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QTD
Code Moves Money.
Where the people who build markets convene.
An annual, curated conference for the engineers and leaders across quant, tech, and data. One sharp theme each year.
What QTD is
The builders' counterpart to the big quant conferences — the room where the people who decide and ship what gets built actually convene. Not an expo. A working day with one sharp theme.
Curated, not crowdsourced
Every panel and demo is invited and shaped — no open call, no pay-to-present.
One theme a year
A single sharp question anchors every panel and demo, so the day reads as one argument.
No vendor showcase alone
No product demo without a builder co-presenting the real system behind it.
Small enough to argue
Deliberately sized so the room can actually push back — not just listen.
The format
Four panels. Six demos. One theme. Every panel paired with a demo on the same question; a single host frames the day as one designed flow. Q&A off-stage — where the real conversations happen.
Opening keynote debate
The theme, argued from both sides — before anyone presents anything.
Structured-networking lunch
Ninety minutes, seated on purpose — not a buffet scrum.
Closing fireside
What the day settled — and what it didn't.
The longest block: drinks
Nearly three hours of reception, by design. The conversations are the product.
One question, run through the whole stack
Four 40-minute panels take the year's question through each layer. Six live demos are threaded between them, each on the same layer as the panel around it.
Data Platforms
Build, buy, or ignore — across the market-data and research-data estate.
Modeling & Research
Where AI actually earns its keep in the research stack — and where it doesn't.
Execution & Infra
The systems that touch the market: what you own, what you rent, what you retire.
Risk & Governance
Model risk, vendor risk, and the governance debt AI adoption quietly accrues.
Edition I · Guidepoint Global, 675 6th Ave 2nd Floor, New York · 2026
Opportunity Cost in the Age of AI
The build, buy, and ignore decisions trading and asset management face as AI reshapes the calculus — four panels, six demos, one theme.
AI has turned every roadmap into a queue of build, buy, and ignore decisions. Compute, data, models, and headcount now compete for the same budget — and the cost of choosing wrong compounds quietly, quarter after quarter. The 2026 programme runs that one question through the whole stack: what should you build, what should you buy, and what should you deliberately ignore?
Launching in 2026
QTD launches in New York in 2026. It's built to travel — a European edition (London the lead candidate) is under consideration for future years. Each edition takes a new theme; the format, and the bar, stay the same.
Who's in the room
Heads of quant, heads of data, trading-technology leads, and the engineers who run their systems across hedge funds, banks, and fintechs
Partners
Sponsorship & partnership
QTD works with a small number of partners whose builders belong in the room — no expo hall, no pay-to-present. The sponsorship prospectus is available on request.
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