COST FinAI Core Group, 2nd EFCG - Diversity challenges for a sustainable Fintech

COST FinAI
Core group meeting. to discuss the current status of MoU and GP3 achievements. The event will be hybrid to ensure maximum participation
Diversity meeting to discuss diversity goals and achievements and discuss potential adjustments

Core group meeting:
The core group meeting will focus on the deliverables of this Action:
• Transparency in Fintech
• Transparent versus Black Box Decision-Support Models in the Financial Industry
• Transparency into Investment Product Performance for Clients
• Fintech
• Artificial Intelligence in Finance

Diversity meeting
The diversity meeting will focus on these topics
• Women in fintech III conference
• ongoing projects and initiatives by diversity team members (e.g. VMG awarded to diversity team members, research projects run by members, etc.)
• any other issues

On the same days (13 and 14 April) and venue, the following event will take place
This is the second edition of the workshop on Environmental finance for the common good and this edition will be titled “Fintech and AI for more sustainable societies”. In the same vein as the first edition it will bring together academia, industry and policy makers.

The activity hence aims at bringing together academics, early career investigators, phd students, the industry and policy makers to discuss around the issue of sustainability and if and how Fintech applications pose an opportunity or a threat to a more sustainable and more inclusive society. New methodologies that employ artificial intelligence in this area will also be presented and discussed.

Hybrid events

Final programme here:

#### day 1 - 13th April 2023

11.00 AM FINAI Cost Activities
12.00 PM Registration and welcome coffee
1.00 PM FINAI Cost Activities: Core Group Meeting
2.15 PM Plenary session: Maria Moloney (University College Dublin)
3.00 PM Plenary session: Round table introduced and moderated by Walter Gontarek (CEO and Chairman of Channel)
4.00 PM - 6.00 PM Conference programme