Edgar Perez

WORLD RECOGNIZED EXPERT ON AI, QUANTUM COMPUTING, BLOCKCHAIN & METAVERSE.

FUTURIST & AUTHOR.

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Edgar Perez is one of the great business speakers, networkers and motivators on the lecture circuit. His programs and speeches all over the world provide inspirational and actionable insights for CEOs, directors and senior managers. Throughout the years, executives have come to appreciate his insights on how they can better position their organizations for success through strong leadership and a comprehensive approach that links technology and digital to business and financial strategy.

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Edgar Perez is a great business speaker, a confident communicator and a world class motivator. Global executives have come to appreciate his wide-ranging insights on how they can better position their organizations for success through strong leadership and a comprehensive approach that links business strategy and disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence and deep learning, quantum computing and cyber security. A published author, keynote speaker and business consultant for private equity and hedge funds, he is Council Member at the Gerson Lehrman Group, Guidepoint Global Advisors and Internal Consulting Group.

Mr. Perez was a vice president at Citigroup, a senior consultant at IBM, and a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Co. in New York City. Previously, he managed Operations and Technology for Peruval Finance. 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 a Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School, New York, with a dual major in Finance and Management (2002). He belongs to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.

Mr. Perez has addressed thousands of top executives around the world through keynote speeches and corporate training programs on quantum computing, artificial intelligence, deep learning, cybersecurity and financial trading. He has presented in Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Hong Kong, Kiev, Kuala Lumpur, Lima, London, Miami, Napoles, New York, Santiago, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Taipei and Warsaw, among other global capitals.

 

He contributes to The New York Times and China’s Sina Finance.

 

Edgar Perez has been interviewed on CNN‘s Quest Means Business, CNBC‘s Squawk on the Street, Worldwide Exchange, Cash Flow, Street Signs and Squawk Box, FOX BUSINESS‘s Countdown to the Closing Bell and After the Bell, Bloomberg TV‘s Market Makers, CNN en Español‘s Dinero, Petersburg – Channel 5, Sina Finance, BNN‘s Business Day, CCTV China, Bankier.pl, TheStreet.com, Leaderonomics, GPW Media, Channel NewsAsia‘s Business Tonight and Cents & Sensibilities. In addition, Mr. Perez has been featured on Sohu, News.Sina.com, Caijing, ETF88.com, 360doc, AH Radio, CBNweek.com, Caixin, Futures Daily, Xinhua, CBN Newswire, Chinese Financial News, International Finance News, Finance.QQ.com, Finance.Sina.com, The Korea Times, The Korea Herald, The Star, The Malaysian Insider, BMF 89.9, iMoney Hong Kong, Bloomberg Hedge Fund Brief, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Valor Econômico, FIXGlobal Trading, TODAY Online, Oriental Daily News and Business Times.

Edgar Perez has presented to the Council on Foreign Relations, Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (Kiev), Quant Investment & HFT Summit APAC (Shanghai), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (Washington DC), CFA Singapore, Hong Kong Securities Institute, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, University of International Business and Economics (Beijing) and Hult International Business School (Shanghai), among other public and private institutions. In addition, Mr. Perez has spoken at a number of global conferences, including Cyber Security World Conference (New York), Inside Market Data (Chicago), Emerging Markets Investments Summit (Warsaw), CME Group‘s Global Financial Leadership Conference (Naples Beach, FL), Harvard Business School‘s Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference (Boston), High-Frequency Trading Leaders Forum (New York, Chicago), MIT Sloan Investment Management Conference (Cambridge), Institutional Investor‘s Global Growth Markets Forum (London), TradeTech Asia (Singapore) and FIXGlobal Face2Face (Seoul).

 

Conferences

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE BREAKTHROUGHTS THAT ARE CHANGING THE DIGITAL WORLD:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been referred as the general ability of computers to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. Through a comprehensive review of the latest breakthroughs, including AI-generated content, Mr. Perez will offer his insights on how these advancements will impact businesses and the human race in general for years to come, and more specifically, how companies can leverage the plethora of available resources to start their digital transformation and implementsolutions to formerly intractable problems. Mr. Perez will reveal why AI is the present and the future.

HOW AI-GENERATED CONTENT WILL CHANGE THE WORLD: A VISIONARY PERSPECTIVE

What if you could create any content you want with the help of artificial intelligence? What if you could access unlimited sources of information, entertainment, and inspiration from AI-generated content? What if you could collaborate with AI agents to produce novel and original content? These are some of the questions that Mr. Perezaddresses in this talk. He reveals how AI-generated content will revolutionize our culture, economy, and society.

THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN ChatGPT:

ChatGPT is an Artificial Intelligence language model designed to understand natural language and respond to user queries, providing human-like conversation in text form. ChatGPT can be used to automate customer service, answer frequently asked questions, and gain insights from customer interactions; it can also be used to analyze large amounts of data and generate reports. While ChatGPT is a machine, it was created by humans, which brings important implications for the relationship between humans and machines. Mr. Perez will explore the ways in which ChatGPT blurs the line between human and machine, and what that means for the future of work and our relationship with technology.

THE POWER AND PERIL OF AI-GENERATED CONTENT: HOW TO NAVEGATE ITS OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES

Artificial Intelligence-generated content is a powerful tool that can help us create and consume content in new and exciting ways. However, it also comes with significant challenges that we need to be aware of and prepared for. Mr. Perezguides us through the opportunities and challenges of AI-generated content. He provides us with practical recommendations and strategies on how to use AI-generated content wisely and ethically.

QUANTUM COMPUTING

THE ULTIMATE BUSINESS DISRUPTOR: QUANTUM COMPUTING

Classical computing was invented in the 1940s; the advent of Quantum Computingwill 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 revealwhy Quantum Computing will disrupt companies in every industry.

IS THE GLOBAL RACE TO ACHIEVE QUANTUM SUPREMACY COMING TO AN END?

Google recently announced that their most advanced quantum computer, a radically new design to manipulate and process information, has achieved “quantum supremacy” for the first time. The technology giant's Sycamore quantum processor was able to perform an incredibly complex task in 200 seconds, a feat that would take the world's fastest supercomputers 10,000 years to complete. The ultimate development and commercialization of this technology will tremendously accelerate difficult tasks across all industries, including financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing and the upcoming space exploration. Are we really there yet? Mr. Perez will enlighten your audience with the latest head-turning business applications of this revolutionary technology.

CHINA

THE RISE OF SUPER APPS IN CHINA AND ITS GLOBAL POTENTIAL

Chinese tech companies have created integrated platforms that offer a variety of services, such as social media, e-commerce, payments, gaming, entertainment, and more.Popular super apps there like WeChat and Alipay are transforming user behavior, business models and innovation ecosystems.The rapid adoption of smartphones and mobile internet gave way to the convenience and efficiency of using a single app for multiple purposes, especially for payments, which reduced transaction costs and increased user loyalty.Mr. Perez will discuss the prospects and implications of super apps for other markets, especially in the West. Can super apps replicate their success in other regions? Is there a future for Elon Musk's X app?

THE FUTURE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN CHINA

China has become a major player in artificial intelligence, both in terms of research and applications. Some of the cutting-edge AI projects and products China has developed or implemented include facial recognition, smart cities, autonomous vehicles, and remote healthcare.The country has expressed its ambition to become the world leader in AI by 2030. One-third of AI journal articles and citations worldwide in 2021 came from China, now focused on expanding AI applications in new sectors.Mr. Perez will analyze the implications of this transformation and provide recommendations for global organizations: how can partners and competitors collaborate and compete with China in AI research and development?

Books

THE AI BREAKTHROUGH

How Artificial Intelligence is Advancing Deep Learning and Revolutionizing Your World.

Who is right? Who is wrong? Can they both be right? Bring the light to the Artificial Intelligence debate with keynote speaker Edgar Perez. He is an inspiring educator globally recognized for making the most challenging business and technology concepts easy to understand and act upon. Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, its most successful approach to date, are just a few of the topics Mr. Perez can speak about.

THE AI BREAKTHROUGH

KNIGHTMARE ON WALL STREET

Knightmare on Wall Street, The Rise and Fall of Knight Capital and the Biggest Risk for Financial Markets is a thrilling minute-by-minute account of the terrifying hours following Knight Capital's August 1, 2012 trading debacle, with news-breaking research regarding the firm's 17 years of tumultuous existence as an independent company. Knightmare on Wall Street is the definitive behind-the-scenes story of Knight Capital. The firm, founded by Kenneth Pasternak and Walter Raquet in 1995, had seen its fortunes change as U.S. regulators made a series of changes in the structure of financial markets and computers were progressively expanding their share of trading. The Flash Crash, the infamous 1,000 point drop of the DJIA on May 6, 2010 (the largest one-day point decline in history), illustrated how market structure problems could almost instantaneously cascade from one market participant to the rest. Thomas Joyce, CEO of Knight Capital since 2002 and an unapologetic advocate of electronic trading, had been scornful of those companies that struggled to keep up with ever-changing stock markets. So it was certainly shocking that at 9:30 A.M. on August 1, 2012, right after the markets opened for the day, Knight Capital began issuing an unprecedented number of erroneous orders into the market, due to an error in installing new software. No rogue trader or regulatory change; operational risk was passing the bill to Knight Capital and becoming the biggest risk in the financial markets. Knight Capital announced later a staggering loss of $440 million. What followed after this shocking announcement were several rounds of desperate conversations with a number of vulture players who had smelled opportunity and were readying themselves to pick up bargain-priced pieces. On August 6, 2012, Joyce confirmed that Knight Capital had struck a deal with Jefferies, TD Ameritrade, Blackstone, GETCO, Stephens, and Stifel Financial, staving off collapse days after the trading mishap. While Knight Capital was back in the game, its limping recovery quickly prompted hungry competitors to bid for the entire company. On December 19, 2012, the board decided to accept an acquisition proposal from GETCO rather than Virtu Financial. For GETCO, acquiring Knight Capital represented a gigantic fast forward step. For Knight Capital, it was the end of its wild ride as an independent entity. Knightmare on Wall Street provides a fascinating account of what it took to elevate the firm to the cusp of the retail investing revolution of the late 1990s, to struggle through booms and busts, and to bring the firm down, to end up ultimately being ignominiously bought up by a competitor.

KNIGHTMARE ON WALL STREET

THE SPEED TRADERS

High-frequency trading (HFT) is the most controversial form of investing today, and speed traders have generally flown under the radar. In the name of protecting the algorithms they have spent so much time perfecting, they almost never talk to the press and disclose as little as possible about how they operate—until now.

The Speed Traders reveals how leading HFT players are succeeding in the global markets and driving the development of algorithmic trading at breakneck speeds.

The Speed Traders includes personal interviews with the masters of the HFT universe, who shed light on what HFT is, the essential role it plays in the world’s most active exchanges, and how they generate consistent profits at unprecedented rates and volumes. Among the HFT luminaries you’ll hear from are:

Manoj Narang, Founder and CEO of Tradeworx
Adam Afshar, President of Hyde Park Global Investments
Aaron Lebovitz, Managing Director at Infinium Capital Management
John Netto, President of M3 Capital
Stuart Theakston, Head of High-Frequency Trading at GLC
Peter van Kleef, CEO of Lakeview Arbitrage

THE SPEED TRADERS

THE AFTERMATH OF THE MIRAGE

This is Edgar Perez’s latest exhilarating thrill-ride through the world of ambitions that consumes a committed team of hackers from unbeknownst geographies in the same vein of the television series Leverage, CSI: Cyber, and Person of Interest.

An Anonymous sympathizer with a family of his own living an unremarkable life in a suburban town in an unnamed state has been offered a choice by the government of the country where he originally comes from: have his family murdered or help orchestrate an attack at the heart of the world’s most sophisticated financial market.

The plan of attack is meticulously researched and even more carefully executed. Foreign governments stand to reap a fortune by destabilizing the American infrastructure and leaving millions of investors stuck in the financial doldrums. Furthermore, there is no trace left for the American authorities to identify the culprit; at least, that’s what they think.

But being a supremely talented hacker doesn’t always mean you cover all your tracks. Equally unassuming and talented teams from the opposite side of the world identify clues that ultimately leads them to grasp the extent of the financial apocalypse that the most powerful nation on Earth will experiment.

Can the unpretentious saviors ring the emergency bells for the best minds from the NSA, the FBI and the CIA to face the upcoming cyber Armageddon? Can the equally unpretentious hacker get to close the gaps in their planning and take his family (and plenty of cash) in a flight that will never return?

Combining an strictly scientific-based narrative style with the uncertain atmosphere and conspiracy themes of The X-Files, The Aftermath of the Mirage explores the country’s deep-seated fears about hacking in an innovative fast-paced novel sure to earn Edgar Perez again the widespread acclaim he conquered with The Speed Traders and Knightmare on Wall Street.

THE AFTERMATH OF THE MIRAGE

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