Voices from research and practice
The program brings together institutional investment leaders, AI researchers, and practitioners building the frameworks for responsible adoption.
Mike Hunstad
President, Northern Trust Asset ManagementLeads Northern Trust Asset Management and is a prominent voice on quantitative investing and the discovery frontier of AI in institutional asset management.
Fireside Chat: AI and the Future of Investment
Ralph S.J. Koijen
AQR Capital Management Distinguished Service Professor of Finance and Applied AI; Fama Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessCo-Director of the NBER Asset Pricing program, co-editor of the Review of Financial Studies, and recipient of the 2019 Fischer Black Prize from the American Finance Association; a leading scholar bringing modern AI and machine-learning methods to asset pricing.
Presentation: Explaining Markets Using Agentic AI
Andrew Chin
Chief AI Officer, AllianceBernsteinAllianceBernstein's first Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer; previously the firm's Chief Risk Officer, Head of Quantitative Research, and Head of Investment Solutions and Sciences over a 29-year career. Co-author of the Narrative Factors paper.
Keynote: AI Transformation
Gideon Mann
Global Head of AI, Technology, MillenniumAI in Finance leader, with roles across Millennium, Bloomberg, and Google. His teams have operated across the entire AI business lifecycle, from research to production and operations, building platforms such as Google Colab, BloombergGPT, and autonomous agents and digital twins at Millennium.
Panel Discussion
Yuyu Fan
Director of AI Research, AllianceBernsteinYuyu is a Senior Vice President and Principal Data Scientist on the Data Science team at AB, where she leads the development and implementation of advanced artificial intelligence (AI).
Panel Discussion
Max Yu
Head of Fixed Income Fintech and AI Strategy, VanguardMax manages a data science team that develops ML and AI research capabilities, data science platforms, prediction models, and AI applications for systematic investing and research. Previously Head of Fixed Income Quantitative Research at Macquarie.
Panel Discussion
Haylee Min
Assistant Professor, School of Labor and Employment Relations at UIUCDr. Hanyi Min is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the School of Labor and Employment Relations and the Department of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research investigates how AI implementation changes companies' talent demand, employees' interpersonal interaction, as well as the use of AI as methodological tools in organizational science.
Panel Discussion
William J. Wu
Founder & CEO, Menos AICo-author of Narrative Factors: A Dynamic Factor Framework for Risk Management and Alpha Generation (Journal of Portfolio Management, 2026). Previously Head of Quantitative Research at Northern Trust; PhD in financial engineering from Northwestern University; CFA charterholder.
Workshop Welcome · Fireside Chat
Chris Yang
Co-Founder, Menos AICo-founder of Menos AI, leading the AI engineering behind the Narrative Factor library and the agentic workflows that extract structured catalysts from market discourse at scale.
What’s Priced In? Narrative Factors for the AI AgeAlex Wang
Head of Research and Product Development, Menos AILead author of Narrative Factors: A Dynamic Factor Framework for Risk Management and Alpha Generation (Journal of Portfolio Management, 2026); leads research and product development for the Narrative Factor library.
What’s Priced In? Narrative Factors for the AI Age
Iain Carey
Head of EMEA, Menos AILeads Menos AI's EMEA market engagement across clients, sales, and industry ecosystem. Host of the weekly podcast The Fund AI Pod. Previously Head of Global Fund Services Asia at Northern Trust.
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