Red Hat / IBM · FinAI Lab and CDFT, Columbia University
Friday, November 6, 2026 | 9:30am–12:30pm ET
IBM One Madison, 1 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010
Following the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) New York, join colleagues from IBM, Red Hat, and FinAI Lab and the Center for Digital Finance and Technologies (CDFT) at Columbia University for a morning focused on reliable financial AI.
The program features the FinAI Evals Suite for financial use cases and agent evaluation, Mellea, research project presentations, and a closing discussion on next steps. Researchers, practitioners and students working on financial AI and its evaluation are welcome to express interest.
Draft agenda
All times are Eastern Time. The agenda is subject to updates.
- 9:30–9:40am — Arrival and networking
- 9:40–10:00am — Opening remarks — Vincent and Yanglet
- 10:00–10:30am — FinAI Evals Suite: Use Cases and Agent Evaluation — Vincent and Yanglet
- 10:30–11:00am — Mellea — Nathan, including Q&A
- 11:00am–12:00pm — Overview of research projects and use cases — six researchers, 10 minutes each
- 12:00–12:30pm — Roundtable discussions and next steps — all participants
Participation and building access
Attendance is by invitation only, with advance confirmation required for building access. To express interest or recommend a participant, please contact Vincent Caldeira ([email protected]) or Yanglet Liu ([email protected]) by November 5, 2026, at 3pm ET to coordinate registration.