Event Schedule

A carefully curated program designed to maximize learning, networking, and practical insights

Presentations
Demos
Panel Discussion
Breaks & Networking
Event Logistics
18:00
25min

Arrival & Market Data Networking

Connect with market data engineers, AI specialists, and capital markets professionals. Network with Paris's fintech innovators.

18:25
5min

Welcome & Intro

Fayssal El Mofatiche
Fayssal El Mofatiche
Founder
Finteda
18:30
15min
Industry Talk

AI and Alternative Data: Expanding the Information Edge for Momentum Investing

In this talk, I will discuss the opportunities of integrating alternative data into passive, rule-based quantitative portfolio strategies. Focusing on momentum strategies, I will illustrate how alternative data can improve signal quality and portfolio performance. I will close with a discussion of current limitations and challenges, and how AI may help overcome some of them through the generation of richer, more informative data.

Hamza Bahaji
Hamza Bahaji
Head of Financial Engineering & Innovative Solutions
Amundi
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18:45
15min
Live Demo

FactSet MCP and Content Tools

In this session Mark will demo the FactSet MCP server in action using a Claude enterprise model and tools. The FactSet MCP server provides tools to access core FactSet content services such as fundamentals, estimates, company, people and pricing. More info is here https://developer.factset.com/mcp

Mark McGillion
Mark McGillion
SVP, Senior Director Engineering
FactSet
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19:00
10min

Networking Break

Connect with fellow attendees, speakers, and sponsors. Light refreshments provided.

19:10
15min
Industry Talk

What It Takes to Deliver on Agentic AI for Investment Research at Deutsche Bank

In this talk, Wai will explore how banks are rethinking the use of AI beyond traditional quantitative models, focusing on a shift toward agentic and intelligence‑driven architectures. The session explains the importance of preparing the technical infrastructure for RAG development, which will ultimately speed up the research processes, improve governance, and reduce operational risk. Rather than simply adding AI tools, the talk highlights how banks are building structured “AI cookbooks,” centralized knowledge bases, and evaluation frameworks that allow humans and AI agents to collaborate at scale—evolving into faster, more adaptive, and more creative research, often described as “vibe research,” that is set to redefine innovation in financial institutions.

Wai-Chung Ip
Wai-Chung Ip
Senior Quantitative Developer
Deutsche Bank
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19:25
10min
Live Demo

AI-Powered Investment Research in 30 Seconds

Join Laurent for a live demo of how Databricks combines FactSet data, SEC filings, and your position book in a governed, conversational intelligence platform to generate AI-powered research reports in 30 seconds.

Laurent Fabre
Laurent Fabre
Field CTO, South EMEA
Databricks
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19:35
10min

Networking Break

Connect with fellow attendees, speakers, and sponsors. Light refreshments provided.

19:45
10min
Live Demo

Trusted Data for AI-- Building Reliable Pipelines with dbt

AI systems are only as reliable as the data pipelines feeding them. This session explores how dbt addresses the core challenges of data trust: testing, versioning, semantic context, and auditability. We'll walk through these capabilities practically, including a live demo of the dbt MCP Server.

Hicham Babahmed
Hicham Babahmed
Solutions Architect
dbt Labs
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19:55
10min
Live Demo

Time Series Databases in the Age of Coding Agents

AI coding agents are changing how developers build and deploy data infrastructure, and fast. In this session, we'll explore what that means for time series workloads in financial markets. Live on stage, we'll use Claude to deploy a full QuestDB integration in under two minutes: connecting to a live market data feed, ingesting into QuestDB, and spinning up a Grafana dashboard, all from a prompt. We'll then dive into the key concepts behind high-performance time series storage and walk through queries on live data, showing what becomes possible when your database is as fast to deploy as it is to query.

Javier Ramirez
Javier Ramirez
Developer Relations Lead
QuestDB
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20:05
40min
Panel

The Future of Market Data Infrastructure

Industry experts debate the evolution of market data ecosystems. Topics include cloud-native architectures, AI-driven insights, next-generation data distribution models, and the democratization of market data access.

Moderator
Fayssal El Mofatiche
Fayssal El Mofatiche
Finteda
Panelists
Caio Natividade
Caio Natividade
Deutsche Bank
Eric Benhamou
Eric Benhamou
Ai For Alpha
Jan Decken
Jan Decken
FactSet
Boris Toledano
Boris Toledano
Linkup
Francois Arnaud
Francois Arnaud
Amundi
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20:45
1h 15min

Closing Words & Networking

Extended networking with the Paris fintech community, market data professionals, and AI innovators

22:00

End of Event

Thank you for joining us at Market Data X AI Paris. Safe travels home and we look forward to seeing you at future events!