FIS Stanford 2023

This Fiduciary Investors Symposium will celebrate the fast-moving change taking place in economies and communities, and will examine the impact of innovation on our lives and workplaces. Drawing on the esteemed Stanford University faculty, and taking advantage of the Silicon Valley location, it will look at the incredible disruption and opportunities presented by AI and technological advancement; as well as the core investment challenges of risk management, operational excellence and efficiency, and future-looking capital allocation and portfolio construction techniques.

This event is for asset owners from all over the globe and is typically attended by chief executives, investment committee members, chief investment officers, heads of investment portfolios and their direct reports.

Speakers

Benoit Anne

Managing director, fixed income investment solutions, MFS (United Kingdom)

George Barnard

Sustainable credit specialist, MetLife Investment Management (United Kingdom)

Samir Ben Tekaya

Vice president and head of investment risk, BCI (Canada)

Daniel Booth

Deputy chief investment officer, head of private markets, CalPERS (United States)

Stefano Cavaglia

Senior portfolio manager, State of Wisconsin Investment Board (United States)

John Cochrane

Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson senior fellow, Hoover Institution (United States)

James Davis

Chief investment officer, OPTrust (Canada)

Luciano Diana

Senior investment manager, thematic equities, Pictet Asset Management (Switzerland)

David Eagleman

Adjunct Professor Pysch/Public Mental Health and Life Sciences, Stanford University

Drew Endy

Martin Family Fellow in Undergraduate Education for Bioengineering, Faculty Co-Director of degree programs for the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (aka, the d.school), and Senior Fellow (courtesy) of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (United States)

David Geenberg

Co-head North American investment team, Strategic Value Partners (United States)

Jennifer Hartviksen

Managing director, global credit, IMCO (Canada)

Simon Hoyle

Group publisher, Conexus Financial (Australia)

Owen Hyde

Managing director, Jennison (United States)

Frank Ieraci

Global head of active equities, CPP Investments (Canada)

Greg Jackson

Chief executive, Octopus Energy (United Kingdom)

Greg Jensen

Co-chief investment officer, Bridgewater (United States)

Geraldine Jimenez

Senior investment director, CalSTRS (United States)

Sandy Kaul

Senior vice president, head of digital asset and industry advisory services, Franklin Templeton Advisory & Thought Leadership (United States)

Ali Kazemi

Managing director, Wilshire (United States)

Stephen Kotkin

Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University; and Birkelund Professor Emeritus at Princeton University (United States)

Ross Levine

Senior fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University (United States)

Fei Fei Li

Sequoia Professor in the Computer Science Department at Stanford University, and Co-Director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute (United States)

Arun Majumdar

Inaugural Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability; Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University; faculty member of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Energy Science and Engineering; Senior Fellow and former Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, and Senior Fellow (courtesy) of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University (United States)

Ashby Monk

Executive and research director, Stanford Research Initiative on Long-Term Investing (United States)

Ian Patrick

Chief investment officer, Australian Retirement Trust (Australia)

Hans Peter Portner

Head of thematic equities, Pictet Asset Management (Switzerland)

Grace Qiu

Senior vice president, total portfolio policy and allocation, GIC (Singapore)

Condoleezza Rice

Tad and Dianne Taube director of the Hoover Institution, senior fellow on public policy; Denning Professor in Global Business and the Economy, Stanford Graduate School of Business (United States)

Alison Romano

Chief executive and chief investment officer, San Francisco Employees’ Retirement System (United States)

Myron Scholes

The Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Nobel Prize Winner (United States)

Amit Seru

The Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance; Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Stanford Graduate School of Business (United States)

Peter Strikwerda

Global head of digitalisation and innovation, APG (The Netherlands)

Colin Tate

Managing director, Conexus Financial (Australia)

Mario Therrien

Head of investment funds and external management, CDPQ (Canada)

Eduard van Gelderen

Chief investment officer, PSP Investments (Canada)

Aleks Vickovich

Editor in chief, Conexus Financial (Australia)

Mark Walker

Chief investment officer, Coal Pension Fund (United Kingdom)

Derek Walker

Managing director, head of portfolio design and construction, CPP Investments (Canada)

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