San Francisco Data Summit
October 29 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 - 11:30
Slot 2 - 11:45
Slot 3 - 12:00
Slot 4 - 12:15
Slot 5 - 12:30
Slot 6 - 12:45
Slot 7 - 2:00
Slot 8 - 2:15
Slot 9 - 2:30
Slot 10 - 2:45
Registration & networking breakfast
7:50 - 8:50
Exhibition area
Opening remarks
8:50 - 9:05
Nikko Ballroom
Ian Webster
Chief Revenue Officer, Neudata
A fireside chat with a CEO, investor, entrepreneur and author
9:05 - 9:30
Nikko Ballroom
Quantitative
Data providers
Ian Webster
Chief Revenue Officer, Neudata (Moderator)
Nicholas Mitsakos
Chairman & CEO, Arcadia Capital
Data sourcing strategy: Resilience in a changing world
9:30 - 10:10
Nikko Ballroom
Quantitative
As the data landscape continues to evolve at pace, identifying and leveraging the right datasets is essential for driving informed financial decisions. Investment funds face mounting challenges, ranging from shifting regulations and data discontinuation to the risk of alpha decay. This session will delve into how resilient sourcing strategies and cutting-edge analytics are helping firms navigate these complexities and maintain a competitive edge.
Rayne Gaisford
Chief Risk Officer & Chief Data Strategy Officer, RTW Investments (Moderator)
Ben Cohen
Managing Director, Data Strategy, Final
Limin Xiao
Senior Portfolio Manager, Allspring Global Investments
Artemiza Woodgate
CIO & Founding Partner, Integrated Quantitative Investments
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Ryan Morris
President, Meson Capital Partmers, LLC
Rewriting the sales playbook: Generative AI for account intelligence
10:10 - 10:30
Nikko Ballroom
Quantitative
Data providers
In today’s fragmented data environment, traditional account preparation no longer gives teams the speed or insights they need. Enterprises are turning to generative AI to unify internal and external data, sharpen customer engagement, and drive growth. This session will explore AWS' journey in transforming account summary tools, examining the impact vs. accessibility framework that shaped development priorities, the challenges of selecting data for generative AI and the measurable impacts on productivity.
Fabian Namgalies
Former Head of Generative AI Roll-out, AWS
Coffee & networking break
10:30 - 11:10
Exhibition area
Data monetization seminar & networking
10:10 - 11:00
Carmel 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.
Ian Webster
Chief Revenue Officer, Neudata
Michael Hetjmanek
Vice President, Corporate Solutions, Neudata
Robert Britt
Managing Director & Head of Data Science, Blue Owl
New vendor showcase
11:10 - 11:40
Nikko Ballroom
Quantitative
This session will showcase some of the newest vendors, datasets and product launches taking the alternative data industry by storm. Ensure you keep on top of the latest updates and case studies to inform your future data acquisition strategy.
Joe Vezzani
CEO & Co-Founder, LunarCrush
From messy records to trusted insights: How entity resolution ensures high-quality data across sources
11:40 - 12:00
Nikko Ballroom
Quantitative
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
Unstructured to unstoppable: AI’s role in unlocking alternative data
12:00 - 12:40
Nikko Ballroom
Quantitative
AI and LLMS promise to transform the extraction of insights from unstructured data, but what is actually working in practice? What impact is this having on the processing of Alternative Data in the investment vertical? Will the emergence of agentic AI and specialized tools overcome interpretability and explainability challenges? Discover how such breakthroughs could reshape how data supports investment decisions, while balancing compliance and commercial impact.
Cindy Lin
Adjunct Instructor, WorldQuant University & Quant Researcher (Moderator)
Cathy Tanimura
Principal, Analytics and Data Science, Summit Partners
Fang Li
Vice President, Quantamental Investment, Voya Investment Financial
Amanda Widjaja
Vice President, Head of Data, Norwest Venture Partners
What is the risk of AI on a business?
12:40 - 1:00
Nikko Ballroom
Clark O'Niell
Managing Director and Partner, Boston Consulting Group
AltDating
12:00 - 1:00
AltDating Hub
Our AltDating sessions facilitate interactions between data buyers and sellers via a programme of personalised matchmaking based on your needs.
Slot 1 - 12:00
Slot 2 - 12:15
Slot 3 - 12:30
Slot 4 - 12:45
Slot 1 - 12:00
Slot 2 - 12:15
Slot 3 - 12:30
Slot 4 - 12:45
Lunch break
1:00 - 2:00
Monterey Room
The state of alternative data in private markets
2:00 - 2:15
Carmel Room
Private market datasets, especially firmographic ones, are abundant, but investors often struggle to assess their quality before making a purchase. This session will explore where alternative data is truly adding value in private equity and where it's falling short. How can investors more confidently evaluate data providers for consistency and accuracy, saving both time and money.
Reyna Eapen
Research Analyst, Neudata
Alternative data in diligence: Canva as a case study
2:15 - 2:35
Carmel Room
Using Canva as a case study, this session will explore some of the difficulties with traditional sourcing and the questions alternative data can help to answer. What can web traffic data uncover about the opportunities presented to Canva by AI chatbots? What can B2B panel data reveal about the stickiness of a Canva subscription? Discover how alternative data can play a key role in diligence.
Nick Huntington-Klein
Senior Data Scientist, Pinegrove Venture Partners
Alexey Lagerberg
Senior Data Scientist, Pinegrove Venture Partners
Private Equity in the AI Age
2:35 - 2:55
Carmel Room
How can private equity investors better screen for and manage AI risk and opportunity? This session will help illustrate how straight-jacketed AI combined with alternative data can help bring structure to a very challenging topic.
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Warren Valdmanis
Managing Partner, FoW Partners
AI & differentiation in private markets: Enhancing performance
2:55 - 3:30
Carmel Room
As competition for high-quality deal flow intensifies, private markets are turning to AI to gain an investment edge - without the need for extensive internal model building. Discover how novel and high-value data sources are being used to identify opportunities, accelerate due diligence, and unlock measurable value creation across the investment lifecycle. Featuring discussions surrounding the use of paid and open-source models in processing the data and achieving AI innovation.
Dan Zaelit
Head of Data Platform, Pinegrove Venture Partners (Moderator)
Annamarie Kelly
Founding Product Engineer, Tidemark
Anirudh Nair
Founding product Engineer, Base10
AltDating
2:00 - 3:30
AltDating Hub
Our AltDating sessions facilitate interactions between data buyers and sellers via a programme of personalised matchmaking based on your needs.
Slot 5 - 2:00
Slot 6 - 2:15
Slot 7 - 2:30
Slot 8 - 2:45
Slot 9 - 3:00
Slot 10 - 3:15
Slot 5 - 2:00
Slot 6 - 2:15
Slot 7 - 2:30
Slot 8 - 2:45
Slot 9 - 3:00
Slot 10 - 3:15
Coffee & networking break
3:30 - 4:00
Exhibition area
2025 healthcare data trends
4:00 - 4:20
Nikko Ballroom
Quantitative
Data providers
This session will explore popular healthcare data categories as well as considering what non-healthcare data sets are being explored by healthcare investors. Over a year on from significant disruptions in the space, what are the use cases for open vs closed claims data? How can investors stay ahead of the impact of the Trump administration's bill on healthcare in the US? Dive into these and other key trends in the 2025 healthcare market.
Matt Yome
Research Analyst, Neudata
The big quant panel: Embedding risk signals in quant strategies
4:20 - 5:00
Nikko Ballroom
Quantitative
Data providers
From modeling the impact of trade policy shifts to adapting portfolio frameworks under heightened unpredictability, quant investors are rethinking how they capture and manage risk in today’s volatile environment. With sticky core inflation, shifting labor market dynamics, and elevated tariff risks, understanding the quantifiable characteristics of stocks and historical patterns across regimes is more critical than ever. This panel will explore how alternative datasets are powering risk-aware portfolio optimization, helping quants track evolving supply chain health, inflation signals, and labor market stresses—ultimately turning uncertainty into measurable inputs for more resilient investment strategies.
Networking drinks reception
5:00 - 7:00
Exhibition Area