The XTRD team will take part in AI & Emerging Tech for Finance conference that will be held by Corinium on November 12–13 2019, in Convene at 101 Greenwich, New York City. The theme of the conference is "Embracing the Machines: The Future of Emerging Technologies for Finance". Participating in this event will allow the XTRD team to meet senior leaders and decision-makers from industry leading organizations, and broaden our professional networking in general. Corinium is the world's largest community designed to inspire and support the emerging C-Suite executives focused on Data, Analytics, Customer and Digital Innovation. They produce industry leading conferences like Chief Data & Analytics Officer Fall, Chief Data & Analytics Officer Spring, Chief Data & Analytics Officer Finance and others.

The financial sector has been among the fastest adaptors of AI algorithms, which are well suited to the industry's complex and fast-moving environment. At last week's Re•Work AI in Finance Conference in New York, researchers and engineers from banks and academia alike shared their thoughts on current AI research and applications in the finance world. IBM has built a blockchain-based infrastructure for federated AI, enabling institutions to leverage transaction data across branches to improve decision making. Alan King is an IBM AI and Blockchain Solutions engineer. In his presentation King spoke of the advantages of using federated AI on transaction data.