8:40 AM - 8:50 AM

Opening Remarks

Nikita Fadeev, Founder of The Quant Conference

Stuart MacDonald, Managing Partner, Bride Valley Partners

Keynote: Inside the Alpha Factory: Where AI Meets Global Talent

Geoffrey Lauprete, CIO and Vice Chairman, WorldQuant

Andreas Kreuz, Deputy CIO and Chief of Staff, WorldQuant

8:50 AM - 9:20 AM

8:00 AM - 8:40 AM

Registration

Keynote: Privacy Preserving Analytics

Antigoni Polychroniadou, J.P. Morgan

9:20 AM - 9:50 AM

9:50 AM - 10:30 AM

Panel: Industry vs Academia. What are the differences and similarities in how quantitative research is done

Robert Frey, CEO and CIO, FQS Capital Partners

Michael Reece, Chief Data Scientists, Neuberger Berman

Morton Lane, Director of the Master of Science in Financial Engineering at University of Illinois

Stan Beckers, Executive Fellow and Chair of the AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School 

Jing Xu, J.P. Morgan

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

BREAK

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Keynote: Machine Learning Approaches to Optimal Execution, Hedging. and the Discovery of Arbitrage  

Gordon Ritter, Adjunct Professor, Courant Insitute

11:30 AM - 12:10 PM

Panel: Legends of the industry on how it all started

Emanuel Derman, Professor, Columbia University

Gary Bergstrom, Founder, Acadian Asset Management

Aaron Brown, Professor, Courant Institute

Adil Abdulali, President and Chief Science Officer of MOV37 and Protégé Partners

12:10 PM - 12:40 PM

Keynote: The World of Alphas 

Nitish Maini, General Manager, Virtual Research Centre and Vice President, WorldQuant

12:40 PM - 1:30 PM

LUNCH

1:30 PM - 2:10 PM

Panel: Challenges and opportunities for quants

Francesco Filia, CEO and CIO, Fasanara Capital

Otto Van Hemert, Head of Macro Research, Man AHL

Craig Bergstrom, Managing Partner and CIO, Corbin Capital

Victoria Vodolazschi, Director of Investments at Willis Towers Watson

2:10 PM - 2:40 PM

Keynote: Just in Time Portfolio Insurance

Peter Carr, Finance and Risk Engineering Department Chair, NYU Tandon  

2:40 PM - 3:10 PM

Keynote: Using AI to optimise matching

Roman Ginis, Founder and CEO of Imperative Execution

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

BREAK

3:30 PM - 3:45 PM

Presentation: The Alternative Data Landscape in 2019

Amy Dafnis, Neudata ​

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Keynote: Risk Models for Quant Trading

Zura Kakushadze, President and CEO, Quantigic® Solutions

4:15 PM - 4:55 PM

Application of Machine Learning in systematic investing

Manoj Narang, Founder and CEO, MANA Partners

Stuart MacDonald, Managing Partner, Bride Valley Partners

Perry Vais, Head of Quantitative Strategy, BlueMountain

Richard Edwards, CEO of HED Capital

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4:55 PM - 5:00 PM

Closing Remarks

Stuart MacDonald, Managing Partner, Bride Valley Partners

Nikita Fadeev, Founder, The Quant Conference

5:00 PM

END