, Albert Fingerhut Professor of Finance and Business Transformation & Chair, Finance Department, NYU Stern School of Business
Yesha Yadav, Associate Dean and Robert Belton Director of Diversity, Equity and Community Milton R. Underwood Chair Professor of Law Faculty Co-director, LL.M. Program, Vanderbilt University Law School
Professor Bruce Mizrach, Professor of Economics, Rutgers University
Professor Barnabé Monnot, Research Scientist, Robust Incentives Group @ Ethereum Foundation

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9:55 AM - 10:30 AM, Practitioner Panel 1: "Payments Panel Planning and Preparation"

Larry Diamond, Co-Founder and Global CEO, Zip Co
Gali Heichal, Global Head of Payments Partnerships, Klarna
Ali Heron, C-Suite Executive, Board Member, Adviser
Kathleen DeRose, Moderator, Director of the Fubon Center for Technology, Business and Innovation & the Fubon Fintech Initiative, Clinical Associate Professor of Finance and Academic Director, MS in Fintech

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10:30 AM - 11:00 AM, Keynote: "Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and Disinformation."

Todd Helmus, Senior Behavioral Scientist, RAND
 

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11:55 AM - 12:45 PM, Academic Panel: "Trusting GPT-4 and the New Generation of Artificial Intelligence"

Professor Arun Sundararajan, Moderator
Harold Price Professor of Entrepreneurship, NYU Stern School of Business

Francesca Rossi, IBM Fellow, AI Global Leader, IBM

Vasant Dhar, Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics, NYU Stern School of Business

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12:45 PM - 1:15 PM,  Practitioner Panel 2: "The Seedier Side of Automation and Associated Fraud and Compliance Issues Members"

Ian Gray, Senior Director, Research and Analysis, Flashpoint
Tom Armstrong, Compliance Advisor at TRM
Michelle Lamb, Senior Cybersecurity Threat Intelligence Analyst 

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1:15 PM - 1:25 PM, NYU Stern FinTech Association

Chris Millisits and Jeevan Renjith 

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1:25 PM - 2:00 PM, Keynote Speaker: Author, “This is How They Tell Me The World Ends.”

Nicole Perlroth, Cyber Storyteller, Advisor, Investor
 

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11:10AM – 11:40AM , LUNCH NETWORKING SESSION

Join us during the lunch break for the networking sessions. Register for the webinar and the link will be shared throughout the day. 

Morning Academic Panel: Bruce Mizrach, Rutgers University, Department of Economics