- Business Intelligence at Microsoft - Scaling Up vs Scaling Out - How to use Big Data at Amazon to solve PnL problems - Data Mining at Microsoft - Machine Learning models - Deep Learning at Uber - Increasing speed of training models - Hedge Fund Data - Why Hedge Funds need Data - How to generate Alpha from Data - Alternative Data

- Insight into the world of financial data - Vendors vs Hedge Funds - What is a Data Strategist? - Where has the growth in demand for data over the past 3 years come from? - What is alternative data? - How do firms with less data, gain competitive edge? - How tricky is it to on-board new data? - Key tips for entrepreneurship

- Why do capital market firms need to outsource?  - What are capital market firms doing wrong? - Why is the external software industry on the rise? -  How do leaders evolve? - Industry challenges over the past 20 years - The shift from manual to algo - Discretionary to systematic - Back Office vs Front Office

- Importance of Culture - Building teams the 'right way' - Challenges of being in a UK office of a US firm - How to impact global culture from a secondary office - Candidate Experience when interviewing - How has COVID helped firms moving forward? - The importance not just of speed, but Speed at Scale.

- Hear from a founder of a FinTech, coming from a pure tech background - How to build an agnostic system - Handling stigma issues with "off the shelf" software - How to handle secrecy and privacy of data and strategies - Importance of working with smart people - How to build a business - What drives an entrepreneur to start up their own firm - Speed and Robustness

- Being fast and agile in an ever changing tech world  - Proprietary tech vs non-proprietary tech  - Culture (no red tape or restrictions is necessary in this day and age)  - The similarities of financial institutions, from within

- Managing with technology at the heart of everything - Huge career defining moments, caused by external factors - Amazing first job story - 9/11, Credit Crunch - Breaking things is ok, actually good for morale and culture - The future of technology

Season 1, Episode 1 - Chris Donnan, CTO of Tyler Capital - AI - Machine Learning - Proprietary Technology - Culture

We are now just weeks away from the first episode of The ATOM Podcast, so here is an introduction to the Podcast, with a backstory of why the podcast has been created, as well as an overview of the target audience.