March 31 - April 1 2026
| New York Marriott, Brooklyn Bridge
Decode the Market. Build the Future.Capture the Alpha.
DAY TWO I Wednesday April 1
8:00 am - 8:45 am
REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING
8:45 am - 9:00 am
Chair’s opening remarks
9:00 am - 9:30 am
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Allan Houston -
Assistant General Manager,
New York Knicks
9:30 am - 9:50 am
PLENARY CXO FIESIDE CHAT: Shaping the Next Frontier of Talent for the next five years!
Christina Qi -
CEO,
Databento
Chris Barber - Chief Investment Officer, Renaissance Assets
9:50 am - 10:10 am
Plenary session reserved for Mistral AI
10:10 am - 10:50 am
PLENARY PANEL: Dean’s in the Hot Seat - The Future of Talent in Finance
Andrew Karolyi -
Professor of Finance,
Cornell University
10:50 am - 11:20 am
NETWORKING BREAK
AlphaX Stage Alpha Strategies, Data Intelligence & Alternative Signals
11:20 am - 12:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Practical AI applications in finance, including LLM workflows Renato Guerrieri - Head of Quantitative Strategy Liquid Al-ternatives, Downing LLPRajesh Krishnamachari, PhD - Co-founder, CoreAI Advisory LLC
Dr Yichuan Zhang - CEO and Chief Research Officer, Boltzbit
Tim Anderson - Director of Tick History & Quantitative & Economic Data, London Stock Exchange Group
Tim Anderson
Director of Tick History & Quantitative & Economic DataLondon Stock Exchange Group
AlphaX Stage Alpha Strategies, Data Intelligence & Alternative Signals
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm PRESO: Session reserved for YipitDataSponsored by: YipitData
AlphaX Stage Alpha Strategies, Data Intelligence & Alternative Signals
12:20 pm - 12:40 pm PRESO: Designing the Next Generation of Alpha: AI, Data Intelligence and Portfolio Autonomy Mike Chen - Head of Next-Gen Research, Robeco
AlphaX Stage Alpha Strategies, Data Intelligence & Alternative Signals
12:40 pm - 1:00 pm PRESO: Execution as a Source of Persistent Alpha: Optimal Execution, Market Integrity, and DeFi Manipulation Dynamics Natascha Hey - Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia Business School
RiskX Stage Portfolio Construction & Market Risk
11:20 am - 12:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Capital Allocation in a Risk-Conscious World Andrew Greenby - Head of Risk & Data Science, Ripple Effect Asset ManagementYesim Tokat-Acikel - Managing Director, Portfolio Management, Principal Asset Management
Avi Rosenbluth - Head of Risk, Final Ltd
Melissa Brown - Head of Investment Decision Research, Axioma by SimCorp
Said Djebbar - Executive Director, Risk Management, Asset Management, Waha Capital PJSC
Sponsored by: Axioma by SimCorp
RiskX Stage Portfolio Construction & Market Risk
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm PRESO: Beating the Market with Numbers: A probability-driven trading approach Giulio Occhionero - Head of Quantitative Research and Development, IRH Global Trading
RiskX Stage Portfolio Construction & Market Risk
12:20 pm - 12:40 pm FIRESIDE CHAT: Evolving Role of Asset Allocation Teams in Risk Design Anthony Huang - Portfolio Manager, Bank of America Merrill LynchAnna Semakhin - Senior Asset Allocation Quantitative Analyst, Fidelity
Takayoshi Wiesner - Head of U.S. Fixed Income in the Portfolio Analytics Group, BlackRock, Inc
RiskX Stage Portfolio Construction & Market Risk
12:40 pm - 1:00 pm PRESO: Session reserved for S&PSponsored by: S&P Global Market Intelligence
TechX Stage Technology Infrastructure & Execution Systems
11:20 am - 12:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Compute Is the new Alpha: Building quant platforms that scale productivity, performance, and ROITechX Stage Technology Infrastructure & Execution Systems
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm PRESO: Inside the Machine: How Man Group Architects its Technology Teams Barry Fitzgerald - Co-Head of Front-office Engineering, Man Group
TechX Stage Technology Infrastructure & Execution Systems
12:20 pm - 12:40 pm PRESO: AI Meets Discretion: Data Science at the Core of Fundamental Investing Iro Tasitsiomi - Head of AI, Trowe Price
TechX Stage Technology Infrastructure & Execution Systems
12:40 pm - 1:00 pm JOINT PRESO: Monetizing AI and Alternative Data in Systematic Trading: From Insight to Execution Charlie Flanagan - Chief AI Officer, Balyasny Asset ManagementDhrupad Bhardwaj - Systematic Trading and Machine Learning, Balyasny Asset Management LP
Skills Accelerator Masterclass Series Practical to implementation hands-on sessions
11:20 am - 12:20 pm Deploying LLMs in Production Across MarketsSkills Accelerator Masterclass Series Practical to implementation hands-on sessions
12:20 pm - 1:20 pm Building the Modern Quant Stack — Infrastructure, Data, and Compute at ScaleMulti-Asset Round Table Discussions
11:20 am - 12:20 pm PRIVATE EQUITY Arnav Sheth - Quantitative Researcher, Vice President, ICapital
Multi-Asset Round Table Discussions
12:20 pm - 1:00 pm FX
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
LUNCH AND NETWORKING BREAK
AlphaX Stage Alpha Strategies, Data Intelligence & Alternative Signals
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Signal Fusion in Multi-Factor Models – Beyond Momentum and Mean Reversion Vince Chen - VP, Public Equity & Portfolio Management, Abacus Global ManagementSomya Harjai - Quantitative Researcher, ClearBridge Investments, LLC.
Gabriel H Tucci - Global Head of Cash Equities Quant, Citi
AlphaX Stage Alpha Strategies, Data Intelligence & Alternative Signals
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm FIRESIDE CHAT: What's Next in Alternative Data? Trends and Challenges in Systematic Investing Chris Petrescu - Data Strategy, CP CapitalIrina Bogacheva - Director of Research, Systematic Global Macro, Millburn Ridgefield Corporation
RiskX Stage Portfolio Construction & Market Risk
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Macro outlook & Quant opportuni-ties in Multi-Asset Investing Florian Ielpo - Head of Macro, Multi Asset, Lombard Odier Investment ManagersGiulio Renzi-Ricci - Head of asset allocation, Vanguard
Cayla Seder - Macro Multi Asset Strategist, State Street Corporation
Farrah Haroon - Former Global Macro Strategist, Morgan Stanley
RiskX Stage Portfolio Construction & Market Risk
4:40 pm - 5:00 pm PRESO: How Should You Diversify? Evaluating Approaches to Systematic Portfolio Design Jacob Amaral - Head of Quanitative Research, CSCB Management
TechX Stage Technology Infrastructure & Execution Systems
2:00 pm - 2:40 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Engineering execution platforms for speed, scale, and resilienceTechX Stage Technology Infrastructure & Execution Systems
3:00 pm - 3:20 pm FIRESIDE CHAT: The Future of Work in Quant Research – Leaner Teams, Greater Intelligence Milind Sharma - CEO, QuantZAlexander Fleiss - CEO, Rebellion Research
Questions:
• How are AI and automation changing the makeup of quant research teams?
• Which skill sets are becoming redundant—and which are now essential?
• What is the actual ROI of replacing headcount with intelligence tools?
• How do you balance team reduction with the need to maintain innovation, oversight, and explainability?
• How do you interpret the “tsunami of intermediation” — where LLMs and agents now sit between data, models, and decision-makers?
• How do we validate the decisions of AI agents in portfolio construction, signal generation, or risk models?
• How do you plan talent strategy and workflow design in this rapidly evolving landscape?
