5th Annual RavenPack Research Symposium: The Big Data & Machine Learning Revolution

The Big Data & Machine Learning Revolution

RavenPack’s prestigious annual event has experienced growing interest, with attendance exceeding 260 buy-side professionals. Word on the street is RavenPack’s research symposium is a “must attend event” for quantitative investors and financial professionals that are serious about Big Data.

An excellent set of senior finance professionals shared their latest research and experience with big data and machine learning.

Agenda

Speakers

Last Updated: September 12, 2017

Marko Kolanovic, PhD
Global Head of Quantitative and Derivatives Strategy
J.P. Morgan

His team is responsible for developing macro, derivatives and quantitative trading strategies. Dr. Kolanovic's work is frequently quoted in financial press, and for his accurate short term forecasts of stock market returns, the media dubbed him ‘The Man who moves Markets’

Matthew Rothman
Managing Director / Head of Quantitative Equity Research
Credit Suisse

Matthew has held a variety of positions both in academia and industry. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Matthew was the director of Global Quantitative Macro Research at Acadian Asset Management

Ichihan Tai
Portfolio Manager / Head of Data Science
Tokio Marine Asset Management

Ichihan is responsible for systematic event-driven strategies in this asset management subsidiary of Japan's oldest and largest non-life insurance company, Tokio Marine Holdings.

James Hodson
Senior Researcher - Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Jozef Stefan Institute

James is an Artificial Intelligence researcher whose work spans Natural Language Processing, Information Extraction, Network Inference, and Graph Modeling. Previously, he founded and directed the Artificial Intelligence research group at Bloomberg LP

Yin Luo
Vice Chairman
Wolfe Research

Prior to his role at Wolfe, Yin was a Managing Director and Global Head of Quantitative Strategy at Deutsche Bank where he built a world class quantitative and macro research franchise.

Hedi Benamar, PhD
Senior Economist - Global Capital Markets
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Hedi's research interests focus on behavioral finance and market microstructure. He holds a PhD in Finance from HEC Paris and a MSc in Applied Mathematics from the University Paris Dauphine.

Adam Honoré
Executive Director of Product for Global Data Licensing Services
CME Group

Adam is responsible for developing and launching new data products, distribution methods, and analytics leveraging both internal and external data sources.

Donald H. Putnam
Managing Partner
Grail Partners

Don founded Grail Partners LLC in early 2005. He serves on the investment committee of Ripon College and the boards of Imation Corp, Manifold Partners, and Welton Investment Partners.

Thani Sokka
VP - Technology, PIB News, Insights & DNA
Dow Jones

Thani oversees the technology product management and development of Dow Jones Professional Information Business products and the recently launched DNA (Data, News & Analytics) Platform.

Miquel Noguer Alonso
Executive Director / Adjunct Assistant Professor
UBS / Columbia University

Miquel Noguer Alonso is a financial markets practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in asset management, currently at UBS. He is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University teaching Asset Allocation, Big Data in Finance, Fintech and Hedge Fund Professor at ESADE

Rajesh T. Krishnamachari, PhD
Vice President, Quantitative and Derivatives Strategy
J.P. Morgan

Rajesh is a researcher on systematic cross-asset (Equity/FX/Commodity/Rates; Delta-one and Derivative-based) strategies with the Macro Quantitative and Derivatives Strategy team.

Stuart Kozola, FRM
Head of Finance Product Management
MathWorks

Stu is head of computational finance products and strategy at MathWorks, creators of MATLAB. He is responsible for the evolution of MATLAB based products applied for data science and quantitative finance.

Jason S. Cornez
Chief Technology Officer
RavenPack

Jason is responsible for the design and implementation of the RavenPack software platform. He is a hands-on technology leader, with a consistent record of delivering break-through products.

Peter Hafez
Chief Data Scientist
RavenPack

Peter is a pioneer in the field of applied news analytics, bringing alternative data to banks and hedge funds. He has more than 15 years of experience in quantitative finance with companies such as Standard & Poor's, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Saxo Bank.

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Location

A cocktail reception was held at the conference venue from 5:00 pm.