Let’s Talk AI and Capital Markets, 2019 IYLFS Successfully Held
2019 International Youth Leadership Finance Summit (2019 IYLFS) organized by Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) Master of Finance (MF) Program rang down its curtain in Shanghai recently.
由上海交通大学上海高级金融学院（简称“高金/SAIF”）金融硕士项目（简称“MF”）主办的2019年国际青年领袖金融高峰会近日在沪圆满落幕。
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The theme of 2019 IYLFS is AI+Capital Markets. On one hand, it's in alignment with Shanghai's strategic plan to build a Nasdaq-Style Board in the near future and closely integrated technology innovation with financial service support. On the other hand, the theme this year allows participants to target a realistic company case scenario of their choosing. They are expected to develop or discuss the AI solution for the company after solid industry research, modeling evaluation and equity financing, then pitch the business to investors to raise virtual funding during the final competition. The theme gained great attention from both the students and the industry after its releasing. More than 1200 applicants applied to join the summit while only around 120 students from 22 top universities all over the world have been carefully selected to attend the final competition.
本届高峰会在设计主题时围绕上海筹建科创板的战略方向，将科学技术创新和金融服务支持紧密结合，确定了“人工智能+资本运作”的峰会主题。同时围绕金融硕士学生的就业偏好、能力特长从行业研究、建模评估、股权融资等方向要求参赛者选定行业及标的公司，在深入调研后用AI赋能，并制定融资方案向投资者模拟融资。话题一出，得到了学生和业界的极大关注，共有来自全球1200多名知名学府的学生申请参加竞赛。最后来自世界各地22所顶尖高校的120余名优秀本科生通过层层选拔挺进决赛。
The competition projects range from E-commerce/Consumption, Education, Big Data Application, Smart City/Smart Agriculture, and Healthcare/Pharmaceutical. Five teams from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Xi'an Jiao Tong University, Peking University, McGill University and London School of Economics and Political Science eventually won the Best Pitch in five categories, and the team from Xi'an Jiao Tong University won the first prize.
此次峰会项目涵盖了电商消费、教育、大数据应用、智慧农业及智慧城市、医疗医药等多个话题。 最终，来自上海交通大学、西安交通大学、北京大学、麦吉尔大学和伦敦政治经济学院的优秀参赛选手组成的五个代表队分别摘得分类话题的最佳案例奖，来自西安交通大学的代表队获得全场团队一等奖。
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Launched by the SAIF MF Program in 2013, IYLFS is designed to provide a platform of collective learning and advancement for students from all kinds of higher education institutions, which fosters their capabilities of communication and organization. Moreover, it also aims to improve their understanding on financial theories and practices through presentation, case competition and face-to-face interaction with business leaders and scholars in the financial sector.
国际青年领袖金融高峰会由SAIF MF于2013年创办，旨在给各高校的学子们搭建一个相互学习、共同进步的平台，培养学生们的沟通能力和组织能力，同时通过演讲、实案竞赛与金融业界领袖和学术泰斗的直接对话，提升青年学子们对金融学术和实务的理解。
”Welcome Address
Welcome speech by Ms. Lin Yang, Head of MF Program, SAIF
高金金融硕士项目负责人杨琳致欢迎辞
Ms. Lin Yang, Head of Master of Finance Program, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, greeted the participants from all over the world with the welcome address. She pointed out that this year’s IYLFS attracted participants from world-class institutions, including not only local C9 and 985 universities like Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Nanjing University, Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, but also international schools, such as University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science, McGill University, University of Surrey, Emory University, University of Toronto, Baruch College at The City University of New York and etc.
高金金融硕士项目负责人杨琳在破冰环节中向海内外知名院校前来参加竞赛的选手们表达了热烈的欢迎。据其透露，本次高峰会不仅囊括了清华大学、北京大学、中国人民大学、南京大学、复旦大学以及上海交通大学等在内的C9及名列前茅的985院校，也得到了来自剑桥大学、伦敦政治经济学院、萨里大学、多伦多大学、麦吉尔大学、纽约市立大学巴鲁克学院等学子的积极响应。
Mr. Jing Xiao, Chief Scientist of Ping An Group was invited as the keynote speaker at the forum part of the summit. During the case competition days, in addition to professors from SAIF: Prof. Zhan Jiang, Associate Professor of Finance, Faculty Director of MF Program, SAIF; Prof. David. X. Li, Professor of Finance, Faculty Co-Director of Master of Finance Program, Associate Director of CAFR, SAIF；Prof. Jie Hu, Professor of Practice, SAIF, formerly Chairman and CEO from Xunlei BigData Co., Ltd. and Xunlei Finance Co., Ltd., 2019 IYLFS also assembled a jury of industry leaders from well-known enterprises such as Panda Capital, Qiming Venture, Sequoia Capital China, Lantern Venture, Principal Financial Group, CCB Principal Asset Management and etc. The Summit also engaged in strategic partnership with CFA.
本届高峰会的论坛环节邀请到平安集团首席科学家肖京与各位优秀的青年学子进行题为“智能+金融的探索与实践”的主题分享。在实案竞赛环节，来自高金的金融硕士项目学术主任、金融学副教授蒋展，金融硕士项目联席主任、中国金融研究院副院长李祥林， 实践教授胡捷；与来自红杉资本、启明投资、熊猫资本、景林投资、领中资本、美国信安集团等知名企业的业界嘉宾，一同担任峰会竞赛的评委，现场对项目进行评选和点评。本届峰会还获得合作伙伴CFA的大力支持。
Opening Ceremony
Opening speech by Prof. Chun Chang, Executive Dean of SAIF
高金执行院长张春致开幕辞
On January 20th, the first day of the competition, Prof. Chun Chang, Executive Dean and Professor of Finance at SAIF, greeted the participants and revealed his insights on AI, financial industry trends and 2019 IYLFS topics. He believed that the combination of finance and technology can create a new path for financial services to better serve the real economy. Fintech is a driving force for not only the Chinese economy, but also the global economy.
竞赛首日（1月20日），高金执行院长、金融学教授张春为峰会致欢迎辞，他对AI和金融行业发展趋势及此次峰会议题进行解读。他表示金融和技术相结合可以创造出新路径，让金融更好的服务于实体经济。金融科技不仅对中国经济，对全球经济的发展都是一个推手，极具前景。
MF Program Introduction by Prof. Zhan Jiang, Faculty Director of MF Program SAIF
高金金融硕士项目学术主任蒋展介绍项目概况
Prof. Zhan Jiang, Faculty Director of Master of Finance Program and Associate Professor of Finance at SAIF, gave a brief introduction of the SAIF MF program and its new track, MF-Fintech, to be launched at the autumn of 2019. She mentioned that SAIF’s mission is to build a world-class financial institute. SAIF is recognized internationally as one of the top business schools in the world. SAIF MF program recruits world-class faculty from leading business schools around the world, including those who have outstanding academic achievements and rich industry experience. The faculty here are leading the world’s most advanced industry research.
高金金融硕士项目学术主任、副教授蒋展则介绍了金融硕士项目和2019年即将开班的金融科技培养方向。据悉，金融科技培养方向是应运金融发展趋势而生，颇受业界关注。她提到，高金的使命就是要打造一个中国的世界级金融学院。在过去10年中，高金发展成为了中国的一线学院，在亚洲也排名前列。高金的老师均有海外背景，不仅拥有杰出的学术成就，在金融方面同样贡献斐然；不仅有行业知识更有实践经验，做的是世界上最领先的研究。
Keynote Speech
Keynote speech by Mr. Jing Xiao, Chief Scientist of Ping An Group
主旨演讲：平安集团首席科学家肖京
With the theme of “Exploration and Practices of Artificial Intelligence (AI) +Finance”, Mr. Jing Xiao, Chief Scientist of Ping An Group discussed topics including the evolution of AI technology & its applications. He thought AI is still under primary stage, and human are more powerful than AI so far. Through the collision of ideas in the following Q&A session, the participants had a deeper understanding on "AI + Capital Markets", which sets a good start for the following competition.
平安集团首席科学家肖京则对 AI领域的发展阶段、及其在金融及在其他行业的最新发展情况进行了多维度的解读，他提到，人工智能处于初级阶段，人类要比AI更强大。他畅谈了AI应用场景并于学生现场互动。
Competition Days
The participants proposed their business pitches during the next two and half competition days. Through poster exhibition, live broadcast via Weibo and interaction on WeChat platform, 2019 IYLFS demonstrated the collective wisdom of the teams and their innovative exploration of AI+ Capital Markets application scenarios.
在接下来两天半的紧凑赛程中，参赛选手们就各话题研究成果进行了展示，此次峰会特设海报成果展区，并开展了微博直播及微信互动，选手们在深度行业分析的基础上提出了贴近市场的AI提案，他们以精准的市场洞察、扎实的行业调研素质及高超的演讲技巧展示了团队智慧的结晶，及团队对AI与资本运作的创新性探索。
After attentive listening, judges inquired more details about their business plans in the Q&A session, advising participants to put more emphasis on the necessity of AI adoption in their plans, to use more direct data in analyzing potential benefits, and to highlight unique advantages compared to horizontal competitors. Competing teams are advised to consider the specific needs of the project and how to put the projects into practice. The collision of opinions and in-depth insights from experts led participants and audience to ponder more over these topics.
评委们在仔细聆听了选手们的路演后，就选手们的商业计划在问答环节麻辣点评，犀利发问，从AI技术如何赋能，到具体融资方案和数据求证；到现有运营模式、竞品分析；以及同学们方案中缺少风控环节等方面一一发问。给出选手们具有实践意义的建议，评委们建议竞赛团队要思考项目方案解决的关键痛点并考虑如何落地项目、面对市场。现场观点碰撞、异彩纷呈，专家的洞察引发选手和观众们更深入的思考。
“We are impressed by the presentations of all participants. Their performances have exceeded even our expectations. Hope that participants will know more about market needs after the summit and put their innovative thought into practice”, commented the judges from the industry.
“学生们能在如此短暂时间内给出如此精彩的表现是超出我们预期的。希望通过此次高峰会他们能更了解市场需求，争取将更多创新的想法落地。”业界评委们如是评价。
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Impressive presentations on the competition days
台上各队激烈PK
Intense Q&A with other participants
台下听众犀利发问
Insightful comments from judges
各话题评委精彩点评
Students from MF18 & MF19 also gave special presentations on AI solution pitches for CreditX, Gowild and Phoenix Tea during the non-competition session. With the guidance of SAIF professors as well as mentors from the China Academy of Financial Research, MF students have more chances to communicate with companies, thus they have a more profound understanding of the topics and their application solutions are also more practical.
此外，来自高金金融硕士项目的MF18及MF19级的同学们为氪信科技、Gowild(狗尾草)及凤岐茶社公司量身定制了AI方案，并进行了非参赛环节的特别展示。MF学生团队在高金教授及中国金融研究院导师的指导下，与业界公司也有更多密切沟通交流的机会，相对来说，所呈现方案的层次和内容也较其他代表队方案更为丰富和完备，也具有更强的应用性。
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Special team presentations by MF18 & MF19 Students
高金MF18/19学生 特别展示环节
Panel Discussion
During the panel discussion on January 22nd, chaired by Prof. Zhan Jiang, Faculty Director of Master of Finance Program and Associate Professor of Finance at SAIF, Prof. Jie Hu, Professor of Practice and Former CEO of Xunlei BigData & Xunlei Finance; Zhongyu Zhang, Partner of Lantern Venture; Weihong Liang, Partner of Panda Capital; Wenyao Wu, Chairman of Strategic Committee at Phoenix Tea; Wei Zhang, Technology Partner, Senior Risk Control Director at CreditX; Wei Xu, CFO of Gowild; Honghui Zhu, Researcher of China Academy of Financial Research, SAIF to share their insights on the AI industry, including what are the status quo and outlook of AI applications in China and what kind of changes AI will bring to the financial sector. Furthermore, the panelists also conveyed valuable advices to MF students based on years of experience and practice.
在1月22日举行的圆桌环节上，在蒋展教授的主持下，SAIF实践教授、迅雷大数据/迅雷金融前董事长兼CEO胡捷，领中资本合伙人张钟予，熊猫资本合伙人梁维弘，民生通海副总裁吴文耀，氪信科技高级风控总监张伟，Gowild首席财务官徐炜，中国金融研究院研究员朱宏晖就AI在国内外应用的情况、发展前景、AI将为金融行业带来怎样的变革、未来金融市场需要的人才趋势等热点话题展开讨论，各位嘉宾们纷纷结合自己多年的阅历和实践经验给予MF学子宝贵的人生建议。
Prof. Zhan Jiang, Faculty Director of SAIF MF Program, hosted the panel discussion
SAIF MF项目学术主任蒋展教授主持圆桌讨论
Concluding remarks by Prof. Zhan Jiang
蒋展教授总体点评
Closing Ceremony
Closing speech by Mr. Jie Pan, Associate Dean of SAIF
上海高级金融学院副院长潘杰致闭幕辞
Mr. Jie Pan, Associate Dean of SAIF delivered the closing speech and extended his best wishes for all participants. Even it’s just a four-day event, participants thought it’s a wonderful experience to discuss the hot topics with outstanding peers from all over the world. The 2019 IYLFS organizing committee and participants attended the closing ceremony at Laomatou.
高金副院长潘杰亲切致辞，并对本次参赛选手们给予美好祝愿，选手们纷纷感叹此次前来参加2019国际青年领袖金融高峰会不虚此行，在就热点议题切磋探讨的同时、结交跨国之友。尽管只有短短的四天时间，却是十分难得的人生体验。1月22日晚，峰会组委会和参赛选手们在老码头参加了2019国际青年领袖金融高峰会闭幕式。
2019 IYLFS also provided remarkable rewards. The recipients of the Best Pitch Prizes in each category were awared with cash bonus, and the winning teams were awarded both cash bonus and CFA scholarships.
另据了解，本届峰会提供的参赛奖励也非常丰厚。各分类议题下的优胜团队能获得最佳案例奖励，全场优胜团队更将获得丰厚现金奖励及CFA奖学金双重大礼。
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Performance by representatives from Nanyang Technological University, Wuhan University, and Xi’an Jiaotong University
南洋理工大学、武汉大学、西安交通大学代表精彩表演
The Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF) was established at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, with strategic and financial support from the Shanghai Municipal Government and premier overseas Chinese scholars. In February 2016, SAIF became a member of American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) as one of the youngest business schools in the system.
As SAIF’s flagship program, SAIF MF Program started recruitment in 2009. In the Financial Times’s (FT) 2018 ranking of global business schools, SAIF MF was ranked No.1 in Asia and No.10 in the world and topped the table of all its Asian peers in terms of Value for Money and Salary Increase. Today, SAIF MF is one of the most recognized Master of Finance programs in Asia. Building on the success of our current MF program, SAIF is launching a new track — the MF-FinTech Program from 2019.
上海交通大学上海高级金融学院（高金）是上海市人民政府为实现将上海建设成为国际金融中心的国家战略，依托上海交通大学，由著名海外华人学者牵头，按照国际一流商学院模式创立的国际化金融学院。2016年2月，高金顺利通过国际精英商学院联合会（AACSB）的国际认证，成为全球获得AACSB认证的最年轻商学院之一。
金融硕士项目（Master of Finance，简称MF）是上海交通大学上海高级金融学院（SAIF）的旗舰项目，自2009年起开始招生，下设金融硕士及金融科技硕士两个培养方向。2018年，英国《金融时报》公布的金融硕士项目排名中，SAIF MF项目亚洲排名第1，全球排名第10，并蝉联投资回报率、薪资涨幅方面排名亚洲第1的金融硕士项目。目前，SAIF MF已成为亚洲最负盛名的金融硕士项目之一。