McGill-FIAM Asset Management Hackathon

Developing the Next Generation of Finance Talent: Fusing Finance and Data Science, with Finance at the Forefront.

McGill Desautels' Finance Area in partnership with FIAM are thrilled to announce the inaugural 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: 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: Teams will be assessed based on their innovative ideas, creativity of leveraging big data, technical proficiency and preliminary back-test results.

Date: October 23rd and 24th, 2024
Location: Station FinTech Montréal
4 Place Ville-Marie; Suite 300
Montréal, QC H3B 2E7