Jerry Haworth: CEO and CIO, 36 South Capital Advisors LLP

Manager: Federico Gilly  (Co-Head of Research, Portfolio Management and Portfolio Construction, Alternative Investment Strategies, Goldman Sachs Asset Management) 

Investor: Ian Halstead (Associate Director, Investment Services, Cantor Fitzgerald) 

Investor/manager: Mike Hodgson (Head of Risk Managed Investments & Structured Funds, Schroders) 

Manager: Anthony Limbrick (Principal, Portfolio Manager, Head of Quantitative Research, 36 South Capital Advisors LLP) 

Moderator: Roger Hilty  (Partner, LGT Capital Partners Ltd) 

Investor: Simon Lai (Deputy Chief Investment Officer, John Lewis Partnership Pensions Trust)

Investor: Ian McKinlay  (Chief Investment Officer, Lloyds Banking Group, Pensions Investment & Finance Team) 

Investor: Alessandra Poles (Volatility and Rates, Alternative Investment Strategies, Aberdeen Standard Investments) 

Investor: Max Townshend (Head of Portfolio Construction at Local Pensions Partnership) 

Moderator: Rob Hocking (Senior Vice President, Head of Derivatives Strategy, Cboe Global Markets)

Traders' Immune Systems Amid Declining Volatility: How volatility changes your very biochemistry and, through it, your risk aversion

John Coates (Neuroscientist and Founder, Dewline)

Investor: Jeppe Blirup  (Fund Manager, Alternative Equity Partners A/S) 

Manager: Christopher Cole CFA (Founder and CIO, Artemis Capital)

Manager: Eric Peters (CEO and CIO, One River Asset Management)

Manager: David Dredge (CIO, Convex Strategies)

Moderator: Pav Sethi  (Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Gladius Capital Management) 

This year the managers will each be hosting a table in the main auditorium - continue the conversation over lunch!

Politics vs. Markets: Why the two often do not understand each other and what to do about it? Political risks, opportunities and implications for market volatility.

Guest speaker: Bobby Vedral (Founder of MacroEagle, political adviser and former Global Head of Market Strats at Goldman Sachs)

The Anti-Bubbles: The Anti-Bubbles contrarian investment framework: implications, risks, and opportunities across volatility and global markets.
Diego Parrilla (Managing Partner, Quadriga Asset Managers)

Automation and trading: How everything has changed but nothing has changed
Zem Sternberg (CIO, Lake Hill Capital Management)

Manager: Will Bartlett (CEO, Parallax Volatility Advisers) 

Manager: Chris Rodarte  (Portfolio Manager, Pine River Capital) 

Manager: Pierre de Saab (Partner, Dominicé & Co - Asset Management)

Manager: Daniel Stone  (Principal and Portfolio Manager, Ionic Capital Management) 

Investor: Susanna Wallis  (Investment Manager, GAM) 

Moderator: Brandon Berry  (Vice President of Equity & Index Derivatives, Eurex) 

Guest speaker: Helen Sharman OBE: first UK astronaut, science communicator, corporate speaker

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, will share her experiences about being selected as an astronaut from over 13,000 applicants, training in Russia for 18 months, weightlessness, the launch and landing, and living and working in Space, along with teamwork, collaboration and details of the risks and the excitement of being in Space.