USI EMBA Meets Swiss Finance Institute- SFI Zurich

18th Annual Meeting of SFI

The Annual Meeting of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI) is one of the leading events in the Swiss financial community’s calendar and an exclusive discussion platform. It brings together the finest minds in academia and key financial market players.
The widely respected event enables practitioners and academics to exchange the knowledge and expertise that will keep Switzerland at the top in banking and finance.
Impact investing supports non-financial goals in addition to financial returns. This year, the keynote speakers will be Sergio P. Ermotti, Group CEO of UBS Group AG, Stuart Kirk, Columnist, Financial Times, and Prof. Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as keynote speakers.
USI Executive MBA is pleased to announce the participation to the 18th Annual Meeting in Zurich, Lake Side, on 16 November.

Program of the day:

  • 12:30 Doors Open, Registration & Sandwiches
    13:30

    Opening Remarks & Welcome

    Prof. François Degeorge,
    Managing Director, SFI
    13:40

    Keynote Presentation I : “Can Financial Engineering and Data Science Cure Cancer?”

    Prof. Andrew W. Lo,
    Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    14:00 Q&A Round
    14:15 Break
    14:45

    Keynote Presentation II

    Sergio P. Ermotti, 
    Group CEO of UBS Group AG
    15:05 Q&A Round
    15:20 Break
    15:50

    Keynote Presentation III

    Stuart Kirk, 
    Columnist, Financial Times
    16:10 Q&A Round
    16:25

    Panel Discussion

    • Stuart Kirk
    • Prof. Andrew W. Lo
    17:10

    Closing Remarks

    Dr. Stefan Seiler, 
    Group Head Human Resources & Corporate Services, UBS AG; Chairman of the SFI Foundation Board
    onward Aperitif