QuantMinds International 2021 | Informa Connect | 6 December 2021 | Hotel Arts Barcelona, Carrer de la Marina, 19-21, 08005 Barcelona, Spain

Explore modelling, trading, machine learning, data and more at the world's leading quantitative finance conference

QuantMinds International is the most significant event for quants from around the world, bringing together leading practitioners and academics.
It's an invaluable opportunity to move quant models forward and after a 2 year break, the community is keen to meet face-to-face to delve into the latest thought leadership on pricing and volatility, to alpha generation and machine learning.

Don't miss this chance to tap back into the leading quant minds!

The summit will cover deep learning and reinforcement learning, trading strategies, validation of ML in pricing and stock picking, time series forecasting using ML, ML applications in derivative pricing and hedging and analysing the risks of black box models.

2021 Speakers

Eduardo Abi Jaber
Assistant Professor, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University

Elisa Alòs Alcalde
Associate Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)

Saeed Amen
Founder, Cuemacro

Jesper Andreasen
Kwant Father, Saxo Bank

Alexander Antonov
Chief Analyst, Danske Bank

Sergii Arkhypov
Risk Specialist

Matthias Arnsdorf
Global Head of XVA & Counterparty Credit Risk Modelling, JP Morgan Chase

Daniel Arrieta Rodriguez
Senior Model Validation Quant, Santander

Hamza Bahaji
Head of Engineering and Solutions, Amundi

András Bebes
Head of Department, Strategy and Research Department, Hungarian Debt Management Agency (AKK)

Viatcheslav Belyaev
Senior Quantitative Analyst, U.S. Bank

Andrew Bernstein
Head of EMEA Sales, SESAMm

Marco Bianchetti
Head of Internal Model Market Risk, Intesa Sanpaolo

Ioana Boier
Head of Quantitative Portfolio Solutions, Alphadyne Asset Management

Hans Buehler
Global Head of Analytics, Automation, Optimization, JP Morgan

Luca Capriotti
Head Quantitative Strategies Credit Products and Structured Notes, Credit Suisse

Marc Chataigner
PhD Candidate, University of Évry

Andrey Chirikhin
Head of Structured Credit Quantitative Analytics, Barclays Investment Bank

Vladimir Chorniy
Senior Technical Lead, BNP Paribas

Samuel Cohen
Associate Professor,Theme lead for ML in Finance Alan Turing Institute, University of Oxford

Stéphane Crépey
Professor of Mathematics, Université de Paris, LPSM

Stefano De Marco
Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique

Matthew Dixon
Assistant Professor of Finance, Department of Applied Mathematics & Stuart School of Business - Illinois Institute of Technology

Bruno Dupire
Head Of Quantitative Research, Bloomberg L.P.

Zoltan Eisler
Senior Execution Strategist, Element Capital Management

Anthony Flynn
Director, Alliances and Partnerships, Prometheus Technologies

Sylvain Forté
CEO, Founder, SESAMm

Peter Friz
Professor of Mathematics, TU Berlin, Weierstraß-Institut Berlin

David Garcia Lorite
Quantitative Analyst, Caixabank

Maurizio Garro
Senior Lead, IBOR Transition Programme, Lloyds Banking Group

Dariusz Gatarek
Professor, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences

Jim Gatheral
Presidential Professor of Mathematics, Baruch College, CUNY

Sascha Geier
Head of Counterparty Risk Simulation Engines, Commerzbank

Emmanuel Gobet
Professor, Ecole Polytechnique

Dmitri Goloubentsev
CTO, Head of Automatic Adjoint Differentiation, Matlogica

Anton Golub
Co-Founder, CEO, Flovtec

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

Julien Guyon
Senior Quantitative Analyst, Bloomberg L.P.

Jon Hill
Professor of Model Risk Management, Dept. of Financial Risk Engineering, NYU-Tandon

Julien Hok
Senior Quantitative Analyst, Investec bank

Blanka Horvath
Lecturer in Financial Mathematics, King’s College London

Brian Huge
Chief Quantitative Analyst, Saxo Bank

John Hull
Maple Financial Professor of Derivatives & Risk Management, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at University Of Toronto

John Hulsman
Geopolitical Expert & Life Member, U.S. Council On Foreign Relations

Zach Issa
PhD candidate, King's College London

Jessica James
Managing Director, Senior Quantitative Researcher, Commerzbank AG

Aymeric Kalife
CEO, Founder, iDigital Partner

Chris Kenyon
Global Head of Quant Innovation, MUFG

Valery Kholodnyi
Principal Quantitative Analyst, Verbund AG

Jörg Kienitz
Adjunct Associate Professor and Associate Professor, University of Cape Town and University of Wuppertal

Sergei Kucherenko
Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Fabrizio Lillo
Full Professor of Mathematical Methods for Economics and Finance, University of Bologna

Daniel Linders
Assistant Professor in Actuarial Science & Mathematical Finance, University of Amsterdam

Emilio Llorente Cano
Head of Investments, Recognition AMS

Nicolo Marini
Proprietary Trader - Macro Risk Management, Intesa Sanpaolo

David Mascio
Endowed Chair, Roland and Sarah George Professor of Applied Finance, Stetson University. And Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Della Parola Capital Management, LLC

Ludovic Mathys
Equity Derivatives Trader, UBS

Daniel Mayenberger
CIB Data, Analytics & AI, J.P. Morgan

Andrew McClelland
Director, Quantitative Research, Numerix

Fabio Mercurio
Head of Quant Analytics, Bloomberg L.P.

Nadhem Meziou
Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Research, Natixis

Viktor Mosenkis
Senior Software Engineer, NAG

Andrea Nardon
Chief Quant Officer, Fund Manager, Black Alpha Capital

Caio Natividade
MD, Global Head of QIS Research, Deutsche Bank

Jan Novotny
eFX Quant, Nomura

Emiliano Papa
Director - Head of Rates and FX, Deutsche Bank

Grigorios Papamanousakis
CEO, Prometheus Technologies

Gregory Pelts
Director, Scotia Bank

Andreas Petrides
Executive Director, Goldman Sachs International

Vladimir Piterbarg
MD, Head of Quantitative Analytics & Development, NatWest Markets

Holger Plank
Partner, d-fine

Adil Reghaï
Head of Quantitative Research Equity & Commodity Markets, Natixis

Marie-Astrid Renard
AVP, Market Specialist, Selby Jennings

Jesus Rodriguez
Chief Technology Officer, IntoTheBlock

Ángel Rodríguez-Rozas
Associate Director – Quantitative Analyst, Model Validation, Banco Santander

Matteo Rolle
Head of Crossmarket Trading, Banca Sella Holding

Aurelio Romero-Bermudez
Quantitative Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Matthew Rooney
VP, Head of Quant Analytics Europe, Selby Jennings

Mathieu Rosenbaum
Resident Professor, Ecole Polytechnique

Daniele Rossano
Trader, Banca Sella Holding

Gurraj Sangha
Chief Quantitative Investment Officer, Token Metrics Ventures

Manola Santili
Market Risk Analyst, Intesa Sanpaolo

Marcos Costa Santos Carreira
PhD Candidate, École Polytechnique

Antoine Savine
Chief Quantitative Analyst, Danske Bank

Marco Scaringi
Quantitative Analyst, Intesa Sanpaolo

Sebastian Schlenkrich
Senior Manager, d-fine GmbH

Georg Schoechtel
Senior Manager, d-fine GmbH

Wim Schoutens
Professor Of Financial Engineering, University of Leuven

Artur Sepp
Head Systematic Solutions & Portfolio Construction, Sygnum Bank

Alexander Skabelin
Quantitative finance manager, Bank of America

Alexander Sokol
Head of Quant Research, CompatibL

András Stark
Quantitative Analyst, Hungarian Debt Management Agency (AKK)

Harvey Stein
Head of the Quantitative Risk Analytics Group, Bloomberg

Michael Steliaros
Global Head of Quantitative Execution Services, Goldman Sachs

Jochen Theis
Deon Digital

Mehdi Tomas
PhD Student, École Polytechnique

Richard Turner
Managing Director, Currency Management, Mesirow Financial

Misha van Beek
Director, Blackrock

David Van Bruwaene
Co-Founder, CEO, Fairly AI

Erik Vynckier
Board Member, Foresters Friendly Society and Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

Sander Willems
Quantitative Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Ganchi Zhang
VP, Quantitative Investment Solutions Research, Deutsche Bank

Daniel Zimarev
Financial Engineer, UBS Investment Bank

2021 Sponsors and Partners

PARTNER:
• Numerix

ASSOCIATE PARTNER:
• Beacon Platform
• CME Group
• CompatibL
• d-fine
• Fairly AI
• Murex
• NAG
• SESAMm

TALENT PARTNER:
• Selby Jennings

ASSOCIATION AND MEDIA PARTNERS:
• Fintech Futures
• Global Risk Community
• Taylor & Francis