Events
CQA Spring Conference 2017
Las Vegas
Event begins: Apr 19, 2017
Event ends: Apr 20, 2017
The Spring Conference will be held on April 19-20 at the Encore Hotel.
The conference begins with a cocktail reception on Tuesday night followed by two full days of conference proceedings on 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur Cockfield | Big Data and Tax Haven Secrecy | Queen's University |
| Ian Domowitz | Machine Learning by Example: Algorithms as Implementation of Strategies | ITG |
| Pat Akey | Policy Uncertainty, Political Capital and Firm Risk-Taking | University of Toronto |
| Henrik Bessembinder | Do Stocks Outperform Treasury Bills? | Arizona State University |
| Fred Almeida | Dear CQA: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI | Ascent Robotics |
| Hadley Johnson | Investing Using Satellite Data | Orbital Insight |
| Eddie Qian | Low Volatility Anomaly, Interest Rates and the Canary in a Coal Mine | Panagora |
| Simon Elimelakh | Re-activating Active Share - As a Portfolio Analysis Tool | JANA |
| Jose Menchero | Multi-Asset Class Risk Models: Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality | Bloomberg |
| Dave Byrket | The CQA and the Future of Investment Education | Wilkes University |
| John Wightkin | CQA Challenge - Announcement of 2016 Winners" | Trade Informatics |
| Andrew Bringuel | “Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis for 21st Century Policing” | FBI |
| Jacob Foster | “Made to Know: Science as the Social Production of Collective Intelligence” | UCLA |
| Arik Bendor | “Using Credit Signals in Systematic Equity Strategies: Momentum and Value” | Barclays |
| Dieter Vandenbussche | “An Alternative Perspective on Factor Attribution” | Axioma |
