QuantMinds International 2026
16 November 2026 – 19 November 2026
InterContinental O2, London, United Kingdom
QuantMinds International is Informa Connect's annual quantitative finance conference, bringing together 700+ practitioners and academics from banks, asset managers, regulators and academia. The 2026 edition opens with a preconference day of summits and workshops (Quant Tech and AI Summit, Quant Invest Summit, Machine Learning in Finance Workshop, Latest in Volatility Workshop and a hackathon), followed by three main conference days with streams on derivative pricing, alpha and allocation, risk and hedging, and quant dev, AI and quantum computing. It is co-located with RiskMinds.
172 sessions · 160 speakers
Organiser (1)
Media Partners (2)
Quantitative Finance · FinTech Futures
Sponsors (6)
Clearwater Analytics · SAS · AMD · Murex · Deutsche Börse · S&P Global Market Intelligence
Association Partner (1)
Exhibitors (2)
London Stock Exchange Group · OptionMetrics
Supporting Partner (1)
Agenda
- Chair's welcome remarks 16 November 2026
- QuantMinds fourth annual hackathon in partnership with CompatibL 16 November 2026
- Chair's welcome remarks 16 November 2026
- Chair's welcome remarks 16 November 2026
- Chair's welcome remarks 16 November 2026
- Quant investing in 2026: Markets, risk, and integration 16 November 2026
- Next-Gen quant infrastructure: AI, quantum, and cloud-native architecture revolutionising financial markets 16 November 2026
- Elements of deep learning 16 November 2026
- Important facts about volatility and early models 16 November 2026
- Logical and philosophical constraints applied to large language models 16 November 2026
- Does the AI edge exist? What allocators see when they test it 16 November 2026
- AI in finance: From predictive models to agentic systems 16 November 2026
- AI-driven alpha: From research to production 16 November 2026
- Deep learning for pricing and hedging 16 November 2026
- Stochastic volatility 16 November 2026
- A random walk down microstructure alley 16 November 2026
- Deep learning for approximating high-dimensional PDEs and control problems in finance 16 November 2026
- Volatility and tail risk: Managing the extremes 16 November 2026
- Agentic AI for math finance 16 November 2026
- Path-dependent volatility 16 November 2026
- Deep calibration 16 November 2026
- Systematic M&A arbitrage 16 November 2026
- The agent harness interface: code, control, and adaptive systems in finance 16 November 2026
- Deep LSVM simulation 16 November 2026
- Sovereign climate contingent convertible notes (S-CloCo) for power-sector transition finance funding cost reduction 16 November 2026
- Calibration of volatility models 16 November 2026
- Generative models 16 November 2026
- Cross asset portfolio construction: Managing risk and complexity 16 November 2026
- YieldGAN: Synthetic yield curve generation for hedging, cross-curve dynamics and regime shifts 16 November 2026
- The life cycle of a systematic strategy in crypto: the overfitting problem when you trade a single asset 16 November 2026
- Assessment framework for RAG systems: a quantitative approach 16 November 2026
- Chair's closing remarks 16 November 2026
- Chair's closing remarks 16 November 2026
- Deep hedging of interest rates derivatives 16 November 2026
- A novel market making strategy for stock baskets and optimised execution in the closing auction 16 November 2026
- Chair's closing remarks 16 November 2026
- Chair’s closing remarks 16 November 2026
- Mentorship for the next generation of global talent 16 November 2026
- AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data: Implications for Pricing/Hedging Calculators and Risk Models 16 November 2026
- AI in markets: The next stage of finance or a risky parrot? 16 November 2026
- Build v buy in the age of cloud and AI 16 November 2026
- Chair's welcome remarks 17 November 2026
- The state of quant finance: Navigating market evolution, technology disruption, and regulatory shifts 17 November 2026
- When Models Have Goals: A New Type of AI Model Risk 17 November 2026
- Play a few hands of poker 17 November 2026
- The art of uncomfortable questions: what documentary filmmaking teaches us about risk 17 November 2026
- The AI infrastructure inflection: how modern compute is changing quantitative finance 17 November 2026
- The allocator perspective on quant investing: Strategies and perspectives on alpha, risk, and portfolio construction 17 November 2026
- Chair's closing remarks 17 November 2026
- Check out the PhD poster area in the Foyer! 17 November 2026
- Play a few hands of poker 17 November 2026
- Chair's welcome remarks 17 November 2026
- Chair's welcome remarks 17 November 2026
- Chair's welcome remarks 17 November 2026
- Workshop “AI Model Risk Measurement, Reporting and Mitigation 17 November 2026
- Putting the noise in perspective: private markets through the recent news cycle 17 November 2026
- Magic Strikes 17 November 2026
- Modeling commodities curves: Adaptations for counterparty credit risk use cases 17 November 2026
- The greatest moments in VIX 17 November 2026
- Term Premia and Bond Convexity 17 November 2026
- Goal-based optimisation for regime-switching models 17 November 2026
- Portfolio stress loss models for equity prime brokerage 17 November 2026
- Lean for stochastic calculus 17 November 2026
- Systematic alpha in FX and fixed income in the post Covid era 17 November 2026
- Play a few hands of poker 17 November 2026
- Market Mysteries: Close-Up Magic for Financial Minds 17 November 2026
- Dissection of high dimensional empirical copula into analytical components 17 November 2026
- Session title TBC 17 November 2026
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- Differential Karhunen-Loève 17 November 2026
- Deploying sentiment analysis 17 November 2026
- From alpha discovery to alpha selection 17 November 2026
- Machine learning frameworks for contingent convertibles and their applications in asset management 17 November 2026
- XVA as the asymptotic limit of a deep-hedging problem 17 November 2026
- Option pricing in Bachelier-type models 17 November 2026
- Chair's closing remarks 17 November 2026
- Chair's closing remarks 17 November 2026
- Chair's closing remarks 17 November 2026
- Play a few hands of poker 17 November 2026
- Market Mysteries: Close-Up Magic for Financial Minds 17 November 2026