Marking Neudata’s 10-year anniversary, this panel explores how alternative data has evolved from a niche experiment to a mainstream market input, and what it’s taken to build the vendor ecosystem behind it. Panellists will reflect on the realities of running an alternative data businesses, from hiring and funding cycles to building enterprise-grade companies, as well as how market awareness and adoption have shifted, including moments when alternative data became mission-critical. The discussion will also examine how AI, 'real-time' data and regulation are reshaping both vendors and the buyside, why banks are becoming data providers, and where the next edge may come from as markets and technology continue to evolve.

Whether you're selling alternative data or buying it, the biggest barrier to value isn't the dataset itself, it's the identity chaos that prevents quick integration and confident decision-making. For data providers, messy entities mean stalled trials and lost deals. For hedge funds and asset managers, fragmented identities across vendors create integration nightmares that delay alpha extraction and increase operational risk.
 
This workshop will guide participants through:
 • How modern Entity Resolution (ER) removes friction on both sides of the alternative data transaction
• Why identity problems stall vendor sales cycles and prevent buyers from rapidly integrating and extracting signal from new datasets
• A demonstration showing real-time entity resolution across ticker symbols, corporate hierarchies, and people records using Senzing ER

State Street PriceStats tracks billions of prices sold online by retailers globally to generate daily inflation indices, helping investors anticipate the impact of inflation and implications for monetary policy. The methodology is built upon a robust academic foundation through the Billion Prices Project initiative, established by Harvard Business School professor Alberto Carvallo. This session will highlight how State Street PriceStats provides daily inflation indices for 27 countries to offer timely insights to help investors get ahead of major shifts in inflation trends. Speakers will also introduce new indicators developed to provide more granular insights into inflation impacts at the sector, subsector and category level.

Transaction data is one of the most popular types of alternative data used by hedge funds. However, not all transaction data is made the same, with differences persisting across transaction data types and regions. While the US benefits from being a single market, Europe's fragmented market structure and comprehensive regulatory framework make it difficult to capture with a single dataset. This presentation explores how different transaction data types can track macroeconomic trends and how retailers have responded to tighter wallets across the US and Europe.

This intensive, interactive workshop is designed specifically for private fund managers navigating the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Participants will receive actionable insights on the key issues shaping AI adoption in investment management from crafting robust AI policies and governance frameworks, to updating fund documentation, leveraging transcription and analysis tools, and preparing for regulatory scrutiny.

How are you factoring into your models the trade flows reshaping commodities and equities in real time? Tariffs, sanctions, and geopolitical shocks are constantly altering global supply chains, yet many investment models still rely on static assumptions. This panel explores how alternative data provides continuous, dynamic trade signals and how investment teams integrate them into systematic frameworks to capture actionable insights faster than traditional sources.

Power market dynamics are changing. Capacity has been tightened as continued demand increases from data centres, whilst ageing infrastructure and growing interconnection queue times create less stable power systems. In this session, panellists will discuss how investors are using data to gain insights into these changing dynamics, from tracking and measuring the impact of new data centres to analysing trends in distributed energy resources.

Our AltDating sessions facilitate interactions between data buyers and sellers via a programme of personalised matchmaking based on your needs.

Slot 1 - 12:00 - 12:15
Slot 2 - 12:15 - 12:30
Slot 3 - 12:30 - 12:45
Slot 4 - 12:45 - 1:00
Slot 5 - 1:00 - 1:15

Social media data can provide high-frequency, low-latency insights into the opinions and sentiment of consumers, investors and policymakers, so it comes as no surprise that we’ve observed an increase in interest and demand for social media data, given current uncertainty. This presentation will discuss the different use cases for social media data in investment strategy: measuring macro sentiment, monitoring the social media behaviour of retail investors and tracking the consumer engagement for viral products or social media-driven boycotts.

As transaction data becomes a core input in investment research, attention is shifting from data access to how insights are generated. This panel will explore how investors analyse spend, frequency, and basket-level trends to identify changes in consumer behaviour and separate meaningful signals from short-term noise. Speakers will discuss how transaction data supports fundamental research, complements other consumer datasets, and informs positioning and valuation across consumer-facing sectors.

Take on the ultimate chess challenge and face International Grandmaster Krisztian Szabo in this exclusive simultaneous exhibition. Krisztian will defend multiple boards at once, offering participants the rare chance to challenge a world-class champion and chess coach to the masters. To guide you through this challenge, you will receive expert coaching from Shir Bal Tal, founder of the London Chess Academy. Whether you're a rising talent or a seasoned expert, Shir will provide the insights, tips, and move-by-move breakdowns you need to elevate your play against one of the best in the world.