The Centre for Investing Innovation (CII), a research centre based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, invites you to this upcoming Prominent Scholars Lecture with Jacob Choi, co-founder and CEO of LinqAlpha.

The event is open to the public, university students, researchers, and professionals working across financial services, fintech, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and data.

Choi’s talk, “A Portfolio of AI Agents: From Asset Specialists to Cross-Asset Intelligence in Institutional Investment Research,” looks at a major change happening in how large investment organisations do research.

Instead of relying on slow, manual processes spread across different tools and teams, more firms are starting to use AI to pull information together and analyse it quickly. The shift is moving from AI as something that simply helps analysts, to groups of AI “agents” that can work alongside them—finding relevant material, questioning assumptions, and summarising key insights across different markets.

Based on several years of work with major global investors, Choi will share what he’s learned from actually building and using these systems. He won’t present them as perfect solutions, but as real-world signs that this new approach is developing quickly—even faster than the academic or industry theory needed to fully explain it.