Events

AI in Finance – Hype, Reality and Opportunities

  • The Union League Club of New York

  • March 28, 2023

  • 6:00pm ET

HABA invites you to:

Join us for an discussion on

AI in Finance and the Hype, Reality and Opportunities around this topic.

Featuring

Argyro (Iro) Tasitsiomi, PhD, Head of Investment Data Science at T. Rowe Price

Iro is an experienced executive with both sell and buy side experience, and 14+ years’ experience delivering cutting-edge business solutions and strategic direction to organizations. Through her work at T. Rowe Price, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs and Prudential Financial she has a proven track record in guiding sizable, cross-functional teams in the use of data science – ranging from classical statistics, math and science methods to the most cutting edge machine learning algorithms – driving greater efficiency and revenue in investment banking, trading, and asset management.

Iro earned a PhD in Astrophysics and a Masters in Physics from the University of Chicago. She was previously a fellow and lecturer at Princeton University.

&

Thanos Papadimitriou, PhD, Entrepreneur, Professional Investor and Academic

Thanos is the co-founder and President of Moveo AI, a next generation no-code conversational AI platform that is currently serving 1M customers/month around the world. He has co-founded several other successful companies in the US and in Europe, including AlphaDetail, 11888 giaola, and others. Thanos is also co-founder and Partner at Charge ventures a NYC-based early stage VC fund with 50+ investments in its portfolio, including unicorns Transfix and Grin, and a number of successful exits (including Bison Trails – acquired by Coinbase and motion.ai acquired by HubSpot).

Thanos teaches Tech Entrepreneurship at NYU Stern where he has been voted multiple times over as of the best instructors of the entire curriculum. He earned a BSc from MIT in Computer Science, an MS in Computer Science from UCLA, and a PhD in Operations and Technology Management from UCLA Anderson, the latter with the aid of an Onassis scholarship.

Moderated by

Poseidon Retsinas, Founding Partner, HedgeLegal

Poseidon has over 15 years of experience as an attorney advising clients with respect to trading and financing documentation (Prime Brokerage, ISDA, bespoke derivatives, Futures Clearing, Repo, etc). His firm, HedgeLegal has also developed a proprietary software platform, TradingDoX, which provides contract analytics to their clients. Prior to founding HedgeLegal, he was responsible for the negotiation of all trading documentation for Innocap. Poseidon kicked off his career as an associate at a premier global law firm in London, Clifford Chance, where he specialized in derivatives.

Poseidon is admitted to the New York Bar and Quebec Bar. Poseidon obtained his JD from McGill University and holds a MSc in Law and Accounting from the London School of Economics.

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

6:00-8:30pm ET

The Union League Club of New York
38 East 37th Street
New York, NY 10016

Pre-registration is required. This event is free for HABA members in good standing (2023). Friends of HABA are always welcome – non-member admission is $50. If you’d like to apply for membership, please contact info@haba.org

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