FINI: Finance and Insurance in the Intelligence Era
Autonomous Intelligence, Computational Capital, Post-Quantum Security, and Finance Beyond Earth
Introduction
Artificial intelligence is reshaping the foundations of economic value creation, capital allocation, risk, and exchange. The convergence of frontier AI, autonomous agents, advanced computing, and decentralized infrastructure is giving rise to a new paradigm: the Intelligence Economy.
Autonomous AI agents, machine-native commerce, and intelligent financial systems are transforming how markets operate and capital is deployed. Meanwhile, the convergence of computational infrastructure and energy is creating new economic frontiers, while advances in cryptographic trust and space-based infrastructure are expanding the boundaries of finance and investment beyond Earth.
Insurance is evolving alongside these transformations, as next-generation risk intelligence redefines underwriting, risk allocation, and risk transfer, while creating entirely new categories of insurable assets and exposures.
The Finance and Insurance in the Intelligence Era (FINI) session explores this emerging paradigm, seeking visionary research that moves beyond applying AI to existing financial systems toward reimagining the foundations of finance, insurance, and economic coordination.
FINI brings together researchers and innovators to advance the theories, technologies, and institutional frameworks of an increasingly intelligent, autonomous, interconnected, and ultimately multi-planetary economy.
Core Focus Tracks
1. Agentic AI and Autonomous Financial Systems
- Financial foundation models and Agentic AI
- Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems
- Agent-to-Agent (A2A) and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) commerce
- Autonomous trading, negotiation, and capital allocation
- AI-driven financial reasoning and decision intelligence
- Agent governance, identity, and accountability
2. Energy-Compute Economics and Computational Capital
- Energy-compute optimization and intelligent resource allocation
- AI data center economics and infrastructure finance
- Compute markets and computational resource pricing
- Advanced and distributed computing architectures
- Computational capital valuation and financing
- Energy-aware computing and workload orchestration
3. Cryptographic Trust and Post-Quantum Finance
- Zero-knowledge proofs and verifiable computation
- Confidential computing and privacy-preserving AI
- Post-quantum cryptography
- Decentralized identity and authentication
- Verifiable AI and computational provenance
- Financial cybersecurity and secure settlement
4. Intelligent Risk and Insurance
- Insurance and actuarial foundation models
- AI-driven underwriting, pricing, and claims
- Continuous risk intelligence and predictive analytics
- Financial and insurance digital twins
- AI liability and autonomous systems insurance
- Catastrophe, climate, cyber, and systemic risk
- Reinsurance and intelligent risk transfer
5. Space Finance and Interplanetary Economics
- Orbital computing and space-based infrastructure
- Interplanetary financial systems and economic coordination
- Delay-tolerant networks and asynchronous settlement
- Extraterrestrial resource valuation and financing
- Space insurance and risk engineering
- Financial architectures for a multi-planetary economy
Call for Submissions
We welcome original research and practical work on the topics above in three forms:
- Papers: Full, Short, Position/Vision, Poster, and Demo Papers.
- Abstracts: Poster-Only, Demo-Only, Lightning Talk, and Previously Published Work.
- Panel Proposals: Moderated panels of three to five speakers from diverse fields, sectors, or perspectives.
Position and vision contributions are especially welcome, as Position/Vision Papers or as Lightning Talk abstracts.
Join a panel. Cross-AI hosts panels on open questions that span the Frontier Sessions and workshops. Apply as a panelist or moderator through the Call for Panelists.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions are made through the AirBalloon conference management system. All papers are reviewed double-blind.
Before submitting, read the Author Guidelines, Submission Types, the Submission Guidelines, the Publication and Media Hosting guidelines, and all policies, then complete the Checklist for Initial Submission. Submissions that do not follow the guidelines and policies are desk-rejected under the Desk Rejection Policy.
Call for Reviewers
To serve on the workshop program committee or as a reviewer, please apply online. Applicants may select multiple workshops relevant to their expertise. Reviewers must have an academic, industry, or other organizational affiliation; independent applicants are not considered. If you do not have an AirBalloon account, register using your institutional or organizational work email address. Personal and professional society email addresses (e.g., ieee.org or acm.org) are not accepted. If you already have an account, ensure your email address is a qualifying work email and that your bio, affiliation, and website link are complete. Incomplete profiles will not be considered. Approved applicants may be invited to review papers. Qualified reviewers will be acknowledged as external reviewers. Those providing high-quality reviews will be invited to join the Program Committee.