AI for Finance Summit 2026 Singapore
📢 This is an invitation-only event. 📢
What to expect
An afternoon exploring how institutional investors are using AI agents and the infrastructure, safeguards and governance needed to support their adoption. Two fireside conversations, three panels, a quant research session and a live demonstration will cover investment workflows, sell-side research and the data and governance underpinning both, with a focus on Singapore and ASEAN markets. Participants will gain a practitioner’s perspective on AI applications currently in use, their limitations and how peers are governing their adoption.
🌟 Programme 🌟
Opening remarks: Cindy Tan, CFA, Board President, CFA Society Singapore, CEO (Singapore), GMO, and Cecily Ng, VP and GM of ASEAN and Greater China, Databricks
Fireside: What's Actually Running, with Benoit Doumas, CITO, Eastspring Investments
Buy-Side Panel: Agents on the Investment Desk, with Hide Oh (Nippon Life Global Investors), Mark Chua (Maybank Asset Management), Sean Wong (DBS) and Rinchen Choegyal (Robeco)
Live demo: An Agent on a Real ASEAN Research Question, with OpenAI and Databricks
Sell-Side Panel: Coverage at Machine Speed, with Thilan Wickramasinghe (Maybank Investment Banking Group), Venugopal Garre (Bernstein), Sandy Chen Dowling (CLSA) and Chester Liaw (OCBC)
Data and Infrastructure Panel: Building for Agents, Not Dashboards, with Joo Lee (Arrowpoint Investment Partners), Paddy Padiyar (OCBC), Suryakant Nayak (Julius Baer) and Loveen Jain (UBS)
Fireside: From Pilot to Platform, Governing AI at Scale, with Kieran White, Co-Global Head, Group AI Office, Nomura
Quant Research Session: Romain Lafarguette (Dymon Asia Capital) in conversation with Ashraf Safdar (Databricks)
Closing remarks: Jit Hin Tan (Databricks) and Jacob Choi (LinqAlpha)
Networking reception
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🗓️ Nov 16 (Mon), 2026, 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM SGT
🎯 Theme: Institutional AI in Finance, From Copilot to Autonomous Agents
Important Information
No press and no video or audio recording. The summit runs under the Chatham House Rule to encourage open and honest discussion among participants. Official event photography will be taken for post-event communications.
Approved guests receive a confirmation email with a personal QR code as soon as their registration is approved. Admission will not be granted without a valid QR code. QR codes are strictly non-transferable and cannot be shared.
Host: LinqAlpha
LinqAlpha is a New York-based AI company building the first multi-agent system for global markets and research. More than 170 hedge funds, asset managers and global investment banks use LinqAlpha to automate investment research across filings, transcripts and unstructured sources, on both the buy side and the sell side. In July 2026 the company raised a $22M Series A led by AXA Venture Partners (AVP), with SBI Investment, Z Venture Capital and Samsung Securities among the investors. LinqAlpha’s retrieval model ranks #1 on the MTEB BEIR benchmark, ahead of NVIDIA, Google and OpenAI, and the company has been covered by TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Forbes.
Co-host: CFA Society Singapore
CFA Society Singapore is a non-profit professional society of CFA Institute that serves CFA charterholders, CFA Program candidates and practitioners in Singapore’s investment industry.
Founded in September 1987, CFA Society Singapore (formerly known as the Singapore Society of Financial Analysts – SSFA) is the first CFA Society® established outside North America and a founding member of the Investment Management Association of Singapore (IMAS). Today, it is the 7th largest CFA Society in the world with over 4,000 members.
The Society promotes and upholds professional standards and ethical practice in financial analysis and investment management. Through professional development programmes, industry events, networking sessions, career development initiatives and university outreach, it supports members and the wider investment community.
As co-host of the AI for Finance Summit 2026 Singapore, the Society brings investment practitioners together to explore the practical applications of AI in finance and the implications for professional practice, governance and investor interests.
Sponsor: AQR Capital Management
AQR Capital Management is a global investment management firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, and one of the pioneers of systematic, research-driven investing. Founded in 1998 by Cliff Asness, David Kabiller, John Liew and Robert Krail, the firm applies academic finance research at scale across equities, macro and alternative strategies. AQR's research is widely published and has helped shape how institutional investors approach factors, risk premia and portfolio construction.
Sponsor: AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the cloud platform of Amazon, providing the infrastructure, data and AI services on which banks, asset managers and hedge funds build and run their research, trading and risk workloads. Financial institutions use AWS to train and deploy AI models securely and at scale.
Co-host and venue host: Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. Banks, asset managers and insurers use the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to bring their data, analytics and AI together on one governed platform. Databricks is hosting the summit at its new Asia Pacific and Japan headquarters at IOI Central Boulevard, Singapore.
Demo partner: OpenAI