March 31 - April 1 2026 | New York Marriott, Brooklyn Bridge

Decode the Market. 
Build the Future.
Capture the Alpha.

Justin Xu

Justin Xu

Chief Quant and AI Officer MillTech

Justin is currently the Chief Quant and AI Officer at MillTech, where he holds overall management responsibility for the firm’s Artificial Intelligence activities, quantitative strategy and research, as well as FX tenor management and dynamic hedging product management. With over 15 years of experience in financial markets, Justin has worked across both risk management and quantitative development roles. He originally joined Millennium Global in 2011. Justin is also a member of the Bank of England's Artificial Intelligence Consortium. He formerly served as a lecturer in financial economics at the University of Glasgow, where he taught postgraduate courses in financial risk analysis and derivatives & asset pricing. Justin holds a PhD in Financial Econometrics from the University of Lancaster, is a certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), and holds the Certificate in Quantitative Finance (CQF).

DAY ONE I Tuesday March 31

12:20 PM FIRESIDE CHAT: Scaling for Stability: Building Robust Quant and Risk Infrastructure

Questions:
• How do you build and maintain infrastructure that’s both resilient and adaptive in the face of evolving market structures?
• What are the technical challenges of supporting large-scale quant risk models in a clearing context?
• Can you give a behind-the-scenes look at managing technology risk?
• Do you have any lessons on how to build scalable, fault-tolerant, and performance-optimized systems for quant research and real-time operations?
• Can you give insight into how quantitative innovation is enabled and accelerated by the right tech foundations?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Justin.

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