Quant World Canada 2017 | Terrapinn Holdings Ltd. | 9 November 2017 | Toronto Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel, 525 Bay St, Toronto, ON M5G 2L2, Canada

This exclusive gathering of quants, traders, investors and financial data manager affords you the opportunity to learn, network and collaborate with your trading peers. Your chance to meet Canada’s leading pensions, banks, asset managers, trading firms, quant funds and vendors who will all be there to network, strategize and uncover the latest technology solutions powering the industry. This is your platform to help brands improve their quant strategies and technology.

2017 Speakers

Diana Avigdor
VP, Portfolio Manager & Head of Trading, Barometer Capital Management

Peter Berdeklis
President, Context Switch Consulting

Ernest Chan
Principal, QTS Capital Management

Douglas Chau
Chief Risk Officer & Head of Resesarch, University of Toronto Asset Management

Adrian de Valois-Franklin
CEO, Castle Ridge Asset Management

Dan Dickinson
Chief Digital Officer, Equitable Bank

Hany Farag
Head of Methodology & Analytics, CIBC

Howard Getson
CEO, Capitalogix Trading

Greg Gipson
Head of Systematic Investments - Canada, BMO Global Asset Management

Robert Gouley
Senior Analyst, Trading, OMERS Capital Markets

Efrem Hoffman
CEO, Running Alpha Investments

Emre Konukoglu
Quantitative Researcher, CPP Investment Board

Louis Lovas
Director, OneMarketData

Chad Marson
Senior Risk Manager, Technology Risk Management, BMO Financial Group

Michael Mescher
Founder, Gammon Capital LLC

Andrey Milchman
Systems Scientist, Manulife Financial

Mukhtar Mussabetov
Founder, BlockSpace Labs

Michael Nairne
President & Chief Investment Officer, Tacita Capital

Mike Novogratz
CEO, Galaxy Investment Partners

Michael Oliver Weinberg
CFA, Partner & Chief Investment Strategist, Protégé Partners

Bogie Ozdemir
EVP, Chief Risk Officer, Canadian Western Bank

Rares Pateanu
Board of Directors, GreenBank Capital

Alex Perel
Director, ETF Trading, TD Securities

Maxim Priezjev
Senior IT Managing Architect, TD Bank

Som Seif
President & CEO, Purpose Investments

Peggy Van de Plassche
VP, Innovation, CIBC

Anthony Vaz
Head of Market Risk Methodology & Analytics, Great-West Life Assurance Company

Jay Vyas
Head of Quantitative Investing, CPP Investment Board

Jamie Wise
Founder, BUZZ Indexes

John Zhang
Senior Manager - Investment Risk, CPP Investment Board

Brian Zubert
Director - Waterloo Region, Thomson Reuters Labs

2017 Sponsors:

• Thomson Reuters
• S&P Global Market Intelligence
• OneTick
• MSCI
• Smart Insider
• GFD Global Financial Data
• Black River Technologies Inc.
• Goldman Sachs
• Supermicr
• Jitneytrade
• Perseus
• Olympic Banking System