Paris Data Day for Investors 2024

Ian heads the Client Engagement group at Neudata, as well as its busy programme of events. He has spent the last six years helping asset managers, investment banks and retailers to get value out of traditional and alternative data. Prior to that, Ian's experience encompassed analytical and commercial roles at Vodafone, Bank of Scotland and Liberty Mutual.

Ian holds an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford, and a Saltire Fellowship in Entrepreneurship from Babson College, Massachusetts.

Josephine is a data scientist at Revelio Labs, the market-leading workforce data provider. As a member of both the Modeling and Client Success teams, Josephine acts as a liaison between Revelio's model-enhanced global datasets and the insights and solutions impacting today's labor markets.

With an eclectic professional background in mathematics, community advocacy, and the performing arts, Josephine believes that the combined power of creativity and analysis is key to innovation and effective problem-solving. She values the story behind the data and empowers clients to transform analysis into action toward positive change.

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Laurent Bilke is the founder and CEO of Alternative Macro Signals. He has an established track record in Macro research across the financial industry, and led research teams in investment banks and hedge funds. In Alternative Macro Signals, which is based in France, he combines state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing with analysts’ expertise to extract relevant investment signals from text data. The ambition is to help discretionary and quantitative investors incorporate relevant text macro signals systematically. Under Laurent’s leadership, Alternative Macro Signals has developed a unique set of inflation indicators, by scanning through hundreds of thousands of news sources in multiple languages. Alternative Macro Signals relies on a unique blend of technology (data science) and field expertise (macroeconomics) to deliver innovative solutions targeted to the business needs. Laurent has a broad international trajectory in the financial industry. His trademark is a combination of innovation, robust fundamentals background and market-oriented mindset. He has worked in companies such as Citadel and the European Central Bank. He holds a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Microeconomics and Econometrics and studied Economics and Law at The Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lille. He speaks French, English and German.

Mark is the Head of Data Sourcing at Capital Fund Management (CFM), the Paris-based fully systematic quantitative hedge fund first established in 1991. Mark is also the creator and host of The Alternative Data Podcast, which over 120+ episodes explores the growing world of alternative data with interviews with providers, funds, marketplaces, central banks and regulators. Previously, Mark was a Senior Geopolitics Analyst at Stratfor and he holds a Masters in Big Data from IE University in Madrid and an MSc in International Business from Leeds University Business School.

Paris scouts data from mainly the Japanese market. Prior to Neudata, she worked as a project manager at Taishin Bank, Taipei, and as the supervisor of the corporate planning office at Hitachi Taiwan. Paris specialises in linguistics and informatics, holding an MBA/HEC Paris, MSc in Management of Information Systems/LSE and MA in Human Science (Informatics)/Waseda University. She is also a certified agile practitioner and Japanese-Chinese interpreter.

Rob Weston has over 20 years of experience leading large-scale data projects in financial services, delivering global regulatory initiatives for HSBC, UBS, Rabobank, valued in the more. He has been at the forefront of deploying machine learning and language models for a decade and is now the founder of HSAT, working with global firms to predict crop production worldwide.