MFA Ops: Data, Tech and AI 2024 - Agendabad
October 23, 2024
Conference
PwC
New York, NY
Wednesday, October 23
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunch and Opening Remarks
1:00pm - 1:35pm
A Fireside Discussion with Open AI's Adam Goldberg
- Opportunity, implications and future of AI in the enterprise
Speaker
Adam S. Goldberg
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Team Lead, Financial Services & Insurance
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OpenAI
Adam Goldberg is the Team Lead of Financial Services & Insurance at OpenAI, based in New York City. With over 25 years of experience, Adam has held senior sales and go-to-market roles at companies like Microsoft, Pivotal, and Cisco. Adam joined OpenAI as the 1st salesperson and a founding member of OpenAI’s GTM team. Adam has played a pivotal role in shaping AI strategies for financial institutions, insurance companies and Fortune 500 companies overall.
1:35pm - 2:10pm
Cyber Defense: Safeguarding Data in High-Stakes Environment
- Anticipating emerging threats in the evolving cyber landscape
- Threat detection and incident response and recovery (DR)
- Data encryption and secure data transmission
2:10pm - 2:40pm
Networking Break
2:40pm - 3:15pm
Unlocking AI's Capabilities for Alpha Generation
- How generative AI models can be used to detect subtle patterns or signals in market data that might be overlooked by traditional quantitative models
- Identifying new correlations and causations in large, unstructured datasets. AI’s ability to uncover non-linear relationships between assets
- Explore the application of generative AI in optimizing execution algorithms that are responsible for order placement, timing, and routing in trading
- Synthetic data creation and model training; balancing synthetic data with real data to improve model accuracy
Speakers
Sudhir Anantharaman
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Chief Information Security Officer
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AQR Capital Management LLC
Sudhir Anantharaman is the Chief Information Security Officer of AQR Capital Management, LLC, and oversees the information and cyber security function globally. Prior to AQR, he was a Director at Booz Allen Hamilton in that firm’s Financial Services Practice. Sudhir earned a B.S. in Engineering at the University of Illinois, a M.S. in Engineering at the University of Michigan, and an M.B.A. in Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Chris Beels
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Co-Chief Technology Officer
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GoldenTree Asset Management
Chris Beels is Co-CTO of GoldenTree Asset Management and manages Applications, Data and AI initiatives for the firm. Chris joined GoldenTree in 2011 and has led the Data Warehousing, Regulatory Reporting, and other data-centric initiatives at the firm. Chris is an active member of the AITEC group of Asset Management technology executives.
Chris has over 20 years of experience in managing financial systems and IT teams. Prior to GoldenTree, he was a Director in the Fixed Income Systems group at Millennium Management and one of the founding employees of RiskMetrics. Chris holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University and is a CFA Charterholder.
3:15pm - 3:50pm
AI Regulation Landscape: Consideration and Policy Frameworks
- Practical guidance and insight into how to prepare for current and potential rules around technology impacting the industry
- Overview of key regulations both domestic and international
- Best practices for ensuring compliance without hindering operations
Speaker
Brian Daly
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Director, Division of Investment Management
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Brian Daly became Director of the Division of Investment Management in July 2025. He brings decades of experience serving in prominent roles at global law firms and investment management firms while advising fund managers and sponsors on regulatory compliance.
In 2021, Mr. Daly joined Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in New York as a partner in the investment management practice, where he guided investment advisers and other clients on their legal and compliance programs, policies, and procedures. He also counseled on fund and management company formation, operational and trading issues, contentious matters, and management company transactions.
Prior to Akin, Mr. Daly spent nearly a decade as a partner in the investment management group of Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP, advising investment advisers and fund managers on legal, compliance, and operational issues and matters. He also was a founding equity partner of Kepos Capital, a quantitative investment management company, while he served as chief legal and compliance officer. Among other prior positions, Mr. Daly served in general counsel and chief compliance officer positions at Millennium Partners, a Carlyle Group liquid markets fund manager, and Raptor Capital Management. He also taught legal ethics at Yale Law School and served on the board of directors of the Managed Funds Association.
Mr. Daly earned his law degree, with distinction, from Stanford Law School, where he was an associate editor on the Stanford Law Review and the editor-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law. He received his bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Catholic University and his master’s degree from the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii.
3:50pm - 4:35pm
Working Smarter: Products and Technology Transforming Operations
- Vendor management and fatigue; best practices and due diligence in a rapidly changing environment
- AI model race; identifying and experimenting with various products
- AI evolution in ecosystem of foundational models
- Risk management; single point risk, data analysis and protection
4:35pm - 5:00pm
A Fireside Discussion with Bloomberg's Amanda Stent
Speaker
Amanda Stent
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Head of AI Strategy & Research, Office of the CTO
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Bloomberg
Amanda Stent is the head of AI Strategy & Research in the Office of the CTO at Bloomberg. They have worked in several roles in industry and academia. Most recently, they served as inaugural director of the Davis Institute for AI at Colby College from 2021-2024. From 2016-2021, they served as NLP Architect in Bloomberg’s Office of the CTO, a role in which they helped the company achieve and maintain technical excellence and broad applicability of NLP solutions, as well as architected and coordinated the development of new Bloomberg Terminal-based and Enterprise product offerings that use NLP.
They previously held positions as Director, Research and Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo, as Principal Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Labs — Research, and as associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. Amanda holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester, has authored or co-authored over 100 papers on natural language processing, and is co-inventor on over 35 patents.
