This event is in partnership with the Fields Centre for Financial Industry.

The recent global financial crisis has made risk management and financial stability a foremost concern of regulatory agencies and corporations worldwide. Financial managers need efficient and numerically stable algorithms to solve various analytics and optimization problems, and recently turned to ever-popular technologies such as machine learning, data analytics and AI. Therefore, the 4-th Industrial-Academic Workshop will focus on Optimization and Artificial Intelligence applied to Finance, and for the first time offers tutorials during the workshop to let practitioners experience machine learning algorithms. The workshop itself will cover topics such as stochastic and robust optimization, portfolio selection and management, asset pricing and index funds, data analytics and AI for financial and risk-aware decision making.

Important dates:
- Confirmation of invited speakers on Oct/10
- Abstract submission by contributed speakers on Oct/25
- Abstract submission by invited speakers on Oct/15

Registration:
Please register for the workshop here.

Please also join us on the evening of the 12th for a a related event: How I Became a Quant

Plenary Speakers:

Curt Burmeister - IBM

Andrew Butler - ReSolve Asset Management

Vishal Gossain - Scotiabank

Masoud Hashemi - Royal Bank of Canada

Miguel Lejeune - George Washington University

Jim Liew - Johns Hopkins University