The IAQF Industry Day event is taking place on Friday, October 30th.
IAQF Industry Day - A Day in the Life of Quantitative Finance
An event re-imagined for 2026
An immersive, education-first event designed exclusively for graduate students in financial engineering and quantitative finance.
IAQF Industry Day brings together experienced practitioners from across the quant finance world for honest, unfiltered conversations about what the industry really looks like from the inside.
What to Expect
- Panel Discussions: Hear from practitioners across asset classes, firm types, and functional roles. Get real answers to the questions your coursework doesn't cover.
- Career Path Spotlights: From quant research to portfolio management, risk, structuring, and fintech — explore the full landscape of where a degree in financial engineering can take you.
- Open Q&A: This isn't a presentation — it's a conversation. Ask anything.
Who Can Participate
This event is designed for graduate students in:
- Financial Engineering
- Quantitative Finance
- Computational Finance
- Mathematical Finance
- Related STEM disciplines
If you're building the technical toolkit — the stochastic calculus, the ML pipelines, the risk models — and wondering where it all leads, this is your event.
Registration Closes: Friday, October 25th at 11:59 pm EST.
Students can register and find out more information on the IAQF Industry Website: https://www.iaqfindustryday.org/