UC Berkeley’s Financial Innovation Conference : June 16th, 2023
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Master of Financial Engineering Program : Berkeley Haas
An educational experience looking at The Future of Financial Engineering in VC/PE & Public/Private Funds
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June 16th, 2023
08.00 – Registration
08.45 – Opening Address from the Chairs: Berkeley Haas MFE Program Director Jacob Gallice & Conference Host Rebellion Research CEO, Alexander Fleiss
08.50 – Opening Panel: What is the Future of Money?
Dr. Linda Kreitzman, MFE Co-Founder, Berkeley, Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley & Partner, 0xPartners
9:30 – PANEL DISCUSSION: The Future is Now: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud & Quantum Computing, No-code Development Platforms
Moderator: Peng Cheng, Head of AI Strategy, JPMorgan
Dr. Stefano Pasquali Head of Liquidity & Trading Research, Blackrock, Kathryn Zhao, Global Head of Electronic Trading, Cantor Fitzgerald, Dr. Ernest Chan, Founder PredictNow.ai & Chairman QTS Capital, Álvaro Cartea, Professor of Mathematical Finance, Director Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, University of Oxford, Professor Dr. Terrence Hendershott, Faculty Director, Berkeley Haas Master of Financial Engineering Program
10.10 – KEYNOTE Speech: Where do we see FinTech going from here?
Professor Jimmie Lenz, Director of Duke University’s Master’s in FinTech Program
10.40 – Break
11.00 KEYNOTE Speech: Behavior of Market Participants
Professor Terrance Odean, Berkeley Haas
11:35 – KEYNOTE Speech: Big Data Forensics
Professor Will Cong, Director of FinTech at Cornell, Co-Inventor of “quantimental” investment and “tokenomics”
12.10 – LUNCH
12.55 – KEYNOTE Speech: Reinforcement Learning For Finance
Professor Ashwin Rao, Stanford University, fmr Head of Ai, Target
1.30 – PANEL DISCUSSION: VC/PE using Data Science & Machine Learning
Moderator: Steve Goldberg, Partner, Finistere Ventures
Trevor Mottl, Managing Director @ Lazard Asset Management, Professor Amit Gandhi, Wharton School of Business, UPenn, Svitlana Vyetrenko, Berkeley MFE Lecturer & AI Research Director, JPMorgan, Dr. Aziz Lookman, Co-Head of Data Science for Private Equity, Two Sigma, Emmanuel Vallod, Partner, GSR Ventures, Lecturer, Berkeley Haas
2.10 – Break
2:30 – KEYNOTE: Origins of Stock Market Fluctuations
Dr. Martin Lettau, Professor, Berkeley Haas
3.05 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Ethics In Data!
Moderator: Sharon Asaf Director Global Climate Risk
Professor Jen Miller, Yale School of Medicine, Citibank, Dan Liebau, Singapore Management University, CIO Modular Blockchain Fund, Professor Sudip Gupta, Johns Hopkins University
3.45 – Break
4.05 – PANEL DISCUSSION: Is Irrationality Growing In Financial Markets?
Moderator: Gregory La Blanc, Lecturer, Berkeley Haas
Yin Luo, Vice Chairman, Wolfe Research, Cetin Karakus, Head Quant, British Petroleum, Christina Qi, CEO Databento, Professor, Mika Kastenholz, Head of Global Rates, Credit Suisse, Jess Stauth, Chief Investment Officer – Systematic Equity, Fidelity
4.45 – CONCLUDING KEYNOTE : Tackling Read World Data
Dr. Ehsan Bokhari, Assistant General Manager, Chicago Cubs
5.25 – Conference Concludes
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UC Berkeley’s Financial Innovation Conference
