McGill-FIAM Asset Management Hackathon
Developing the Next Generation of Finance Talent: Fusing Finance and Data Science, with Finance at the Forefront.
McGill Desautels'聽Finance Area聽in partnership with聽FIAM聽are thrilled to announce the inaugural聽Asset Management Hackathon, a cutting-edge event that brings together the brightest minds in finance, technology, and innovation. Dive into the realm of Big Data and AI as we tackle finance challenges with creativity and technical expertise.
The Innovation Challenge:聽AI in Bottom-Up Portfolio Construction. An exciting and innovative challenge centered around bottom-up portfolio construction using US publicly traded equities, Big Fundamental Data, alternative data, and cutting-edge Machine Learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.
Evaluation Criteria:聽Teams will be assessed based on their innovative ideas, creativity of leveraging big data, technical proficiency and preliminary back-test results.
Date:聽October 23rd and 24th, 2024
Location:聽Station FinTech Montr茅al
4 Place Ville-Marie; Suite 300
Montr茅al, QC H3B 2E7
Final deadline: September 9th, 2024
