AIR London 1.0 – Powered by Plato

The Crystal, One Siemens Brothers Way, Royal Victoria Dock, London

Thursday 2^nd May 2019 from 0800 – 1900

Europe’s new premier fintech event that will define the future of alpha in investment portfolios

Plato Partnership and AIR Summit are delighted to announce the first ever AIR event in the UK on Thursday 2^nd May from 8am:

The one-day AlphaTech™ event will exhibit cutting-edge technologies that help investment managers to generate or maintain alpha performance in their portfolios
For the last five years, the AIR Summit has provided up and coming investment tech companies with a forum to present their innovations to leading figures in the investment management industry
To date, 80 companies have presented to the world’s top mutual funds, ETF providers, hedge funds, pension funds and sovereign wealth funds at AIR Summit

Following the successful AIR Summit 4.0, which was held in New York City last September, this will be the first AIR Summit event outside the United States.

See 10 exciting investment management fintech firms from the US, Canada and Europe in a day of education, collaboration and networking.

Companies presenting include:

Keynote Speaker: Sufyaan Kazi, Asset Management Lead at Google

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Daniel Hulme CEO of Satalia, an Artificial Intelligence company

Distill Analytics (Vancouver): Using remote psychometric profiling to measure corporate leadership teams’ decisiveness

TruValue Labs (San Francisco): Applying artificial intelligence (AI) to uncover timely Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) information at scale

Amenity Analytics (New York): Transforming text to meaningful insights using natural language processing (NLP) to draw actionable insights on a massive scale

AIR Summit can also confirm that Rehan Islam from Janus Henderson, Suren Siva from Credit Suisse, Matt Howell from T. Rowe and Alastair Clarke from Capital will be sitting on our Innovation Panel event, to be chaired by Nej D’jelal, Managing Director and Head of EMEA Electronic Equities and Quant Prime Services Product at Barclays Investment Bank and Plato Sell-Side Chairman, discussing some of the key challenges and opportunities in alpha.

AIR London 1.0 will consist of keynote speakers, ten emerging companies discussing innovation in alpha generation, a panel discussion and round table sessions with the presenting companies.

A cocktail and networking reception will cap off the event.