Conference Agenda

for the First Annual Academic Conference of SAIFS

May 31st, Morning
9:00-9:30Sign-in
9:30-10:00

Opening Ceremony

10:15-10:30

Remarks:

Our Sustainable Development Future

Mr. Siddharth Chatterjee

UN Resident Coordinator in China

10:30-11:10

Keynote Speech 1:

The Iteration of AI andthe Competition of Computility

Mr. Lihui Li

Former Governor of the Bank of China

Conversation with Prof. Yilei Shao

11:10-11:50

Keynote Speech 2:

Kan and Keeping AI Under Control

Prof. Max Tegmark

Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

President of the Future of Life Institute

Conversation with Prof. Yilei Shao

       


   

May 31st, Afternoon

Theme One: The Integration of AI and Financial Technology

Host: Prof. Yilei Shao

14:00-14:30

Keynote Speech 3:

AI、LLM and Federated Learning in Finance

Prof. Qiang Yang

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology,
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and

Canadian Academy of Engineering,
Chief AI Officer of WeBank

14:30-15:00

Keynote Speech 4:

Unearthing Financial StatementFraud: Insights

from News Coverage Analysis

Prof. Jianqing Fan
Princeton University

Academician of Academia Sinica in Taiwan, China

Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium

15:00-15:30

Keynote Speech 5:

Generative Artificial Intelligence:

Profound Impacts on AI Research

and the Financial Industry

Prof. Chengqi Zhang
Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Technology Sydney

15:30-15:45

Coffee Break

15:45-16:15

Keynote Speech 6:

The Path to Financial Intelligence

Prof. Yilei Shao
Dean of Shanghai AI-Finance School, ECNU

16:30-17:45

Roundtable 1:
AI and Controlling Financial Systemic Risk

Prof. Yilei Shao (Host), Prof. Jianqing Fan,

Prof. Chengqi Zhang, Mr. Guoqiang Han, 

Prof. Desheng Yin

             

June 1st, Morning                    

Theme Two: Large Language Models and Finance

Host: Prof. Aocheng Tang
9:00-9:30

Keynote Speech 7:

Complex but Different, Great Truths are Always Simple

Prof. Dacheng Tao
Nanyang Technological University,

Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science,

Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences

9:30-10:00

Keynote Speech 8: 

The Big Model and the Road to AGI

Dr. Peng Zhang
CEO of Zhipu AI

10:00-10:30

Keynote Speech 9: Why We Need the Benchmarking of FinLLM?

Mr. Chenhan Wang

Founder and CEO of OpenBayes

Secretary General of CLUE Benchmark

10:30-10:45

Coffee Break

10:45-11:15

Keynote Speech 10:

Research Judgment forRobot’s Future Technology

Prof. Han Ding

Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

11:15-12:15

Roundtable2:
The Present and Future of the 

Large Language Models in Finance

Prof. Yuan Xie (Host), Mr. Junlin Wang (Host)

Prof. Dacheng Tao, Prof. Han Ding,

Dr. Peng Zhang, Mr. Chenhan Wang

   
   

June 1st, Afternoon

Theme Three: A Global Perspective on AI Ethics and Governance

Host: Prof. Qiqi Gao
14:00-14:30

Keynote Speech 11: 

Kant's Four Questions in the Age of AI

Prof. Shijun Tong

Philosophy Professor at ECNU,

Chancellor of NYU Shanghai,

Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy

of Science and Letters

14:30-15:00

Keynote Speech 12: 

From Sora to Metaverses:

Rethinking the Process of Worlding

Prof. Guanjun Wu

Dean of the School of Politics and

International Relations, ECNU

15:00-15:15

Coffee Break

15:15-15:45

Keynote Speech 13: 

The Safety and Governance of

Frontier Foundation Models

Mr. Brian Tse

Concordia AI

15:45-17:15

Roundtable3:
Responsible AI--Ethics and Governance of

Large Language Models

Prof. Qiqi Gao (Host), Prof. Max Tegmark,

Prof. Shijun Tong, Prof. Guanjun Wu, Mr. Brian Tse

   
   

June 1st, Evening
18:00-21:00

AIGC Night