Post-event report

QUANT x AI - NYC

AI, Open Source & Financial Innovation

108 people from 87 firms held a place; 1 firm paid for the evening, so no one in the room had to.

25 September 2025 Guidepoint Office New York

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Who was in the room

108 people held a place

87 distinct firms

9 speakers on stage, from 8 firms

Roster, not a door count. Paris predates first-party registration, so nobody was scanned on arrival: 108 people held a place, and we do not claim 108 walked in.

Who they worked for

What kind of firms

Held a place 108

Named no employer −5

Named an employer 103

No firm type held −2

Firm type on record 101

The base. 101 of 108 people on the roster (94%) work for a firm whose type we hold, and every share below is quoted over those 101 — never over 108.

The room

n = 101 classified attendees

Buy-side 15 15%
Sell-side 13 13%
Technology & data 48 48%
Other sectors 25 25%

The stage

n = 8 speaker firms

Buy-side 1 13%
Sell-side 1 13%
Technology & data 4 50%
Other sectors 2 25%

Buy-side is capital being deployed; sell-side is capital being intermediated; technology & data is what both of them buy. The room is counted in people, the stage in firms — the two rings share a definition, not a base.

15% buy-side — 15 of the 101 classified attendees: Asset management — 7 people from 6 firms; Hedge fund — 7 people from 6 firms; VC — 1 person from 1 firm.

Asset management 7 6 firms
Hedge fund 7 6 firms
VC 1 1 firm
Bank 8 7 firms
Broker 3 3 firms
Exchange 2 1 firm
Fintech 25 22 firms
Tech 16 13 firms
Data provider 7 5 firms
Consulting 15 11 firms
Other 3 3 firms
University 3 3 firms
Insurance 2 2 firms
Agency 1 1 firm
Research 1 1 firm

15 firm types across the 101 classified attendees, grouped by side and drawn against the largest single type. Bar colours are the four sides above.

The programme

6sessions

9confirmed speakers

8speaker firms

1h 45mof sessions

Networking 1h 00m 31%
Panel 0h 45m 23%
Talk 0h 35m 18%
Break 0h 30m 15%
Demo, Ceremony 0h 25m 13%

11 scheduled items over 3h 15m door to door, split by item type. The 6 that count as content — everything but the breaks and the networking hour — account for 1h 45m of it.

15m	Arrival & Reception break
20m	Beyond the Black Box: Interpretability of LLMs in Finance talk	1 spk
10m	Demo by Carbon Arc demo	1 spk
5m	Quick Break break
15m	FinReflectKG: Agentic Financial Knowledge Graph Construction and Evaluation talk	1 spk
10m	Demo by OpenBB demo	1 spk
10m	Break break
45m	Panel Discussion panel	6 spk
5m	Closing Remarks ceremony	1 spk
60m	Food, Drinks & Networking networking
	Event Ends break

Speakers

Didier Rodrigues Lopes Founder & CEO OpenBB
Hariom Tatsat Vice President, AI Quant Barclays Investment Bank
Jason Strimpel Founder PyQuant News
Fabrizio Dimino AI Research Scientist Domyn
Michael Watson Founder Hedgineer
Christos Koutsoyannis Chief Investment Officer Atlas Ridge Capital
Kirk McKeown Co-Founder & CEO Carbon Arc
Yuvraj Kumar Head of Product Carbon Arc
Fayssal El Mofatiche Founder & CEO Finteda

The evening

14 photographs published for this event — the first is the one at the top of this page. These are the same files the public gallery serves, so every frame can be checked against finteda.com/gallery.

Who backed it

10 organisations put their name to this evening. 1 of them paid for it; that is why the 108 people above paid nothing.

Sponsor 1

Carbon Arc — The firm that sponsored this evening. Each mark is the firm's own artwork and links to its own site; where we hold no mark the tile is set in type. No sponsorship package is recorded against this firm, so this report says what they backed and not what they bought.

Partners 3

Contributors 6 Barclays Investment BankPyQuant NewsApplied AIHedgineerAtlas Ridge CapitalDomyn

Sponsoring the next edition works the same way — events@finteda.com.

Every figure here is a row count

Taken from Finteda's own systems when this page was generated. Nothing on it is a target, a projection, or carried over from another event.

Excluded — none. All 108 roster records are described here. No attendee can be removed for who they are, or for which firm they work for.
Buy-side — capital being deployed, not intermediated: Hedge fund, Asset management, Pension fund, Family office, Sovereign wealth fund, PE, VC.

How these numbers were counted

Roster — attendee records held for this event, deduplicated per person.
Excluded — none. All 108 roster records are described here. An attendee may be removed only as a duplicate of another record, as Finteda's own or a host's staff, as a record that is not a person — a shared mailbox or an import artefact — or as a record for which no employer was ever captured. There is no reason available for removing a genuine attendee because of who they are; the employer reason names an EMPTY field and never a firm, so no attendee can be removed over which employer they have. Every removal is recorded against the person who made it. Where an exclusion applies it applies to THIS event only.
Distinct firms — unique employers on that roster, case- and punctuation-insensitive, after three corrections applied by rule rather than by hand. A trailing legal form or generic descriptor (Ltd, SAS, GmbH, "Technologies", "Group", "Holdings", "International") is folded onto the parent name, so one firm written two ways is counted once. Words that genuinely distinguish two entities — Capital, Partners, Management, Global — are never folded. A trailing qualifier describing the person rather than the employer ("— Student", "— Intern") is dropped. And an answer that states an employment status or a stage instead of naming an organisation is not counted as a firm at all; those people stay in every other number on this page, because they attended.
The firms named above — every firm on the roster whose company record reports 1,000 or more employees, or that sent 2 or more people to this event. 34 of 87 qualify. Each is named as its company record spells it, which is also where its logo, headcount and website come from; where we hold no logo the tile is set in type, and where we hold no website it is not a link. Firms below that line are not published, and no attendee is ever named, titled or counted individually on a shared copy of this page.
Firm type — the employer's company record, matched by CRM link or exact name. 101 of 108 attendees resolve to a record carrying one; of the 7 that do not, 2 named an employer we hold no type for and 5 named none at all. That second group is the ceiling rather than the shortfall: a roster row naming no employer can never be classified by anyone, so 103 is the most that could ever have been reached here, and 101 of those 103 were.
Buy-side — capital being deployed, not intermediated: Hedge fund, Asset management, Pension fund, Family office, Sovereign wealth fund, PE, VC. No other type counts, whether or not it appears in this room; banks, investment banks, brokers, exchanges, market makers and vendors are counted out.
The four sides — a regrouping of those same firm types, not a second classification of the same firm. Every type lands in exactly one side and the four are exhaustive over the classified base, so the shares add back to it. Sell-side is Bank, Investment bank, Private bank, Broker, Exchange, Market maker, Trading. Technology & data is Fintech, Tech, Data provider, AI / ML. Other sectors is every remaining type — consulting, insurance, academia, regulators and the public sector among them: real parts of this room, and none of them a buyer, an intermediary or a vendor. It is named for the SIDE and not for the firm type also spelled "other", which is one of the types inside it.
The stage — speaker firms are counted the same way attendee firms are, so two speakers from one firm are one firm. 8 firms put someone on this stage and 8 of them carry a type; the stage figure is drawn over those 8, in firms, against a room figure drawn in people. The two share a definition, not a base.
Not reported — seniority and home city. 5 of 108 attendee records carry a seniority value and 9 carry a city, which is too thin a base to describe either, so this report describes neither and names no value for them. 107 do carry a job title, but bucketing titles into seniority would be a classification we invented rather than one we hold.
Speakers — confirmed only; proposed and declined names are excluded.
Backers — each organisation appears under the role the CRM recorded for this event, and sponsors are grouped by the package recorded against them. The tier name and its entitlements are quoted from that record; none of the sponsors on this event has one, so the section names who backed the evening and states that what they bought is not recorded — it is never inferred from a logo or from the order the marks appear in. No amount appears on this report. Marks and links are the company record's own, resolved exactly as the firm wall above resolves them.
Sessions — agenda items excluding registration, breaks and networking. Durations are as SCHEDULED and were never observed, so no figure here claims when anything actually started; the allocation bar splits those scheduled minutes by item type, and its segments sum to the door-to-door total.
Photographs — the published gallery for this event, served from finteda.com.

Every report we send is built from the same query as this one. If a number here does not survive your checking, tell us — that is the only kind of correction this document takes.

Generated 2026-08-11 12:11 UTC.