FinTech Machine Learning Conference II
Connecting Financial Services problems with Startup innovative solutions
May 2, 2018
The Premier ML FinTech Conference of Canada
attended by over 200 Financial Services professionals
Learn from 30 + Experts
President, DDIQ & Global Head of Cognitive Computing at Exiger
Baiju Devani
Thomas F. Coleman
Sue Britton
Aly Dhalla
CEO & Founder at FinTech Growth Syndicate
Director, Waterloo Research Institute in Insurance, Securities and Quantitative Finance at University of Waterloo
VP of Enterprise Analytics at Aviva
Ling Guo
AVP, Biometrics at Sun Life Financial
Jonathan Kreindler
Rob Kirwin
Christian Lassonde
Jasper Li
CEO at VigilantCS
Founder & CEO at Receptiviti.ai
Founder and Managing Partner at Impression Ventures
Founder at SortSpoke
Mehdi Merai
Syd Millett
Ramy Nassar
Marcos López de Prado
Jad Chehlawi
CEO at DataPerformers
Sr Director, Innovation at RBC
Director at Retail Innovation Lab, Mattel Inc.
True Positive Technologies
CEO and Founder at Systelos
Vish R
Monisha Sharma
Adrien de Valois-Franklin
Peggy Van de Plassche
Annie Yan
Founder & CEO at CogniFrame
Director Innovation & Business Development at Manulife
CEO at Castle Ridge Asset Management
FinTech Innovator, ex-VP Innovations at CIBC
Co-founder at Brainergy AI
David Stanton
George Young
Chief Risk Officer at TMX Group
VP & Portfolio Manager Gluskin Sheff + Associates Inc.
Philip Barrar
CEO at Mylo
CEO & Co-founder at Finaeo
Anthony Peccia
Chief Risk Officer at Citi Bank Canada
Mateen Khaja
AI, Advanced Analytics & Cloud
Microsoft
Mark Caplan
President at Global Risk Institute in Financial Services
Dan Adamson
Eric Arnold
CEO at Planswell
Sponsors
Community Partners
FinTech Machine Learning Confrence II Agenda
7:45am - 8:45am
Registration and Breakfast
Desautels Hall
8:45am - 9:00am
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Anthony Peccia, Chief Risk Officer, Citibank Canada
9:15am - 9:45am
Keynote Speaker :
ML in Financial Services
The Future is Now
Mateen Khaja, Data Platform Solutions, AI, Advanced
Analytics & Cloud, Microsoft Canada
9:45am - 10:45am
Financial Services Panel: CRO Managing
FinTech and Machine Learning Risk
Moderated by Mark Caplan, President Global Risk Institute
Saurabh Rastogi, Head of Liquidity & Counterparty Credit
Risk, Ontario Teachers Pension Plan
David Stanton, CRO, TMX Group
Phillip Thomas, Chief Retail Risk Officer Scotiabank
George Young, Managing Director Asset Mix & Risk Metrics,
Gluskin Shelf
10:45am – 11:00am
Networking and refreshments
11:00am - 12:00pm
WealthTech Panel: Using Disruptive
Technologies to Extract Alpha Value for Clients
Moderated by Ramy Nassar, Co-founder,Algency
Eric Arnold, CEO,Planswell
Philip Barrar, CEO, Mylo.ai
Pauline Shum Nolan, CEO & Co-founder, PW Portfolio Analytics
Adrien DeValois Franklin, CEO CastleRidge Asset
Management
12:00 – 1:00pm
Lunch and Keynote Speaker
Learning Minimum Variance Discrete Hedging Directly from the Market
Tom Coleman, Professor of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo & Director of WatRISQ
1:00pm - 2:00pm
InsureTech Panel: Enhancing Existing and Creating New Insurance Products
Moderated by Ling Guo, AVP, Biometrics, Sun Life Financial
Baiju Devani, VP of Enterprise Analytics, Aviva
Ally Dhala, Founder, Finaeo
Jasper Li, Founder, SortSpoke
Monisha Sharma Director Innovation, Manulife
2:00pm – 3:00pm
RiskTech and RegTech Panel: A Quantum Leap in Managing Risk and Compliance Using Machine Learning
Moderated by Sue Britton, CEO & Founder, FinTech Growth Syndicate
Dan Adamson, Managing Director, Exiger
Ana Badour, Partner Financial Services Group, McCarthy Tétrault
Rob Kirwin, CEO, VigilantCS
Jon Kreindler, CEO & Co-founder, Receptiviti
Barb MacLean, Director, Client Experience Solutions, Celero
Vish R, Founder & CEO, CogniFrame
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Networking and refreshments
3:30pm - 4:30pm
BankingTech Panel: Making Banking Faster, Cheaper, Easier and Safer
Moderated by Peggy Van de Plassche, FinTech Innovator,
Former VP Innovations CIBC
Mehdi Merai, CEO & Co-founder, Dataperformers
Syd Millett, Sr. Director Innovations, RBC
Annie Yan, Co-founder, Brainergy AI
4:30pm – 5:00pm
The Seven Reasons Most ML Hedge Funds Fail
Marcos López de Prado, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
5:00 pm - 5:30pm
Success In FinTech Investing
Christian Lassonde, Founder and Managing Partner, Impression Ventures
5:30pm to 6:30pm
8 FinTech Startup Showcase
Allset
Fortuna AI
Juniper Life Insurance
mysystelos
Platform Group Limited
Pointchain
SENSO.AI
ThetaRay
6:30pm – 6:40pm
Closing Remarks
6:40pm Onwards
Networking & Cocktails
Fleck Atrium
