9:00–9:05
Opening Remarks
Welcome & introduction
9:05–9:35
Invited Talk 1: Towards Reliable Financial Agents: Teaching Agents to Work
Vincent Sunn Chen
9:35–10:05
Invited Talk 2: Guardrails for AI in Financial Services
Sebastian Gehrmann
10:05–10:30
Coffee Break
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10:30–11:00
Invited Talk 3: Cheap Inference, High Fidelity: Scaling Laws for LLM Distillation in Finance
Lavinia Ghita
11:00–11:30
Invited Talk 4: From Models to Agents: Building Evaluation-Centric, Risk-Aware AI Systems for Finance
Bhaskarjit Sarmah
11:30–12:15
Poster Session 1
Networking & posters
12:15–13:15
Lunch Break
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13:15–13:25
Spotlight talk 1: Information Homogenization Induces Herding in Retrieval-Augmented LLM Agent Markets
Zichen Song
13:25–13:35
Spotlight talk 2: Reformulating Imitation Learning as Return Distribution Matching
Filippo Lazzati, Alberto Maria Metelli
13:35–13:45
Spotlight talk 3: One Size Fits None: Do LLMs Provide Suitable Financial Advice?
Jillian Ross, Andrew Lo
13:45–14:00
Best Paper Awards
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14:00–15:00
Poster Session 2
Networking & posters
15:00–15:30
Coffee Break
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15:30–16:00
Invited Talk 5: Autonomous Research for Finance and Economics
Alejandro Lopez-Lira
16:00–16:10
Best Poster Award Announcement
Announcement only
16:10–16:50
Panel Discussion
Panelists
16:50–17:00
Closing Remarks
Wrap-up