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Conferences



Sixth Statistics Conference

"The Power of Data for a Smart World"

 

Date: June 3-4, 2025
Place: Hotel Intercontinental, Santiago, Chile
Language: English, and Spanish translation available, along with transmission in both languages on the YouTube channel of the Central Bank of Chile
Registration: In-person event registration is now closed; however, you can still follow the live stream.

 

For more information, please contact the organizers:

 
Patricia Medrano
pmedrano@bcentral.cl
Helen Parker
hparker@bcentral.cl
Romina Villarroel
rvillarroel@bcentral.cl

 



Program

Press release

Tuesday, June 3rd

Opening remarks

Opening remarks by Rosanna Costa, Governor, Central Bank of Chile.

Opening remarks

Keynote speech

Keynote speech by Bert Kroese, Chief Statistician, Data Officer, and Director of the Statistics Department, International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Keynote speech

Session 1: The relevance of long, historical, series for policy analysis

Vincent Bignon, Senior consultant researcher, Bank of France.

Presentation

Session 1: Increasing the information value of data and statistics with science

Patty Duijm, Head of Department Securities, Sustainability and Payment Statistics, Central Bank of Netherlands.

Presentation

Session 1: Chilean Economy: Evidence-Based Decisions?

José Díaz, Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Presentation

Session 1: Granular data: a giant leap for decision-making

Remigio Echeverría, Deputy Director General Statistics, European Central Bank (ECB).

Presentation

Session 2: New dynamics in housing loans in Portugal: the use of microdata

Ana Reis, Adviser, Bank of Portugal.

Presentation

Session 2: Better insights in household inequalities - The role of Distributional national accounts

Jorrit Zwijnenburg, Head of Sectoral and National Accounts within the Statistics and Data Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Presentation

Session 2: Geospatial Data and Multimodal LLM for Validating Company Data

Susanne Walter, Data Scientist, Deutsche Bundesbank.

Presentation

Session 3: Communication Strategies for Macroeconomic Statistics

Sanjiv Mahajan, Supporting Editor to the 2025 SNA and lead author of the Joint SNA/BPM Chapter on Communicating and disseminating macroeconomic statistics. Head of Methods and Research Engagement, Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Presentation

Session 3: How Do We Listen to Our Audiences? We Anticipate Their Needs

Andrew McCallum, Group Manager, International Finance, Federal Reserve Board.

Presentation

Session 3: Statistical literacy: Strategies for Making Statistics More Accessible to Users

Ricardo Vicuña, National Director, National Statistics Institute.

Presentation

Wednesday, June 4th

Session 4: Developing and Harnessing generative AI tools for Public Institutions

Giuseppe Bruno, Economics and statistics Directorate, Bank of Italy.

Presentation

Session 4: Dealing with artificial intelligence: a central banking perspective

Bruno Tissot, Head of Statistics and Research Support, Bank for International Settlement (BIS).

Presentation

Session 4: What are AI Agents? Why do they matter?

Fernando Pérez-Cruz, Senior Adviser, Bank for International Settlement (BIS).

Presentation
 
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