WITS – Warwick Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology Feeder Workshop on Frontiers of AI and FinTech
Our Director, Prof. Jungpil had been invited to the WITS-Warwick Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology Feeder Workshop on Frontiers of AI and FinTech, which was held from 17th March 2023 to 18th March 2023 at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.
This workshop endeavored to highlight recent AI and crypto developments and their implications for financial activity. It aimed at initiating the conversation about new business applications, novel datasets, advanced technical developments, social and economic impacts of FinTech and AI. Centered on the Warwick Business School’s Gillmore Centre for Financial Technology and the Gillmore finXtech Lab, the event also connected practitioners and scholars with the aim to generate impactful research directions.
The two-day workshop was planned as follows.
- 17th March 2023 (started at 11:00 am): the focus was on the interaction between practitioners in the financial services industry and academic scholars. Three broad themes – future of AI applications in financial services, viability of crypto and blockchain applications in financial services, and financial inclusion – were explored through lively interchange and debate between practitioners and academics.
- The key takeaways we expected were for the practitioners to gain research-led insights and access to academic talent to help tackle their pressing challenges, and for academics to gain a deeper understanding of industry challenges to shape their impactful research. The day ended with a dinner at a nearby location (details were to be confirmed shortly).
- 18th March 2023 (started at 9:00 am): the focus was on academic presentations. The plan was to have a total of 6 presentations, each lasting 1 hour. At the conclusion of the presentations, we planned for a memorable cricket experience in Birmingham which was not too far from the campus.