Past Events › Fintech Thought Leadership Group

In this conference, we will bring together leading visionaries, entrepreneurs, investors and practitioners in blockchain, distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrency. The program will begin with a brief overview of blockchain technologies followed by a keynote speaker who will address the current landscape, including how the technology may impact charterholder careers. Finally, a panel of of leading entrepreneurs, investment professionals, and financial services professionals will discuss an overview of current use cases/projects both inside and outside financial services.

In this conference we will bring together innovators, experts and practitioners utilizing artificial intelligence, alternative data, data science and technology to kickoff a series of events focused on the impact of these advances on the world of finance. Artificial Intelligence and methods of analysis such as machine learning, the availability of new data sets, sophisticated computing and computerized trading have the potential to revolutionize the financial services industry.

Taking place in tandem with the CFA Institute’s Equity Research and Valuation Conference, innovators, investment practitioners, academics and other experts will present and discuss their research and ideas as we take a look into the future of the investment industry.

Data Science is blossoming in the financial industry and literature. More and more financial firms are introducing machine learning systems to forecast markets and trade. Academics are astounded by “unprecedented out-of-sample return prediction” ability of ML and are setting а “new standard for accuracy in measuring risk premia.” They find that “in designing and pricing securities, constructing portfolios, and risk management… deep learning can detect and exploit interactions in the data that are, at least currently, invisible to any existing financial economic theory.” At the same time, “rapid empirical success in this field currently outstrips mathematical understanding.” Join us to learn from leading academics and practitioners about Data Science applications in finance and to understand what’s behind these techniques and why they work so well.