Duncan W. Robinson is the Director of AI & Optimization and Principal Research Scientist at Franklin Templeton, where he advances the future of investment management through AI-driven research, portfolio optimization, and quantitative innovation.

Previously, as Director of Quantitative Insights and Data Science at Allspring Global Investments, he led a team focused on innovation, research, risk measurement, regime analysis, and alternative data exploration using statistical learning.

A former options market-maker and portfolio manager, Duncan is also the creator of several patent-pending inventions spanning alpha generation, risk management, alternative data, ESG, SDGs, data privacy, and signal evaluation. Known for transforming complex economic and behavioral signals into actionable investment insights, he has built scalable research platforms used across multi-asset strategies.

A frequent speaker on AI and quantitative finance, Duncan is recognized for fostering research cultures that connect data science, investment insight, and client engagement.  

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Eliza Raphael is the Head of Data Services at Jump Trading, a global quantitative trading firm, where she leads efforts to advance the firm’s strategic data initiatives. Previously, she served as Head of Market Data Services at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, a global multi-manager hedge fund. In both roles, she managed teams responsible for developing and executing firm-wide data strategies, encompassing the sourcing and integration of both traditional and alternative datasets across diverse asset classes globally.

Eliza began her career at Bloomberg, holding product and sales roles in New York and London before joining Nasdaq.  During her 13-year tenure at Nasdaq, Eliza held various positions, including market data sales, product management, and business development. She concluded her time there as the Head of Alternative Data Partnerships for the Nasdaq Analytics Hub, where she played a pivotal role in shaping the firm's data strategy following the acquisition of Quandl in 2018.

With experience spanning market data vendors, exchanges, and the buy-side, Eliza brings a comprehensive perspective to the evolving data ecosystem. Her deep understanding of both traditional and alternative data—developed through multiple professional vantage points—provides her with unique insights into the increasingly complex data landscape that drives financial markets today and into tomorrow.

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Jason DeRise, CFA is the Head of Public Markets & Research Investment Products at Liberty Mutual Investments (LMI). Jason works on the use of full stack technology and alternative data to enable better investment decisions.

LMI’s mission is to create capital that allows Liberty Mutual’s customers to embrace today and confidently pursue tomorrow. LMI manages more than $100 billion across both public and private markets and actively trade for total return in fixed income.

Prior to joining LMI, Jason was a founding member and Head of Data Strategy at UBS Evidence Lab. UBS Evidence Lab is a sell-side team of experts that work across 55+ specialized areas creating insight-ready datasets. Jason is also the founder of DataChorus LLC, which provides advisory services for data companies to help generate actionable insights for business professionals and investors at scale, powered by data and technology. The primary source of the advisory services is via the Data Score Newsletter https://thedatascore.substack.com/.

Earlier in Jason’s career he was a top-rated Senior Sell Side Research Analyst covering consumer sectors, including the European Beverages sector while based in London and the US Staple Retailer sector while based in New York City. He’s CFA Charterholder and graduated from Syracuse University Whitman School of Management with degrees in Finance and Accounting, and a minor in economics.

Michelle M. Weaver is an Executive Director and Morgan Stanley Research’s US Thematic Strategist. She also covers US Equity Strategy with Mike Wilson, with whom she has worked since 2017. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics & Management and Environmental & Sustainability Sciences. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Paul White is a Co-Founder and the CEO of Quantbot Technologies, LP. Paul started his career with senior technology roles at a major European software company in the UK, Morgan Stanley and later as a co-founder of an Internet startup. Leaving pure technology roles behind he became part of the senior team at Morgan Stanley’s Equity Trading Lab (ETL) proprietary trading group, where he was responsible for developing statistical arbitrage black box automated trading strategies. After Morgan Stanley he joined Merrill Lynch as the co-head of their statistical arbitrage proprietary trading group (QSA). As an original founding member of QSA he was responsible for creating a new global business from scratch. Paul holds a BSc. in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Rado is the Founder & CEO of Neudata. Prior to founding Neudata, Rado's work experience spans 20 years of leadership, sales management, FinTech and data innovation for the buy-side. Rado spent several years in quantitative portfolio construction and risk management at MSCI (Barra), S&P Capital IQ and CITE Investments. He has worked at leading financial services firms, and financial data and analytics providers including PerTrac, 2iQ Research, I/B/E/S and TIM Group.

Rado received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Graz, Austria and is a CFA charterholder.

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Adam established and leads the SEC’s Event and Emerging Risks Examinations Team (EERT) in the Division of Examinations. EERT is an office established to proactively engage with financial firms about emerging threats and current market events and quickly mobilize to provide expertise and resources when critical matters arise. EERT helps to ensure, through examinations and other firm engagement and monitoring activities that firms are better prepared to address exigent threats, incidents, and emerging risks.

EERT will also provide expertise and support in response to significant market events that could have a systemic impact or that place investor assets at risk. EERT also focuses on published exam priorities, which includes examinations of new and emerging technologies, including the use of Alternative Data and AI. Previously Adam served as Senior Advisor to the Director of the Division where he focused on risk, strategy and innovation.

Earlier, Adam served as the Commission’s first-ever Managing Executive and Chief Operating Officer of the Division of Enforcement, where he was instrumental in the Division’s most significant restructuring in the Division’s history. Adam has also held several key executive roles in the private sector, including Chief of Staff and Chief Operating Officer of Legal and Compliance at Marsh & McLennan Companies and Vice President of the Business Intelligence Group at Goldman Sachs. Adam has an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and his undergraduate degree from the University at Buffalo.

Alex is an associate at Neudata, where he covers a range of datasets across commodities, weather, shipping, satellites and news.

Amarachi Miller is the VP of Product & Commercialization at AnthologyAI (parent company of Caden), spearheading the teams and development of the Caden consumer application and the Anthology suite of enterprise data, AI and ML products. Amarachi joined the company after a decade of software and data product leadership experience; most recently leading the team building measurement and optimization tools at healthcare marketing platform DeepIntent, retail measurement platforms at Amazon advertising and leading product management and data science teams at Paramount (fmr. ViacomCBS) and GroupM. A recognized leader in decision science, advanced TV and measurement, Amarachi has sat on the Product Council at OpenAP and various IAB working groups and collaborated across publishers, data originators, software service providers, and the media agency umbrella.

Amir Hermidas is the lead Economist at AnthologyAI (the parent company of Caden), spearheading the economic research and insights program at Anthology. He joined the company after a decade of economic and quantitative research at Wall Street banks, including Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and Citigroup.

Andreas Pusch, a seasoned entrepreneur and FinTech investor, founded YUKKA Lab AG in 2014, leveraging AI to enhance risk management, ESG, and investment management. With a background in Aerospace & Satellite Engineering, he shifted to finance in 1998, fascinated by news sentiment's impact on markets.

His Berlin-based company analyzes over a million news articles daily, providing real-time market insights. Recognized by Gartner as a ‘Cool Vendor in Natural Language Technology,' YUKKA Lab serves leading advisory and financial organizations globally.

Anju Marempudi is the founder and CEO of IntelliBusiness, Inc. d/b/a EventVestor, the most comprehensive smart data platform for event-driven first-order alternative data. Anju works with many of the large quantitative and quantamental firms, providing data and insights into key corporate market-moving events including unusual events and forward calendar events. Anju has over two decades of experience in financial data and analytics, management consulting, and information technology. Anju holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.