Global Derivatives Trading & Risk Management | 1 November 2017 | The Four Seasons Chicago, 120 E Delaware Pl, Chicago, IL 60611, US

Join 150+ academics, financiers, regulators, quants and technologists. Discuss geopolitical issues, new trends in quant finance, liquidity risk, CCPs, regulation including: MiFID II, FRTB, Dodd Frank, dealing with negative interest rates, volatility, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, option pricing, commodities and more.

2017 Speakers:

Tahsin Alam
US Head of Credit e-Trading, HSBC Securities

Irene Aldrige
President, AbleMarkets & Able ALPHA Trading

Saeed Amen
Founder, Cuemacro

Hamid Arian
Visiting scholar, RiskLab Canada, University of Toronto

Dr Paul Bilokon
Founder, CEO, Chairman, Thalesians Ltd

Dr Jeff Blaschak
Co-Founder & Principal Researcher, Social Market Analytics inc

Haim Bodek
Founder & Author of " The Problem with HFT ", Decimus Capital Markets

Sébastien Bossu
Principal and Adjunct Professor, Ogee Group LLC; NYU Courant

Justin Bouchard
Chairman & CEO, Bouchard Trading

Benjamin Bowler
Managing Director & Global Head of Equity Derivatives Research, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Frederic Boyer
Head of Quantitative Research, Global Credit, Citadel

Liming Brotcke
Quantitative Manager, Model Risk Oversight, Federal Reserve Bank Of Chicago

Alexandre St-Jacques Burke
Vice President Finance, La Coop Fédérée

Peter Carl
Portfolio Manager, William Blair

Dr Peter Carr
Dept. Chair, Finance and Risk Engineering, NYU Tandon School

Luis Cota
Head Strategist for Systematic Fixed Income Trading, Susquehanna International Group

Robert Creamer
CEO, Geneva Trading

Cameron Crise
Macro Strategist, Bloomberg L.P

Pierce Crosby
Director of Business Operations, StockTwits, Inc.

Dr Vasil Denchev
Chief Quantum Software Architect, Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, Google

Dr Matthew Dixon
Assistant Professor of Finance, Illinois Institute of Technology

Dr Cris Doloc
Lecturer Financial Mathematics Program, University of Chicago

Brent Donnelly
Senior FX Dealer, HSBC New York

Angie Elkhodiry
Vice President & Director Risk Management, TD Asset Management Inc.

Professor Helyette Geman
Director of the Commodity Finance Centre & Research Professor, Birkbeck - University of London & Johns Hopkins University

Fred Goodwin
Senior Macro Strategist, State Street

Jeff Greco
FRM Managing Director, Financial Risk Management, Portfolio Management Group, Milliman Financial Risk Management

Julien Guyon
Senior Quant, Bloomberg L.P.

Peter Hafez
Chief Data Scientist, RavenPack

Bill Harts
Senior Advisor, Modern Markets Initiative

Philippe Henrotte
Co-Founder & Partner, ITO33

John Hull
Maple Financial Professor Of Derivatives & Risk Management

Joseph L. Rotman
School of Management at University Of Toronto

Bogdan Ianev
Director in Equity Derivatives Structuring, Credit Suisse

Jessica James
Managing Director, Senior Quantitative Researcher, Commerzbank AG

Vivek Kapoor
CEO, Volaris Capital Management LLC

Dr Timothy Klassen
CEO & Founder, Vola Dynamics LLC

Masoud Mohseni
Senior Research Scientist at Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, Google

Shallom Moses
Associate Director, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Gregory Pelts
Quant, BlackRock

Brian Peterson
Partner & Head Trader Automated Trading, DV Trading, Chicago

Chris Petrescu
Data Strategy

Alexey Polishchuk
Senior Quant Research Analyst, Bloomberg L.P

Michael Purves
Chief Global Strategist & Head of Derivatives Research, Weeden & Co

Dr Bluford Putnam
Chief Economist & Managing Director of Intelligence & Analytics, CME Group

Ehud Ronn
Professor Of Finance, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin

Jeff Ryan
Quantitative Analyst, Citadel

Julie Sherratt
Head of Investment Risk, TD Asset Management Inc.

Euan Sinclair
Partner, Talton Capital Management

Ilya Talman
CEO, Roy Talman Associates

Fabrice Tenga
Head of Financial Engineering Americas, Natixis Securities Americas LLC

Dr Davide Venturelli
Science Operations Manager at USRA Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science - Quantum AI Laboratory, NASA Ames Research Center

Derek Wang
CEO, Bell Curve Capital

Yuhua Yu
Portfolio Manager, Dijun Capital

Dr Sorina Zahan
Partner & CIO, Core Capital Management

2017 Sponsors:

ASSOCIATE:
• ITO33
• RavenPack

RESEARCH:
• Volaris Capital Management

EXHIBITORS:
• Beacon
• CQF Institute
• Simplex

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