Quant Strats 2024 | Alpha Events | 12 March 2024 | 1221 6th Ave, New York, NY 10020, Quorum by Convene, NY, USA

With early signs of market stability in the familiar territories of North America and Europe returning, where is the next source of Alpha and how do we unlock it?
This conference will be grounded in answering those two questions here, plus many more. There will be debates, presentations and panels consisting of c-suite representatives from the largest and most influential funds with trillions of dollars under their management.

We will separate the signal from the noise by debating, discussing and delving into the key drivers and changes in the industry, with a specific focus on real life applications which give you a competitive edge.
Over the past 10 years, Quant Strats has built a unique audience, bringing together data, quant and investment functions from both the buy side and the sell side and the topics in the agenda include:

• Searching for the next source of alpha
• Finding novel data in a saturated market
• Applying AI, ML, and NLP for risk and investment purposes
• Onboarding, organising and actioning data for a variety of sources
• Bringing together different functions to streamline decision making

This panel will consist of systematic and discretionary managers who come from fundamental, quantitative and quanta mental funds to give their insights on where the market will move through different lenses:

• With early signs of interest rates stabilizing and market volatility reducing, where are the opportunities to generate alpha?
• To diversify or not to diversify? Where is the sweet spot for asset allocation?
• Is the need for a human touch waning, or is it needed more than ever?
• Have lower barriers to entry spelled the end for ‘easy alpha’?

The Leading Event for Quantitative Investment Leaders;
• Gain valuable insights into where the next source of Alpha is. Is it in unfamiliar asset classes? Unfamiliar territories? And how is it going to be unlocked?
• Create connections across functions, as Quant Strats brings together data, quant and investment functions with a 50/50 split between the buy side and sell side, offering you a unique opportunity to learn and network.
• Learn from over 50 speakers from the top funds, who, through a mixture of presentations, panels, debates and fireside chats, get to the root of the drivers in the industry.

Answering Your Biggest Challenges And Covering The Biggest Topics Including:
• Utilizing Gen Ai in Financial Markets
• Applying Quant Techniques in Unchartered Territory
• Searching for Novel Data in The Current Market
• Increasing Data Usability and Extracting the Most Value
• Causal Inference and It’s Use in Finance
• Bringing Together Data, Quant and Investment Functions

2024 Speakers

Ritesh Bansal,
Director, Risk Analytics Product, Citi

Giovanni Beliossi,
Senior Advisor, Astarte Capital Partners

Dr Kjell Carlsson,
Head of AI Strategy, Domino Data Lab

Sean Chen,
Portfolio Manager, PanAgora

Oliver Faltin-Trager,
Quantitative Researcher, Wellington Asset Management

Yuyu Fan,
Principal Data Scientist, AllianceBernstein

Andrew Gelfand,
Quant, L/S Equity Alpha Capture, Balyasny Asset Management

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

Mayank Gupta,
Alternative Risk Premia Quantitative Researcher, Fidelity Investments

Michael Hayes,
Executive Director & Head of Systematic Fixed Income Research, MSCI

Andrew Janian,
Head of Cloud and Platform Engineering, Core Engineering, and Equities Engineering, Citadel

Ole Jorgensen,
Director of Research, Global Evolution

Karishma Kaul,
Head of Systematic Fixed Income Strategies, Fidelity Asset Management

Andrey Kazachkov,
Head of Quant Research for Global Equities, Citadel

Petter Kolm,
Professor, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU Courant

Christos Koutsoyannis,
CEO, Atlas Ridge Capital

Rajnish Kumar,
Head of Investment Technology & AI, Allianz Global Investors

Charles Liu,
Senior Quantitative Researcher, Man Numeric

Tim Liu,
Senior Researcher, Neo Ivy Capital

Robert Luce,
Principal Developer, Gurobi

Dr Harry Mamaysky,
Co-Founder and CIO, QuantStreet Capita

David Mascio,
CEO & CIO, Della Parola

Eugene Miculet,
Data Strategy, Vice President, WorldQuant

Kevin Milsom,
Managing Director, Bank of America

Stacie Mintz,
Head of Quantitative Equity, PGIM Quantitative Solutions

Benoit Mondolini,
Head of Markets Data Product, Barclays

Lee Morakis,
Senior Quantitative Implementation Consultant, EPFR

Revant Nayar,
Principal and CIO, Princeton AI and FMI Technologies

Michelle Noyes,
Managing Director, AIMA

Michael Oliver Weinberg,
Special Advisor and Adjunct Professor of Finance and Economics, The Tokyo University of Science Endowment and Columbia Business School

JD Opdyke,
Chief Analytics Officer, Sachs Capital Group Asset Management

Faheem Osman,
Managing Director, Global Head of QIS Structuring, Macquarie Group

Dr Samuel Palmer,
Head of Financial Engineering, Multiverse Computing

Judy Posnikoff,
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Martlet Asset Management

Eliza Raphael,
Former Head of Market Data, Schonfeld

Gordon Ritter,
CIO, Ritter Alpha

Riti Samanta,
Systematic Multi Sector Fixed Income Portfolio Manager & Lead Strategist, GMO

Michael Schewitz,
Co-Portfolio Manager, Credit Investment, Investec Bank

Milind Sharma,
CEO, QuantZ

Vikram Srimurthy,
Senior Quantitative Analyst, EPFR

Michael Steliaros,
Global Head of Portfolio Engineering and Trading, ADIA

Iro Tasitsiomi,
Head of Investments Data Science, T. Rowe Price

Tom Taylor,
Co-Head Front Office Engineering, ManGroup

Yesim Tokat-Acikel,
Managing Director, Portfolio Management, Principal Asset Management

Edward Tong,
Senior Data Scientist, Millennium Management

Conor Twomey,
Head of Customer Success, KX

Dr Dario Villani,
CEO and Co-Founder, Duality Group

Vlasios Voudouris,
Chief Data Officer, Argus Media

Bernd Weubben,
Global Head, Fixed Income Systematic Investing and Quantitative Research, AllianceBernstein

Wangshu Yang,
Portfolio Manager and Research, QIS Alternatives, Goldman Sachs Asset Management

Jia Ye,
Founder and CIO, AlphaTech

Tony Zhang,
Quantitative Associate, AllianceBernstein

Yosef Zweibach,
Chief Operating Officer of Quantic, Quant Strategies, Walleye Capital

Ioana Boier,
Senior Principal Solutions Architect, Applied Researcher – Financial Services, NVIDIA

2024 Sponsors

• Argus Media
• Citadel
• EPFR
• Gurobi Optimization
• Multiverse Computing
• NVIDIA
• Pure Storage
• Supermicro

SILVER SPONSORS:
• CDW
• Domino Data Lab
• KX
• MSCI