Name: Frontiers in Alternative Data : Techniques and Use Cases
Start: 2020-09-22T11:30:00-04:00
End: 2020-09-22T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Online

Frontiers in Alternative Data : Techniques and Use Cases

Wednesday

,

August

26

12:00pm

to

1:00pm

EST

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Frontiers in Alternative Data : Techniques and Use Cases

Lecture 1: Alexander Denev

In this talk, Alexander will introduce Alternative Data and discuss it's uses from his book, The Book of Alternative Data
- What is alternative data?
- Adoption of alternative data
- Information value chain
- Risks associated with alternative data
- Processes required to develop signals
- Valuation of alternative data

Lecture 2: Saeed Amen

In this talk, Saeed will discuss use cases in Alternative Data

-Deciphering Federal Reserve communications
- Using CLS flow data to trade FX
- Geospatial Insight satellite data to estimate retailers' EPS
- Saving "alpha" with transaction cost analysis
- Using Bloomberg News data to trade FX

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Schedule

11.30am - 11.35am

Welcome

Sri Krishnamurthy

11.35-12.35 pm

Alternative Data: Techniques and Use Cases

Alexander Denev ,Saeed Amen

12.35pm - 1.00pm

Fireside Chat

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 Summer School 2020

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The QuantUniversity Summer School 2020

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Join QuantUniversity for a complimentary summer 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.

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