The Human vs The Machine
The human versus the machine: Hype or evident truth? Disrupting machines or innovative humans? Or perhaps, disrupting humans or innovative machines?
Will machines take over quant jobs? Trading jobs? Investment jobs? Are jobs safe? Are businesses safe? Are humans safe? Are machines safe?
Come to the Symposium to find out


January 18-21, 2018
MMF Symposium




The World Forum on Finance, Technology, Investments & Risk Management





Brennan Basnicki
Caroline Bell-Ritchie
Dubie Cunningham


Jin Qian








Researcher
University of Toronto
Co-Founder
Emerentius
Product Specialist,
Director of Consultant Relations
Campbell & Company
Vice-President and Managing Director
Scotiabank
CEO
Quantitative Risk Research S.L.
Senior Risk Analyst
TD Bank
Vice-President Enterprise Innovation and Digital Banking
Scotiabank
Senior Director for Portfolio Analytics and Management
Sigma Analysis and Management
President and CEO
Bodhi Research Group
Professor
University of Toronto
Strategic Advisor
IISAAC
Associate, Thematic Investing Quantitative Team
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Three Lefts
Founder and Managing Director
Coinsquare
Senior Director of Investments
Sigma Analysis and Management
Lead Data Scientist, Strategic Analytics and Management
Deloitte




CEO
Castle Ridge Asset Management

Chair of Mathematical Finance
Technische Universität München

Associate Professor Statistics & Actuarial Sciences
University of Waterloo

Professor, Statistical & Actuarial Sciences
University of Western Ontario





Danilo Simonelli
Daren Smith
Martin Koneberg
Director, Alternative Investments
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan
University of Toronto Asset Management
Head of Alternative Investments
Bayerische Versorgungskammer

President & Chief Investment Officer
Harvey Stein
Head, Quantitative Risk Analytics Group
Bloomberg
University of Toronto


Associate Professor of Operations Research
University of Toronto
Michael Rudd

Jennifer Page
Vice President, Treasury Modeling, Treasury and Balance Sheet Management

TD Bank
Lead Machine Learning Engineer
DeepLearni.ng
Ranjan Bhaduri

Matthew Rappard

James Lambert
University of Virginia
Professor and Associate Director, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems

Jim Helik
Hashiam Kadhim
Roy Kwon
Ben Djerroud
Kshitish Balhotra
Benefits and Pensions Monitor
Contributing Editor
David Saunders
Virgile Rostand
Brian O'Donnell
Matthew Davison

Chief Investment Officer
Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology Pension Plan
Julie Cays

Rudi Zagst
Adrian de Valois-Franklin
Kumar Murty
Giorgio Costa
Santiago Carrillo

Andrew Butler
Director & Head of Quantative Research & Operations
ReSolve

Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer
Alignvest Investment Management
Donald Raymond
Marlene Puffer

Partner
Alignvest Investment Management


Executive-in-Residence, Global Risk Institute & Editor, Investor Literature
STANLIB
Gareth Witten
Alik Sokolov
Geoffrey Lynch

Senior Quantitative Analyst
OANDA Corporation
Cindy Liu

Associate Director, Transaction Banking
Standard Charter Bank
Harry Chopra

Chief Client Officer
AxiomSL

Senior Manager
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board



Tim Zhang
Hassan Anis
Alexia Yeo

Sidney Wigfall
Founding Managing Partner & Consultant Counsel
SCA Compliance+Consulting Group



Director, Centre for the Study of Commercial Activity
Ryerson University
Tony Hernandez
Richard Kang

Ofer Shai
Director of AI
Deloitte

Vice-President and Co-CIO
Highstreet Asset Management
Grant Wang


Tyler Vaughn
Portfolio Manager
Kassirer Asset Management
Serial Entreprenuer
Researcher, Financial Optimization and Risk Management (FORM) Lab
Some of our Speakers


Asian Accelerators