The World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2022 will be held in Shanghai from September 1 to 3. Inspired by the concept of intelligent connectivity, with metaverse as the theme, the conference will take place online and offline, attract global attention, discuss the frontier topics of AI development, and further enhance human wellbeing with AI.

The financial industry naturally relies on data technology, and AI has gradually become an important driver for the evolution of the financial industry. Nowadays, AI is widely used in financial service scenarios and relevant business fields are developing in full swing. How to analyze the development law of the financial industry from the perspective of AI and create a new pattern for industrial development?

"AI Assembles Cohesion for Financial Digitalization" Forum on the afternoon of September 2 will answer all these questions. Guided by the WAIC Organizing Committee Office, hosted by Shanghai International Group Co., Ltd. and Shanghai IceKredit Information Technology Co., Ltd., organized by Shanghai Guoxin Investment Development Co., Ltd., co-organized by Shanghai Trans Communications Consultants Co., Ltd., supported by the Shanghai Fintech Industry Alliance, the forum is a distinctive fintech sub-forum integrating the financial industry, fintech, financial regulation, factor markets and theoretical studies.

The forum will bring together domestic academicians, university professors, leading enterprises in the field of financial digitalization, senior executives of consulting institutions and other important guests, to exchange ideas and contribute wisdom from different perspectives and dimensions, share expertise and insights in the forms of keynote speech and roundtable forum, and jointly explore how to pool efforts for innovation through AI technology, promote digital fintech innovation, help financial institutions with digital transformation, and offer advice and suggestions on comprehensively improving the capacity for financial service digitalization, intelligence, green and fairness.

Financial digitalization should follow the service philosophy of "intelligence for the people and technology for good", however, intelligent technology application amid the trend of digitalization has brought about a digital divide, and there is a common problem of unbalanced and insufficient development during the digital transformation of financial institutions at present. At the same time, AI application in the financial industry is also troubled by challenges and bottlenecks in such aspects as data ownership, privacy protection, data security, risk prevention, "narrow scenarios" and "shallow applications". The forum will help grasp the important trends of future development of the financial sector, and open a new prospect for the high-quality development of fintech by analyzing industry hotspots, difficulties and pains.

The forum will be open to the world in the forms of offline participation and live streaming. Please stay tuned!