2020 IAQF Career Symposium
Hosted by the IAQF and NYU's Courant Institute
2020 IAQF Career Symposium is open to all current students of IAQF Approved Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance and Financial Mathematics Masters Programs. With a virtual format set over three days in November, attendees will learn from experts in the financial industry on a variety of topics to boost their career as they enter the workforce in the coming years. A combination of panels and short talks will be presented so that students can mix and match the sessions that are most interesting to them. The event will take place 8:30am-11:30am Eastern Time (8:30pm-11:30pm China Standard Time) to accommodate students from around the world
Zoom links for ticketholders will be sent out Sunday and Monday night.
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November 9th
8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m - How I Became a Quant?
Shihang Guan, Vice President, AQR Capital Management
Nikos Rachmanis, Exotic Equity Derivatives Trader, Wells Fargo
Nathan Yan, Senior Associate, PIMCO
William Longstreth, Vice President, MUFG
Yuan Yuan, Director, Credit Suisse
Moderator – Mack Gill, Chief Operating Officer, Torstone Technology
9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. - Break
10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. – A Career Path in Alternative Data
10:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Q&A
Gene Ekster, CEO, AltDG
10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. – Quant Research at Bloomberg
10:50 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Q&A
Bruno Dupire, Head of Quantitative Research, Bloomberg
11:00 a.m. – 11:20 a.m. – Life as a Goldman Sachs Strat
11:20 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – Q&A
Steve Ekert, Analyst - Engineering Campus Recruiting, Goldman Sachs
Jorge Bravo, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
11:30 a.m. – 11:40 a.m. – Closing Remarks
November 10th
8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m – Trends in Industry: Buy Sell-Side Developments and Opportunities
Ben Steiner, Global Fixed Income, BNP Paribas Asset Management
Mehdi Sonthonnax, Director Equity Derivatives Quantitative Strategist, Credit Suisse
Miquel Noguer Alonso, Founder of Artificial Intelligence Finance Institute
Daniel Lam, Macro-Economic Quantitative Researcher, Bloomberg LP
Doug Summa, Partner, PwC
Robert Stevenson, Senior Recruiter in Market Intelligence, Point72
Moderator: Monique Miller, Senior VP, Euclidean Capital
9:50 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. - Break
10:00 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. – Quantitative Applications in Robo-Advising
10:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Q&A
Adam Grealish, Head of Investing, Betterment
10:30 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. – AI/ML/NLP in Quant Modeling
10:50 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Q&A:
Vijay Nair, Managing Director and Head of Advanced Technologies, Wells Fargo
Bernhard Hientzsch, Head of Model, Library, and Tools Development, Wells Fargo
Tarun Joshi, Quantitative Analytics Manager, Wells Fargo
11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. – Opportunities Outside of “Traditional” Quant Finance
Lisa Huang, Leader of AI team, Fidelity
Don Goonetilleke, Data Scientist, Alt Platform
Aakriti Mittal, Quant Researcher, Bloomberg
Joe Simonian, Senior Investment Strategist, Acadian Asset Management
Marko Kangrga, Head of Quantitative Research Americas, Ravenpack
Richard Zheng, MI Data Consumer and Financials Sector Lead, Point72
Moderator - Andy Weisman, Managing Partner, Windham Capital
12:20 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. – Closing Remarks
