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Keynote SpeakerEdgar Perez

Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning and Cybersecurity Expert and Author and Ponemon Institute Fellow

Edgar Perez is one the world’s few business and technology visionaries who can light up a room with insightful and inspiring presentations on the impact of cutting-edge technologies, from 5G to quantum computing and from artificial intelligence and cyber security to the blockchain and the metaverse. A published author and... Read More

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Achieving Digital Impact with “State-of-the-art” Deep Learning
The Future of Content Creation: How Artificial Intelligence Will Empower and Challenge Us
The Rise of AI-Generated Content: How to Harness Its Power and Avoid Its Pitfalls
AI-Generated Content: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Ultimate Business Disruptor: Quantum Computing

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Biography

Mr. Perez is author of Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets (2013), and The Speed Traders, An Insider’s Look at the New High-Frequency Trading Phenomenon That is Transforming the Investing World, published in English by McGraw-Hill Inc. (2011), 交易快手, published in Mandarin by China Financial Publishing House (2012), and Investasi Super Kilat, published in Bahasa Indonesia by Kompas Gramedia (2012). He contributes to The New York Times, Sina Finance and CGTN.

Mr. Perez has presented in front of thousands of top executives around the world through keynote speeches and both public and in-house corporate training programs in Beijing, Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kiev, Kuala Lumpur, Lima, London, Miami, Naples Beach, New York, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Scott Air Force Base, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Taipei, Warsaw, Washington DC, Xi’an and Zhongshan, among other business metropolises. He has been interviewed on CNN, CGTN, CNBC, FOX Business, Bloomberg TV, BNN Bloomberg, Channel NewsAsia, CNN en Español, Petersburg – Channel 5, Sina Finance, CCTV China, China Radio International, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com and Leaderonomics.

Mr. Perez has presented to the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Council on Foreign Relations, APEC SME Service Alliance, Beijing Municipal People’s Government, China Securities Regulatory Commission, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (Beijing, China), European American Chamber of Commerce, People’s Bank of China, China’ State Administration of Foreign Exchange, Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev), Quant Investment Summit APAC and Fudan University (Shanghai), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, Hult Business School (Shanghai), Peking University and University of International Business and Economics (Beijing).

Mr. Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences, including Institutional Investor’s CEO Roundtable (Berlin) and Global Growth Markets Forum (London), Cyber Security World Conference (New York), Inside Market Data (Chicago), Emerging Markets Investments Summit (Warsaw), CME Group‘s Global Financial Leadership Conference (Naples Beach), Harvard Business School‘s Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Global InsurTech Leaders (Beijing), Fixed Income & FX Leaders Summit APAC and TradeTech Asia (Singapore), FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul), and institutional forums organized by Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. Mr. Perez has an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, Peru (1994), a Master of Administration from Universidad ESAN, Lima, Peru (1997) and an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York, majoring in Finance and Management (2002). Mr. Perez is an accomplished salsa and hustle dancer who gladly enjoys dancing with wife Olga, son Edgar Felipe and daughters Svetlana Sofia and Mary Olympia.

“Thank you very much for your participation in Berlin at the European Institute CEO Roundtable. Your presentation was fascinating, a really informative session. The delegates seemed to hang off your every word! We greatly appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule to join us for the event and look forward to working with you again in the near future.” Karen Litchfield, Director, European Institute & Global Fixed Income Institute (Germany)

“We were much honored to host you at our annual conference held at our Washington DC headquarters. The Market Abuse Unit investigates large-scale market abuses and complex manipulation schemes by institutional traders, market professionals and others. As such, we were focused on the discussion of these topics in your book The Speed Traders, copies of which we purchased for each of our unit supervisors. We really appreciated your first-hand impressions of the current trading world as well as your thoughts on how trading practices will evolve in the future.” David Hawke, Chief, Market Abuse Unit, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (United States)

"I have been fascinated with the presentation, Mr. Edgar Perez. We all hear a lot about the Metaverse. I thank you very much for having enlightened us; I think it's been a fascinating subject. Honestly, you have left me very impressed.” Roque Benavides, Chairman of Board of Trustees of Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería and Chairman of Buenaventura Mining (Peru)

“Your presentation was the real highlight of the Emerging Markets Investments Summit. You clearly have the connections in the industry and are very well connected.” Alex Ritson, BBC News Presenter at The Newsroom, World Business Report and Business Matters (United Kingdom)

“Edgar can deliver insightful and compelling presentations to audiences at the highest levels. Thanks to his international entrepreneurial and consulting experience, Edgar can persuasively highlight current developments and critical trends on a variety of business and technology topics, from Artificial Intelligence to Quantum Computing, and from Cybersecurity to Fintech. His programs are undoubtedly lively and unquestionably inspiring. His unique insights, built over decades of rich industry experience, capture the undivided attention of CEOs and top executives.” Maggie Shen, Senior Manager, Elite Master of Finance, Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan University (China)

“Your program provides a comprehensive approach for any organization to lead in cybersecurity readiness.” Jerome Morandiere, Security Manager, Airport Council International Europe (Belgium)

“We loved the enlightening way in which you conducted your presentation on the Metaverse. Thanks to this approach, we are aware of the impact that social networks and video games have today on the advancement of virtual worlds. All attendees were very interested in the subject, which was evidenced in the questions asked at the end of the presentation. We would really love to have your participation in a future opportunity.” Nicole Caballero, President, IEEE UNMSM (Peru)

Popular Talks by Edgar Perez

Achieving Digital Impact with “State-of-the-art” Deep Learning
Deep Learning has enabled many practical applications of Artificial Intelligence in today’s digital organizations. Deep learning breaks down tasks in ways that makes all kinds of machine aids seem possible, even likely. Driverless cars, better image recognition, more effective medical diagnoses, AI-generated art, even better language models, are all here...

Deep Learning has enabled many practical applications of Artificial Intelligence in today’s digital organizations. Deep learning breaks down tasks in ways that makes all kinds of machine aids seem possible, even likely. Driverless cars, better image recognition, more effective medical diagnoses, AI-generated art, even better language models, are all here today. Mr. Perez will identify what organizations need to do today to embrace the future, starting with the basics: empowering their employees and turbocharging the organization’s digital transformation strategy. Organizations then can then launch pilots for the most promising opportunities, leveraging “state of the art” cases from today’s global innovators such as Google, OpenAI, Meta, Apple and Tesla. Mr. Perez will show organizations how to kick start their digital impact transformation.
The Future of Content Creation: How Artificial Intelligence Will Empower and Challenge Us
Artificial intelligence is a set of technologies that enable computers to perform a variety of advanced functions, including the ability to see, understand and translate spoken and written language, analyze data, make recommendations, and more. Artificial intelligence is now becoming capable of generating high-quality content across various domains and formats....

Artificial intelligence is a set of technologies that enable computers to perform a variety of advanced functions, including the ability to see, understand and translate spoken and written language, analyze data, make recommendations, and more. Artificial intelligence is now becoming capable of generating high-quality content across various domains and formats. This has profound implications for content creators, consumers, and distributors. Mr. Perez examines the opportunities and risks of AI-generated content. He offers practical recommendations on how to use AI-generated content effectively and responsibly.
The Rise of AI-Generated Content: How to Harness Its Power and Avoid Its Pitfalls
AI-generated content is content created by an Artificial Intelligence system; it is becoming increasingly popular as a way to quickly and efficiently create content, freeing up time and resources for other tasks. Mr. Perez explores the current state and future potential of artificial intelligence-generated content, such as text, images, music,...

AI-generated content is content created by an Artificial Intelligence system; it is becoming increasingly popular as a way to quickly and efficiently create content, freeing up time and resources for other tasks. Mr. Perez explores the current state and future potential of artificial intelligence-generated content, such as text, images, music, and videos. He explains how AI-generated content can enhance creativity, productivity, and innovation, as well as the ethical and social challenges it poses for human creators, consumers, and regulators.
AI-Generated Content: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
AI-generated content is content that is enabled or facilitated by artificial intelligence, such as text, images, or videos, that supports various goals or outcomes, such as entertainment, education, or marketing. It is a mixed bag. It can be amazing, inspiring, and useful, but it can also be misleading, harmful, and...

AI-generated content is content that is enabled or facilitated by artificial intelligence, such as text, images, or videos, that supports various goals or outcomes, such as entertainment, education, or marketing. It is a mixed bag. It can be amazing, inspiring, and useful, but it can also be misleading, harmful, and dangerous. Mr. Perez gives us a balanced and realistic view of AI-generated content. He highlights the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of AI-generated content, and how we can deal with them effectively.
The Ultimate Business Disruptor: Quantum Computing
Classical computing was invented in the 1940s; the advent of Quantum Computing will make these computers look painfully slow.Calculations that would take longer than a human’s life span to work out on a classic computer can be completed in a matter of hours or minutes with QC. Furthermore, it will...

Classical computing was invented in the 1940s; the advent of Quantum Computing will make these computers look painfully slow.Calculations that would take longer than a human’s life span to work out on a classic computer can be completed in a matter of hours or minutes with QC. Furthermore, it will enable solving a set of problems that couldn’t be solved before. Quantum Computing’s benefits include efficiently simulating new drug molecules and dramatically reducing the time complex financial calculations take, among many others. For optimization, sampling or search problems, this promises dramatic speedups. Mr. Perez will reveal why Quantum Computing will disrupt companies in every industry.
The Importance of the Cybersecurity Framework for Directors and CEOs
An email embedded with malware. Security systems hacked by thieves. Credit card numbers stolen from store purchases. There’s certainly no shortage of examples when it comes to data security breaches and the havoc they wreak on business. No wonder then that nearly a third of CEOs in a KPMG’s global...

An email embedded with malware. Security systems hacked by thieves. Credit card numbers stolen from store purchases. There’s certainly no shortage of examples when it comes to data security breaches and the havoc they wreak on business. No wonder then that nearly a third of CEOs in a KPMG’s global survey identified cyber security as the issue having the biggest impact on their companies today. Every organization should apply a cybersecurity framework for analyzing cyber security, and ideally it should be integrated into an organization’s existing enterprise risk framework. The most innovative companies today have recognized that cyber security is a customer experience and revenue opportunity, not just a risk that needs to be managed. Mr. Perez will explain why this must be done across the entire organization and why CEOs and directors have the most important role to play.
The Future of Cybersecurity in the Metaverse
The Metaverse is the next iteration of the Internet. It will transform long-standing industries such as finance, retail, manufacturing, healthcare fitness, and much more. However, the array of technologies that will enable the Metaverse, including VR, AR, 5G, and AI, raise issues of privacy and data security. In immersive worlds,...

The Metaverse is the next iteration of the Internet. It will transform long-standing industries such as finance, retail, manufacturing, healthcare fitness, and much more. However, the array of technologies that will enable the Metaverse, including VR, AR, 5G, and AI, raise issues of privacy and data security. In immersive worlds, these technologies will siphon up data at an increasingly granular level, a person’s gait, eye movements, emotions and more, putting far greater strain on existing safeguards. Mr. Perez will review the strategies companies and governments will develop to welcome the Metaverse-shaped data economy.
The Next Decade of Technology
From Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing to 5G and the Metaverse, the next decade will see a rapid acceleration of technological progress that will shape our lives in countless ways. Mr. Perez will provide a visionary overview of the most important technological trends that are likely to dominate the next...

From Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing to 5G and the Metaverse, the next decade will see a rapid acceleration of technological progress that will shape our lives in countless ways. Mr. Perez will provide a visionary overview of the most important technological trends that are likely to dominate the next decade. Drawing on insights from his extensive experience as a thought leader in the tech industry, he will discuss the key technologies that will drive innovation and growth, and explore their potential impact on society and business. By the end of the speech, attendees will have a clear understanding of the major technological trends that are likely to define the next decade, and will be inspired to think creatively about the possibilities and implications of these trends for their own organizations and lives.