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Conference Agenda
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Location: Aida Conference hall Meeting hall “Aida”, which can accommodate up to 180 people |
| Date: Monday, 25/Aug/2025 | |
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Welcome: Welcome, introduction and housekeeping Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Keynote 1: Keynote: "Lessons from fintech-academic collaborations" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Antonio Gargano, University of Houston, United States of America |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Plen. panel 1: Plenary panel: "Bridging the gap between innovators and scholars in finance" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America Panelist: Dan Galai, The Hebrew University, Israel Panelist: Antonio Gargano, University of Houston, United States of America Panelist: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain Panelist: Sebastian Schäfer, House of Finance and Tech Berlin, Germany Panelist: Tibor Zavadil, DigFin, a.s., Slovak Republic |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Plen. pres. 1: Plenary presentation: "Animal spirits on steroids: Evidence from retail options trading" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Nagpurnanand Prabhala, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America Panelist: Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University, United States of America Animal Spirits on Steroids: Evidence from Retail Options Trading in India 1: Georgia State University, United States of America; 2: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; 3: John Hopkins University; 4: Lehigh University |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm |
Plen. pres. 2: Plenary presentation: "Prompting Participation: Digital Nudging to Reduce Investment Inertia" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Bernard Yeung, NUS business school, Singapore Prompting Participation: Digital Nudging to Reduce Investment Inertia 1: NUS business school, Singapore; 2: Bank for International Settlements; 3: Southern university of Science and Technology Business School; 4: Shanghai University of Finance and Economics |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm |
Plen. sp. panel: Plenary panel: "Behavioral science and ethical banking" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Andra Sonea, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Panelist: Ben Goldin, Plumery B.V., Netherlands, The Panelist: Jakub Wieclaw, Magnetiq Bank, Latvia Panelist: Nagpurnanand Prabhala, Johns Hopkins University, United States of America Panelist: Bernard Yeung, NUS business school, Singapore The panel will examine how banks can ethically use nudges, gamification, personalization, and behavioral design to help consumers spend more mindfully, save more consistently, and make financial decisions that support long-term well-being. |
| 7:00pm - 7:30pm |
Keynote 2: Keynote: "Leadership for finance professionals: A CEO-turned-leadership-scholar perspective" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Emilia Bunea, Ed.movie Inc., United States of America |
| 7:30pm - 8:00pm |
Plen. panel 2: Plenary panel: "Humans in finance" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America Panelist: Vikas Agarwal, Georgia State University, United States of America Panelist: Emilia Bunea, Ed.movie Inc., United States of America Panelist: Daumantas Dvilinskas, TRANSFERGO, Lithuania Panelist: Christel Rendu de Lint, Vontobel, Switzerland The panel will address what it means to be human in a world of numbers, models, and markets – be it as leader, employee, customer, investor, or scholar. |
| 8:00pm - 8:30pm |
Debrief - Monday: Announcements, housekeeping, reflections Location: Aida Conference hall |
| Date: Tuesday, 26/Aug/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 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 |
| 9:30am - 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? |
| 10:00am - 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? |
| 11:00am - 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 |
| 11:30am - 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. |
| 12:00pm - 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 |
| 2:00pm - 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 |
| 2:30pm - 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 |
| 3:00pm - 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 |
| 4:00pm - 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 |
| 4:30pm - 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 |
| 5:00pm - 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 |
| 7:00pm - 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 - 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 - 8:30pm |
Debrief - Tuesday: Announcements, housekeeping, reflections Location: Aida Conference hall |
| Date: Wednesday, 27/Aug/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
Session 1.13: Pacioli in the computer age Location: Aida Conference hall Pacioli in the computer age Ariadne, Switzerland |
| 9:30am - 10:00am |
Session 1.14: Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty in Finance Location: Aida Conference hall Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty in Finance Ariadne, Switzerland |
| 10:00am - 10:30am |
Session 1.15: Panel: "Finance should speak one language" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Allan Mendelowitz, ACTUS Financial Research Foundation, United States of America Panelist: Willi Brammertz, Ariadne, Switzerland Panelist: Ralf Kubli, Ariadne, Switzerland Panelist: Matt Schaffnit, Casper Association, Switzerland |
| 11:00am - 11:30am |
Session 1.16: "Panel: Publishing fintech-related work - a meeting with journal editors" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Arman Eshraghi, Cardiff Business School, United Kingdom Panelist: David Feldman, UNSW Sydney, Australia Panelist: Zvi Wiener, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Journals represented: - International Review of Economics and Finance - Quarterly Journal of Finance - Journal of Fintech |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm |
Session 1.17: Panel: "Financial interoperability" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Evelina Kvedaraviciute, Vilnius University, Lithuania Panelist: Siddharth Shetty, Finternet, India |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm |
Session 1.18: Panel: "Future of capital markets" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Ralf Kubli, Ariadne, Switzerland Panelist: Albert Menkveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Panelist: Alexei Jiltsov, Tradefeedr, United Kingdom |
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm |
Session 1.19: Workshop: EU COST programme application Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Roman Matkovskyy, Rennes School of Business, France Panelist: Alfreda Šapkauskienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania For those interested in joining a digital finance-related application for EU funded "Cooperation in Science Technology" programme. |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm |
Session 1.20: Workshop: EU COST programme application Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Roman Matkovskyy, Rennes School of Business, France Panelist: Alfreda Šapkauskienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania For those interested in joining a digital finance-related application for EU funded "Cooperation in Science Technology" programme. |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm |
Session 1.21: Workshop: EU COST programme application Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Roman Matkovskyy, Rennes School of Business, France Panelist: Alfreda Šapkauskienė, Vilnius University, Lithuania For those interested in joining a digital finance-related application for EU funded "Cooperation in Science Technology" programme. |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm |
Session 1.22: Workshop: Turning fintech challenges into academic research, turning academic research into fintech innovation Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain What problems do fintechs face that academics could help solve? This interactive workshop brings together fintech innovators and researchers to identify and refine real-world challenges worth exploring. The session lays the groundwork for a future online hackathon where academic teams will tackle these issues head-on. |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm |
Session 1.23: Workshop: Turning fintech challenges into academic research, turning academic research into fintech innovation Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain What problems do fintechs face that academics could help solve? This interactive workshop brings together fintech innovators and researchers to identify and refine real-world challenges worth exploring. The session lays the groundwork for a future online hackathon where academic teams will tackle these issues head-on. |
| 5:00pm - 5:30pm |
Session 1.24: Workshop: Turning fintech challenges into academic research, turning academic research into fintech innovation Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain What problems do fintechs face that academics could help solve? This interactive workshop brings together fintech innovators and researchers to identify and refine real-world challenges worth exploring. The session lays the groundwork for a future online hackathon where academic teams will tackle these issues head-on. |
| 7:00pm - 7:30pm |
Keynote 4: Keynote: "What we can learn today about the markets of tomorrow: Crypto, crashes and credible research" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: Albert Menkveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The |
| 7:30pm - 8:00pm |
Plen. panel 4: Plenary panel: "The future of finance" Location: Aida Conference hall Moderator: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America Panelist: Allard Luchsinger, Techstars, Netherlands, The Panelist: Albert Menkveld, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands, The Panelist: Ruta Merkeviciute, France Panelist: Sheila Mitham, Inbound FinTech, United Kingdom |
| 8:00pm - 8:30pm |
Debrief - Wednesday: Announcements, housekeeping, reflections Location: Aida Conference hall |