AI in Finance Summit
speakers

Tanay Kulkarni
Applied AI/ML Associate Senior
JP Morgan Chase & Co

Diana Meditz
Director of Advanced Digital Solutions AI/ML
BNY Mellon

George Samakovitis
Professor of FinTech
University of Greenwich

Supreet Kaur
Assistant Vice President
Morgan Stanley

Bjorn Austraat
Senior Vice President, Head of AI Acceleration
Truist

Upal Sen
VP - Squad Lead/ Product Owner AI
Fidelity Investments

Ramin Hasani
Principal AI and Machine Learning Scientist / Research Affiliate
Vanguard / MIT CSAIL

Robbi Armstrong
VP & Group Product Manager
KeyBank

Martin O. Ouko
Lead Data Analytics Manager | AI/ML Lifecycle Management
TIAA

Allan Anzagira
Senior Associate, AI Research
JP Morgan & Chase

Natesh Arunachalam
Lead Data Scientist
Finicity, a Mastercard Company

Darian Nwankwo
PhD Candidate
Cornell University
Tanay Kulkarni
Applied AI/ML Associate Senior
JP Morgan Chase & Co
Tanay Kulkarni is a data science enthusiast and a researcher working as an Applied AI/ML Senior Associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co.. Having worked on applications of AI in the product space, Tanay is now exploring the AI/ML innovations in the fraud space of the finance risk industry. Tanay, a major proponent of developing tailored methodologies to reach AI/ML's full potential, believes that custom frameworks must be created in the finance industry to fully utilize AI/ML.
Diana Meditz
Director of Advanced Digital Solutions AI/ML
BNY Mellon
George Samakovitis
Professor of FinTech
University of Greenwich
Supreet Kaur
Assistant Vice President
Morgan Stanley
Supreet is an AVP at Morgan Stanley. Prior to Morgan Stanley, she was a management consultant at ZS Associates where she automated different workflows and built data driven solutions for fortune 500 clients. She is extremely passionate about technology and AI and hence started her own community called DataBuzz where she engages the audience by sharing the latest AI and Tech trends and also mentors people who want to pivot in this field
Bjorn Austraat
Senior Vice President, Head of AI Acceleration
Truist
Upal Sen
VP - Squad Lead/ Product Owner AI
Fidelity Investments
Upal is a Product Owner at Fidelity Investments responsible for creating AI driven recommendation solutions that identifies a customer’s financial needs and deliver relevant experiences to help them find products and solutions aligned to these needs.
In his role as a Product Owner, Upal leads a cross-functional team of data scientists, data engineers and analysts who helps create, deploy and measure the impact of these AI solutions.
Upal brings over 12 years of experience in solving complex business problems through analytics, technology and data solutions. He is passionate about delivering measurable customer value through scalable AI capabilities.
Ramin Hasani
Principal AI and Machine Learning Scientist / Research Affiliate
Vanguard / MIT CSAIL
Ramin Hasani is a Principal AI and Machine Learning Scientist at the Vanguard Group and a Research Affiliate at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ramin’s research focuses on robust deep learning and decision-making in complex dynamical systems. Previously he was a Postdoctoral Associate at CSAIL MIT, leading research on modeling intelligence and sequential decision-making, with Prof. Daniela Rus. He received his Ph.D. degree with distinction in Computer Science at Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria (May 2020). His Ph.D. dissertation and continued research on Liquid Neural Networks got recognized internationally with numerous nominations and awards such as TÜV Austria Dissertation Award nomination in 2020, and HPC Innovation Excellence Award in 2022. He has also been a frequent TEDx Speaker.
Robbi Armstrong
VP & Group Product Manager
KeyBank
As Vice President and Group Product Manager over Conversational AI at KeyBank, Robbi is responsible for leading a cross-functional team of product managers, engineers, designers, data scientists and analyst to develop Conversational AI capabilities across the organization. Robbi and her team are transforming the client experience through the introduction of an omni-channel platform across voice and chat. She has over 20 years’ experience leading technology initiatives in the financial sector with a proven track record of driving customer value and business growth. Robbi is passionate about exceeding client expectations by augmenting human interaction with the right technology.
Martin Ouko
Lead Data Analytics Manager | AI/ML Lifecycle Management
TIAA
Natesh Arunachalam
Lead Data Scientist
Finicity, a Mastercard Company
Natesh is a Lead Data Scientist at Finicity where he creates Machine Learning products leveraging open banking data. Prior to this, he was a core member of the Machine Learning CoE at JPMChase and specialized in lending, fraud and marketing models.