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.
Keynote
9:20 - 9:45
Empire Stage
Keynote
9:45 - 10:15
Empire Stage
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.
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.
Networking break
10:45 - 11:10
Exhibition area
Fireside chat: The world of web scraping
11:10 - 11:30
Empire Stage
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?
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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.
Presentation
2.10 - 2:30
Empire Stage
Macro risk in the market
2:30 - 2:50
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 8 - 2:10 - 2:25
Slot 9 - 2:25 - 2:40
Slot 10 - 2:40 - 2:55
Understanding macro sentiment
2:50 - 3:10
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.
Will alternative macro data replace official economic statistics?
3:10 - 3:40
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.
Data monetization workshop - Neudata buyside clients only
2:50 - 3:40
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 11 - 2:55 - 3:10
Slot 12 - 3:10 - 3:25
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