Schedule

Schedule

• 8:30 AM EST-8:40 AM EST Opening remarks: Xiao-Yang Liu

• 8:40 AM EST-9:00 AM EST Talk 1: Xiao-Yang Liu and Li Deng, Topic: Multimodal Financial Foundation Models (MFFMs): Progress, Prospects, and Challenges

• 9:00 AM EST-9:35 AM EST Talk 2: Steve Yang, Topic: LLM and XBRL Financial Information and Investment Value

• 9:35 AM EST-10:00 AM EST 4 Contributed talks from authors (each about 5 minutes)

• 10:00 AM EST-10:30 AM EST Poster Session and Coffee Break

• 11:30 AM EST-11:00 AM EST Talk 3: Randy Zhao, Topic: Next-gen AI-powered Financial Research Platform

• 11:00 AM EST-11:30 AM EST Talk 4: Jimin Huang, Topic: Open-FinLLMs: Open Multimodal Large Language Models for Financial Applications

• 11:30 AM EST-12:25 PM EST Panel on Landscape/Future Directions. Topic: Open LLMs and Finance, Open Science vs. "Openwashing" and "Greenwashing".  Host: Xiao-Yang Liu. Guests: Matt White, Karl Moll, Christina Dan Wang, Jimin Huang, and Anwar Walid

• 12:25 PM EST-12:30 PM EST Closing remarks: Xiao-Yang Liu