Events
CQA Spring Conference 2016
Las Vegas
Event begins: Apr 06, 2016
Event ends: Apr 07, 2016
The Spring Conference will be held on April 6-7 at the Wynn Hotel.
The conference begins with a cocktail reception on Tuesday night followed by two full days of conference proceedings on the Wednesday and Thursday.
A cocktail reception and dinner are held on Wednesday evening and the Thursday proceedings are followed by the Annual Texas Hold’em Tournament.
| Presenter | Title | Organization |
|---|---|---|
| Anoush Hakimi | Explaining the Rapid Growth of Litigation Finance | Trial Funder |
| Chayawat Ornthanalai | Speed and Expertise in Stock Picking: Older, Slower and Wiser? | University of Toronto |
| Sean Flynn | How Singapore Delivers the World's Best healthcare While Spending 75% Less Than We Do | Scripps College |
| Pilar Ryan | POPES, THE ARMY, AND THE BROOKLYN DODGERS: NON-TRADITIONAL SOURCES FOR INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS | Battlefield Leadership |
| Peter Hecht | Smart Beta, Alternative Beta, Exotic Beta, Risk Factor, Style Premia, and Risk Premia Investing: Data Mining, Arbitraged Away, Or Here to Stay? | Evanston Capital Management |
| Benson Durham | Momentum, and Betting Against Beta, and Bonds or: Should I Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Steepener? | Brevan Howard |
| Jean Ensminger | Measuring Corruption: Unmasking Strategic Data Manipulation in the Theft of Development Aid | Caltech |
| Andrew Wu | Shock Spillover in Supply Chains | Wharton - University of Pennsylvania |
| Tony Cookson | When Saving is Gambling | University of Colorado |
| Keith Brown | Stacking the Odds | Magician |
| John Elder | Luck, Skill, or Torture? How Target Shuffling Can Tell if What Your Data Says is Real | Predictive Analytics |
| Vikram Mahidhar | Measuring Information Diffusion in Financial Markets | Rage Netorks |
| Aaron Schweiger | What Does Big Data and Big Compute Hold for the Future of Algorithmic Equity Trading? | Trade Informatics |
