AI x FinTech Symposium 2026

Date: 17 September 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30 PM - 6:30 PM (reception starts at 2:00 PM)
Venue: 22/F, Prince’s Building, Central, Hong Kong
Language: English
Enrollment Fee: HK$150 (CFA Society Hong Kong Member) / HK$300 (Non-member)

Artificial intelligence has moved from experiment to infrastructure in finance. The question facing investment professionals is no longer whether AI will change the industry, but whether their own process, their firm, and their portfolio are keeping pace. At the same time, digital assets have crossed a threshold of their own: stablecoins are now regulated, licensed, and settling real institutional volume, while the tokenization of real-world assets (RWAs) is bringing money market funds, private credit, and other traditional instruments onto digital rails.

Hong Kong sits at the center of both stories. The city hosts some of Asia's most advanced AI-driven investment teams, and its Stablecoins Ordinance has made it one of the first jurisdictions worldwide to license fiat-referenced stablecoin issuers. Hong Kong is also an early mover in RWA tokenization, with regulated tokenized funds already in the market and a growing pipeline of institutional issuance. For investment professionals here, these are not abstract trends. They are reshaping how research is done, how portfolios are built, and where the next decade of returns will come from.

Why this Matters Now

• The four largest hyperscalers plan roughly $725 billion of capital expenditure in 2026, up 77% from last year. AI infrastructure is now one of the largest investment cycles in corporate history, and one of the most debated trades in public and private markets.
• The majority of asset managers globally are implementing AI in their investment process. The competitive gap is opening between firms that have moved past pilots and those still running them.
• AI agents are compressing multi-week research and operational workflows into hours, changing the economics of the investment firm itself.
• Stablecoins now exceed $300 billion in circulation and settled $7.2 trillion in February 2026 alone, surpassing the US ACH network for the first time. With Hong Kong's licensing regime in force and RWA tokenization moving from pilot to production, institutional adoption is a present-day reality.

This half-day symposium convenes a high-caliber lineup of senior practitioners from leading asset managers, hedge funds, global banks, technology firms, and digital asset institutions: portfolio managers generating alpha with AI, practitioners deploying AI agents inside real organizations, and the institutions putting stablecoins and tokenized RWAs to work. Sessions focus on what is actually working in production, with real numbers and real case studies, rather than vendor demonstrations.

Whether you want to know how leading funds are using AI across asset classes, how to evaluate the AI investment thesis from venture to public equities, how agentic workflows will change your own desk, or how far institutional adoption of digital assets and RWAs has actually come, this symposium is built for you.

Program Highlights

Panel 1: The Alpha Machine: Investing With AI, and In It

How are the best investment teams using AI to generate alpha across equities, credit, and private markets? And is AI itself still the trade of the decade, or a capex cycle running ahead of returns? This panel covers both sides: AI as a tool in the investment process, and AI as an investment thesis across venture, primary, and secondary markets.

Panel 2: Agents at Work: Rebuilding Organizational Workflow

AI agents are moving beyond chat interfaces into real production workflows: screening deals, drafting research, running operations, serving clients. This panel examines how organizations are deploying agents today, what efficiency gains are actually being delivered, and what it takes to get from pilot to production, illustrated with live case studies.

Panel 3: From Sandbox to Balance Sheet: Institutional Adoption of Digital Assets

Stablecoins are licensed, tokenized funds are live, and institutional money is moving on-chain. This panel cuts through the noise to assess where real adoption stands: which institutions are using stablecoins and tokenized RWAs in production, from money market funds to private credit, what the licensing regimes in Hong Kong and the US have changed, and what remains before digital rails become mainstream financial infrastructure.

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