Chicago 2024- Financial Services

 
 
Starting @ 8AM
October 15-16th, 2024
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Welcome to Discovery Day Chicago: Alt Data & AI for Financial Services! 

Chicago Hilton

720 South Michigan Avenue

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

For alpha-seekers and investment funds BattleFin leads the industry with:

  • New Data Providers
  • New Product Announcements
  • New Insights

Themes include:   

  • The Future of the Supply Chain
  • What to expect in 2025 for the Energy Industry
  • The Retail / Consumer Market Trends according to the Data
Event Differentiators:
    • Local Market Focus: Chicago is home to a significant number of funds and financial service companies. This focus is designed to tap into the local market's potential, offering tailored content and networking opportunities.
    • Diverse Tracks: How Alternative Data can help both Financial services to Corporate customers make better and more profitable decisions.  These tracks are carefully curated to address the interests and challenges of today’s data professionals in the corporate and financial sectors.
    • High-Caliber Speakers and Panels: Expect to hear from industry leaders who are at the forefront of data and analytics innovations.  These topics include: Weather Data, Energy, Interest Rates and many others. 

BattleFin curates One-on-One meetings to maximize time with data providers. Think of speed dating, but for data! Firms can meet with 100+ alternative data companies across the geolocation, employment, news, sentiment, survey, credit card and other categories to set up their 2024 data testing and evaluation pipeline.

Register below to secure your spot and join us in Chicago October 15-16th 2024.

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2024 CHICAGO AGENDA 


START TIMES

DAY 1 AGENDA

OCTOBER 15TH, 2024

ALT DATA FOR FINANCIAL SERVICES CONTENT

8:00AM - 9:00AM

Registration Opens

The Hilton, 8th Street South Desk

The Hilton, Chicago

720 S. Michigan Ave

9:00AM - 12:15PM

Content/ Panel Sessions

Continental A

The Hilton

9:00AM

Energy Data Mosaic, new ways to gain an edge investing in oil and gas with data

Hear from 4 different data providers highlighting Catalysts for 2025
What are Best Alt Data Sets for Predicting Energy Supply vs. Demand
Speed Round at the end of the panel: Outliers - Natural Gas, Shale, Solar, Emissions.

9:30AM

AI & LLM impact on Energy Sector and Power Demand

With Chat GPT searches consuming 17 times the energy of Google searches, how much will demand increase, where does the power come from?
New Technologies that are coming to increase energy efficiency - will this solve the demand problem

10:00AM

EXHIBIT HALL OPENS

10:00AM

Product Showcase - Email receipt and transaction data

10:15AM

Buyside Data Sourcing Panel

How is the sourcing role evolving?  Do you have to look for data that can feed properly into LLM's? What to watch out for
Sourcing quality vs quantity; Have data catalogs helped with sourcing or are they still messy, lack detail and muddy the waters
What data categories are still the hardest to find?
Has the Role of Data Sourcing changed with development of AI and LLM?

SPEAKERS

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Andrea Hagerman - Moderator

Head of Data Sourcing

Chicago Trading Company
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10:45AM

Tracking cross asset volatility

11:00AM

New Product and Data Provider Showcase

We'll select 3 undiscovered data providers to showcase their data super powers to the audience
Hear from new providers and how their data can help gain conviction in various investment sectors

11:30AM

Category Showcase: The evolution and power of Global Transaction & ClickStream data

SPEAKERS

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Samantha Mait

Manager, Equity Data Management

Balyasny Asset Management
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11:45AM

Data Mosaic: Predicting quarterly earnings. Looking toward 4Q and 2025 guidance

Five most interesting quarterly KPI predictions into 4Q on META, SPOT, MTCH, ABNB
What data sets can help you predict vs. react
How Transcripts, Expert Networks help with guidanceHas the Role of Data Sourcing changed with development of AI and LLM?
Datasets that can help with expectations analysis. How big of a beat or miss needs to happen to move a stock

12:15PM

NETWORKING LUNCH

1:20PM

Alt Data One-on-Ones

2:40PM - 3:00PM

Break

3:00PM

Alt Data One-on-Ones

4:40PM - 5:00PM

Transition

5:00PM- 7:00PM

Cocktail Networking Reception


START TIMES

DAY 2 AGENDA

OCTOBER 16TH, 2024

8:00AM - 9:00AM

Registration Opens

The Hilton, 8th Street South Desk

The Hilton, Chicago

720 S. Michigan Ave

9:00AM - 12:05PM

Content/ Panel Sessions

Continental A

The Hilton

9:00AM

Deploying LLMs on Transcripts, Survey Data, Expert Network Interviews and Your own internal data - platforms, process, success stories.

Which platforms allow for ROI and immediate deployment?
Uncover complicated cross industry relationships
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9:20AM

Ensemble Alphas - How Data Providers are Combining Forces to Create New Alpha Generating Products

Combining different categories of data
How data providers are partnering to create new alpha generating products

9:40AM

How to Qualify Data for AI Use Cases

9:55AM

Data Management - Machine readable and NLP

Scalable data management and real-time analytics
Best tools to build backtesting and hedging strategies
How to navigate microstructure by calculating price deviation metrics at every order level and comparing available market data sources
From Big Data to Smart Data - Modernizing your approach

10:00AM

EXHIBIT HALL OPENS

10:15AM

New Generative AI Products Showcase:  Leveraging Gen AI and Alt Data to find insights.

10:30AM

What's left to solve before AI can meaningly be involved in Investment Research

Traceability: refers to the ability to trace the origins and development of data and processes within an AI system.
Best tools to build backtesting and hedging strategies
Veracity in AI refers to the reliability and accuracy of the data used to train and operate the model. It’s about ensuring that the information in the training process is truthful and reflects the real-world scenarios the model is meant to address.

10:50AM

Multimodal Generative AI: Will combining different types of data (text, images, audio) lead to Alpha?

11:05AM

Intermodal transport and importance in Supply Chain

Transportation is still a relationship business - what can the data tell you
Volatile market causing switching back and forth to over-the-road - how is this impacting companies

11:25AM

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Understanding what really gets factored in when you purchase data

Data is exploding but Teams are the same size, how to get a handle on Total Cost of Ownership
Calculating Return on Investment on a per dataset basis
How do you optimize TCO

11:45AM

Consumer Intent and Customer Churn in Tech and Software companies. Survey Data vs AI

How are reviews indicating buyer intent
Understanding why customers churn
Buyer Growth, Reviewer Segmentation, Category Ranking to manage the long tail of companies on your radar

12:05PM

Lunch

1:10PM - 2:30PM

Alt Data One-On-One Meetings

2:30PM - 2:50PM

Break

2:50PM - 3:50PM

Alt Data One-On-One Meetings

3:50PM - 4:10PM

Transition

4:10PM - 6:10PM

Networking Cocktail Reception

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2024 Data Provider Options

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  Data Table Silver Exhibit Table Sponsor Gold Panel Speaking Role Platinum Solo Speaking Role Platinum Cocktail Sponsor Premier Platinum Keynote Speaking Role
 

$11,000

Price Increase to: $12,000 8 /1

$16,000

Price Increase to: $16,500 8/1

$25,000 $50,000 $50,000 $100,000

One-on-One Meetings

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Dedicated Ensemble Profile & Access

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Ability to Submit Data Buyer Wish Lists for Additional Lead Gen

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Exhibit Table with Additional Branding

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Speaking Role in Front of Whole Audience

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Number of Event Passes

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Number of Comp Buyside passes

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Data Tables, Exhibit Tables, Sponsorships and Speaking Roles

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Network amongst top data providers and qualified buyers at BattleFin's largest event of the year

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2024 Buyer Registration Options

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Ready to Start Meeting with the World's Best Providers of Alternative Data?

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  Data Buyer Data Buyer+ TEAMs

 

$995

Price Increase to: $1,495 9/1 &  $1,995 10/1

$1,495

Price Increase to: $1,995 9/1 &  $2,495 10/1

$3,000

Price Increase to: $4,000 9/1 &  $5,000 10/1

Number of Tickets

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SWAG Bag

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Access to All Public Content and Networking

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Curated One-on-One Meetings

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Extended Access to Ensemble & Data Hunter

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