Opening Keynote

Teresa Heitsenrether, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, JPMorganChase in conversation with Caroline Hyde, Anchor, Bloomberg News

The 2024 Evident AI Index Results

The Evident AI Index is the global standard benchmark of AI maturity for the banking sector. Evident’s co-founders discuss the October 2024 Index results, including the latest rankings, emerging challengers and the stand-out trends over the last year.

Moderated by: Erik Schatzker, Editorial Director, Bloomberg New Economy

The unhyped use cases: where are financial services companies generating value from LLMs?

The emergence of powerful large language models has created a lot of hype. Now organizations need to prioritize use cases that can actually deliver value. Where are the lowest risk, highest value-adding use cases for LLMs, in a highly regulated industry?

Moderated by: Caroline Daniel, Partner, Brunswick Group.

Keynote Speaker

Manny Roman, CEO & Managing Director, PIMCO in conversation with Erik Schatzker, Editorial Director, Bloomberg New Economy

The insight machine: how is AI driving insights and knowledge creation?

There is massive potential for AI to enhance human knowledge, by supporting prediction and enhancing the usefulness of data and documentation within the financial services industry; across portfolio optimisation, customer experience and internal processes. What are the current and emerging use cases that deliver value through insights and knowledge creation? How are these use cases working both inside banks, and in client facing scenarios?

Moderated by: Kristin Milchanowski, Ph.D, Chief AI & Data Officer, BMO Financial Group

Break

The politics of artificial intelligence: how are geopolitical dynamics affecting AI and business?

The race to develop advanced capabilities in artificial intelligence is having a widespread geopolitical impact, shaping dynamics between the US, China, Europe, Russia and the Middle East across economic, military and political fault lines. What tensions does AI create between different nations, and how might they become a headwind to innovation?

Moderated by: Erik Schatzker, Editorial Director, Bloomberg New Economy

The power of experimentation: how are banks innovating and creating value through experimentation?

As more powerful models are released, and become available for deployment and fine-tuning, businesses are facing a huge spectrum of opportunities when it comes to prototyping applications. To justify the cost of building test environments, banks need to understand the technical constraints and what good experimentation looks like. How should banks be embracing the art of the possible when it comes to experimenting with artificial intelligence?

Moderated by: Caroline Daniel, Partner, Brunswick Group

Keynote Speaker

Anthony Scaramucci, Founder & Managing Partner, SkyBridge in conversation with Erik Schatzker, Editorial Director, Bloomberg New Economy

The enabling factors: how can architecture, data and cloud enable AI?

In order to deliver on their AI ambitions responsibly, banks require adaptable, cost-effective cloud, cutting-edge data architecture and security throughout the lifecycle of an application. How can banks ensure that they have the right data, architecture and cloud support to drive their AI initiatives, what are leading banks doing, and what frontier capabilities are most exciting for the banking sector?

Moderated by: Jackie Davalos, Reporter, Bloomberg News

The breakthrough potential: how are financial services companies embracing emerging technologies?

The pace of technological change is forcing companies to be more adaptable; at the risk of losing competitiveness. From quantum technologies, to edge computing and innovations in synthetic data, simulation and beyond; where are breakthroughs going to come from, and how can financial services companies be prepared?

Moderated by: Mandeep Singh, Global Head of Technology Research, Bloomberg Intelligence

The innovation advantage: how can banks benefit from the most promising AI research?

Research is vital for organisations to stay up to date with emerging prototypes, theories and techniques, as well as to define a strategy for adopting innovations as they emerge. What is the latest research into artificial intelligence showing, and how could it translate into value-adding capabilities for banks?

Moderated by: Luke Gbedemah, Editor, Evident

The agent revolution: how could human-machine partnerships be optimised, now and in the future?

The creation of advanced foundational models that can replicate reasoning, perform complex tasks, and function autonomously in the same way as humans, raises important questions for all businesses. How can organisations understand and embrace the potential of agentic systems?

Moderated by: Luke Gbedemah, Editor, Evident

The cutting-edge applications: how can companies integrate AI into a new technology stack?

Innovation in foundational models, computing and agentic systems is opening a new frontier of applications for business. These innovations require a new technology stack; harmonising data, AI and automation to deliver more customisable workflows. How can financial services companies maximise the value of these cutting-edge capabilities?

Moderated by: Jackie Davalos, Reporter, Bloomberg News