Speaker: Dr. Iraklis Kourtidis
Date: 10 March 2025
Bio:
Iraklis Kourtidis (Co-founder & CEO) has worked in the financial industry for over 20 years. His past positions include hybrid trading / software development roles in various elite trading desks within Getco (now Virtu), Goldman Sachs, and UBS, where he was 1 of 2 developers working on iXt, a system that handled the largest equities trading volume in the US at the time. He jointly headed the team that built from scratch the technology for Cutle...
Speaker: Dr. Toby Wade
Date: 10 March 2025
Bio:
Toby is an investment, AI and Machine Learning expert with over 20 years of experience in equities, cryptos, futures, and currencies at funds, exchanges, and banks, specializing in alpha research, portfolio management, risk, and trading. He is skilled in NLP, Large Language Models (LLM), generative AI, and Machine Learning for financial markets research. His research has been cited in the Financial Times, Institutional Investor, CNBC, and Yahoo Finance...
Speaker: Dr. Thanos Papaioannou
Date: 20 February 2025
Bio:
I am a NYC-based software investor and entrepreneur. I was an early employee at Roivant Sciences (NASDAQ:ROIV, a $9b+ pharma and technology holding company), where I led controlling investments in AI software companies. Before Roivant, I worked at Ellington Management (a $10b+ NYC-based hedge fund) after finishing a BA and PhD in Algebraic Geometry at Harvard and U. Chicago. For my PhD, I worked under Mark Kisin at Harvard to prove a specia...
Speaker: Jérôme Busca
Date: 18 February 2025
Abstract:
In this talk I will touch upon subjects I believe are relevant to anyone involved in the design of automated, systematic quant trading systems, such as: data types: processing and issues (futures), best execution: transaction cost models, execution under time and/or price constraints, liquidity providing vs liquidity taking, taking flow into account; portfolio construction: modeling the covariance matrix, Markowitz with friction, robust Markowitz;...