GAIIM 2025 brings together investors, innovators, and industry leaders to examine how generative AI is reshaping the future of fundamental investing.
Shaping the Future with Artificial Intelligence
A full-day forum featuring leading voices from fundamental investing and fintech, sharing real-world applications and best practices for Gen AI in investment research, portfolio management, and more.
A unique opportunity to test-drive over 20 cutting-edge Gen AI tools built specifically for fundamental investors, from idea generation to valuation and reporting.
Meet and build relationships with top PMs, analysts, data scientists, founders, and allocators pioneering Gen AI in asset management.
Innovating for All.
Generative AI in Investment Management
Conference Brief
Tentative Date: Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Location: Lerner Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY
Website: Will be launched in early July 2025.
Generative AI is transforming the fundamental investment management landscape, from idea generation to research workflows and data analysis to routine workflow automation and decision-making and portfolio and risk management. This one-day conference brings together hedge fund analysts and portfolio managers, technology vendors, consultants, and thought leaders to explore real-world applications, discuss lessons learned and opportunities, and network with professionals at the intersection of AI and investing.
Whether you’re piloting tools, building internal capabilities, exploring how to take your research process capability to the next level, or evaluating your strategy, this is the definitive event for actionable insights and meaningful connections.
•Analysts and portfolio managers in value-oriented, long/short equity, fundamental hedge funds, public and private funds, management consultants, and investment banks.
•Technology professionals are serving in the said financial institutions, CTOs, and AI solution providers.
•AI platform solution providers expected to attend include: Quantly, Boosted.ai, TenzingMEMO, OpenBB, Drift.ai, PinGap, HarmoniQ Insights, Daloopa, and Speech Craft Analytics, with others, such as AlphaSense, currently in discussion.
•Go-to-market strategy includes social media promotion via value investing newsletters like Value Hedgehog, outreach to Columbia and Wharton alumni, Heilbrunn-affiliated faculty, and offering performance marketing fees (approximately $50 per referral) through newsletters and targeted social channels.
•Lerner Hall has a flexible layout with a capacity of ~1,500. The current attendance estimate is 250 participants.
9:00 AM – Breakfast & Opening Remarks
Session 0: Keynote Speech
Session 1: Gen AI Landscape Over the Next 18 Months
•Existing market solutions, what investment firms are doing, and what’s to come in terms of technology, business capabilities and their maturity.
Session 2: Fireside Chat (Potentially): Peter Peterson, CTO at Causeway Capital
•Evolution in the use of GenAI over time
•Current and planned use cases
•Build vs. Buy: Key consideration for the approach taken so far.
•The impact on the organization and analyst capabilities
•Thoughts on upcoming regulation and compliance around GenAI?
•Discussion on data privacy
•Change in data conversations in the company as the funds implement LLMs
Morning Break
Mini-Sessions:
• Lessons Learned: Buy vs. Build vs. Hybrid decisions
• Solution Provider Insight: Challenges and successes from the trenches.
12:00 PM – Lunch
Afternoon Panels:
•Transition from ChatGPT to Agents workflows
•Discussion with OpenBB, Quantly, PineGap, TenzingMEMO, among others on evolving from simple Q&A solutions to automated investment research
• GenAI Data Capabilities Game
•Discussion with DataBento, Hudson Labs, AlphaSense, among others on data sourcing, structuring, digestion to aid analysts with alpha discovery.
Afternoon Break (coffee/snacks)
• Change Management & Scaling
•Discussion on the burning platform and transformation needs, with McKinsey and Accenture, among others.
•Scaling AI initiatives and driving organization-wide adoption
5:00 PM – Closing Remarks & Networking
AI & The Next Frontier
CEO, Portrait Analytics
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Co-Founder, Tenzing MEMO
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CEO, Quantly
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Join us for an incredible AI event
Alfred J. Lerner Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY
Explore how AI is reshaping fundamental investing and creating new opportunities for enhancing the end-to-end investment research process.
The event is designed for AI researchers, business leaders, policymakers, entrepreneurs, students, and anyone interested in the future of AI and its impact on society.
You can register online through our official website
We offer several ticket options, including General Admission, Premium Pass, Virtual Pass, Student Pass, Group Pass, and Workshop-Only Pass.
Yes! We offer discounted Student Passes and a 20% discount for groups of 5 or more.
Absolutely! The AI Expo offers networking lounges, receptions, and dedicated networking sessions for in-person and virtual attendees.
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