Quantitative Finance at La Défense 2026

18 June 2026





Quantitative Finance at La Défense 2026


Quantitative Finance at La Défense 2026 will take place on 18 June 2026 at Devinci Higer Education, Campus de l’Arche, in Nanterre, France.

This one-day academic conference focuses on recent developments in quantitative finance, with researchers, industry professionals and graduate students contributing to discussions on theory, modelling and applications for contemporary financial markets.

The programme will address four thematic axes: quantitative portfolio management, financial connectedness and risk transmission, volatility modelling and volatility arbitrage, microstructure and liquidity.

Speakers include:

  • Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Chairman and Chief Scientist at CFM, member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Raul Leote de Carvalho, Deputy Head of Quantitative Research, BNP Paribas Asset Management
  • Paolo Barucca, Associate Professor, UCL Computer Science
  • Bastien Buchwalter, Assistant Professor, SKEMA Business School and Université Côte d’Azur
  • Paolo Bartesaghi, Assistant Professor, University of Milan
  • Markus Bibinger, Professor of Applied Stochastics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
  • Othmane Zarhali, CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine
  • Stefano De Marco, Professor of Applied Mathematics, École Polytechnique
  • Olivier Guéant, Full Professor of Applied Mathematics, Université Paris Cité
  • Paul Besson, Head of Quant Research, Euronext

Organised in La Défense, QF@LD 2026 contributes to the dialogue between academic research and financial industry practice in a major European business district.

Infos & Registration :
https://conferences.dvrc.fr/QF@LD/


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