Clara Durodie

AI Technology Strategist, Keynote Speaker, & Board Director

Clara Durodié is a top AI keynote speaker and technology strategist specializing in applied artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services, with a focus on AI & Ethics and the strategic adoption of AI for business profitability. She is internationally recognized for her expertise, advising Boards of leading financial institutions, think-tanks, governments, and academia. She also mentors AI startups on funding and growth strategy.

Clara Durodie Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$10,001 - $20,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
United Kingdom (UK)

Clara Durodie Keynote Speaker Fee Fee range is for U.S. events, depending on location and organization type
$10,001 - $20,000
Languages Spoken
English
Travels From
United Kingdom (UK)

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Clara can keynote and discuss the following topics...

• Artificial intelligence in plain English • Use cases of applied artificial intelligence in financial services (front office, customer engagement, finance and accounting, back office ) • Future uses of AI/ML and business strategy impact • ...

• Artificial intelligence in plain English
• Use cases of applied artificial intelligence in financial services (front office, customer
engagement, finance and accounting, back office )
• Future uses of AI/ML and business strategy impact
• Global trends in AI adoption
• Leading AI companies, cloud and the AI stack
• How to pick the winners when selecting AI vendors – criteria for selection
• Alternative data and AI: value and timing
• Trends in natural language processing, data strategy and deep learning in financial services
• Asset management Distribution solutions and Customer engagement
• Wealth management & private banking and AI solutions
• Back office automation
• Behavioural finance and AI
• Why is important to understand Intelligence: human and artificial
• What is Intelligence?
• The need of Trust in financial services and how technology addresses it
• Cybersecurity and a safer world with AI
• Preventing Fraud in Payments
• Importance of AI Ethics and responsible design
• Personalisation at scale: AI use cases in private banking
• Philosophy of technology
• Data ethics and integrity
• The economics of AI
• Data privacy and AI
• Data commercialisation: use and abuse
• AI in asset management : a new business model and how business benefit
• Government AI strategy for financial services
• Regulators and AI sandboxes
• What’s an AI and what’s not
• What AI can and cannot do for asset management
• AI Ethics in financial services: what do we need to know ?
• What is AI, why now and what’s in it for financial services ?
• AI and workforce impact
• Where to start with AI ?
• Central Banks and ML – use case Bank of England

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Clara has experience in presenting to...

• Financial services large conferences +8,000 audience • Financial services regulators: strategy and vision for the future with AI • Board of Directors briefings: introduction to AI for C-level and Board incl Non Executive Directors and Independent ...

• Financial services large conferences +8,000 audience
• Financial services regulators: strategy and vision for the future with AI
• Board of Directors briefings: introduction to AI for C-level and Board incl Non Executive
Directors and Independent Directors
• Law firms technology days
• Technology firms like Intel, Oracle which have exposure to financial services
• Banks
• Government authorities
• Asset management
• Wealth management firms
• Insurance companies
• Pension Funds
• Consulting firms: Deloitte, EY, McKinsey, BCG, Accenture (financial services arms)
• Fintech firms
• AI firms

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Clara can deliver...

• keynote presentations
• panel contributions
• private presentations; tailored AI masterclasses; private dinner / lunch

About Keynote Speaker Clara Durodie

Durodie is consistently named on numerous global lists of leading women in fintech, and is the Chair of the Non-Executive Directors Board’s special committee on Best Practice for AI Adoption (UK) and a member of IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems (USA). Clara has advised the World Economic Forum’s 4th Industrial Revolution Centre in San Francisco (US), the All Parliamentary Party Group for Artificial Intelligence (UK) and the Ministry of
Finance’s special commission on Artificial Intelligence (Japan). In June 2018, Clara was also appointed as a member of the European Union Artificial Intelligence Alliance, an EU governmental body.

Clara is a frequent presenter at leading conferences around the globe, including SIBOS, Money 2020, Innovate Finance Global Summit, AI World and the Goshal Conference at London Business School where she addressed an audience from leading universities around the world such as Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Cambridge. She has been invited to provide her expertise to deliver the AI Module at University of Oxford’s Fintech course, at Massachusetts Institute of Technolgy’s Fintech course as well as the renowned Roubini Report on asset and wealth management.

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In 2015, Clara started scoping the research for her PhD which sits at the intersection of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and asset management. Her focus is on how episodic memory informs how people save and invest. Prior to founding Cognitive Finance Group, Clara served in leadership roles in European asset and wealth management in the UK, Switzerland and Luxembourg. Clara is a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment (UK), has a Certificate in Investment Management (UK) and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford.

Clara is authoring a book on applied AI. It is planned to be published Q1 2019.