Program

KDD Finance Day 2024 will take place on August 26, 2024, in Barcelona, Spain.

9:00am	9:10am	Opening Remarks	Grace Wang/Daniel Borrajo (NJIT/J.P.Morgan Chase)
9:10am	10:10am	Keynote Talk	Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (UCLA) Title: Short-Term Reversals and Longer-Term Momentum Around the World: Theory and Evidence
10:10am	10:40am	Invited Talk	Claudia Perlich (Two Sigma) Title: Challenges and Opportunities for AI in Systematic Investing
10:40am	11:00am	Coffee Break
11:00am	1:00pm	Invited Talks	Eyke Hüllermeier (LMU Munich) Title: Uncertainty Quantification in Machine Learning: Current Status and Open Challenges Senthil Kumar (Capital One) Title: Sequence Modeling in Finance Jundong Li (University of Virginia) Title: Trustworthy Graph Machine Learning for Financial Applications Yongjae Lee (UNIST) Title: Investment Recommendation for Individual Investors
1:00pm	2:00pm	Lunch Time	Buffet Lunch will be served inside the Finance Day room
2:00pm	2:30pm	Featured Talk	Henrike Mueller (Financial Conduct Authority) Title: AI in financial services – a regulatory perspective
2:30pm	4:00pm	Invited Talks	Xiangyu Zhao (City University of Hong Kong) Title: Adaptive and Automated Deep Recommender Systems Dumitru Roman (SINTEF AS & OsloMet) Title: Synthetic Financial Data Generation for Green and Sustainable Finance Kubilay Atasu (Delft University of Technology) Title: Graph Machine Learning for Financial Crime Analysis
4:00pm	4:30pm	Coffee Break
4:30pm	5:30pm	Invited Talks	Xiao-Ming Wu (Hong Kong Poly University) Title: Toward Automated Smart Contract Generation: Retrieval-Augmented Solidity Code Completion and Correctness Evaluation Milos Blagojevic (BlackRock) Title: Empowering AI Agents with Domain-Driven Design: A Blueprint for Advanced API Orchestration in Financial Services
5:30pm	5:40pm	Closing Remarks	Daniel Borrajo/Grace Wang (J.P.Morgan Chase/NJIT)