QuantMinds International 2022 | Informa Connect | 6 November 2022 | W Barcelona, Plaça Rosa Del Vents 1, Final, Passeig de Joan de Borbó, 08039 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.

2022 Speakers

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

Jessica James
Managing Director, Senior Quantitative Researcher, Commerzbank AG

Cassie Kozyrkov
Chief Decision Scientist, Creator of the Making Friends with Machine Learning Series, Google

Marcos Lopez de Prado
Global Head - Quantitative R&D, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)

Ed Altman
Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University and Co-Founder, Wiserfunding, Ltd.

Alex Lipton
Global Head, Quantitative R&D, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)

Leif Andersen
Global Co-Head Of Quantitative Strategies Group, Bank of America

Sylvain Forté
CEO, SESAMm

Alexandre Antonov
Quantitative Research & Development Lead, ADIA

Carol Alexander
Professor, University of Sussex

Fabrizio Anfuso
Senior Technical Specialist, Bank of England

Rama Cont
Professor of Mathematics and Chair of Mathematical Finance, University of Oxford

Sébastien Bossu
Professor of Finance, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Roza Galeeva
Senior Lecturer Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University

Jim Gatheral
Presidential Professor of Mathematics, Baruch College, CUNY

Sebastian Cassel
Head of Valuation Model Risk, BNP Paribas

Julien Guyon
Professor, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech

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

Christian Kappen
Manager, d-fine

Chris Kenyon
Global Head of Quant Innovation, MUFG Securities

Nicolo Marini
Proprietary Trader - Macro Risk Management, Intesa Sanpaolo

Andrew McClelland
Director, Quantitative Research, Numerix

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

Aitor Muguruza
Head of Scientific Research and Data Analytics, Kaiju Capital Management

Michael Pykhtin
Manager, Policy Research and Analytics, U.S. Federal Reserve Board

Marco Scaringi
Quantitative Analyst, Intesa Sanpaolo

Uwe Naumann
Professor Of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University

Wim Schoutens
Professor Of Financial Engineering, University of Leuven

Alexander Sokol
Head of Quant Research, CompatibL

Daniel Arrieta Rodriguez
Model Validation Senior Quant, Santander

Saeed Amen
Cofounder, Turnleaf Analytics, Turnleaf Analytics

Behzad Alimoradian
Head of Risk Analytics, Valerian Capital

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

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

Argimiro Arratia
Associate Professor of Computational Finance, Polytechnical University of Catalunya

Katia Babbar
Co-Founder, Immersive Finance

Hamza Bahaji
Head of Financial Engineering and Investment Solutions, Amundi ETF, Indexing & Smart Beta, Amundi

James Baker
Product Manager, Suite, LLC

Laura Ballotta
Senior Lecturer in Financial Mathematics, Cass Business School (QM Advisory Board Member only)

Dominique Bang
Managing Director, Bank of America

Viatcheslav Belyaev
Senior Quantitative Analyst, U.S. Bank

Daniele Bernardi
CEO, Diaman Partners

Marco Bianchetti
Head of Internal Model Market Risk, Intesa Sanpaolo

Gabriele Biasin
Junior Proprietary Trader & Quant Analyst, Banca Sella Holding SPA

Jonathan Billow
Assistant Vice President – Hong Kong, Selby Jennings

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

Svetlana Borovkova
Head of Quantitative Modelling at Probability & Partners and Associate Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Luca Capriotti
Managing Director - Global Head Quantitative Strategies Credit, Credit Suisse

Jonathan Chan
Quantitative Researcher, Kaiju Capital Management

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

Vladimir Chorniy
Senior Technical Lead, BNP Paribas

William Clements
Head of Machine Learning, ORCA Computing

Stéphane Crépey
Professor of Mathematics, Université Paris Cité, Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation (LPSM)

Giuliano De Rossi
Head of Portfolio Analytics in Prime Services, Goldman Sachs

Robert De Witt
Managing Director, Head of Quantitative Strategies and Data Group for EMEA Equities Execution, Bank of America

Lauren Dennis
Vice President – USA, Selby Jennings

Thomas Dierckx
PhD candidate, University of Leuven - Belgium

Alberto Elices
Senior Loan Pricing and Product Development Officer, European Investment Bank

Youssef Elouerkhaoui
MD, Global Head of Markets Quantitative Analysis, Citigroup

Matthias Fahrenwaldt
Quantitative Risk Modelling, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)

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

Dmitri Goloubentsev
CTO | Head of Automatic Adjoint Differentiation, Matlogica

Peter Hafez
Chief Data Scientist, Raven Pack

Jon Hill
Adjunct Professor of Model Risk Management, NYU-Tandon School of Financial Risk Engineering

Julien Hok
Quantitative Analyst, Investec Bank

Brian Huge
Senior Specialist Quant, Saxo Bank

Diana Iercosan
Principal Economist, Federal Reserve Board

Andrey Itkin
Quantitative Research and Development Lead, ADIA

Udesh Jha
Managing Director, Head of Post-Trade Services, CME Group

Aymeric Kalife
CEO and Founder, iDigital Partner

Valery Kholodnyi
Chief Risk Officer, ValeRysk

Sergei Kucherenko
Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College London

Simon Maertens
PhD candidate, RWTH Aachen University

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

Paul McCloud
Head of Global Fixed Income Quantitative Research’, Nomura

Nadhem Meziou
Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Research, Natixis

Martina Moretti
Senior Quantitative Analyst, Generali Investments

Andrea Nardon
Chief Investment Officer, Creed & Bear

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

Gregory Pelts
Global Analytics & Financial Engineering, Scotia Bank

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

Holger Plank
Partner, d-fine

Makar Pravosud
PhD candidate, Pompeu Fabra University

Mirela Predescu
Head, Risk Analytics and Modelling: Credit/Repo Stream, BNP Paribas

Felix Prenzel
PhD Student, University of Oxford

Thomas Raffinot
Head of Core Investment & Lab Engineering, AXA Investment Managers

Diana Ribeiro
Quant Director, Citi

Matteo Rolle
Head of Crossmarket Trading & Machine Learning, Banca Sella Holding

Aurelio Romero-Bermudez
Quantitative Analyst - Market Risk Modelling, ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

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

Mathieu Rosenbaum
Resident Professor, Ecole Polytechnique

Bouazza Saadeddine
Quantitative Analyst, Crédit Agricole CIB

Carlo Sala
Assistant Professor of Finance at the Department of Economics, ESADE Business School

Manola Santilli
Market Risk Analyst, Intesa Sanpaolo

Filipe Andre Santos
Quantitative Research Analyst, BNP Paribas

Antoine Savine
Upcoming head of macro analytics, leading buy-side institution

Sebastian Schnitzler
Senior Supervisor, Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin)

Artur Sepp
Head Systematic Solutions and Portfolio Construction, Sygnum Bank

Ilya Sheynzon
Vice President, Quantitative Researcher in Quantitative Strategies and Data Group for EMEA Equities Execution, Bank of America

Sumit Sinha
Senior Director, Quant Risk Management, CME Group

Colin Turfus
Senior Quantitative Analyst, Deutsche Bank

Eva Verschueren
PhD candidate, University of Leuven - Belgium

Vlasios Voudouris
Chief Data Officer, Argus Media

Milena Vuletić
DPhil Candidate, University of Oxford

Erik Vynckier
Board Member, Chair of the Investment Committee, Foresters Friendly Society and Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

Tyler Ward
Adjunct Professor, NYU Tandon

Sander Willems
Quantitative Analyst, RBC Capital Markets

Jun Yuan
Managing Director, Global Risk Analytics, Royal Bank of Canada

Valer Zetocha
Head of Quantitative Services for Equity and FX, ED, Julius Baer

Jingyan Zhang
PhD candidate, University of Leuven - Belgium

Yosef Zweibach
Chief Operating Officer of Quantitative Strategies, Walleye Capital

2022 Partners

PRINCIPAL PARTNER:
• Abu Dhabi Investment Authority

PARTNER:
• Numerix

ASSOCIATE PARTNERS:
• Argus Media
• Beacon Platform
• CME Group
• CompatibL
• d-fine
• Murex
• RavenPack
• SESAMm
• SigTech
• Suite

TALENT PARTNER:
• Selby Jennings