Artemiza Woodgate, PhD, is the Chief Investment Officer and co-founder of Integrated Quantitative Investments LLC (IQI), a quantitative investment firm managing institutional equity portfolios across global markets.

She brings over two decades of experience in designing and executing advanced quantitative strategies in global equities. Her research spans the development of novel alpha signals, the integration of alternative data, and enhancements to portfolio optimization- blending AI and data science with rigorous quantitative portfolio management.

Before co-founding IQI in 2020, Artemiza held research roles at Man Numeric and Russell Investments.

Prior to her industry career, Artemiza taught finance, economics, and statistics at the University of Washington (Foster School of Business) and the University of Auckland. Her academic work focused on accounting, asset pricing, portfolio optimization, and interest rate targeting, with publications in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Management Science, and Pensions & Investments. She holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Washington, and an MSc and BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Outside of her professional work, Artemiza is committed to advancing gender equity in finance. She serves on the Board of Directors of CFA Society Seattle, where she currently leads the AI Education efforts.

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Jared Barker is Head of Enterprise Strategy at Perplexity, where he works with enterprises and financial institutions to move beyond single-model AI toward multi-model orchestration across proprietary data, external sources, and decision workflows. He previously led Global Growth at Palantir, scaling AI and data platform deployments across Fortune 500 companies, government organizations, and global markets.

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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Robert Britt is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Business Services Platform. In his role, Robert leads the Data Science Team, which provides data advisory to GP Strategic Capital Partner Managers as well as direct support to their investment teams.

Before joining Blue Owl, Robert was a Director at KPMG Deal Advisory & Strategy where he built and led both the Financial Services Analytics Team and the Data Innovation & Market Intelligence Team. Prior to that, he co-founded a tech startup called UpScored and was a founding member of the data science arm of Point72 Asset Management. Robert began his career as an analyst in the US Navy.

Robert received a BA in Financial Economics, cum laude, from Columbia University.

Annamarie Kelly is a technical advisor to Tidemark, where she guides the firm’s AI strategy. She has been the founding engineer at two investment firms, building Athena at Innovius and Sonar at Tidemark. In both roles, she built platforms that changed how investment teams sourced companies, developed conviction, and closed deals. She now focuses on building her own products at the intersection of AI, data, and decision-making.

Ben Cohen is a seasoned data strategy professional with a deep background in finance and investment. He currently serves as the Managing Director of Data Strategy at Final; a leader in algorithmic trading. Prior to this, he spent a decade at WorldQuant, where he was the Global Head of Data Strategy, leading a global team responsible for sourcing and managing the company's data portfolio across all investment strategies. His experience also includes roles at Morgan Stanley and at Bloomberg.

Brian Murphy is the Head of Data Science and Technology at Salesforce Ventures. Since joining in 2022, he supports the broader Ventures team by enabling data-driven investing and portfolio development. Before joining Salesforce Ventures, he worked at Two Sigma Investments and Harvard Business School. Brian holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and graduate degrees from Harvard University and the University of Oxford.

Salesforce Ventures is the global investment arm of Salesforce and one of the most active technology investors in the world. For more than 15 years, we have backed exceptional founders building at the frontier of software and AI, with a portfolio that includes Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Physical Intelligence, Crusoe, Lovable, and hundreds of other leading companies. Beyond capital, we help founders scale by connecting them to Salesforce's global ecosystem of customers, partners, and expertise.

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Carmen Li is the Founder & CEO of Silicon Data, a New York-based market intelligence company building the world’s leading data products for GPU pricing, AI compute, and carbon-aware infrastructure. She is also the CEO of Compute Exchange, the world's first GPU spot market.

Previously at Bloomberg and DRW trading, Carmen now leads the development of GPU rental and pricing indices, alternative datasets for compute markets, and emerging indices covering tokens, transaction volumes, and memory (RAM). Silicon Data’s indices and datasets are used by hedge funds, cloud providers, AI companies, and institutional investors, and are distributed via direct licensing, APIs, and financial data platforms including Bloomberg.

Cathy Tanimura is Principal of Analytics and Data Science at Summit Partners. She works closely with the Summit team and portfolio companies to help create and execute strategies that effectively use data and analytics to drive better decisions and build better products. Previously she led data teams at Strava, Okta, and Zynga. She is also the author of the book SQL for Data Analysis: Advanced Techniques for Transforming Data into Insights.

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Dean is responsible for leading, developing and expanding Neudata’s events programme.Having spent the last decade creating, building and scaling conference and content businesses within the FinTech and Energy sectors, Dean has worked with some of the most recognisable global brands on B2B events of all sizes. Dean co-founded two conference companies in 2013 and exited through acquisition in early 2020.Dean holds a BA Hons degree in Theatre and Performance Studies from Warwick University.

Drew joined Neudata in 2024 as a research analyst, where she covers social media and advertising, transaction and macro data. Prior to joining Neudata, Drew worked in advertising where she was used alternative data to to get insights into market sentiment and competitive benchmarking. Drew holds a BSc in Economics from the University of Bath.

Ed is a previous YC founder with Workbase, acquired by Hightouch in 2022. He has been the CTO of Offline Ventures and now is Director of AI at N47.