Conference Agenda

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Session Overview
Date: Monday, 25/Aug/2025
10:00am
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12:00pm
Vilnius tour: Free tour of Old Town Vilnius

Meet in front of the Artis Centrum Hotel entrance

1:00pm
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2:00pm
Arrival: Arrival and coffee
Location: Norma Conference hall
2:00pm
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2:30pm
Welcome: Welcome, introduction and housekeeping
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: David Stolin, Future Finance Fest (3f), United States of America
2:30pm
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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
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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
3:30pm
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4:00pm
Coffee 1: Coffee
Location: Norma Conference hall
4:00pm
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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
4:30pm
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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
5:00pm
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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.

5:30pm
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7:00pm
Dinner 1: Dinner
Location: Dining hall
7:00pm
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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
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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
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8:30pm
Debrief - Monday: Announcements, housekeeping, reflections
Location: Aida Conference hall
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
Date: Wednesday, 27/Aug/2025
9:00am
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9:30am
Session 1.13: Pacioli in the computer age
Location: Aida Conference hall
Session 2.13: Fighting Climate Change with FinTech
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.13: Implied Impermanent Loss: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of Decentralized Liquidity Pools
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.13: frntr-X - Tokenizing Africa: Unlocking Capital for High-Impact Real Assets through Blockchain
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.13: Refinement&pitching
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Teams refine their most promising ideas into bold, evidence-backed solutions. With quickfire pitches and live feedback, concepts are sharpened into prototypes ready to inspire real-world action.

9:30am
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10:00am
Session 1.14: Certainty, Risk and Uncertainty in Finance
Location: Aida Conference hall
Session 2.14: Do Gamified Social Interactions on a Green Fintech App Nudge Users’ Green Investments?
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.14: Collateral Choice
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.14: Breaking the Rules: How Open Source can be used as a competitive edge in Finance
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.14: Refinement&pitching
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Teams refine their most promising ideas into bold, evidence-backed solutions. With quickfire pitches and live feedback, concepts are sharpened into prototypes ready to inspire real-world action.

10:00am
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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
Session 2.15: Crowdfunded Microfinance
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.15: Hidden Liquidity - Evidence from the Introduction of Iceberg Orders
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.15: Hybridized Human-AI Financial Decision-Making via a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI)
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.15: Refinement&pitching
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Teams refine their most promising ideas into bold, evidence-backed solutions. With quickfire pitches and live feedback, concepts are sharpened into prototypes ready to inspire real-world action.

10:30am
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11:00am
Coffee 4: Coffee
Location: Norma Conference hall
11:00am
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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

Session 2.16: Bitcoin Mining for Carbon Emission Reduction
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.16: Smart Advice? A Case-Based Analysis of Robo-Advisory Efficiency
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.16: Unlocking Digital Mortgages: Opportunities and Challenges Across the EU
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Session 5.16: Refinement&pitching
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Teams refine their most promising ideas into bold, evidence-backed solutions. With quickfire pitches and live feedback, concepts are sharpened into prototypes ready to inspire real-world action.

11:30am
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12:00pm
Session 1.17: Panel: "Financial interoperability"
Location: Aida Conference hall
Moderator: Evelina Kvedaraviciute, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Panelist: Siddharth Shetty, Finternet, India
Session 2.17: The regulation of cryptocurrency markets: an exchange-centric view of illicit activity on the Bitcoin blockchain
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.17: Human preferences and frequency of interaction with algorithmic advisers
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.17: BSM Model, VIX and the Evolution of Risk Management
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Moderator: Dan Galai, The Hebrew University, Israel
Session 5.17: Refinement&pitching
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Teams refine their most promising ideas into bold, evidence-backed solutions. With quickfire pitches and live feedback, concepts are sharpened into prototypes ready to inspire real-world action.

12:00pm
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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
Session 2.18: Transmission Dynamics in Crypto Markets: Comparing Volatility and Liquidity Spillover Networks
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.18: Minimal dynamic equilibria
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 5.18: Refinement&pitching
Location: Nabucco Conference hall
Moderator: Joanna Pousset, Demium, Spain

Teams refine their most promising ideas into bold, evidence-backed solutions. With quickfire pitches and live feedback, concepts are sharpened into prototypes ready to inspire real-world action.

 
12:30pm
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2:00pm
Lunch 2: Lunch
Location: Dining hall
2:00pm
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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.

Session 2.19: Mapping the Perspectives of Central Bankers, Centralised Finance and Decentralised Finance Industries on CBDC
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.19: ETF (Mis)pricing
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.19: "GNU Taler: Privacy for Inclusion, Free Software for Innovation"
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Moderator: Christian Grothoff, Taler Systems SA, Switzerland
 
2:30pm
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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.

Session 2.20: Unbundling everyday banking industry and its implications on critical infrastructure resilience
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.20: Corporate Bond ETFs & Volatility
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.20: Workshop: GNU Taler
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Moderator: Christian Grothoff, Taler Systems SA, Switzerland
 
3:00pm
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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.

Session 2.21: Generative AI and Business Model Innovation in Banking
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.21: Drawing the Line between Bond Dealer and Bandit
Location: Mikado Conference hall
Session 4.21: Workshop: GNU Taler
Location: Tosca Conference hall
Moderator: Christian Grothoff, Taler Systems SA, Switzerland
 
3:30pm
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4:00pm
Coffee 5: Coffee
Location: Norma Conference hall
4:00pm
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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.

Session 2.22: Can Event Study Methodology Keep Up with Cryptocurrencies?
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.22: Another Look at the Tail Risk Premium Anomaly
Location: Mikado Conference hall
   
4:30pm
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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.

Session 2.23: Social Media Credibility and Financial Market Activity
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.23: Do Lenders Price Firms’ Cybersecurity Risks?
Location: Mikado Conference hall
   
5:00pm
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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.

Session 2.24: The Influence of Social Media Bots on Financial Markets
Location: Carmen Conference hall
Session 3.24: AI Boost and Demographic Bust: Is “Hi-Tech Feudalism” inevitable?
Location: Mikado Conference hall
   
5:30pm
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7:00pm
Dinner 3: Dinner
Location: Dining hall
7:00pm
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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
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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
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8:30pm
Debrief - Wednesday: Announcements, housekeeping, reflections
Location: Aida Conference hall