BattleFin Discovery Day - May 21-22

My friends at BattleFin are hosting their annual NY Discovery Days event May 21-22 on the USS Intrepid Aircraft Carrier. This year’s event will focus on data, AI, and LLMs, bringing together top minds from across the space for panel discussions, meetings, and networking over two days.

Expert Networks and Transcripts Panel

I’ll be speaking on a panel about expert networks and transcripts at 10am on Wednesday May 22nd. I’m excited to discuss one of my favorite topics alongside industry leaders:

• Rayne Gaisford, Chief Data Strategist at Andeco.

• Mike Grubert, Managing Director & Head of Credit and Public Equities at Third Bridge.

• Ken Sena, CEO at Aiera.

• Dan Entrup (that’s me), Co-Founder at AggKnowledge

Complimentary Tickets

The BattleFin team is offering a limited number of complimentary tickets to new data users in the space who haven’t previously been to a BattleFin event.

Alt Data Challenge

After a successful launch at the Singapore event, the Alt Data Challenge is back with $30K in prizes. The contest aims to identify and showcase the top data providers. The judging panel includes:

• Tony Berkman, Managing Director at Two Sigma

• Andrea Hagerman, Head of Data Sourcing at Chicago Trading Company

• Jason Koulouras, Global Market Data Leader at Bridgewater Associates

• Dirk Renick, Quantitative Research & Development Lead at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA)

• Stewart Stimson, Head of Data Strategy at Jump Trading

Agenda

This two day event will have panel discussions in the mornings, networking lunches, one-on-one meetings in the afternoons, and a cocktail party on the Intrepid Flight Deck.

Below are a few of the panels I’m most excited for:

Macro Trends: Leveraging foot traffic to identify 2Q and 2nd half real estate and consumer trends

• Ed Lavery, VP of Investor Intelligence at Placer.ai

• Todd Schmucker, Director of Data Strategy at Walleye Capital

Tracking & Predicting the 2024 Presidential Elections with Alternative Data

• Brian Scanlon, General Manager, Election Services at The Associated Press

Sports & Data: a look at the MLB, F1, NFL & NBA

• TJ Barra, Senior Director, Basketball Research & Innovation at the Milwaukee Bucks

• Sameer Gupta, Head of Data Solutions at Point72 and the New York Mets

The Evolution of Research & the Use of Data and LLM's

• Tim Harrington, CEO at BattleFin

• Richard Goldman, Global Head of Sales Strategy & Execution Quantitative Analytics at LSEG

• Casey Webb, Head of Equity Research Data at Bridgewater Associates