Quant Strats 2022 | Alpha Events | 5 May 2022 | Convene, 1 Liberty St, New York, NY 10006, USA

It’s a huge understatement to say that the market volatility of March 2020 has been difficult for capital markets. However, 2021 proved to be a strong year for funds and asset managers alike, and the prevailing economic and fiscal environment promises for sustained growth for 2022. Competition is fierce, but it’s hard to ignore the lure of quantitative strategies and the impact on your bottom line.

With the advent of new data sources from the likes of crypto and social media, increased returns from alternative assets, as well as utilising ML, NLP and deep learning; Quantitative Strategies are having a revival.

Quant Strats, previously AI and Data Science in Trading, will bring together the leading minds on quantitative investment strategies, from hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks. Learn from over 30 speakers as they share their knowledge on applying model-based, quantitative investment strategies, leverage technology and utilise dynamic risk management to ensure increased returns.

2022 Speakers

Achin Agarwal
Director and Portfolio Manager, Algo One

John Ashley
General Manager, Financial Services and Technology, NVIDIA

Javed Ashraf
Principal, Co-Lead Portfolio Manager, Blackbox Alpha Management

Michael Beal
CEO, Data Capital Management

Jonathan Berkow
Director of Data Science – Equities, AllianceBernstein

Irina Bogacheva
Head of Quantitative Research, Franklin Templeton

Sylvain Champonnois
Quantitative Researcher, CFM

Mike Chen
Head of Alternative Alpha Research, Robeco

Peng Cheng
Head of Big Data and AI Strategies, JP Morgan

Petr Chovanec
Director, Business Modelling and Forecasting, UBS Global Wealth Management

Jeff Cumming
Senior Associate, Data Sourcing & Strategy, Balyasny Asset Management

Vasant Dhar
Founder, SCT Capital

Oliver Faltin-Trager
Portfolio Manager, Emso Asset Management

Carlos Gomez
Chief Investment Officer, Belobaba Crypto Asset Fund

Judith Gu
Managing Director, Head Equities Quantitative Strategist, Scotia Bank

Sameer Gupta
Head of Data, Fusion, Point72

Gilbert Haddad
Head of Investment Decision Science, Fidelity Investments

Peter Hafez
Chief Data Scientist, RavenPack

Andrew Janian
Head of Equities Engineering, Citadel

Raj Joseph
Founder and CEO, DQ Labs

Olga Kane
Managing Director, Synthesis

Marko Kangrga
Head of Data Science Innovation, RavenPack

Petter Kolm
Professor, NYU Courant

Michael Korby
Head of Market Data, Balyasny Asset Management

Justin Lubell
Head of Global Equities, Citadel

Ganesh Mani
Adjunct Faculty, Carnegie Mellon

Leon Marshall
Global Head of Sales, Genesis Global

Anthony Maylath
Quant Research - Equities, J.P. Morgan

Edward Mitby
ML Researcher, Vanguard

Benoit Mondoloni
Global Head of Data Distribution at Bank of America Securities, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Kamyar Moud
Director – Investment Strategy, NY Life Investments

Dr Aitor Muguruza
Head of Quantitative Modelling and Data Analytics, Kaiju Capital Management

Paul Pickett
Business Development, Thinknum Alternative Data

Sebastiaan Reinders
Head of Investment Science, NN Investment Partners

Gordon Ritter
Founder, Ritter Alpha

Mathieu Rosenblaum
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique

David Rukshin
Chief Technology Officer, WorldQuant

Mikhail Samonov
CEO, TwoCenturies Investment

Ihsan Saracgil, PhD
Principal Data Scientist, Visible Alpha

Mayank Saxena
VP - QIS Trading, Société Générale

Lisa Schirf
Managing Director, Global Head of Data Strategy, Tradeweb

Ben Steiner
Adjunct Lecturer, Columbia University

Yesim Tokat-Acikel
Managing Director, Head of Multi-Asset Research, PGIM

Conor Twomey
Head of Customer Success, KX

Vlasios Voudouris
Chief Data Officer, Argus Media

Jeff Wecker
Chief Technology Officer, Two Sigma

Stefan Zohren
Deputy Director, Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, University of Oxford

Yosef Zweibach
COO - Quant Strategies, Walleye Capital

2022 Sponsors

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Argus
• Citadel
• RavenPack
• Similarweb
• Tradeweb

SILVER SPONSORS:
• DQLabs, Inc
• Genesis
• KX
• VAST Data
• Visible Alpha

SPONSORS:
• NVIDIA
• Smart Insiders
• Thinknum