New York Winter Data Summit 2025

December 4 2025

AltDating

AltDating Hub

Our AltDating sessions facilitate interactions between data buyers and sellers via a programme of personalised matchmaking based on your needs.

Slot 1 - 11:10

Slot 2 - 11:25

Slot 3 - 11:40

Slot 4 - 11:55

Slot 5 - 12:10

Slot 6 - 12:25

Slot 7 - 12:40

Slot 8 - 2:10

Slot 9 - 2:25

Slot 10 - 2:40

Slot 11 - 2:55

Slot 12 - 3:10

Registration & networking breakfast

7:50 - 8:45

Exhibition area

Welcome remarks

8:45 - 8:55

Empire Stage

An interview with a CIO

8:55 - 9:20

Empire Stage

Join Dr. Wojtek Fundamenski, CEO and CIO of EngSci Capital Management, for an exclusive fireside chat. With three decades of experience bridging physics, engineering, and finance, Dr. Fundamenski has pioneered the application of advanced statistical modeling to systematic investment strategies. His leadership across renowned institutions such as Winton Capital, Teza Technologies, and Brevan Howard has shaped how quantitative research drives decision-making in financial markets.

Ian Webster

Chief Revenue Officer, Neudata

Wojtek Fundamenski

CEO & CIO, EngSci Capital Management

Keynote

9:20 - 9:45

Empire Stage

Jonathan Kay

CEO, Apptopia

Keynote

9:45 - 10:15

Empire Stage

Tim Yockel

SVP - Global Sales, Options Technology

Ryan Ballantine

Director - Product Management, Horizon, Options Technology

AI adoption and the future of work

10:15 - 10:45

Empire Stage

AI adoption is reaching an inflection point with potential to unlock approximately $920 billion in long-term benefits for S&P 500 companies, translating to an estimated $13-16 trillion in market value creation. New research from Morgan Stanley provides a novel analytical framework assessing both agentic and embodied AI adoption across industries.

Stephen Byrd

Global Head of Thematic Research and Sustainability Research, Morgan Stanley

Unlocking compliance and value: Insights from DDQs

10:00 - 10:40

Rockefeller Room

This session will reveal key compliance trends and risks uncovered from anonymised DDQs across the alternative data provider landscape. These real-world insights will allow attendees to benchmark their practices, proactively address emerging risks and adapt to changes in the legal and operational landscape.

Brittany Thomas

Regulatory Associate, Neudata

Networking break

10:45 - 11:10

Exhibition area

Fireside chat: The world of web scraping

11:10 - 11:30

Empire Stage

Tavis Lochhead

Co-Founder, Kadoa

Michael Hejtmanek

Vice President, Corporate Solutions, Neudata

Dorothy Ruderman

Data Strategy & Research, Verition Fund Management

The risks and rewards of AI-driven investing

11:30 - 12:10

Empire Stage

What impact is the growing use of AI LLMs having on the use of alternative data in investment management? This session explores the transformative breakthroughs enabling investors to extract insights from unstructured data, improve forecasting accuracy and unlock new sources of alpha. The conversation will also address key challenges, including data privacy and regulatory compliance. How are investment managers balancing commercial impact with operational risk?

Thomas Li

Co-Founder and CEO, Daloopa

New vendor showcase

12:10 - 12:40

Empire Stage

In this showcase session hear from some of the industry's newest providers, as they share the datasets and product launches set to take the world of alternative data by storm. Ensure you're keeping on top of all the latest updates and case studies to inform your future data acquisition strategy.

Sergio Toro

CEO, Arterio

Paul Boynton

COO and Co-Founder, Company Search Incoporated

Nate Singer

Chairman, Blue Heron Research Partners

Navigating the data management lifecycle

12:40 - 1:10

Empire Stage

This session will explore key challenges investment funds face in managing the data lifecycle, from workflows and tooling decisions to breaking down data silos and managing vendor subscriptions. How do different stakeholders across investment, data science, compliance and operations teams interact with data and how can internal communication be streamlined? How can immediate data needs be balanced with longer-term strategy?

Presentation

11:10 - 11:30

Chrysler Stage

Aditya Sharma

Director, Product Management, S&P Global Market Intelligence

Future proofing your market data strategy

11:30 - 12:10

Chrysler Stage

As investment funds face increasing pressure to modernize their data infrastructure while keeping costs and compliance in check, the market data landscape is evolving rapidly. This panel brings together industry experts to discuss how to make smart, future-proof vendor choices, demand transparency in licensing and pricing, ensure high data quality, and navigate the complex web of contracts and cloud migration challenges.

Danesh Kissoon

Associate, Neudata

Alternative data's relationship with the sellside

12:10 - 12:30

Chrysler Stage

This session will dive into the types of data providers who work with the sell side and consider whether this is consistent across datatypes. What concerns do data providers have in working with the sell side? Are two-tier offerings common to preserve hedge fund value? Can we beat the sellside? And do we care?

Finn Cousins

Research Analyst, Neudata

Alternative data in private markets: Gaining the edge

12:30 - 1:10

Chrysler Stage

Private equity and venture capital firms are increasingly turning to alternative data to gain an edge - faster deal sourcing, better benchmarking, and sharper insights. This panel explores how emerging data sources and analytics tools are reshaping private market strategies, from investing in data-driven companies to integrating data into their own workflows. Hear what’s working, what’s next, and how firms are positioning for the future.

Viacheslav Romanov

Partner and Associate Director, Boston Consulting Group

Beth Pollack

Operating Partner, Applied AI and Data Strategy, Data Science Advisors

AltDating

11:10 - 12:55

AltDating Hub

Our AltDating sessions facilitate interactions between data buyers and sellers via a programme of personalised matchmaking based on your needs.

Slot 1 - 11:10 - 11:25
Slot 2 - 11:25 - 11:40
Slot 3 - 11:40 - 11:55
Slot 4 - 11:55 - 12:10
Slot 5 - 12:10 - 12:25
Slot 6 - 12:25 - 12:40
Slot 7 - 12:40 - 12:55

Lunch break

1:10 - 2:10

Exhibition area

Lunch & Learn - From messy records to trusted insights: How entity resolution ensures high-quality data across sources

1:20 - 2:00

Rockefeller Room

The hidden cost of messy data is staggering. As organisations enrich their data with third-party sources, inconsistencies like ‘Joe’s Pizza’ appearing as ‘Joseph’s Pizza’, or ‘Joey’s Pizzeria’ can multiply across systems, creating confusion. At a global scale, with multiple languages and formats, these challenges become even more acute. This session will explore how Entity Resolution addresses issues of standardization, normalization, duplication and cross-cultural matching, providing the foundation for high-quality, trusted data.

Gurpinder Dhillon

Head of Data Partner Strategy & Ecosystem, Senzing

How to preserve alpha in a macro-driven environment

2.10 - 2:50

Empire Stage

From accelerating regime shifts to persistent rate volatility, the past few years have redefined the macro playbook. This panel will discuss how top investment teams are adjusting their portfolio construction & risk solutions to deal with the increasingly volatile macro environment.

Mahmood Noorani

CEO and Co-Founder, Quant Insight (Moderator)

Macro risk in the market

2:50 - 3:10

Empire Stage

AltDating

2:10 - 3:25

AltDating Hub

Our AltDating sessions facilitate interactions between data buyers and sellers via a programme of personalised matchmaking based on your needs.

Slot 8 - 2:10 - 2:25
Slot 9 - 2:25 - 2:40
Slot 10 - 2:40 - 2:55
Slot 11 - 2:55 - 3:10

Understanding macro sentiment

3:10 - 3:30

Empire Stage

Animal spirits, the emotional and psychological factors that influence economic behaviours, can also lead to irrational decision-making. These irrational decisions can be contagious and can be a contributing factor to the economic business cycles, and so the wider markets. AI and the growing availability of alternative data allow us to track this. This presentation will discuss using media sentiment, earnings calls, central bank sentiment and consumer confidence indicators to better understand macro sentiment.

Drew Davies

Research Analyst, Neudata

Will alternative macro data replace official economic statistics?

3:30 - 4:00

Empire Stage

As awareness around data credibility grows, investors are increasingly using alternative macro indicators to address issues around the timeliness and outdated collection processes of official economic statistics. This session will explore the resulting impact on investor confidence, the issues agencies have in integrating alternative data and the initiatives by various organisations to solve data challenges and call for more research.

Barney Bruce-Smythe

Vice President, Neudata

Data monetization workshop - Neudata buyside clients only

3:10 - 4:00

Rockefeller Room

This exclusive workshop will bring together a dynamic group of data owners and data buyers to explore strategies and opportunities for data monetization. Hear from a panel of Neudata and external experts, before taking the opportunity to ask questions, gather invaluable intel and form connections within an closed networking setting.

AltDating

2:10 - 3:25

AltDating Hub

Slot 12 - 3:10 - 3:25

A winter solstice: Reflecting on dataset discontinuations

3:40 - 4:00

Empire Stage

This session will explore the key drivers behind dataset terminations over the past year and discuss some risk factors and market trends to consider throughout 2026.

Networking drinks reception

4:00 - 5:30

Exhibition area