“AI in Finance & Fintech. On August 6, 2026, in New York, Women X brought together leaders across finance, AI research, operations, and entrepreneurship for an evening on AI moving from possibility to practice. Speakers from J.P. Morgan, Apollo, XTX Markets, and Ventureneer shared how they put AI to work today, and where finance is heading next.”
From possibility to practice
In New York, Women X brought together leaders across finance, AI research, operations, and entrepreneurship to explore what AI in finance looks like in practice, and where it may lead next…
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"LLMs are becoming commoditized."
Nicole C., Executive Director at J.P. Morgan AI Research, opened the evening with a question for financial institutions: if everyone uses the same models, where does differentiation come from? Increasingly, from how problems are defined and how domain knowledge is brought in…
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AI still can’t take responsibility for the decision
Liliana Kleyman, CFA, Finance Manager at XTX Markets, on how AI is already used across finance for research, problem solving, and communication, and why accuracy, controls, and judgment matter just as much…
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"AI expands your capacity, but it cannot replace your judgment."
Geri Stengel, CEO & President of Ventureneer, reflected on a career shaped by research, entrepreneurship, and more than one unexpected turn, and on how the opportunities that changed her work came from things she built long before she needed them…
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Redesign the work instead of repeating it
Hannah Hart, COO of Operations, Operational Risk & Resilience and Transformation at Apollo Global Management, shared a simple way to start: fully replace something you already do with AI. The first attempt may take just as long. The next may take a fraction of the time…
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Secure AI has to be built into the architecture
Antigoni Polychroniadou, Ph.D., Research Director at J.P. Morgan AI Research and Head of the AlgoCRYPT Center of Excellence, closed the evening with a keynote on secure AI: telling a model not to reveal something is not the same as making sure it cannot…
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