How Omega Point Helps Investors Optimize their Portfolios with Apache Spark™ on Databricks

On-Demand Webinar

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Omega Point uses big data analytics to enable investment professionals to reduce risk while increasing their returns. Databricks enables Omega Point to uncover performance drivers of investment portfolios using massive volumes of market data. Join us to learn how Omega Point built a next-generation investment analytics platform to isolate critical market signals from noise with a big data architecture built with Apache Spark™ on Databricks.


In this webinar you will learn:


  • Benefits of agile big data analysis in financial services: How portfolio managers utilized analytics to outperform peers during the Brexit period.
  • Technical best practices and lessons learned: How to build an Apache Spark-powered analytics platform with Databricks.

Presenters

  • Omer Cedar

    CEO - Omega Point

    Omer is the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Data Scientist and Co-Founder of Omega Point. Prior to Omega Point, Omer served as SVP, Research at Two Sigma Investments. In this role, he co-founded and built Two Sigma's global equity research analyst survey platform ("TAP"). He was involved in and managed all aspects of the business, including research/modeling, product development, and relationship management.

  • Eran Cedar

    CTO - Omega Point

    Eran is the Chief Technology Officer of Omega Point. Prior to Omega Point, Eran led product development for Oracle’s Social Relationship Management platform. Eran holds Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science and Economics from UC Berkeley.