24 April 2013: Jason Apollo Voss is a Panelist at the Battle of the Quants

Right here on the What My Intuition Tells Me Now blog I frequently criticized quantitative finance for its disconnection from reality.  In particular, I decry the extreme prejudice to favor analytical, as opposed to creative and intuitive, thinking.  So imagine my great pleasure at being asked to be a panelist at the forthcoming Battle of the Quants in New York City on 24 April 2013 at 10:45am at the Museum of Mathematics.  Specifically, I will be a part of the “Main Event” – the “Man vs. Machine” debate – taking the side of the power of human reason and wisdom in investing.

I hope that you will be rooting me on from wherever you are.  In the meantime, sate yourself with some of these selections from my writing on the subject of man vs. machine:

• Solely Analytical Methods are Doomed to Failure
• Statistics are Not the Truth, Just a Mathematical Method

Regardless of your feelings on this issue, Battle of the Quants is one of the globe’s premier quantitative finance venues and I am thrilled to be a part of it!  Other participants include Heidi Klum (yes, Heidi Klum is hosting a charity event); Dr. Robert High, the man behind IBM’s über komputer, Watson; and my pal, Emanuel Derman.  Especially big thanks is owed to Bartt Kellermann, principal of Global Capital Acquisition Corporation, and the man behind the Battle of the Quants; as well as to Robert Passarella, Managing Director: Global Head Financial Institutions Group at DataSift, for introducing me to Bartt.

Jason Apollo Voss, CFA at Battle of the Quants as featured in the Main Event: Man vs. machine