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Proving Alpha: How a Hedge Fund Measures AI's ROI - Hari Kumar, Contour Asset Management

Proving Alpha: How a Hedge Fund Measures AI's ROI - Hari Kumar, Contour Asset Management

How Contour Asset Management, a $6B fundamental long/short technology, media and telecom fund, measures the return on AI spend through live A/B tests of analyst research, a cost per useful insight metric, timing agents that resurface old ideas, and AI workflows across trading, operations and compliance.

The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi

The Recommendation Engine for Commodity Traders — Anekha Sokhal, Moshi

Anekha Sokhal, founder and CEO of Moshi, explains how her background in energy derivatives trading and machine learning research led to a real-time intelligence platform for financial traders. The discussion covers how Moshi structures public, alternative, and private data into a connected graph, why recommendation and UI design matter as much as modeling, how trusted sources and conflicting reports are handled, and the pressure on AI engineers to become the whole team.