The ATOM Podcast: Recent Episodes

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• Business Intelligence at Microsoft

• Scaling Up vs Scaling Out

• How to use Big Data at Amazon to solve PnL problems

• Data Mining at Microsoft

• Machine Learning models

• Deep Learning at Uber

• Increasing speed of training models

• Hedge Fund Data

• Why Hedge Funds need Data

• How to generate Alpha from Data

• Alternative Data

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• Insight into the world of financial data

• Vendors vs Hedge Funds

• What is a Data Strategist?

• Where has the growth in demand for data over the past 3 years come from?

• What is alternative data?

• How do firms with less data, gain competitive edge?

• How tricky is it to on-board new data?

• Key tips for entrepreneurship

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• Why do capital market firms need to outsource? 

• What are capital market firms doing wrong?

• Why is the external software industry on the rise?

• How do leaders evolve?

• Industry challenges over the past 20 years

• The shift from manual to algo

• Discretionary to systematic

• Back Office vs Front Office

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• Importance of Culture

• Building teams the 'right way'

• Challenges of being in a UK office of a US firm

• How to impact global culture from a secondary office

• Candidate Experience when interviewing

• How has COVID helped firms moving forward?

• The importance not just of speed, but Speed at Scale.

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• Hear from a founder of a FinTech, coming from a pure tech background

• How to build an agnostic system

• Handling stigma issues with "off the shelf" software

• How to handle secrecy and privacy of data and strategies

• Importance of working with smart people

• How to build a business

• What drives an entrepreneur to start up their own firm

• Speed and Robustness

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• Being fast and agile in an ever changing tech world 

• Proprietary tech vs non-proprietary tech 

• Culture (no red tape or restrictions is necessary in this day and age) 

• The similarities of financial institutions, from within

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• Managing with technology at the heart of everything

• Huge career defining moments, caused by external factors

• Amazing first job story

• 9/11, Credit Crunch

• Breaking things is ok, actually good for morale and culture

• The future of technology

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Season 1, Episode 1 - Chris Donnan, CTO of Tyler Capital

• AI

• Machine Learning

• Proprietary Technology

• Culture

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We are now just weeks away from the first episode of The ATOM Podcast, so here is an introduction to the Podcast, with a backstory of why the podcast has been created, as well as an overview of the target audience.