The Quant Conference 2019 NY

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SPEAKERS

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Geoffrey Lauprete

Vice Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, WorldQuant

Aaron Brown

Professor, Courant Institute, and former Chief Risk Officer, AQR

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Gary L. Bergstrom

Founder of Acadian Asset Management

Emanuel Derman

Professor, Columbia University

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Robert J. Frey

CEO and CIO, FQS Capital, and former MD, Renaissance Technologies

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Stan Beckers

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

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Adil Abdulali

President and Chief Science Officer, MOV37 and Protégé Partners

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Michael Recce

Chief Data Scientist,
Neuberger Berman

Russell Barlow

Global Head of Alternative Investment Strategies, Aberdeen Standard Investments

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Andreas Kreuz

Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Chief of Staff, WorldQuant

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Craig Bergstrom

Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer, Corbin Capital

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Peter Carr

Professor, NYU Tandon School of Engineering

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Victoria Vodolazschi

Director of Investments at Willis Towers Watson

Roman Ginis

Founder and CEO of Imperative Execution

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Perry Vais

Head of Quantitative Strategy, Partner, BlueMountain Capital Management

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Otto Van Hemert

Head of Macro Research and Partner, Man AHL

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Gordon Ritter

Adjunct Professor Courant Institute, Former Senior Portfolio Manager, GSA Capital

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Francesco Filia

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Fasanara Capital

Nitish Maini

General Manager, Virtual Research Centre & Vice President, Portfolio Manager, WorldQuant

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Morton Lane

Director of the Master of Science in Financial Engineering at University of Illinois

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Zura Kakushadze

President and Chief Executive Officer, Quantigic® Solutions

Manoj Narang

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, MANA Partners

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Richard Lindsey

CIO Liquid Alternative Strategies, Windham Capital Management

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Stuart MacDonald

Managing Partner, Bride Valley Partners

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Antigoni Polychroniadou

Researcher at AI Research and Cryptographer, J.P. Morgan

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Jing Xu(Tilky)

Quant Researcher in Corporate & Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan

Amy Dafnis

Neudata

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Richard Edwards

CEO, HED Capital

Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors

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Silver Sponsor

Bronze Sponsors

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OUR PARTNERS

Leading Partner

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Academic Partners

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Media Partners

Crypto Partners

Agenda

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

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