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Online Conference Lecture : Blackrock’s Head of Machine Learning Research On Similarity Learning : Dr. Dhagash Mehta
December 15th
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07.00 – Registration & Networking
07.45 – Opening Address from the Chairs: Director, MIT Sloan Quant Finance Club, Samson Qian & Conference Host Rebellion Research CEO, Alexander Fleiss
07.50 – Opening Address: Ai & Data Science In Context, Dr. Alfred Spector, Computer Scientist, MIT Visiting Scholar & fmr CTO Two Sigma
08.00 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Alternative Data Trends For Ai
Moderator: Sondra Campanelli, Head of News & Marketing, Neudata
Merve Unuvar, Director of AI Platforms and Automation at IBM Research AI, Joseph Simonian, Senior Investment Strategist, Scientific Beta, Editor of Journal of Portfolio Management, Editor, Journal of Financial Data Science, Peng Cheng, Head of Machine Learning Strategies, JPMorgan
08.25 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Ai, Data & Investing
Moderator: Sahana Athreya, Forbes 30 Under 30, Data Scientist/QR – Investment Research, Millennium
Lisa Huang, Head of AI Investment Management and Planning, Fidelity, Dr. Ernest Chan, Founder PredictNow.ai & Chairman QTS Capital, Tony Berkman, Managing Director, Two Sigma, Saeed Amen Co-Founder Turnleaf Analytics & The Thalesians
9.00 – BREAK & Networking
9.15 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Augmenting Quantitative Strategies with Fundamental Data
Moderator: Gilbert Haddad, Head of Investment Decision Science at Fidelity Investments
Swagato Acharjee, Director, Algorithmic Trading at Citi, Arun Verma, Head of Quantitative Research Solutions at Bloomberg, Zachary Mees, Senior Director, Portfolio Manager, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Qaisar Hasan, CEO Maiden Century, Danny Newman, Systematic Investor, Bridgewater Associates, David Murdock, Vice President of Data, Visible Alpha,
9.50 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Changing Landscape of Algorithms, Data & Quantitative Engineering
Moderator: Kathryn Zhao, Global Head of Electronic Trading, Cantor Fitzgerald
2022 Quant of the Year Dr. Matthew Dixon, Riti Samanta, Systematic Multi Sector Fixed Income Portfolio Manager & Lead Strategist, GMO, Arik Ben Dor, Head Of Quantitative Equity Research, Barclays, Yin Luo, Vice Chairman, Wolfe Research
10.25 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Future of Alternative Investments & Artificial Intelligence
Moderator: William J. Kelly, President and CEO at CAIA Association
Mike Chen, Head of Alternative Alpha Research at Robeco, Dr. Roberto Croce, Head of Liquid Alternatives, Senior Portfolio Manager, Newton Investment Management Group, Lisa Huang, Head of AI Investment Management and Planning, Fidelity, Kathryn Kaminski, Chief Research Strategist & Portfolio Manager, AlphaSimplex Group & MIT Sloan Senior Lecturer
11.00 – Keynote Debate: What is the Future of Data Science in Finance?
Tony Berkman, Managing Director, Two Sigma Vs. Carson Boneck, Chief Data Officer, Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
11:30 – PANEL DISCUSSION: FTX Disaster (LUNCH Begins)
Crypto Hedge Fund Manager & MF Global Lead Plaintiff James Koutoulas & Ranjan Bhaduri, Institutional Investment Due Diligence Expert & CEO of Bodhi Research Group Moderated by: Professor of Finance Jim Liew, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
12.00 – Keynote Debate: Frontiers of Quant Finance: Boldly going where no quant has gone before
2022 Quant of the Year Dr. Matthew Dixon Vs. 2022 Quant of the Year Dr. Igor Halperin
12.30 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Digital Asset / Crypto / Quantum Computing / Defi / Web3 / Blockchain / Smart Contracts
Moderator: Professor of Finance Jim Liew, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Matt Langione, Partner, BCG, Amit Gandhi, Professor, Wharton Business School, Technical Fellow, Airbnb, Kelly Ye, Head of Product, Fidelity Digital Asset Management, Joe Marenda, Partner Cambridge Associates & Head of Digital Asset Investing, Divya Narendra, Founder of SumZero, ConnectU (Major Motion Picture, THE SOCIAL NETWORK is based on Divya’s working with Mark Zuckerberg and Cameron & Tyler Winklevoss)
1.00 – KEYNOTE FIRESIDE CHAT: Rebooting Ai
Gary Marcus, Scientist, Professor, New York Times Bestselling Author & founded Geometric Intelligence, a machine learning company acquired by Uber in 2016
Interviewer: Dr. Ruchir Puri, Chief Scientist, IBM Research
1:40 – BREAK & Networking
1.50 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Understanding Data & Ai in the 21st Century
Moderator: Yevgeniy Vahlis, Co-Founder & CEO of Shakudo, Fmr Head Quant, Bank of Montreal
Joseph Simonian, Senior Investment Strategist, Scientific Beta, Editor of Journal of Portfolio Management, Editor, Journal of Financial Data Science, Sudip Gupta, Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Gregory Pelts, Director, Global Analytics & Financial Engineering, Scotiabank, Christina Qi, CEO Databento, Dr. Peter Cotton, Chief Data Scientist At Intech Investment Management LLC, Professor Gene Ekster, NYU Courant Applied Math
2.25 – Keynote Debate: Reinforcement Learning Vs. Deep Learning
Raphael Douady, Research Professor, Sorbonne Vs. Gordon Ritter, Quant of the Year 2019, Adjunct Professor, Cornell Financial Engineering Manhattan, Adjunct Professor, Baruch College, NYU Courant Institute, Columbia Mathematics of Finance, Booth UChicago
3:00 – BREAK & Networking
3.25 – PANEL DISCUSSION: The Data World of Tomorrow: Future Data, Twitter, Natural Language Processing, Retail Trading, Meme Stocks & Brokerage
Moderator: Larry Tabb, Head of Market Structure Research, Bloomberg Intelligence
Dr. Peter Cotton, Chief Data Scientist At Intech Investment Management LLC, George Mylnikov, Head of Quantitative Research at Windhaven Investments, Professor Dacheng Xiu, University of Chicago
4.05 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Limitations Of Ai as a Prediction Machine : How do we predict the Future of Rates & Economies?
Moderator: Mika Kastenholz Global Head Structured Macro Credit Suisse
Abhi Kane, Managing Director, Angel Oak Capital Advisors, LLC, Fmr Head of Investment Research, Skybridge Capital, Ben Steiner, Lecturer, Columbia University, GM for Asset Management, CausaLens, Fmr Head of Model Development, CIT, Dr. Sébastien Bossu, NYU Stern Professor & Fund Manager, Zach Squire, Hedge Fund Manager, Former Bridgewater & DE Shaw
4.30 – KEYNOTE FIRESIDE CHAT
Trading Legend Mark Fisher on Oil’s Future & the Future of Building Algo’s for Systematic Investing
4.45 – Concluding Keynote : Building Amazon Alexa, Jeff Adams, Inventor of Amazon Alexa
5.05 – Conference Concludes
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Online Learning Seminars
Challenges in Machine Learning : Dr. Bart Baesens KU Leuven Professor & Lecturer @ University of Southampton
Machine Learning At The Edge : Hemang Davé
Solvable Models, Symmetries & Magic: A New Family of Solvable Models by Dr. Gregory Pelts, Director @ ScotiaBank
Understanding Punks and Apes and other Non-Fungible Tokens: Professor Dr. Carol Alexander, University of Sussex Business School
Crypto Today : Nikita Fadeev Partner & Portfolio Manager Fasanara Capital
Dr. Bart Baesens Professor of Big Data & Analytics at KU Leuven (Belgium), and a lecturer at the University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
Tips for 1st Time Technical Entrepreneurs : Professor Dr. Jim Liew of Johns Hopkins University
Understanding Quantum Computing : Matt Langione, Partner, Boston Consulting Group
Similarity Learning For Financial Domain : Dr. Dhagash Mehta, Head of Applied Machine Learning Research, Blackrock
Future of Cryptocurrency : Kelly Ye, Head of Product, Fidelity Digital Asset Management
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