The Alternative Data Challenge 2025: Miami| BattleFin Discovery Day Events

Who Has The Best Alternative Data In Americas?

Let's Find Out!

The Alternative Data Challenge: Miami 2025 is a contest by BattleFin aimed at uncovering the finest "NEW" alternative data providers across the Americas. If you have never been to a BattleFin event and have data on North, Central or South America you are invited to showcase your capabilities and engage in a comprehensive vetting process. Or if you are a regular at the BattleFin conferences but have a new and very different product, please do apply. Selected candidates will present onstage in Miami with top selections earning prestigious awards, including a Gold Sponsorship at Discovery Day Asia valued at $30,000. Judges from leading financial and tech institutions will evaluate entries, looking for the most innovative and impactful data sets.

TIMELINE:

SUBMISSIONS OPEN TILL Jan 7th

JUDGES PICK FINALISTS, Jan 13th

How it works!

Apply:

Data providers apply for free to the Alternative Data Challenge – Miami 2025 Edition
This is open to Data Providers that are NEW TO BATTLEFIN meaning they have not attended an event and are not on the Ensemble platform. If you have a new product that has launched within the last 3 months we can consider this as well.
Follow a sign-up process that includes submitting basic info about the firm and products, building out a comprehensive product profile on Ensemble -BattleFin's alt data platform.
Optional - If you have data on SnowFlake, onboard your data to Exabel for automated insights creation to showcase the power of your data. This needs to completed by Jan 7th, 2025.
Each firm can submit up to 3 products for the competition.
If you already have a profile on our Ensemble platform, pls email us at support@battlefin.com, with the list of product(s) you would like featured in the competition.

Evaluation:

A panel of judges from prestigious firms will review the applications by Jan 15, 2024.
Submissions are evaluated on a rolling basis, apply early for a better chance to be selected.

Selections:

Top candidates are selected, interviewed and ranked by the judges
Finalists are invited to present at BattleFin Discovery Day Miami
Prizes include stage presentations, a Gold sponsorship at Discovery Day Chicago, innovation zone tables and access to Exabel, an analytics and insight platform for qualified products.

Qualification and Scoring

Must Have Data That Covers North, Central or South America.

We encourage every "NEW" provider to apply for this competition. Below are suggested categories:

Products built from publicly available textual data - webscraped data from government, institutions, regulatory sites and other public websites like linkedIn, twitter, reddit, etc
Data from instrumenting websites and Apps - App data, mobile data, geolocation data, web traffic data, etc.
Data from Sensors including cameras, ship AIS sensors, connected Vehicles, etc which are processed into events or widget counts.
Satellite, radar, light/spectral analysis, image analysis, etc to generate data products like oil inventory, weather, traffic, marine shipments.
Derived Data and Insights - data built from other data products like supply chain relationships.
Research, Rating and Policy Data.
Other

An initial review will be done by BattleFin to check for New Providers, sufficient documentation for evaluation, and relevancy. These qualified firms, along with the submitted products, will be considered for round one scoring.

Ranking will take into consideration the following:

First Round scoring will be based on information from documentation submitted on the following attributes

Completeness - the provided information is enough to get a good understanding of the data.
Novelty or Uniqueness Factor - Your product is one of a kind. There are no other known sources of this data
Application and Use Cases - Clear documentation, scenarios and examples of how data can be used.
Insights or dashboards created to illustrate use case and value of the data in predicting a firm's performance and/or macro events will get higher weightage in scoring. We strongly encourage data firms to onboard their data to Snowflake and Exabel to surface insights.

Second Round will be based on a brief 5 min presentation and demo of an optional analytics dashboard or insights/signals followed by a 5 min Q&A session. This will be done at the NYC event.

Awards:

Alt Data Challenge Winner

Gold Package for Discovery Day Asia worth $30K
3 months of Exabel account post event for the winner at no additional cost.
Promotional opportunities with BattleFin's existing client base.

All Finalists will receive

Discounted packages to participate at our Discovery Day Asia event in March 2025.

Discovery Day For Data Providers!

Connecting the World of Alternative Data with Meaningful Opportunities

Welcome to Discovery Day! As a Data Provider you will have the opportunity to create your BattleFin Ensemble profile and be added to the event catalogue where thousands of Data Buyers will search, select and schedule meetings at our largest events throughout the year. Expect to find:

Tailored Data Buyer event meeting schedule powered by Ensemble
New customer leads from the financial services and corporate markets
Brand awareness
Thought leadership opportunities
Actionable & calculated ROI

Discovery Day Singapore

March 17-18th, 2025

Magnificent Mile

Discovery Day Singapore is an event where BattleFin brings together cutting-edge Alternative Data providers to showcase the latest datasets being used to find alpha.

Discovery Day Corporate

June 10-11th, 2025

New York City

Discovery Day Corporateis where BattleFin brings together cutting-edge Alternative Data providers to showcase the latest datasets being used to find alpha.