Program

KDD Finance Day 2025 will take place on August 4, 2025, in Toronto, Canada.

9:30 AM	9:50 AM	Coffee
9:50 AM	10:00 AM	Opening Remarks
10:00 AM	10:30 AM	Featured Talk	David Rosenberg / Camilo Ortiz Diaz (Bloomberg) No Trade, No Truth: Data-Driven Bond Pricing in Practice
10:30 AM	12:00 PM	Invited Talk	Qiaozhu Mei (UMichigan) Title: AI Behavioral Science: use AI to decipher motivations behind human behavior Yanshuai Cao (RBC Borealis) Title: Modern challenges and opportunities in Financial AI: an Interpretability Lens Rama Akkiraju (NVIDIA) Building Trustworthy Financial agents with Agentic AI
12:00 PM	1:00 PM	Lunch Time	Lunch provided to Finance Day Attendees
1:00 PM	1:30 PM	Featured Talk	Chenxi Wang (Rain Capital) Investment trends in AI and Cybersecurity: How investors assess today's AI deals
1:30 PM	3:00 PM	Invited Talks	Sohaib Perwaiz (RBC Borealis) Title: Scaling AI solution development in enterprise banking context Igor Melnyk (Capital One) Title: Modeling Sequence Data in Financial Services Linbo Wang (UToronto) Title: Sparse Causal Learning: Challenges and Opportunities
3:00 PM	3:30 PM	Coffee Time
3:30 PM	4:30 PM	Invited Talks	Pedro Sant'Anna (Emory) Title: Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner's Guide Edward Raff (Booz Allen Hamilton) Title: Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks on Financial Reporting via Maximum Violated Multi-Objective Attack