Conference programme

14–17 November 2026 · Milan

Preliminary schedule · updated 9 October 2026 · All times CET (UTC+1) · Subject to change

Conference programme

Four days of ideas, conversations and research in Milan.
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14–17 November 2026 All times CET (UTC+1)

Preliminary programme

14–17 November 2026 · Milan

Preliminary schedule · updated 9 October 2026 · All times CET (UTC+1) · Subject to change

Saturday, November 14

Workshops & tutorials

08:15

Scheduled session

Foyer
Registration

Registration

08:15–17:00 CET
08:30

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Workshop

The 3rd Workshop on LLMs and Generative AI for Finance

08:30–10:30 CET

Room 1
Workshop

Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for LLM-based Agents (RL4LLM-Agents)

08:30–10:30 CET

Room 2
Workshop

RAIOps4Fin - Applied Responsible AI Operations for Finance

08:30–10:30 CET

Room 3
Tutorial

Trustworthy Document Intelligence in Finance

08:30–10:30 CET

Presenters: Yaxuan Kong, Yichen Li and Stefan Zohren.
10:30

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Coffee Break

10:30–11:00 CET
11:00

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Workshop

The 3rd Workshop on LLMs and Generative AI for Finance

11:00–13:00 CET

Room 1
Workshop

Workshop on Reinforcement Learning for LLM-based Agents (RL4LLM-Agents)

11:00–13:00 CET

Room 2
Workshop

RAIOps4Fin - Applied Responsible AI Operations for Finance

11:00–13:00 CET

Room 3
Tutorial

Amortized Bayesian Calibration of Volatility Models

11:00–13:00 CET

Presenters: Francesco Muia, Alexander Fengler, Stefan T. Radev and Jerry M. Huang.
13:00

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Buffet Lunch

13:00–14:00 CET
14:00

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Workshop

The 3rd Workshop on LLMs and Generative AI for Finance

14:00–16:00 CET

Room 1
Workshop

AI-Driven Market Microstructure in Centralized and Decentralized Finance

14:00–16:00 CET

Room 2
Workshop

Women in AI and Finance

14:00–16:00 CET

Room 3
Tutorial

Knowing When to Trust the Model: Confidence, Calibration, and Selective Prediction for LLMs in Finance

14:00–16:00 CET

Presenters: Shikhar Dave and Bhaskarjit Sarmah.
16:00

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Coffee Break

16:00–16:30 CET
16:30

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Workshop

The 3rd Workshop on LLMs and Generative AI for Finance

16:30–18:00 CET

Room 1
Workshop

AI-Driven Market Microstructure in Centralized and Decentralized Finance

16:30–18:00 CET

Room 2
Workshop

Women in AI and Finance

16:30–18:00 CET

Room 3
Competition

Trading Agent Competition awards

16:30–18:00 CET

Conference programme

14–17 November 2026 · Milan

Preliminary schedule · updated 9 October 2026 · All times CET (UTC+1) · Subject to change

Sunday, November 15

Workshops, tutorials & industry

08:15

Scheduled session

Foyer
Registration

Registration

08:15–09:00 CET
08:30

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Industry

FINOS demo & panel

08:30–10:30 CET

Room 1
Workshop

Financial AI Security, Privacy, and Safety

08:30–10:30 CET

Room 2
Workshop

First Workshop on Multimodal and Foundation Models in Banking (MFMB)

08:30–10:30 CET

Room 3
Tutorial

Financial Agents in the Wild: Architectures, Evaluation, and Open Challenges

08:30–10:30 CET

Presenters: Enrico Santus and Ioana Baldini.
10:30

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Coffee Break

10:30–11:00 CET
11:00

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Competition

DXC session + Perpetual Alpha Competition awards

11:00–13:00 CET

Room 1
Workshop

Financial AI Security, Privacy, and Safety

11:00–13:00 CET

Room 2
Workshop

First Workshop on Multimodal and Foundation Models in Banking (MFMB)

11:00–13:00 CET

Room 3
To be confirmed

Session to be confirmed

11:00–13:00 CET

Details to be confirmed
13:00

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Buffet Lunch

13:00–14:00 CET
14:00

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Industry

ADIA Lab

14:00–16:00 CET

Room 1
Workshop

Quantum-Enhanced AI for Financial Decision-Making

14:00–16:00 CET

Room 2
Workshop

IAFM'26: Interpretability and Alignment of Financial Models.

14:00–16:00 CET

Room 3
Workshop

Structuring the Unstructured: AI in Private Markets

14:00–16:00 CET
16:00

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Coffee Break

16:00–16:30 CET
16:30

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Competition

QubeRT Startup Pitch Session

16:30–18:00 CET

Room 1
Workshop

Quantum-Enhanced AI for Financial Decision-Making

16:30–18:00 CET

Room 2
Workshop

IAFM'26: Interpretability and Alignment of Financial Models.

16:30–18:00 CET

Room 3
Workshop

Structuring the Unstructured: AI in Private Markets

16:30–18:00 CET
19:00

Scheduled session

Università statale di Milano
Social event

Welcome Reception

19:00–22:00 CET

Conference programme

14–17 November 2026 · Milan

Preliminary schedule · updated 9 October 2026 · All times CET (UTC+1) · Subject to change

Monday, November 16

Main conference

08:00

Scheduled session

Foyer
Registration

Registration

08:00–11:30 CET
08:30

Scheduled session

Main Hall
Opening

Conference Opening

08:30–09:00 CET
09:00

Scheduled session

Main Hall
Keynote

Keynote: Magazzeni

09:00–09:40 CET
09:40

Scheduled session

Main Hall
Panel

Panel discussion: Intesa, Domyn, Bloomberg & CFM

09:40–10:30 CET

Moderator: QRT.
10:30

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Coffee Break

10:30–11:00 CET
11:00

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Oral session

Oral Session 1

11:00–13:00 CET

6 presentations

Room 1
Oral session

Oral Session 2

11:00–13:00 CET

6 presentations

Room 2
Oral session

Oral Session 3

11:00–13:00 CET

6 presentations

Room 3
Oral session

Oral Session 4

11:00–13:00 CET

6 presentations
13:00

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Buffet Lunch

13:00–14:00 CET
14:00

Scheduled session

Main Hall
Panel

Panel discussion

14:00–15:00 CET

Participants and moderator to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed
15:00

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Oral session

Oral Session 5

15:00–16:00 CET

3 presentations

Room 1
Oral session

Oral Session 6

15:00–16:00 CET

3 presentations

Room 2
Oral session

Oral Session 7

15:00–16:00 CET

3 presentations

Room 3
Oral session

Oral Session 8

15:00–16:00 CET

3 presentations
16:00

Scheduled session

Foyer
Poster session

Coffee Break + Poster Session 1

16:00–16:30 CET

40 posters
16:30

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Poster session

Poster session

16:30–18:00 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 1
Poster session

Poster session

16:30–18:00 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 2
Poster session

Poster session

16:30–18:00 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 3
Poster session

Poster session

16:30–18:00 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed
19:00

Scheduled session

Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica
Banquet

Banquet dinner & awards

19:00–22:00 CET

Speech by Marc Mézard.

Conference programme

14–17 November 2026 · Milan

Preliminary schedule · updated 9 October 2026 · All times CET (UTC+1) · Subject to change

Tuesday, November 17

Main conference

08:30

Scheduled session

Foyer
Registration

Registration

08:30–09:00 CET
09:00

Scheduled session

Main Hall
Keynote

Fireside chat: Savi + Micillo + Pasquali

09:00–10:00 CET
10:00

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Oral session

Oral Session 5

10:00–11:00 CET

3 presentations

Room 1
Oral session

Oral Session 6

10:00–11:00 CET

3 presentations

Room 2
Oral session

Oral Session 7

10:00–11:00 CET

3 presentations

Room 3
Oral session

Oral Session 8

10:00–11:00 CET

3 presentations
11:00

Scheduled session

Foyer
Poster session

Coffee Break + Poster Session 2

11:00–11:30 CET

40 posters
11:30

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Poster session

Poster session

11:30–13:00 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 1
Poster session

Poster session

11:30–13:00 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 2
Poster session

Poster session

11:30–13:00 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 3
Poster session

Poster session

11:30–13:00 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed
13:10

Scheduled session

Foyer
Break

Buffet Lunch

13:10–14:00 CET
14:00

Scheduled session

Main Hall
Keynote

Keynote Pasquali

14:00–14:30 CET
14:30

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Oral session

Oral Session 9

14:30–15:30 CET

3 presentations

Room 1
Oral session

Oral Session 12

14:30–15:30 CET

3 presentations

Room 2
Oral session

Oral Session 10

14:30–15:30 CET

3 presentations

Room 3
Oral session

Oral Session 11

14:30–15:30 CET

3 presentations
15:30

Scheduled session

To be confirmed
Poster session

Coffee Break + Poster Session 3

15:30–16:00 CET

40 posters

Details to be confirmed
16:00

4 parallel sessions

Main Hall
Poster session

Poster session

16:00–17:40 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 1
Poster session

Poster session

16:00–17:40 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 2
Poster session

Poster session

16:00–17:40 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed

Room 3
Poster session

Poster session

16:00–17:40 CET

Title and presentation details to be confirmed.

Details to be confirmed
17:40

Scheduled session

Main Hall
Closing

Farewell

17:40–18:00 CET

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Saturday, November 14

08:15

Registration

08:30

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

13:00

Buffet Lunch

14:00

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

Trading Agent Competition awards

Sunday, November 15

08:15

Registration

08:30

FINOS demo & panel

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

DXC session + Perpetual Alpha Competition awards

Session to be confirmed

13:00

Buffet Lunch

14:00

ADIA Lab

16:00

Coffee Break

16:30

QubeRT Startup Pitch Session

19:00

Welcome Reception

Monday, November 16

08:00

Registration

08:30

Conference Opening

09:00

Keynote: Magazzeni

09:40

Panel discussion: Intesa, Domyn, Bloomberg & CFM

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Oral Session 1

Oral Session 2

Oral Session 3

Oral Session 4

13:00

Buffet Lunch

14:00

Panel discussion

15:00

Oral Session 5

Oral Session 6

Oral Session 7

Oral Session 8

16:00

Coffee Break + Poster Session 1

16:30

Poster session

Poster session

Poster session

Poster session

19:00

Banquet dinner & awards

Tuesday, November 17

08:30

Registration

09:00

Fireside chat: Savi + Micillo + Pasquali

10:00

Oral Session 5

Oral Session 6

Oral Session 7

Oral Session 8