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Keynote Speakers

Dr Yuan Gao is Founder and CEO of Pangura Limited, an institutional AI company applying complex systems science to financial intelligence. Her career spans quantitative systems development, asset-allocation automation, and institutional client leadership. At Swiss Re Group Asset Management, she contributed to proprietary black-box algorithmic systems and cross-asset allocation models, and led automated SAA/TAA, private debt, and real estate investment solutions. At CICC (UK), she established the bank’s FICC institutional sales business. She is also a Senior Advisor to NetMind.AI and a co-founder & CIO of N0S.Tech.

Dr Gao holds a PhD from Newcastle University, specialising in Turbulent Combustion, an MBA and a BEng in Automation from Tsinghua University, PRM certification, CISI membership, and FCA-recognised securities qualifications. She is also a Freeman of the City of London.

Panel Guests

Dr Craig Li is CTO and co-founder of Binome, where he is building Mira, an agentic solution for operations automation. He brings deep expertise in AI, machine learning, and large-scale software engineering, with experience delivering production systems in investment banking and enterprise environments. At Palantir, he developed data and operational platforms for clients, applying ontology-inspired approaches to model workflows, assets, and decision-making. He holds a PhD from the University of Bristol and combines research depth with practical product and engineering execution in applied AI.

Dr Xiangpeng Wan is Applied AI Engineering Lead at NetMind.AI in London, where he works on reliable enterprise AI agents across fintech and real estate. A frequent speaker on AI agents, MCP, and enterprise AI, he has presented at Google, OxML 2025, Community Stack, and AICamp, and has contributed expert commentary to TechRound, Raconteur, and InformationWeek. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the Stevens Institute of Technology. His work focuses on making large language models dependable in production, with interests spanning LLM agents, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation and guardrails, and MCP-based tool orchestration.

Dr Yan Wang is an Assistant Professor in Social Statistics at the University of Manchester. She received her PhD in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and holds a BS in Sociology and an MA in Management from Tsinghua University. Her research examines public opinion, political communication in cyberspace, social policy, and governance, with methodological interests in machine learning, causal identification, and text analysis.

Zhengwei Zhang is a Quantitative Researcher and Associate Portfolio Manager at Aviva Investors in London, building macro systematic strategies for Multi-Strategy Target Total Return Funds across FX, Futures, and Fixed Income. She also previously served as the Lead of Quantitative Modelling at a Fintech startup. She holds both CQF and FRM certifications and an MSc degree in Mathematics and Financial Statistics from LSE. She has a great passion for AI, Fintech, and Financial Markets and consistently looking for alpha.

Dr Yejia Xu is the Principal Quantitative Researcher at Theia Insights, where he leads the development of innovative NLP-driven factor models for thematic investing. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southern California and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Business School, with expertise in digital platform economics. He is also a widely-followed writer on Zhihu, China’s leading knowledge-sharing platform, where his writing on the intersection of economic theory and recent technological developments has drawn over 300,000 followers.

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