Published by https://ai.northeastern.edu/
WEDNESDAY APRIL 5, 2023 | 3:00 PM
Usama Fayyad, Kevin Sanborn, Felipe Cortes and Yakov Bart
Join us on Wednesday, April 5, 2023 for a conversation about Experiential AI for Finance Leaders. Hear from:
Usama Fayyad, executive director at the Institute for Experiential AI (EAI)
Yakov Bart, research professor, D’Amore-McKim School of Business and EAI faculty
Felipe Cortes, professor of finance, D’Amore-McKim School of Business
Kevin Sanborn, business development & partnerships lead at EAI
Some topics that will be covered in the talk are:
° Brief history of AI within FinTech
° AI and ML in finance
° NLP in finance
° Credit/lending and risk
° AI and insurance
° Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies
° AI, trading and capital markets
° Payment systems
° Fraud detection and prevention
° Customer service
° Governance
° Cryptocurrencies and DeFi
° Innovation in Banking
° Innovations in Insurance/Insurtech
° Global trends in Fintech
° Fintech developments in the investment industry
Biography
Usama Fayyad is the executive director of the Institute for Experiential AI. Usama joined Northeastern University Khoury College of Computer Science as professor of the practice and the Office of the Provost as the Inaugural Executive Director of the Institute for Experiential AI. He continues as Chairman of Open Insights, a company he founded as a technology and consulting firm in 2008 after leaving Yahoo to enable enterprises to get value out of their data assets and optimize or create new business models based on the evolving economy of interactions. Leveraging open-source and Big Data technology with strategic consulting, Open Insights deploys data-driven solutions to grow revenue from data assets through Big Data strategy, new business models, data science, and AI/ML solutions… read more
Felipe Cortes is an associate teaching professor of finance at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University. Prior to joining Northeastern University, Cortes served as an Instructor for finance courses and as a Graduate Research Assistant at Washington University in St. Louis… read more
Yakov Bart is an associate professor of marketing, a Thomas E. Moore Faculty Fellow, and a Patrick F. and Helen C. Walsh Research Professor at D’Amore-McKim School of Business. He holds a doctorate and a Master of Science in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley, a Scientiae Magister in Operations Research from MIT, and a diploma in mathematics from Moscow State University. Before joining Northeastern University, Yakov was a marketing professor at INSEAD and visiting faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania… read more
Kevin Sanborn leads business development and partnership efforts across the insurance and financial services sectors at the Institute for Experiential AI. He brings significant insurance expertise to EAI, including senior leadership roles at The Hartford, Homesite Insurance and Attune Insurance… read more
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