12:40 Panel: Keeping an edge in alpha creation with Big Data Chair - Armando Gonzalez, CEO, RavenPack Matt Ober, Co-head of Data Strategy, WorldQuant CONFERENCE Michael Beal, CEO, Data Capital Management Yin Luo, Vice Chairman Quantitative Research, Economics, and Strategy (QES), Wolfe Research 13:20 Lunch PROGRAMME ADVANCED DATA ANALYTICS AND INTERPRETATION 14:00 Machine learning and natural language processing strategies Gideon Mann, Head of Data Science / CTO Office at Bloomberg LP DAY ONE - INNOVATION IN DATA SCIENCE 14:10 Machine readable news and MarketPsych Indices James Cantarella, Global Proposition Manager for Enterprise Analytics at Thomson Reuters 09:00 Welcome 14:20 The hedge fund landscape “what’s hot and what’s not” Professor David Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College and Chief Scientific Peter Hafez, Chief Data Scientist, RavenPack Advisor to Winton Capital Management 14:30 Strategies that leverage non-traditional sources of information 09:05 Keynote: Moore’s Law versus technology-updated version of Murphy’s Law: guiding principles Ted Bailey, CEO, Dataminr for data science in capital markets 14:40 Panel: A new generation of financial text mining and automated interpretation Andrew W. Lo, Professor of Finance and Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering at the MIT Chair - Stephen Morse, Head of Enterprise Financial Data Partnerships, Twitter Sloan School of Management (tbc) Gideon Mann, Head of Data Science / CTO Office at Bloomberg LP NEW DATA SETS James Cantarella, Global Proposition Manager for Enterprise Analytics at Thomson Reuters Peter Hafez, Chief Data Scientist, RavenPack 09:30 Geoanalytics at an unprecedented scale Ted Bailey, CEO, Dataminr A.J. DeRosa, VP, Orbital Insight 15:20 New AI enabled financial data analysis / pattern analysis 09:45 Transaction data enrichment Tim Estes, Founder & CEO digital reasoning (tbc) Thomas Hempel, Senior Vice-President of Engineering, Yodlee 15:40 Coffee break 10:00 Crowdsourced data to generate alpha 16:00 Keeping competitive advantage – Being a quant in five years’ time – what role will people have? Leigh Drogen, Founder and CEO, Estimize Raffaele Savi, Managing Director, Scientific Active Equity, BlackRock 10:15 IoT data sets – a sustainable source of alpha? NEW BUSINESS & MODELS IN ASSET MANAGEMENT Tammer Kamel, Founder & amp; CEO, Quandl 10:30 Panel: The next frontier of big data generation in capital markets 16:20 Quantopian’s business model & the startup ecosystem Chair - Professor David Hand, Chief Scientific Advisor, Winton Capital Management Matthew Granade, Quantopian / Point 72 A.J. DeRosa, VP, Orbital Insight 16:40 Trading with a massively distributed AI platform Thomas Hempel, Senior Vice-President of Engineering, Yodlee Babak Hadjat, Founder and Chief Scientist, Sentient Technologies (tbc) Leigh Drogen, Founder and CEO, Estimize 17:00 Generating alpha from exotic data sets: a hedge fund perspective Tammer Kamel, Founder & amp; CEO, Quandl Michael Beal, CEO, Data Capital Management 11:10 Coffee break 17:20 Panel: Will new data sets, new analysis methods or new hardware be the driver for alpha in the coming years? DATA SOURCING Chair – Andrew W. Lo, Professor of Finance and Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering 11:30 Machine learning and it’s practical implementation in actual global stock selection at the MIT Sloan School of Management Yin Luo, Vice Chairman Quantitative Research, Economics, and Strategy (QES), Wolfe Research Professor David Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College and Chief Scientific Advisor to Winton Capital Management 11:50 Delivering global historical limit order book data via AWS cloud Matthew Granade, Quantopian / Point 72 John Macpherson, CEO, BMLL Babak Hadjat, Founder & Chief Scientist, Sentient Technologies 12:10 Panel: The bifurcation between small players using third party market flow data, and large 18:00 Closing remarks hedge funds with in-house research teams Professor David Hand, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College and Chief Scientific Chair - Sylvain Champonnois, Director, Scientific Active Equity, BlackRock Advisor to Winton Capital Management Mark Makepeace, Group Director of Information Services, London Stock Exchange Group (tbc) 18:10 Networking reception, Milton Court John Macpherson, CEO, BMLL 20:00 End of day 1