Agenda

Agenda

2024 NAFIS Agenda

08:1508:45

Registration

08:15 - 08:45

08:4508:50

Opening address and overview of the day

08:45 - 08:50

08:5010:35

Stream

Thematic: AI in financial services

Keynote: AI model vetting and lifecycle due diligence

08:50 - 09:35

  • Exploring the importance of AI model vetting before deployment, including the assessment of the tool’s accuracy, fairness and ethical considerations
  • Understanding the lifecycle due diligence in each stage – development, deployment and retirement
  • Important elements of ongoing monitoring, maintenance and updates to keep AI models relevant and effective  
  • Explore AI use cases related to business alignment, feasibility, risk analysis, impact assessment and ROI  
Kristof Horompoly

Former executive director, head of responsible AI

JP Morgan Chase Co.

Kristof was the Head of Responsible AI at J.P.Morgan Chase during the integration of Large Language Models at the firm. Prior to that, he was leading Responsible AI at PayPal. He has also held various other quant and risk roles at major financial institutions and holds a bachelors in mathematics and a masters in applied math from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Panel: Regulations, compliance and AI

09:35 - 10:05

  • Emphasize the importance of clear business rationale for AI initiatives to navigate regulatory requirements, especially within trading activities
  • Privacy implications of data used to build large language models, possibly connecting it with the AI discussion  
  • Need for responsible experimentation with AI without creating shadow IT projects
  • Challenges of restricting the use of AI or chatbot tech and the importance of compliance
  • Consideration of compliance perspectives and the rollout roadmap for AI 
Tarun Sood

Chief data officer

American Century investments

Vaibhav Bang

Vice president - Advisory compliance

Societe Generale

Vaibhav Bang is a Vice President at Societe Generale in New York, where he serves as the compliance advisor for the Technology and Operations departments. In his role, Vaibhav works closely with Technology and Operations personnel on the implementation of regulatory initiatives. Vaibhav assists in the development, enhancement, and implementation of new and existing technology systems to ensure compliance with applicable regulations. Prior to joining SG, Vaibhav worked with Deloitte and EY in the Advisory services with a focus on clients in financial services industry helping them assess the technology and operations impacts of new regulatory initiatives. Vaibhav has worked with multiple CFOs, CIOs, and CISOs to help with strategy and planning for their respective organizations. Vaibhav has an M.B.A specializing in Finance and MIS from SUNY Binghamton and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from M.I.T.

Mark Feeley

Global brand director

Chartis Research

Mark has over 30 years’ experience in global capital markets, consulting and associated technologies, focusing on risk management, front- and middle-office platforms and data management. Before Chartis he held executive positions in large global financial institutions, consultancies and FinTechs, in various roles including platform and software development, solution architecture, large-scale program management, vendor selection and implementation, and strategy development and execution.

With a background covering the front, middle and back office, Mark brings to Chartis a holistic view of business, technology and regulatory issues across the enterprise, and how these issues can be addressed by leveraging appropriate technology solutions. His primary focus has been risk technology, and his work in this area includes: leading the global teams for risk technology at RBS Capital Markets and AIG; working with middle- and front-office technology teams at Barclays Capital; extensive consulting experience with major consulting organizations including EY and Deloitte; and extensive vendor experience, including time at Algorithmics and Misys (now Finastra). Mark has an MA from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Keynote: AI and machine learning in financial crimes compliance

10:05 - 10:35

  • Challenges in identifying potential threats within the financial sector, such as terrorists or sanctioned individuals/entities
  • How to use Graph Data and Gen AI to detect outliers that lead to malicious actions against the company
  • Level the playing field against those exploiting the system without budgetary constraints or ethical considerations
  • Minimize fines incurred by organizations due to incorrect practices, data breaches, etc.  
  • Cybersecurity, covering recent breaches, lessons learned, regulations, and best practices
Jay Krish

Head of data governance for financial crimes compliance

State Street

Jay is currently serving as the Head of Data Governance for Financial Crimes Compliance at State Street Bank and Trust, where his role involves overseeing data management priorities and ensuring compliance with financial crimes regulations. Jay has demonstrated his leadership skills throughout his career by successfully leading various initiatives, including cloud transformation programs, building scalable data lakes, and enabling on-demand analytics.

With extensive experience in Credit, Market, and Operational Risk Management domains, Jay has a proven track record of leveraging data analytics to derive valuable insights and make informed decisions that mitigate risks and improve operational efficiency. Jay also has extensive experience working with Front-office and Currency Management systems supporting sales and trading teams. He has hands-one experience in graph data modeling, data fabric and data mesh architecture, and their application in mapping data domains within the financial services industry.

Jay has also utilized machine learning techniques, predictive analytics, and simulation to tackle credit risk and anti-money laundering challenges, resulting in optimized processes. He has been an early advocate for adopting Generative AI in enterprise applications while incorporating ethical considerations.

His knowledge and experience extend to the fintech industry, covering emerging technologies, digital banking, cryptocurrencies, and disruptive technologies. As an entrepreneur, Jay founded a startup and successfully launched a payment processing app, integrating it seamlessly with core banking platforms. Jay is also a frequent speaker on financial crimes compliance, risk management, predictive data analytics, product development and blockchain/crypto compliance topics at various industry conferences.

Jay brings a strong executive presence, an entrepreneurial mindset, and a keen ability to generate innovative ideas and solutions backed by empirical data. His expertise lies in data governance, financial crimes compliance, risk management, cloud transformation, and the successful adoption of cutting-edge technologies to drive business growth and operational efficiency.

10:3511:05

Networking break

15:00 - 15:30

11:0511:35

Stream

Thematic: AI in financial services (continued)

Panel: The future of AI in capital markets

11:05 - 11:35

  • Discuss the potential dual use of data for regulatory compliance and commercial solutions
  • Explore the use of AI in contract management, emphasizing its applications in legal reviews and compliance
  • Explore the evolutionary nature of AI developments and the need for a proactive approach to governance
Iro Tasitsiomi

Head of investments data science

T. Rowe Price

Dr. Tasitsiomi is a business savvy executive with 15+ years’ experience delivering alpha as well as strategic direction to organizations. Through her work at BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Prudential Financial, she has a proven track record in guiding sizable, cross-functional teams in the profitable use of data science - ranging from classical statistics, math and science methods to the most cutting-edge machine learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms - leveraging both traditional & alternative, small & big data.

In her more recent role, Dr. Tasitsiomi has been heading the data science effort at T. Rowe Price where she has been instrumental in the production and seamless integration of innovative investment signals with the firm’s fundamental investing approaches. Furthermore, she oversees the technology innovation initiative, responsible for formulating the strategy for the secure adoption of generative AI.

Iro earned a PhD in astrophysics and a master’s in physics from the University of Chicago and is a well-published research author (Google Scholar [scholar.google.com]). After that & before entering finance, she was a Lyman Spitzer Jr. fellow and a Cotsen lecturer at Princeton University & the Princeton Society of Fellows.

Elena Treshcheva

Program manager

Exactpro Systems

Elena Treshcheva is a Program manager at Exactpro, an independent software testing services provider for financial market infrastructures. Elena contributes to research and technical documentation on the latest Exactpro test methods, aligning the firm’s AI testing approach with the unique regulatory environment and diverse technological landscape of the US market. She believes that the AI testing approach will catalyze transformative shifts in the financial system's quality and resiliency and is eager to share this message with industry professionals. 

In addition, Elena is frequently involved with the firm’s educational initiatives, including autonomous driving and software testing and ISTQB CTFL training courses, as well as internal training on technical documentation and requirements analysis. 

Elena joined Exactpro in 2017 as a QA analyst focused on post-trade systems and market data processing. Later, she transitioned to research and business development before leading the technical documentation practice from 2021 onwards. Before Exactpro, Elena worked in academia, starting her career in 2008 as an assistant professor in general and applied linguistics. After obtaining her PhD in 2012, she secured a tenure of an associate professor in general and computational linguistics. During her time in academia, she also served as the head of a university research laboratory and was responsible for digital corpora projects.

Nyela Graham

Reporter

WatersTechnology

Nyela is a reporter for WatersTechnology, based in our New York newsroom.

11:3512:20

Stream

Thematic: Economic impacts on capital markets

Panel: Macroeconomics and the future of capital markets

11:35 - 12:20

  • Explore the impact policy expectations will have on market volatility
  • Investment strategies during times of uncertainty  
  • Anticipating and preparing for potential regulatory changes  
Arunima Sinha

Vice president, economist

Morgan Stanley

Arunima Sinha is a vice president on the Global Economics team at Morgan Stanley, focusing on applied macroeconomics. Before joining Morgan Stanley, she was an associate professor at Fordham University, a visiting researcher at the markets group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and a visiting scholar at the economics research departments of the Federal Reserve Banks of New York, St. Louis, and San Francisco. Arunima’s research examines monetary policy transmission using quantitative methods. Her academic research has been published in peer-reviewed international economics journals, and she has presented her work at various central banks and international economics conferences. She has a Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University.

Samim Ghamami

Economist

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Samim Ghamami is currently an economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, where he works with the senior management on the reform of the US Treasury market and several other SEC capital market initiatives. Ghamami is also a senior researcher and an adjunct professor of finance at New York University, a senior researcher at UC Berkeley Center for Risk Management Research and the Department of Economics, and a senior advisor at SOFR Academy. 

Ghamami has been a senior economist at Goldman Sachs and Millennium Management. He has been an adjunct associate professor of economics at Columbia University. Ghamami has also been an associate director and a senior economist at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of Financial Research, and an economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Ghamami’s work has broadly focused on the interplay of finance and macroeconomics, and on financial economics and quantitative finance. His work on asset management, banking, economic policy, financial stability, financial regulation, risk management, and central clearing has been presented and discussed at central banks and international financial institutions. He has been an advisor to the Bank for International Settlements and worked as an expert with the Financial Stability Board on post-financial crisis reforms in 2016 and 2017. Ghamami also served on the National Science Foundation panel on Financial Mathematics in 2017 and 2018. Ghamami received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance and Operations Research from USC in 2009. His publications have appeared in different journals including Management Science, Journal of Applied Probability, Mathematics of Operations Research, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Credit Risk, Journal of Derivatives, Quantitative Finance, and Journal of Risk

John Bottega

Executive director

EDM Council

John Bottega is a senior data management strategist and executive with over 40 years of experience in the finance industry. Over his career, John has held various roles in supporting an organization’s data strategy and data implementation objectives. In 2006, John became one of the first Chief Data Officers in finance with his appointment as CDO at Citibank. He went on to hold the role of CDO in both the public and private sectors, serving as CDO for Bank of America, and holding the post of CDO for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

As the former Chief Data Officer at Bank of America, John was responsible for driving the enterprise data management strategy. This included championing the data management policy and standards, establishing and operationalizing data governance, working with technology to define the data platform, infrastructure and tool simplification, and supporting the bank's data scientist team in their efforts to drive improved information analytics.

As the Chief Data Officer for the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY), John worked with domestic and foreign regulators on financial sector data management and data quality. While at FRBNY, John led the effort to define and establish the LEI (Legal Entity Identifier), a global information standard for unique entity identification, key to enabling and strengthening systemic risk analysis in support of global financial stability. John also served as a Senior Advisor to the Director of the Office of Financial Research (OFR), an agency established by the Dodd-Frank Act within the US Department of the Treasury, responsible for the analysis and monitoring of industry-wide systemic risk.

Today, John is the President of the EDM Council, a non-profit professional trade association, focused on elevating the practice of data management through best practices, data standards, research and education. The EDM Council supports over 250 organizations comprised of over 10,000 members, helping them successfully advance their data programs within their firms, while creating a global network for data management community collaboration.

John has been a frequent speaker for over 20 years at industry conferences and industry symposiums. He is a former member of the US Department of the Treasury, Financial Research Advisory Committee to the Office of Financial Research; a current member of the Data Coalition Financial Transparency Act Task Force; Data Coalition Open Data Standards Task Force; CPA-Canada Data Governance Committee; WatersTechnology Advisory Board member; member of the Advisory Board of NewVantage Partners, and member of the Board of Directors of ACTUS, a non-profit association focused on the improvement of systemic risk monitoring and financial market transparency.

Sakshi Sharma

Commercial editor, Americas

Risk.net

Sakshi Sharma has over 12 years of multi-platform professional journalism experience as a financial news editor and reporter at global news organizations in New York, London and Mumbai at Euromoney, CNBC and Bloomberg. Over the past ten years she specialized in infrastructure and energy finance news across the Americas with a deep understanding of financial markets, project finance, asset management, institutional investors, capital markets and various debt & equity instruments. In her current role, as Americas commercial content lead and an editor with Infopro Digital’s Ignite team, she provides financial industry clients with compelling thought leadership content across its brands - Risk.net and WatersTechnology.

12:2013:00

Networking lunch

12:00 - 12:45

13:0014:30

Stream

Thematic: Data governance 

Keynote: Data governance and lifecycle management

13:00 - 13:45

  • Establishing proper data governance practices involves defining data ownership, access controls, security measures, and compliance with regulations
  • Data lifecycle management from creation to archive or deletion
  • Strategies for data retention, storage, and disposal
  • Best practices for balancing historical data with storage costs
Arvind Joshi

Head of data governance and analytics

Rockefeller Capital Management

Arvind has over 30 years in Fortune 500 companies leveraging diversified and comprehensive understanding of technology, business and operations processes. 

Top benefits/impact to your business

  • A ‘Data as an Asset’ Champion - Defining data principles, policies, frameworks and processes to establish a data foundation based on lessons learned from implementing data management capabilities across multiple organizations.
  • A Data Evangelist, Strategist and Subject Matter Expert - applying extensive experience building a data management program including curation, governance, analytics, quality and sourcing of data to meet regulatory expectations.
  • A Leader in Data Management, Collection and Strategy – establish protocols across multiple business units/LoBs resulting in development and execution of enterprise-wide strategy to leverage all available data assets to drive actionable, analytical insights to enable and support business in value creation of beneficial solutions across the enterprise.
  • A True Partner with Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Legal Officer - as their 'data counterpart' to understand regulatory and compliance expectations w.r.t data privacy (GDPR and CCPA) to define data control framework, data policies for Cloud storage and ensure compliance with internal policies and Federal/State level expectations.

Impacting US regulatory reporting

  • Verified and corrected (where required) 5400+ customer records originating in 7 source systems; including 3378+ external and 2022+ internal customers and counterparties
  • Identified and corrected 4800+ reference data records, across 480+ customers for accounting code, customer type, residence country and risk country
  • Updated direct risk of 290 customers resulting in a move of $29+ billion
  • Updated indirect risk of 670 customers resulting in a move of $33+ billion
  • Updated customer type of 65+ customers resulting in a move of $7+ billion

Impacting Basel/BSBS 239 and CCAR reporting

  • Improved categorization of entities through consistent industry classification schema – resulting in reduction of ~100 hours/quarter manual effort, closing 6 issues from the FFIEC 101 Exam with a ~$3.3Bn Exposure at Default (EAD) impact across schedules and 9 issues sighted on the Y9C Exam ~$2.2Bn impact across the Country Exposure Report (009)
  • Improved Risk Weighted Assets (RWA) reporting by ~$330mm

Panel: Establishing a data-driven culture with workforce support

13:45 - 14:30

  • How to ensure that employees understand the importance of data quality and management
  • Address challenges related to data governance and data licensing. ensuring employees know what they’re allowed and not allowed to do with data
  • How emerging tech and automation can be an opportunity to upskill employees and increase company success
Florencia Ardissone

Group product head - customer insights and ChaseNet data and analytics

J.P. Morgan Chase

Florencia is the Group product head for customer insights and ChaseNet data and analytics within JPMorgan’s Payments business. The Payments & Commerce business at J.P. Morgan combines Global Payments and Merchant Acquiring to provide integrated solutions to clients around the globe. She focuses on unlocking value for clients across the firm by productizing insights from Payments data. She has end-to-end Product Management responsibilities and is accountable for Customer Insights across SMB (digital product live to +500K businesses), MMBSI/EMM (digital product live to 2K clients), CB, and CIB (digital product in JPM ACCESS and custom insights). For ChaseNet (the 4th largest processing network in the US), Florencia’s analytics team maximizes profitability with a data science approach to pricing.

Florencia is an innovator helping differentiate the firm by leveraging big data assets and developing intelligence products meant to help businesses improve their marketing and operational efficiency by understanding their underlying Customers. She ideated, pilot and launched Customer Insights to all processing Small Business Clients. Florencia was featured in a Forbes Article as an expert explain how businesses can use Payment Tech to Outmatch Business Rivals.

Before joining J.P. Morgan Chase, Florencia was a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Company focusing on financial services in the New York and Buenos Aires offices for 5+ years. She also worked in Strategy and Operations at Google and has startup tech experience (SmartLine).

Florencia has an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, with an exchange at the London School of Economics and Political Science focusing on Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management. She holds a bachelor’s degree in economics.

Hazel Sy

Head of cross-program transformation (data, technology, & human resources)

Citi

Hazel inspires people to make a positive impact and initiate change rather than wait for someone else to solve the problem. She quickly mobilizes high-performing teams to execute strategy by crafting a shared vision and connecting people across the organization. 

Hazel's entrepreneurial spirit enables her to translate business problems into innovative solutions. As a result, she tackles complex, thorny problems head-on, integrating people, processes, data, and technology to orchestrate seamless solutions. 

Beyond her professional pursuits, Hazel helps women elevate their careers, embrace joy, and unlock their full potential through engaging storytelling on stages such as TEDx and direct mentorship.

Arijit Bhattacharya

Head of data governance

Northern Trust Asset Management

Experienced data and IT financial services executive with over 25 years of experience managing data products and platforms, leading large-scale transformational projects. Successfully led enterprise-level global engagements with specific focus on data strategy and master data management in investment banking, asset and wealth management businesses. Responsible for the identification and implementation of strategic recommendations. Created unique solution for ESG data working with the ESG vendors and clients.

Lori Pierson

Group Vice President Oracle HCM Transformation

Oracle

Lori Pierson, Group Vice President – HCM Transformation Practice for Oracle, has thirty years of internal and commercial experience in Human Resources. Lori leads a team of former HR executives who are passionate about HR transformation. The Transformation team helps clients plan, prepare and move to the cloud, taking into consideration unique business objectives, employee experience goals and the influence of artificial intelligence. Lori and her team partner with customers to help maximize their investments and strategically respond to changing business dynamics impacting HR.  

Lori is an accomplished and experienced human resources leader in technology implementation and as an executive level HR business partner.  Lori brings a breadth and depth of experience to support our clients. With twenty years’ experience in HR and IT, Lori has experience leading a global implementation of Oracle HCM Cloud where she lead process and system design, organization change management, HR and business alignment as well as user acceptance testing.

Stream

Thematic: Cloud economics and strategies

Keynote: Solutions for cloud adoption and cost management

13:00 - 13:30

  • Explore the current state and cost of on-prem solutions vs the cost and impact of moving to the cloud
  • Strategies to stay current with new products / cloud offerings and leveraging them effectively within your organization
  • How to leverage internal reusable components to drive time to market while optimizing our resource utilization
     
Kim Jaffee-Prado

CIO, US capital markets

BMO

Panel and interactive roundtable: Developing a cost-effective cloud strategy

13:30 - 14:30

This is a dynamic session where our panel of experts will initiate discussions before segueing into roundtables, where attendees will work through scenarios related to developing a cloud strategy. This format encourages interactive exchanges, enabling participants to collectively devise actionable strategies. These strategies will be presented and discussed at the conclusion of the session, fostering a collaborative atmosphere geared toward advancing the implementation of cloud strategies. 

Steve O'Bott

Global head of investment and financial data architecture, Chief data architect

Vanguard

Steve is known a passionate chief data architect who is recognized as a business leader with a wide-range of experience in large enterprises architecting, designing and managing data in effective ways that produce meaningful business outcomes to grow new revenue, increase operational efficiency, and lower business risk.

Business leaders seek Steve out for his real world experience, industry perspective and insights to develop innovative data designs and they rely on him to deliver global data solutions in the cloud as well as in integrated hybrid environments.

Steve is known for his executive presence, ability to make decisions, and track record for getting things to the finish line. He put his thoughts into compelling stories to effectively communicate to senior business and technical leaders across an organization.

As a leader Steve sees the unique qualities of each person and is adept at figuring out how people who are different can be intentionally inclusive and work collaboratively to get things done.

Specialties:
* Data Platform and Architecture - Enterprise Architecture, Business Architecture, Data Architecture, Database Architecture, High Availability, Resiliency, Multi-Region, Scalability, Capacity Planning, Multi-Tenancy
* Architecture & Process Frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman, CMM / CMMI DMM, DAMA / DMBOK, Six Sigma, COBIT, ITIL, ITSM
* Data Management Strategies: Data Governance, Data Stewardship, Data Quality, Data Modeling and Design, Database Engineering, Master Data Management, Metadata Management
* Date Store Technologies: AWS (Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, Redshift, Neptune, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Keyspaces); PostgreSQL, MySQL, GCP (Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, Cloud Bigtable), Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Aerospike, Couchbase, MongoDB, Cassandra
* Data Analytics Technologies: AWS (S3, Glue ETL, Glue Catalog, Athena, EMR, Redshift, Kinesis, Quicksight, FinSpace, Data Exchange); GCP (Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, Spanner, Data Catalog), Tableau, Hadoop, HBase, IBM Netezza

Julia Bardmesser

Adjunct Professor

NYU Stern School of Business

Julia is an Adjunct Professor at the NYU Stern School of Business, CEO of Data4Real, LLC, a Board Advisor to several startups and Chair of Technology Advisory Council of Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA). 

She is a recognized thought leader in data driven digital transformation with over 25 years of experience in building technology and business capabilities that enable business growth, innovation, and agility. Julia has led transformational initiatives in many financial services companies such as Voya Financial, Deutsche Bank Citi, FINRA, Freddie Mac, and others. 

Julia is a much sought-after speaker and mentor in the industry, and she has received recognition across the industry for her significant contributions. She has been named to engatica 2023 list of World’s Top 200 Business and Technology Innovators; received 2022 WLDA Changemaker in AI award; has been named to CDO Magazine’s List of Global Data Power Women three years in the row; named Top 150 Business Transformation Leader by Constellation Research in 2019; and recognized as the Best Data Management Practitioner by A-Team Data Management Insight in 2017.

She holds a Master of Arts in Economics from New York University.   

Prasanna Ramaswamy

Head Of Technology & Data

CPP Investments | Investissements RPC

Prasanna Ramaswamy is a senior technology executive with progressive experience in global companies leading large-scale transformations with expertise in Digital Transformation, Innovation, Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, Infrastructure & Cloud Migration, Big Data/Advanced Analytics, Business Intelligence & Application Development. Passionate about talent development, building and leading high performance engineering teams to operate with commercial intensity and move at market speed to deliver impactful results by applying technology to transform strategy to real business outcomes. Proven ability to define and drive enterprise strategies/roadmaps, promote innovative solutions and to optimize the use of data and technology to enable business growth.

Core Competencies: IT Strategy & Execution ♦ Digital Transformation ♦ Enterprise Data Management & Architecture ♦ Solution Architecture ♦ Business Intelligence ♦ Big Data ♦ Cloud Migration ♦ Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics ♦ Emerging Technologies & Innovation ♦ Application Development ♦ Java/J2EE ♦ Leadership, Mentoring & Talent Development

Anthony Malakian

Editor-in-chief

WatersTechnology

Anthony joined Waters in October 2009. He is the Editor-in-Chief of WatersTechnology Group, running all editorial operations for the publication. Prior to joining Waters, he was a senior associate editor covering the banking industry at American Banker. Before that, he was a sports reporter at daily newspaper The Journal News.

If you have any questions about our editorial processes, you can contact Anthony at: anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com.

14:3015:00

Stream

Thematic: Data use and management 

Keynote: Optimizing data – quality, integration and scalability

14:30 - 15:00

  • Strategies to encourage a data-driven culture through accurate, complete, consistent, and timely data
  • How to create data consistency across multiple vendors and platforms
  • Planning for now and in the future – ensuring infrastructure and solutions can run efficiently as data volumes grow
  • Flexibility to move from legacy systems to new platforms or cloud environments while maintaining data integrity and security with minimal down times
  • Distinguishing between public and private cloud migrations
Julie Gerdeman

Global Head of Data & Analytics

BNY Mellon

Julie is Global Head of Data & Analytics and a member of the BNY Mellon Senior Advisory Council.  Prior to BNYM, Julie was CEO of the artificial intelligence company Everstream Analytics.  Everstream is a pioneer in large complex data management and predictive supply chain analytics, serving enterprise organizations across multiple sectors – with many direct analogies to our business. 

Previously, she has held executive leadership positions at SAP Ariba, J.P. Morgan, and American Express and was CEO of the healthcare tech company, HealthPay24. At both Everstream and HealthPay, Julie multiplied revenues and substantially increased share of wallet through partnerships and sales programs, drove market-leading innovation, and elevated the stature of the companies through strategic alliances with the World Economic Forum, UNICEF, and other globally recognized organizations.

Mahesh Narayan

Institutional Asset Management Segment Head

Arcesium

Institutional Asset Management Segment Head

Mahesh oversees Arcesium’s capabilities for institutional asset managers, including the Arcesium’s Aquata data platform, Arcesium’s full middle- to back-office operational SaaS platform, and associated financial operations.

Previously, he was the commercial director of BlackRock’s Aladdin Data Cloud, the data warehouse platform, supporting large global asset managers

and asset owners in their data strategy, data analytics, and data re-platforming needs.

Before BlackRock, Mahesh was Global Head of Portfolio Management and Research at Refinitiv, responsible for Refinitiv’s buy-side data,

workflow, and analytics solutions to a diverse set of financial institutions across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.

Earlier in his career, Mahesh worked for various hedge funds, including S.A.C. Capital and Calypso Capital Management, and prior to that as a sell side analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein and as a consultant with McKinsey & Company.

Education & Credentials

  • MBA, NYU Stern School of Business
  • BS/BTech in Engineering, IIIT Mumbai

Stream

Thematic: Trading technologies

Panel discussion: Front office – modernizing and re-platforming trading systems

14:30 - 15:00

  • Leveraging data analytics and artificial intelligence in investment decision making
  • Advancements in algorithmic trading strategies, automation, and machine learning to optimize trading decisions
  • Exploring new, scalable technologies to improve the overall trading process
  • How trading systems can be re-platformed to ensure compliance with evolving regulatory standards and requirements 
Yury Blyakhman

Managing director, Head of rates & CEM quant research AAO, Chief data officer for macro

J.P. Morgan Chase

Yury Blyakhman is a Managing director at J.P. Morgan Chase in New York. He holds the position of Chief data officer for Rates, Fixed Income Financing, Commodities, Currencies, and Emerging Markets (CEM) businesses at JPMorgan. Yury also heads the Rates and Currencies and Emerging Markets Quantitative Research (QR) AAO team, which is responsible for providing analytics, automation, and optimization quantitative support to trading, sales, and automated trading strategies groups globally.

Rachel Zhang

Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income Front Office Technology

Jefferies

Randy Goldsmith

Managing Director, Head of Global Institutional Rates Technology

Tradeweb

Randy Goldsmith is a Managing Director and Head of Global Institutional Rates Technology at Tradeweb. In his current role, he oversees Rates Technology initiatives and projects across Interest Rate Swaps, Government Bonds, Repurchase Agreements and Mortgage-Backed Securities.

Prior to joining Tradeweb in 2015, he spent more than 10 years at J.P. Morgan’s investment bank. He held various roles within Technology, before assuming responsibility for Rates E-Commerce Product Management. He also worked within the New Product Development group driving projects across investment bank business lines.

Randy holds a B.S. from Florida State University.
 

Anthony Malakian

Editor-in-chief

WatersTechnology

Anthony joined Waters in October 2009. He is the Editor-in-Chief of WatersTechnology Group, running all editorial operations for the publication. Prior to joining Waters, he was a senior associate editor covering the banking industry at American Banker. Before that, he was a sports reporter at daily newspaper The Journal News.

If you have any questions about our editorial processes, you can contact Anthony at: anthony.malakian@infopro-digital.com.

15:0015:30

Networking break

15:00 - 15:30

15:3016:40

Stream

Thematic: Data use and management (continued)

Panel discussion and interactive roundtable: The cost of data management

15:30 - 16:20

  • Discuss the financial aspects of technology adoption, including cost visibility and risks
  • Vendor and tool management: multi-vendor and platform use
  • Coordinating all vendors and tools to ensure cost effectiveness and efficiency aligning with the organization’s needs
  • Cost of storing, processing, and managing data. How to optimize costs while maintaining data quality and accessibility
  • Strategies for effective data management, including data rights, quality, and catalogs
Adam Houhoulis

VP and director, data management office

Federal Home Loan Bank of New York

Adam’s career in Data Management within the Financial Services industry since 1998 spans the full spectrum of data capabilities with global, national, and regional scopes.  Currently, he leads the enterprise-wide data capability transformation at Federal Home Loan Bank of New York as Director of the Data Management Office, including data architecture, analytics, data governance, database administration, and DataOps.

Evan Fire

Chief operating officer

Pzena Investment Management

Evan Fire joined Pzena Investment Management in 2003 and has held several roles during his tenure, including Chief Information & Operations Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, responsible for the oversight of the Portfolio Accounting, Portfolio Implementation, Trading & Settlement, and Information Technology groups at the firm. An impassioned leader, with a reverence for the pursuit of excellence and an unwavering commitment to teamwork; he carefully balances the ever-changing global relationship between corporate operations, IT and cyber security. Throughout his career, Mr. Fire has helped Pzena Investment Management by implementing innovative, technology-first, solutions designed to create operational efficiency and has been instrumental in developing strategy to meet growing regulatory demands. Prior to joining Pzena Investment Management in 2003, he served as a Relationship Management Assistant at Brown Brothers Harriman and prior to that he worked as a Client Service Representative at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. He earned a B.S. in Management and Finance from the School of Management Honors Program at Binghamton University.

Thomas Boran

Vice President Market Data Services Category & Practice Lead

Concertiv

Tom has been in the market data services and data management sector for over 25 years and is known as a forward-thinking data strategist - traditional and non-traditional - with deep experience in the financial services industry, across the buy side and sell side.

He is an industry leader with a deep understanding of content needs by asset class and security types, business strategies, and their use cases at the desktop and programmatic API level for alpha generation, utilizing consolidated and low latent connectivity, research and sentiment.

He has helped dozens of companies with their real-time and reference data needs to source and deliver scalable, cost-effective managed solutions (deployed and cloud), e.g., banks, hedge funds, asset and investment managers, insurance companies, custodians, etc.

He has assessed, built, and managed best-in-class teams encompassing vendor management, sourcing, data distribution technologies and expense management. 

Peter Ku

Vice president and chief industry strategist for banking, capital markets and financial services

Informatica

Peter Ku is a senior enterprise software and financial services industry strategist with over 27 years of experience working with leading enterprise software providers for the global banking, capital markets, and insurance industry. As Chief industry strategist for banking, capital markets and financial services at Informatica, he is responsible for defining and leading Informatica’s sales, marketing and industry solution strategy globally. Mr. Ku is a 14+ year Informatica veteran with previous roles leading the company’s Vertical Industry and Business Consulting Services, Global Industry Solutions Marketing, and Platform Solutions Marketing for data warehousing, data migration, and data governance.  

Michael Korby

Former Head of data strategy, FICC

Balyasny Asset Management L.P.

Michael Korby is the Head of data strategy, FICC at Balyasny Asset Management, joining the firm in 2017. As Head of data strategy, FICC, Michael is responsible for ensuring that all of the data needs of the macro, commodities and credit businesses are met and exceeded. Michael drives the strategic vision for data solutions for these businesses, overseeing the teams that deliver sophisticated data products to investment professionals. Before Balyasny, Michael was the Head of application development and a Senior vice president at Highbridge Capital Management, joining the firm as a Senior software developer in 2005. Michael has 26 years of experience in data and technology. He earned both his master of engineering and bachelor of science in computer science from Cornell University.

Max Bowie

Editor-at-large

WatersTechnology

Max is editor-at-large at WatersTechnology.  Max is editor of Inside Market Data and Inside Data Management. Max joined then-Risk Waters Group (prior to its acquisition by Incisive Media) in 2000, and has worked as a reporter on Risk MagazineFX WeekTrading Technology Week (now Sell-Side Technology) and Buy-Side IT (now Buy-Side Technology), before joining IMD as European reporter in 2003. He moved to New York as US reporter in 2005, and became editor in 2006.

Max lives in Astoria, New York with his wife and twin girls, and enjoys playing rock music, wine tastings, and market data.

Fireside chat: Augmented data management roles of the future

16:20 - 16:40

  • Restructuring roles and organizational structures based on evolving technology and changing business needs  
  • Advanced roles of data analytics and machine learning  
  • Ongoing upskilling of employees to grow with the business  
  • What learnings/case studies we can take from the past and apply to the future 
Jennifer Klimko Courant

Chief Data Officer

DWS Asset Management

Jennifer is the Chief Data Officer at DWS Asset Management. Prior to this role, she served as Head of sustainability, culture and talent for Deutsche Bank. She joined the bank in 2019 from Deloitte, where she spent two years as a Managing director in the risk advisory practice, specializing in data solutions for large, multinational financial institutions. Before that, Jennifer was a Managing Director at Citigroup, where she spent 18 years in the risk management organization in a number of leadership roles. In her last role at Citigroup, Jennifer was Head of risk systems and technology, where she was responsible for the decision-making, strategy, architectural design, execution and management of Global Risk Management’s core systems and infrastructure. This included the oversight and execution of multiple large-scale regulatory programs with the goal of remediation, mitigation and prevention of issues from Citi’s global regulators. Jennifer was also responsible for various enterprise-wide initiatives, including the firm-wide reconciled Risk and Finance Data Warehouse, the firm-wide Data Roadmap and the build out of Data Governance and a Data Office for Risk Management.  Jen holds a BS in economics and mathematics from Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, PA and has completed graduate studies in economics at Boston College.

Marc Alvarez

Managing Director

Protego Trust

David Woodhead

Managing Director, Global Head of Data Product Engineering for Aladdin Data

BlackRock

Dave Woodhead, Managing Director, is the global head of Data Product Engineering for Aladdin Data, leading the effort to open Aladdin and deliver value and insight from investment data through the Aladdin Studio platform. Aladdin Studio provides scaled, programmatic access to Aladdin’s extensive data and analytics models, a comprehensive catalog and consumption experience for investment data, and establishes a governed ecosystem for development, automation, and integration of AI, tailored for enterprise-aligned developers.


Prior to his current role, Dave was responsible for the Security and Market Data group within Aladdin Data and also worked with Core Trade Processing to develop specialized Aladdin tools to support the processing of mortgage-backed securities. Since joining the firm in 2006, Dave also worked on the Aladdin Relationship Management team working directly with several large Aladdin clients.

 

Prior to joining BlackRock in 2006, Mr. Woodhead worked as a system architect at a technology startup developing custom applications supporting various financial institutions.

Max Bowie

Editor-at-large

WatersTechnology

Max is editor-at-large at WatersTechnology.  Max is editor of Inside Market Data and Inside Data Management. Max joined then-Risk Waters Group (prior to its acquisition by Incisive Media) in 2000, and has worked as a reporter on Risk MagazineFX WeekTrading Technology Week (now Sell-Side Technology) and Buy-Side IT (now Buy-Side Technology), before joining IMD as European reporter in 2003. He moved to New York as US reporter in 2005, and became editor in 2006.

Max lives in Astoria, New York with his wife and twin girls, and enjoys playing rock music, wine tastings, and market data.

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Thematic: Trading technologies (continued)

Panel discussion: Middle office – risk systems and connecting front/back offices

15:30 - 16:05

  • Evaluate the effectiveness of risk assessment models used to identify and quantify potential risks, facilitate decision-making, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements
  • Effective communication between front and back offices to ensure a seamless and risk-aware trading environment
  • Exploring operational efficiency through streamlining processes, reducing manual interventions and ensuring timely and accurate risk assessments 
Debbie Williams

Middle Office Product Management, Asset Servicing

BNY Mellon

Debbie leads the product management team for BNY Mellon’s Middle Office  Solutions group. She has responsibility for product definition and delivery, as well as client implementations. Prior to this role Debbie was global head for the Data Governance practice area as part of BNY Mellon’s OMNI Digital Services strategic advisory, responsible for assisting clients with the design and implementation of data oversight frameworks and processes. Debbie joined BNY Mellon in 2018 to lead the rollout of the enterprise data management framework globally and was the primary data liaison for regulatory agencies and internal audit. She has more than 25 years of experience in financial services and technology and has advised on market trends, product positioning and strategy as well as guiding financial institutions on technology adoption.

Prior to joining BNY Mellon, Williams directed the marketing and business development efforts for the Risk Analytics business at S&P Capital IQ. Prior to S&P Capital IQ, she held significant roles as Head of Marketing and Business Development at R2 Financial Technologies, Director of the Basel II Program for RBS Citizens Bank, and spent nearly two decades advising global financial institutions on technology adoption as co-founder and COO of Meridien Research and The Tower Group.

Debbie is based in Wellesley, MA. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Vassar College and a master’s degree in Business and Entrepreneurship from Babson F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business. She is a member of the steering committee and previous regional director for the Boston region and a founding member of PRMIA (Professional Risk Management International Association). In her spare time, Debbie mentors start ups in the FinTech space through MassChallenge FinTech, Babson College’s Blank Center for Innovation and as part of BNY Mellon’s Ascent Program.

Alexander Abramov

Former Head of Information and Cyber Risk | Executive Director, Operational Risk

Santander Corporate & Investment Banking

Senior Leader in Technology and Cyber Governance, Risk, and Compliance with strong track record of accomplishments across all three lines of defense - Controls, Risk, and Audit. Created and led highly effective IT and Cyber risk management programs that supported closure of legacy regulatory findings and enabled business growth, expansion, and acquisitions.

Trusted partner to executive, business and technology stakeholders with the unique ability to effectively conceptualize and articulate pragmatic solutions to complex operational risk, control and cyber issues.

Built high performance global cohesive teams, advancing cross-functional collaboration to develop and implement best practices, methods, and techniques.

Accomplished speaker and co-author of three books on Cyber Risk and Governance.

Board Chair / CEO for non-for profit and Advisory Board member for technology firms.

• CISA, CRISC, CGEIT, FINRA Series 99
• MSEE / MBA / Ph. D. Candidate Computer Science
• FFIEC, COSO, COBIT, NIST, and ISO 27001 frameworks and guidelines

Stuart Neilson

FMR, director, credit risk

Citi

Stuart Neilson is a data scientist with 20 years of experience, and expertise on a wide variety of predictive modeling techniques and data management processes, with a particular focus on credit risk.

Mark Feeley

Global brand director

Chartis Research

Mark has over 30 years’ experience in global capital markets, consulting and associated technologies, focusing on risk management, front- and middle-office platforms and data management. Before Chartis he held executive positions in large global financial institutions, consultancies and FinTechs, in various roles including platform and software development, solution architecture, large-scale program management, vendor selection and implementation, and strategy development and execution.

With a background covering the front, middle and back office, Mark brings to Chartis a holistic view of business, technology and regulatory issues across the enterprise, and how these issues can be addressed by leveraging appropriate technology solutions. His primary focus has been risk technology, and his work in this area includes: leading the global teams for risk technology at RBS Capital Markets and AIG; working with middle- and front-office technology teams at Barclays Capital; extensive consulting experience with major consulting organizations including EY and Deloitte; and extensive vendor experience, including time at Algorithmics and Misys (now Finastra). Mark has an MA from Oxford University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Panel discussion: Back office - importance of post-trade automation in the back office

16:05 - 16:40

  • Achieving efficiency gains and reduction in errors through the implementation of Straight-Through Processes (STP) minimizing exposure to market and credit risks
  • Explore how back-office systems integrate with external platforms, counterparties, and market infrastructures to facilitate seamless communication and data exchange
  • Automated systems allow the back office to scale operations efficiently, accommodating higher trade volumes without a proportionally increased manual effort 
Thomas Sullivan

Managing director

Societe Generale

Thomas Sullivan is a Managing Director at Societe Generale in New York, where he is the Head of Business Development for Digital Assets. Through the SG-Forge subsidiary, Societe Generale has been recognized as a market leader, providing innovative services to issue, transact, and manage digital-native financial products registered on blockchain. In collaboration with the SG-Forge team, Tom spearheads the tokenization and blockchain efforts for Societe Generale in the Americas.

Tom has over 20 years of experience in securities and banking, focusing on the intersection of operations and innovation. In his seven years at Societe Generale, he has managed various operations divisions, including securities settlements, collateral management, FX, and payments. Tom has spearheaded several blockchain related initiatives, and in 2022, he led Société Générale’s successful implementation of the Broadridge Distributed Ledger Repo platform. He is an active member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, participating in SIFMA’s Digital Assets Working Group.  

Before Societe Generale, Tom was the Head of Broker Dealer Operations at Commerzbank, where he managed securities settlements, securities lending support, and asset servicing. With the merger of Commerzbank and Dresdner Bank in 2009, Tom coordinated the integration of the operational platforms of the Firms. He graduated from New York University with BA in Economics and holds Series 7, 24, and 27 registrations with FINRA.

Russell Newman

Former Managing Director - Chief Operating Officer

Rothschild & Co. Asset Management

Russell J. Newman, CIPM, is a seasoned operations executive with over two decades of experience in the asset and wealth management industry. His career has been primarily on the buy side managing all areas of the business including portfolio accounting, operations, technology, performance measurement, data management, and operational risk. In Russell’s prior role as former Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Rothschild & Co Asset Management US Inc., he has designed, led and implemented a full operational platform transformation from an on-premise to an outsourcing solution to enhance efficiencies, scalability, redundancy while minimizing operational risk. In addition, Russell has been a chair and/or member of many firm committees such as Management, New Product, Trade Error, Vendor Management, Operational Risk Management, Proxy, GIPS, Best Execution and Business Continuity. Russell also worked at Times Square Capital Management overseeing global operations and performance, and, before that, at EMS Capital, L.P., Hawkstone Capital, Bear Stearns Asset Management, Elliot Management and Pricewaterhouse Coopers where he audited clients in the asset management industry.  

Russell has an MBA in Finance from Baruch College and dual Bachelors degrees from the University of Delaware in Accounting, Finance and Operations Management. In addition, he holds the Certificate in Performance Measurement (“CIPM”). Russell is a regular industry speaker, advisory board member and thought leader on operations, performance, client service, data and technology conferences and publications.  
 

Sakshi Sharma

Commercial editor, Americas

Risk.net

Sakshi Sharma has over 12 years of multi-platform professional journalism experience as a financial news editor and reporter at global news organizations in New York, London and Mumbai at Euromoney, CNBC and Bloomberg. Over the past ten years she specialized in infrastructure and energy finance news across the Americas with a deep understanding of financial markets, project finance, asset management, institutional investors, capital markets and various debt & equity instruments. In her current role, as Americas commercial content lead and an editor with Infopro Digital’s Ignite team, she provides financial industry clients with compelling thought leadership content across its brands - Risk.net and WatersTechnology.

16:4017:10

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Thematic: Compliance and risk management

Panel discussion: The data challenges of the BCBS 239 regulation and how to stay compliant

16:40 - 17:10

  • Deep dive on BCBS 239 and shared challenges in implementing it effectively
  • Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting
  • Strengthen banks' risk data aggregation capabilities and internal risk reporting practices, in turn, enhancing the risk management and decision-making processes at banks
Laura Strache

Director

Bank of America

Experienced operational risk executive with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services industry. Skilled in data risk management, data governance and strategy; negotiations of trading and financing contracts (including ISDAs); risk mitigation around operational, counter-party, regulatory and legal risk. Business understanding of robotics processing, machine learning and other artificial intelligence for data capture and validation around contracts. Broad knowledge supplemented with MBAs from London Business School and Columbia Business School.

Randall Gordon

Head of data governance

Cross River Bank

Randy Gordon has worked in the financial industry for over 20 years and has spent the last decade in data governance leadership roles. He is passionate about data governance because he believes reliable, trusted data is the foundation of strong decision making, advanced analytics, and innovation.

Randy currently is Head of data governance for Cross River Bank. Previous employers include Citi, Moody’s, Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. Randy holds an MS in management – financial services from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a bachelor of music degree from Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, where he majored in cello performance. Randy is a columnist for TDAN.com (The Data Administration Newsletter) and frequently speaks at industry conferences. He also has tutored portions of Risk.net’s “BCBS 239: Effective risk data aggregation and reporting” course in 2022 and 2023 and will do so again for Risk.net’s upcoming course held May 21-23, 2024.

The views expressed by Randy are his own and not those of Cross River Bank nor any of his previous employers.

Dessa Glasser

Principal

FRG

Dessa Glasser is FRG’s Principal for the data strategy advisory and analytics practice, providing innovative solutions to clients in data, risk, and analytics. She is an independent board member of Oppenheimer & Co. Inc; and chair of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF).

Before joining FRG, Dessa was the Managing director at JPMorgan Chase, responsible for the Capital Stress Testing Analytics and was the Chief data officer for Asset and Wealth Management. As Deputy director of the Office of Financial Research, she received the US Treasury Exceptional Service Award. Dessa was the Chief risk officer for Bunge and held senior positions at Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, IBM, and KPMG.

Dessa has a B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Ph.D. and M.A. in economics from Fordham University, where she is on the advisory board for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. 

Asha Saxena

Founder & CEO; board member and adjunct professor

Women Leaders in Data & AI; Columbia University

Asha Saxena is a strategic and innovative leader with a track record of building successful technology companies over the past 30 years. She is the author of the bestselling book The AI Factor – How to Apply Artificial Intelligence and Use Big Data to Grow Your Business Exponentially and the founder and CEO of Women Leaders in Data and AI, a global leadership organization brining world leaders together to create a fair digital world with parity and equity.

Asha is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, teaching graduate classes on entrepreneurship and served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Columbia Business School. She also served as a partner at CEO Coaching International, a management services company focused on building, turning around, and selling successful businesses.

In the past, Asha served as the CEO of a healthcare data analytics company, built an e-commerce platform, and was the president and CEO of Future Technologies. This company provided data analytics solutions to Fortune 1000 companies and was recognized at the World Economic Forum as a “Global Growth Company for 2007”.

Asha earned her BS in engineering, computer science from Bangalore University in India, an MS in data science, major in machine learning  from Southern Methodist University, and executive management education at MIT and the London Business School.

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Thematic: Cybersecurity

Keynote: Building strong cybersecurity systems

16:40 - 17:10

  • How to build infrastructure that is resilient against data breaches
  • What security measures are key to a successful partnership with third party vendors?  
  • Data governance practices to ensure safe and proper use of sensitive client information  
  • How to remain compliant with regulations, while also maximizing your data use 
Mandar Rege

Former Managing Director, Operational Risk Management - Technology and Cybersecurity

Citi

Senior executive in Information Security and Technology Risk Management with strong experience in striking the right balance between cost, operational effectiveness and technology risk as a component of operational risk management. Hands-on operations experience with a proven record for driving transformation and recovering troubled projects. Strong executive presence to lead teams and drive consensus with senior leadership to deliver business outcomes. 

My goal is to solve business problems and 'take away the pain' as opposed to just deploying technical point-solutions. This requires a top-down, business-risk driven approach, which provides an end-to-end solution that translates a strategy vision into real operational execution. 

Specialties: Technology Risk Management, IT Strategy, IT Governance, Privacy, Network Architecture and Management, IT Security, IT Audit

17:1517:50

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Thematic: Advanced analytics data and technology

Panel: Leveraging data analytics to improve risk modeling outcomes and investment decision making

17:15 - 17:50

  • Exploring key challenges in risk modeling, and how to overcome them using data analytics.
  • Utilizing machine learning to improve risk modeling and market trend assessments.
  • Leveraging AI for large data set analysis
  • Using AI/ML for stress testing 
  • Advanced techniques contributing to the efficacy of risk modeling through robust data engineering
  • Explore proven strategies to optimize the performance of analytics models by implementing best practices in data processing and integration
  • Discuss collaboration between data scientists, data engineers, and IT professionals in seamlessly integrating technology into analytics workflows for superior outcomes
  • Explore cutting-edge technologies that enable real-time data processing and analytics, revolutionizing risk assessments for timely and informed decision-making
Sean Keenan

Stress Testing & Portfolio Analytics

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation

Ashwin Roongta

Head of Technology: Business Applications, Infrastructure & Services

Wedbush Securities

Financial data and technology professional with experience leading large programs for AI, analytics & big data, CRM, AML/KYC, digital payments & cash management and investment & wealth management.

Kiet Tran

CEO

Peer Data

Kiet is the founder and CEO of PEER DATA, an innovative startup that is building a data asset management platform to empower data consumers, providers, and owners to transform data into assets.  Previously, Kiet was senior partner and head of APAC Financial Services at IHS Markit, a provider of financial information, analytics and solutions which was acquired by S&P Global in 2022. He joined Markit in 2005 and played a pivotal role during his 17 years at the firm, including the buildout of the loan ecosystem, facilitating the creation of new tradable asset classes, and building and managing nine-figure data businesses. Kiet started his career at Blackrock as a fixed income analyst. 

17:5019:00

Networking drinks reception and awards

17:50 - 19:00