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Upcoming Webinar: From Data to Alpha: AI Strategies for Taming Unstructured Data

16 April 2026

Date: 16 April 2026
Time: 9:00am ET / 2:00pm London / 3:00pm CET
Duration: 50 minutes

Unstructured data and text now accounts for the majority of information flowing through financial markets organisations, spanning research content, corporate disclosures, communications, alternative data, and internal documents.

While AI has created new opportunities to extract signals, many firms are discovering that value is constrained not by models, but by the quality of the content, architecture, governance, and integration into real trading and investment workflows.

This webinar examines how firms are moving beyond experimentation to deploy AI in a way that delivers measurable insight and decision advantage.

What attendees will learn:

  • How buy-side and sell-side firms are applying AI to unstructured data and text such as news today, and where real, repeatable value is emerging
  • The data engineering, curation, and governance foundations required to make unstructured content usable at scale
  • How firms are integrating AI-derived insight into front-office and investment workflows, rather than treating AI as a standalone capability
  • Where firms are encountering limitations, risks, and false assumptions when operationalising AI on unstructured data

This webinar is designed for senior professionals across the buy-side, sell-side, and market infrastructure providers, including heads of data, technology, quantitative research, trading, and investment strategy, as well as data scientists, and product and architecture leaders responsible for data platforms, analytics, and AI adoption.

Speakers:

Calum Conejo-Watt Head of Data Governance & Quality
Lombard Odier Investment Managers
Nicole Allen Director of Product
LSEG
Katie Prideaux Director of AI Solutions
LSEG
Richard Peterson CEO
MarketPsych Data
Moderator: Andrew Delaney President and Chief Content Officer
A-Team Group

More about our speakers:

Calum Conejo-Watt

Head of Data Governance & Quality

Lombard Odier Investment Managers

Calum is the Data Governance & Quality Lead at Lombard Odier Investment Managers with over 12 years’ experience in the financial services and data management space. He focuses on bringing data fundamentals to the business around data quality, cataloguing, and governance to enable the best possible start for data products. He has previously worked for Tier 1 financial institutions and consultancies and enjoys the challenge of solving technical data challenges.

Nicole Allen

Director of Product

LSEG

Nicole Allen is director of text analytics at LSEG. Nicole has almost two decades of fintech experience aligning content and product efforts to meet the needs of end users. Her experience ranges from the development of pioneering innovative financial applications leveraging text and AI to building predictive algorithms.

Katie Prideaux

Director of AI Solutions

LSEG

Katie leads the LSEG StarMine Analytics team, providing quantitative modelling approaches on listed equity and private markets to facilitate systematic investment decision-making. Prior to joining Analytics in 2019, Katie spent 6 years within LSEG, most recently in M&A & Strategy, and previously to this a Risk Analyst at LCH. Katie holds a Masters in Mathematics from the University of Warwick, and more recently a Masters in Data Science from Imperial College Business School.

Richard Peterson

CEO

MarketPsych Data

Richard Peterson is CEO of MarketPsych, an AI-based software and data provider. MarketPsych’s software creates analytics and extracts insights from news, social media, and corporate transcripts. MarketPsych’s software provides services for partners such as LSEG and Yahoo! Finance, and their data feeds are consumed by the world’s largest banks, funds, and governments. A trained psychiatrist, Dr. Peterson is a former fund manager and an award-winning writer of books including “Inside the Investor’s Brain” (Wiley 2007), “MarketPsych” (Wiley 2010) and “Trading on Sentiment” (Wiley 2016). He is an associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance, has published widely in academia, and performed postdoctoral neuroeconomics research at Stanford University.

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