Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan 2024 Future of Finance & Ai Conference
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SEPTEMBER 13 2024
08.30 – Registration
08.50 – Opening Address from the Chairs: Director, Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan, Professor Victoria Averbukh & Conference Host Rebellion Research CEO, Alexander Fleiss
08.55 – Special Guest Lecture : Mark Fisher, MBF CEO, Legendary Trader & Fund Manager
See Mark on CNBC last week:
9.15 PANEL DISCUSSION: Chat-GPT & The Future of Ai in Finance!
Moderator: Koren Picariello, Head of Generative AI Strategy and Execution Morgan Stanley
Yu Yu, Director of Data Science at BlackRock, Tony Berkman, Managing Director, Two Sigma, Samson Qian, Citadel, Didier Rodrigues Lopes, Founder and CEO @ OpenBB
9.55 – PANEL DISCUSSION: The Quantitative Investment Process
Moderator: Gordon Ritter, Hedge Fund Manager, Ritter Alpha LP, 2019 Quant of the Year
Caio Natividade, Global Head Quantitative Investment Solutions, Deutsche Bank, Dr. Gueorgui S. Konstantinov, Globally Renowned Quant, Petter Kolm, 2021 Quant Of The Year, Abhi Kane, Managing Director Angel Oak Capital Advisors LLC
10.35 – Break
10.55 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Changing Landscape of Investing
Moderator: Kathryn Zhao, Global Head of Electronic Trading, Cantor Fitzgerald
Christina Qi, CEO Databento & Founder Domeyard LP, Fidelity, Jae Ho Kim, Head of Research Cubist/Point72, Michael Sotiropoulos, Princeton Professor (visiting) NYU Professor (visiting) & Managing Director Quantitative Execution Imperative Execution, Jeremy Newton, Director, Blackrock
11.35 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Where Does Machine Learning Go From Here?
Moderator: Osho Jha, CEO dClimate & Arbol Co-founder
Dr. Ioana Boier, Ai Research, Nvidia, Ruchir Puri, Chief Scientist IBM Research, Dr. Igor Halperin, Ai Research, Fidelity, Evan Reich, Verition Fund Management Head of Data Strategy & Sourcing, Paul Krueger, Quant Trader, Millenium
12.15 – Keynote Debate : AI in Finance: Friend or Foe to the Industry?
Moderator: Gordon Ritter 2019 Quant of the Year
Andrew Chin, Chief Ai Officer Alliance Bernstein Vs. Peter Cotton Rebellion Research’s 2022 Book Of The Year Author ‘Microprediction: Building an Open AI Network’
12.45 – Lunch!
1.45 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Future of Systematic Credit Trading : Quant Credit and Quant Equity – Are we all going the factor zoo way?
Dr. Riti Samanta Systematic, Senior Director, Fixed Income Solutions Portfolio Manager, Russell Investments
Arik Ben Dor Head of Quantitative Equity Research Barclays, Dr. Joseph Simonian, Senior Investment Strategist, Scientific Beta, Lisa Schirf, Managing Director, Global Head of Data & Analytics, Tradeweb, Manish Aurora, Hedge Fund Manager Rational Investing LLC, Karishma Kaul, CFA, Head of Systematic Fixed Income Strategies at Fidelity
2:25 – Break
2.45 The Current Research Focus of Cornell Financial Engineering Sasha Stoikov Head of Research Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan
3.05 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Building Models From Real World Data Sets
Moderator: Matthew Lyberg, Director, Quantitative Development Manulife
Natalya Dmitriyeva, Global Head of Data Content at Schonfeld, Samantha Mait, Manager, Equity Data Management, Balyasny Asset Management L.P., Qaisar Hasan, CEO Maiden Century, Dr Dhagash Mehta, Head of Blackrock Applied Artificial Intelligence Research for Investment Management, Dr Jim Kyung-Soo Liew, Johns Hopkins Professor
3.45 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Understanding The Future of Natural Language Processing in the 21st Century
Moderator: Jonathan Regenstein, Head of Financial Services Data Science Snowflake
Sahana Athreya, CFA, Millenium, Professor Andreea Minca, Cornell University, Richard Peterson, CEO, MarketPsych(division of London Stock Exchange), Wenqi Zhou, Systematic Trading and Research, (non compete) Fmr Balyasny Asset Management L.P., Judith Gu, Head Quant, Scotia Bank, Kelly Ye, Portfolio Manager, Decentral Park Capital
4.25 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Future of Interpreting Data
Moderator: Christina Qi, CEO Databento & Founder Domeyard LP
Sharon Asaf, Director of Global Climate Risk, Citibank, Nan Xiao, CTO, Greenland Capital Management, Natascha Hey, Capital Fund Management, Dimitri Bianco FRM, Head of Quant Risk & Research, Agora Data, Inc, Patrick Dote, Head of Research IntelligentCross, Samir Shah, CIO of MBS Mantra LLC
5.05 – Conference Concludes!
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