STREAM A (OASIS SUITE): Alpha, Signals, and Production

Chair: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

LEADERS PANEL: The State of Alt Data in 2026 – what’s changed that actually matters

• What’s durable vs what’s hype (AI, private markets, regulation, budgets)
• Where teams are genuinely reallocating spend and effort
• The new “must-have” capabilities for a modern data program

Moderator: Christos Koutsoyannis, Chief Investment Officer, Atlas Ridge Capital
Norman Niemer, Head of investment research and data science, real estate, UBS Asset Management
Eliza Raphael, Head of Data Strategy, Jump Trading
David X Martin, Chairman and CEO, Arctium Capital Management
Andrew Sprague, VP, Investor Sales, Sensor Tower
Apurv Jain, Founder and CEO, MacroX

STREAM B (BAMBOO SUITE): Buying, Controlling, and Scaling

Chair: Lorna Van Zyl, Group Head of Event Content, A-Team Group

Data Quality Lab

• How different teams define “quality” (and why the definitions clash)
• Practical approaches to improving quality: QC checks, anomaly detection, drift
• Short, tactical takeaways: the checks teams run before trusting a dataset

Moderator: Brendan Furlong, Chief Data Advisory Officer, Eagle Alpha
Mike Soss, Chief Investment Officer, Millburn
Enrico Dallavecchia, President and COO, Arctium Capital Management
Samantha Mait, Data Science Operations Lead, Balyasny Asset Management L.P.
Isabel Ahsler, Team Manager, Strategic Accounts, Sensor Tower

STREAM A: Alpha, Signals, and Production

Chair: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

Panel: Synthetic Data: When it helps, when it’s a trap, and how to validate it

• Legitimate use cases vs red flags
• Methodologies – how synthetic data is generated and what that implies for risk. Dealing with AI scraping
• Buy vs. build: should this come from vendors or be generated in-house?
• New opportunities

Moderator: Jeffrey Maron, Managing Director, 7RIDGE
Sarkis Agaian, Senior Quantitative Developer, Laurion Capital Management
Iro Tasitsiomi, Head of Investments Data Science, T. Rowe Price
Yifang Cao, Senior Quant Researcher, Jupiter Research Capital

STREAM B: Buying, Controlling, and Scaling

Chair: Lorna Van Zyl, Group Head of Event Content, A-Team Group

Panel: How funds decide to license a dataset: trials, pitfalls, and what breaks deals

• What really happens during trials (on both buyer and vendor sides)
• Common failure modes: unclear value, integration friction, weak documentation
• The latest compliance concerns to be aware of

Moderator: Eric Duncan, Head of Business Development, Databento
Carrie Anton, Director, Data and Research Management, Jain Global
Don D’Amico, Founder & CEO, Glacier Network
Mark Fleming Williams, Head of Data Sourcing, CFM