Conference Agenda

Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).

 
 
Session Overview
Date: Tuesday, 26/Aug/2025
9:00am
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9:30am
Session 1.01: Panel: "Fintech ecosystems around the world"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Aadil Bundeally, BABL AI, Valutico & AI Risk, United Kingdom
Panelist: Yuki Kishi, Fintech Association of Japan, Japan
Panelist: Sebastian Schäfer, House of Finance and Tech Berlin, Germany
Panelist: Marius Skuodis, Bank of Lithuania, Lithuania
Session 2.01: What Do Early Stage Investors Ask? An LLM Analysis of Expert Calls
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.01: ESG Metrics in Executive Compensation: a Multitasking Approach
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.01: More Than Meets the Eye (or Ear): Surprising Microstructure Effects of Fed Chair Nonverbal Cues in High-Frequency Markets
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.01: Challenge-building brainstorm
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Founders and academics team up to surface the newest, hottest, and most urgent fintech challenges. Real founder pain points are laid out, sharpened, and framed into high-impact prompts that set the stage for bold, innovation-ready solutions.

9:30am
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10:00am
Session 1.02: Panel: "Communicating finance ideas I"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America
Panelist: Ashwini Agrawal, LSE, United Kingdom
Panelist: Linas Beliunas, Oscilar, Lithuania
Panelist: Chris Crespo, Nordic Fintech Magazine, Denmark

How can potentially complex financial ideas be communicated with clarity, credibility, and impact?

Session 2.02: The Growth and Performance of Artificial Intelligence in Asset Management
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.02: Political Influence on Green Innovation
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.02: Mandatory Central Clearing and Derivative Offsetting
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.02: Challenge-building brainstorm
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Founders and academics team up to surface the newest, hottest, and most urgent fintech challenges. Real founder pain points are laid out, sharpened, and framed into high-impact prompts that set the stage for bold, innovation-ready solutions.

10:00am
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10:30am
Session 1.03: Panel: "Communicating finance ideas II"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America
Panelist: Victor Lyonnet, University of Michigan, United States of America
Panelist: Allan Mendelowitz, ACTUS Financial Research Foundation, United States of America
Panelist: Christel Rendu de Lint, Vontobel, Switzerland

How can potentially complex financial ideas be communicated with clarity, credibility, and impact?

Session 2.03: Is Generative AI an Existential Threat to Human Creatives? Insights from Financial Economics
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.03: Does Social Media Help Level the Playing Field in Director Labor Markets? Evidence from Twitter
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.03: A Comprehensive Business Intelligence Analysis for Cryptocurrency Anomalies Detection
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.03: Challenge-building brainstorm
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Founders and academics team up to surface the newest, hottest, and most urgent fintech challenges. Real founder pain points are laid out, sharpened, and framed into high-impact prompts that set the stage for bold, innovation-ready solutions.

10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee 2: Coffee
Location: Norma Conference hall
11:00am
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11:30am
Session 1.04: Panel: "Payments"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Andra Sonea, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Panelist: Christian Grothoff, Taler Systems SA, Switzerland
Panelist: Alex Lakatos, Interledger Foundation, Romania
Session 2.04: "Smart" Contracts and External Financing
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.04: The Unintended Consequences of Investing for the Long Run: Evidence from Target Date Funds
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 5.04: Challenge-building brainstorm
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Founders and academics team up to surface the newest, hottest, and most urgent fintech challenges. Real founder pain points are laid out, sharpened, and framed into high-impact prompts that set the stage for bold, innovation-ready solutions.

 
11:30am
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12:00pm
Session 1.05: Panel: "Future of money"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Chris Crespo, Nordic Fintech Magazine, Denmark
Panelist: Andrei Kirilenko, Cambridge Judge Business School, United Kingdom
Panelist: Siddharth Shetty, Finternet, India

Stablecoins, tokenized deposits, and CBDCs; issuance and market distribution models; successes and failures; regulatory regimes around the world.

Session 2.05: Liquid staking
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.05: A Hierarchical State-Based Asset Pricing Model
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 5.05: Challenge-building brainstorm
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Founders and academics team up to surface the newest, hottest, and most urgent fintech challenges. Real founder pain points are laid out, sharpened, and framed into high-impact prompts that set the stage for bold, innovation-ready solutions.

 
12:00pm
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12:30pm
Session 1.06: Panel: "Fintech lending"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Tibor Zavadil, DigFin, a.s., Slovak Republic
Panelist: Virginia Gianinazzi, Nova SBE, Portugal
Panelist: Tymon Zastrzeżyński, Loando Group, Poland
Session 2.06: On the Incentive Compatibility of Optimistic Blockchain Mechanisms
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.06: Forecasting Stock Prices with a News-Based Model
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 5.06: Challenge-building brainstorm
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Founders and academics team up to surface the newest, hottest, and most urgent fintech challenges. Real founder pain points are laid out, sharpened, and framed into high-impact prompts that set the stage for bold, innovation-ready solutions.

 
12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch 1: Lunch
Location: Dining hall
2:00pm
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2:30pm
Session 1.07: Panel: "Tokenization I"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Aadil Bundeally, BABL AI, Valutico & AI Risk, United Kingdom
Panelist: Sven-Roger Baron von Schilling, svs Capital Partners GmbH, Germany
Panelist: Jiasun Li, United States of America
Panelist: Martynas Pilkis, Axiology, Lithuania
Panelist: Stefan Scharnowski, University of Mannheim, Germany
Session 2.07: Behavioural Foundations of Individual Cryptocurrency Adoption (Evidence from the Nordic countries and France)
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.07: An Analytical Model for Loan Commitments Facing the Material Adverse Change
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.07: Optimal Portfolios for Socially Responsible Investors
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.07: Ideas development
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Mixed teams of founders, academics, and regulators form around the hottest challenges. They sprint through concept pods, test assumptions, and unlock unconventional angles under time pressure.

2:30pm
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3:00pm
Session 1.08: Panel: "Tokenization II"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Aadil Bundeally, BABL AI, Valutico & AI Risk, United Kingdom
Panelist: Sven-Roger Baron von Schilling, svs Capital Partners GmbH, Germany
Panelist: Jiasun Li, United States of America
Panelist: Martynas Pilkis, Axiology, Lithuania
Panelist: Stefan Scharnowski, University of Mannheim, Germany
Session 2.08: Tracing the learning curve: On cryptocurrency prices, volatility, and eventual adoption
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.08: Intangible Liabilities
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.08: Tradefeedr: Empowering Data-Driven Trading Decisions
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.08: Ideas development
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Mixed teams of founders, academics, and regulators form around the hottest challenges. They sprint through concept pods, test assumptions, and unlock unconventional angles under time pressure.

3:00pm
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3:30pm
Session 1.09: Panel: "What is Revenue Operations (RevOps) and why is it important for financial services?"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Sheila Mitham, Inbound FinTech, United Kingdom
Panelist: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America
Panelist: Ignas Zimaitis, Vilnius university, Lithuania

A fireside chat about marketing in fintech with Sheila Mitham, CEO of Inbound FinTech

Session 2.09: Aggregate Confusion In Crypto Market Data
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.09: Operating Leverage and Risk Premium
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.09: Bridging Asia and Europe: Japan’s Next-Generation FinTech Ecosystem & Cross-Border Collaboration Opportunities
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.09: Ideas development
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Mixed teams of founders, academics, and regulators form around the hottest challenges. They sprint through concept pods, test assumptions, and unlock unconventional angles under time pressure.

3:30pm
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4:00pm
Coffee 3: Coffee
Location: Norma Conference hall
4:00pm
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4:30pm
Session 1.10: Panel: "Lithuania, a fintech powerhouse: Hows, whys, and nexts"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Skaiste Budbergyte-Zabielaite, CEO, Lithuania
Panelist: Laura Guobužaitė, Fintech Lithuania at INFOBALT, Lithuania
Panelist: Greta Ranonytė, FINTECH HUB LT, association, Lithuania
Panelist: Deimante Zemgulyte, Invest Lithuania, Lithuania
Session 2.10: Market Power and the Bitcoin Protocol
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.10: The Private Value of Open-Source Innovation
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.10: The Response of Debtors to Rate Changes
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.10: Ideas development
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Mixed teams of founders, academics, and regulators form around the hottest challenges. They sprint through concept pods, test assumptions, and unlock unconventional angles under time pressure.

4:30pm
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5:00pm
Session 1.11: Panel: "Green Finance"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Andra Sonea, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Panelist: Antonio Gargano, University of Houston, United States of America
Panelist: Virginija Gecaite, European Investment Bank, Lithuania
Panelist: Nora Laurinaityte, Lithuania Green Finance Institute, Lithuania
Panelist: Anatoly Schmidt, NYU Tandon School, United States of America
Session 2.11: A Theory Model of Digital Currency with Asymmetric Privacy
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.11: The Different Networks Of Firms Implied By The News
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.11: What is an Effective Signal in Crowdfunding? Evidence from Expert Researchers and a Meta-Study
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.11: Ideas development
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Mixed teams of founders, academics, and regulators form around the hottest challenges. They sprint through concept pods, test assumptions, and unlock unconventional angles under time pressure.

5:00pm
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5:30pm
Session 1.12: Panel: "Natural language processing in financial services"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America
Panelist: Francisco Webber, Cortical.io, Austria
Session 2.12: Behavior on Blockchains: Trading Activity in Tokenized Financial Assets
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.12: Economic Drivers of Investor Search Behavior in Financial Information Markets
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.12: Is Love Blind? AI-Powered Trading with Emotional Dividends
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.12: Ideas development
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Mixed teams of founders, academics, and regulators form around the hottest challenges. They sprint through concept pods, test assumptions, and unlock unconventional angles under time pressure.

5:30pm
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7:00pm
Dinner 2: Dinner
Location: Dining hall
7:00pm
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7:30pm
Keynote 3: Keynote: "The promise of digital finance: Greater transparency, enhanced efficiency, and more effective and less burdensome regulation"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Allan Mendelowitz, ACTUS Financial Research Foundation, United States of America
7:30pm
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8:00pm
Plen. panel 3: Plenary panel: "Finance for the common good"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Aadil Bundeally, BABL AI, Valutico & AI Risk, United Kingdom
Panelist: Vladimir Atanasov, College of William and Mary, United States of America
Panelist: Virginija Gecaite, European Investment Bank, Lithuania
Panelist: Allan Mendelowitz, ACTUS Financial Research Foundation, United States of America
Panelist: Siddharth Shetty, Finternet, India
8:00pm
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8:30pm
Debrief - Tuesday: Announcements, housekeeping, reflections
Location: Aida Conference hall