Name: Alternative Data and the API Jungle
Start: 2020-12-22T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-12-22T13:00:00-05:00
Location: Online

Alternative Data and the API Jungle

Wednesday

,

August

26

12:00pm

to

1:00pm

EST

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QU Fall school 2020 Speaker Series - Session 5

A conversation with Quants, Thinkers and Innovators all challenged to innovate in turbulent times!

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Alternative Data and the API Jungle

With Alternative Data becoming more and more popular in the industry, quants are eager to adopt them into their investment processes. However, with a plethora of options, API standards, trying and evaluating datasets is a major hindrance to adoption of datasets.

Join Yaacov, Sri, James and Brad discuss the opportunities, pitfalls and challenges of Alternative Data and its adoption in finance

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Schedule

12.00-12.05

Welcome

Sri Krishnamurthy

12.05-1pm

Alternative Data and the API Jungle

Yaacov Weinstock, CFA

James Perkins

Brad Franklin

Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA

Speakers

Stefan Jansen

Data Strategy | End-to-end ML Solutions

SRI KRISHNAMURTHY, CFA

QUANTUNIVERSITY

Yaacov Weinstock, CFA

Yaacov has significant experience leveraging technology to create sustainable business value in the investment management space. Most recently he served as Chief Technology Officer of the US division of Fiera Capital leading the digital transformation that created efficiency and scale in the organization.

Before Fiera, Yaacov was the Chief Technology Officer at Arden Asset Management where he designed and implemented their data warehouse, data governance, and business intelligence platform in addition to their information security program.

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Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA

Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA is the Founder and CEO of QuantUniversity. Sri is the creator of QuSandbox, a platform for experimenting analytical and machine learning solutions for enterprises prior to adoption.

Sri earned an MS in Computer Systems Engineering and another MS in Computer Science, both from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College.

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James Perkins

James is Customer Success Director, Data Platform at Refinitiv. Throughout his 18 years in the financial market data industry he has led both teams and initiatives to achieve sales, support, and product development results. In his career at Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, and Refinitiv James has worked across markets and workflows to connect clients with data, technology, and solutions in trading, investment & advisory, and risk management. In recent years James has been an industry advocate for the Refinitiv Developer Community, adoption of open source technology, and APIs literacy. James holds an MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.

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Brad Franklin

Mr. Brad Franklin is Vice President, Senior Product Strategist at FactSet. In this role, he develops the strategy of FactSet’s content delivery products, which include APIs, SDKs, data feeds, and developer solutions. Prior to this role, he was a Senior Sales Specialist selling FactSet's data feed solutions across a variety of workflows in Asset Management, Wealth Management, Insurance, Pension Funds, Corporates, and Brokerage firms across the Americas. Mr. Franklin joined FactSet in 2007, earned a B.A. in Economics from the University of Richmond, and a Master of Science in Data Science at Northwestern University.

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Book

The Book of Alternative Data:

A Guide for Investors, Traders and Risk Managers

Alexander Denev, Saeed Amen

D Shahrawat,CFA

FinTech Investment Banking, Rosenblatt Securities

D is responsible for identifying and generating ideas for FinTech companies to grow and connecting them to investors or strategic partners. In this role, he engages with cutting-edge FinTechs, helping them with strategic advice, M&A and capital raising from VCs, PE or institutional investors. D has 20+ years of experience advising financial institutions, tech firms, service providers and regulators on market trends, emerging technology and innovation.

Sri Krishnamurthy,CFA

President

QuantUniversity

Sri is the Founder and CEO of QuantUniversity, a data and quantitative analysis company. Prior to starting QuantUniversity, Sri has worked at Citigroup, Endeca, MathWorks and with more than 25 customers in the financial services and energy industries. Sri is leading development efforts in creating a platform called QuSandbox for adopting open source and analytics solutions within corporations.

Speakers

Dr.Giulia Fanti

Dr. Giulia Fanti is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests span the algorithmic foundations of blockchains, distributed systems, privacy-preserving technologies, and machine learning.

She is a fellow for the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cybersecurity, and has received best paper awards from ACM Sigmetrics and ACM MobiHoc, as well as an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.

Giulia is a recent recipient of the Faculty Research Award given by J.P.Morgan Chase on generating synthetic time series datasets

She obtained her Ph.D. in EECS from U.C. Berkeley and her B.S. in ECE from Olin College of Engineering.

Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA

Sri Krishnamurthy, CFA is the Founder and CEO of QuantUniversity. Prior to that, Sri has worked at Citigroup, Endeca, MathWorks and with more than 25 customers in the financial services. Sri is the creator of QuSandbox, a platform for experimenting analytical and machine learning solutions for enterprises prior to adoption.

Sri teaches classes at QuAcademy (www.qu.academy) and teaches graduate courses in Machine Learning and AI at Northeastern University.

Sri earned an MS in Computer Systems Engineering and another MS in Computer Science, both from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College.

QuantUniversity Fall School 2020

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The QuantUniversity Fall School 2020

A conversation with Quants, Thinkers and Innovators all challenged to innovate in turbulent times!

Join QuantUniversity for a complimentary fall speaker series where you will hear from Quants, innovators, startups and Fintech experts on various topics in Quant Investing, Machine Learning, Optimization, Fintech, AI etc.

Optimization Methods in Finance

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