March 31 - April 1 2026
| New York Marriott, Brooklyn Bridge
Decode the Market. Build the Future.Capture the Alpha.
Charlie Flanagan
Chief AI Officer Balyasny Asset ManagementCharlie Flanagan, CFA, is Chief AI officer at Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Charlie joined BAM in 2022 from Google, where he was a senior Data Science Technical Lead on Google Duplex. Charlie has an MBA from Columbia University and a Master of Software Engineering from Harvard University.
DAY TWO I Wednesday April 1
11:20 AM OFF THE RECORD - JOINT KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Monetizing AI and Alternative Data in Systematic Trading: From Insight to Execution
• Identifying which datasets are truly usable, useful, and organizationally scalable for systematic equity strategies.
• Building collaboration between quant, data engineering, and trading teams to unlock cross-desk efficiency
• Overcoming challenges in manual workflows, ingestion bottlenecks, and process deadlock across multiple teams.
• Managing signal overlap and crowding risk while maintaining differentiation in competitive markets.
• Turning AI-driven insights into real, tradable alpha — with examples of firms staying ahead of the curve in systematic innovation.
Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Charlie.
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