Generative AI and the Future of Hedge Fund Technology

​About this event

​The way technology serves hedge funds is changing — not incrementally, but structurally. For years, the playbook was clear: identify a workflow problem, build software to solve it, repeat. Generative AI is rewriting that playbook in real time, and most firms, data vendors, and SaaS providers are still catching up.

​Join us for an evening fireside chat with Hedgineer Technologies to get into what that shift looks like from the front lines — how AI is changing the way non-technical investment professionals interact with technology, how to provide value in this new paradigm, and what it takes to build AI infrastructure that strategically compounds in value over time.

​This is a candid, technical, and finance-grounded conversation — designed for engineers and technologists who are passionate about this industry and care about where it is going. Light dinner and refreshments will be served.

​Speakers

​Michael Watson — Founder & CEO, Hedgineer Technologies Michael founded Hedgineer after spending nearly a decade at Citadel across the equity and enterprise technology teams, where he eventually became Head of Equities Technology. He brings a rare combination of deep institutional experience and systems-level thinking, giving him a sharp and thoughtful read on how AI will continue evolving the landscape of modern investment firms.

​Jhanvi Virani — COO, Hedgineer Technologies Jhanvi joined Michael at Hedgineer in its early days after building software for hedge funds at Goldman Sachs Marquee, where she led engineering for portfolio analytics, risk, and systematic hedging across equity and credit. She brings engineering and product experience across a diverse breadth of institutional clientele, which she applies to driving both vision and execution in Hedgineer's operations and client delivery.

​Who should come

​This is for engineers and technologists who are excited about:

• ​Building serious, high-performance systems for demanding domains

• ​How AI is structurally changing the role of technology — not just what it can do, but how it's being adopted at the organizational level

• ​What the hedge fund world looks like from the inside, and where the real hard problems are

​No finance background required. Curiosity about hard problems, essential.