Events

Where the league meets the market

Quant Connect, which FGV Quant helped create, plus the league's classes, visits and milestones, with sources and dates.

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Quant Connect 2026 attendees together on the Insper stage

The organizing team from the four leagues on the Quant Connect 2026 stage

Day-two attendees of Quant Connect 2026, at B3

Our flagship eventEdition 2 · 2026

Quant Connect

A university quantitative finance event that brings students closer to the market, with panels of practitioners, company presentations and networking. FGV Quant is one of its co-founding leagues.

Organized byPoli QuantFGV QuantFEA.devInsper Quantitative Finance

event days: 2event days
practitioner panels: 6practitioner panels
organizing leagues: 4organizing leagues

16MayInsperSaturday · Vila Olímpia
23MayB3Saturday · Centro

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2026 program, themes and partners

Program · B3

09:00Welcome coffee
10:00Abertura do evento
10:10Quant Research: pesquisa de alphaGiant Steps Capital
11:25Apresentação das ligas fundadorasPoli Quant
11:45Métodos matemáticos em finanças quantitativasCristiano Lo Bianco
14:00Operações de mesa e arquitetura de sistemasXP Inc.
15:15Apresentação das ligas fundadorasFEA.dev
15:45Índices, infraestrutura de mercado e quantB3

Panel themes

1An introduction to quant: quantitative finance and careers
2Market indices
3Infrastructure and the quant ecosystem
4Engineering a systematic fund in Brazil

2026 partners

B3
XP Inc.
Schonfeld
Bayes Capital Management
Giant Steps Capital
Avantgarde Asset Management

As announced by the event on LinkedIn.See the edition announcement

Past editions

Edition 1 · 2025

In 2026

Talks, visits and classes with the industry.

Oct 15, 2026Event
Presentation at Itaú Asset
Invited by Rafael Lavrado, two of the league's Quant AI semifinalist groups presented their strategies and got feedback.
Oct 7, 2026Class
AI and machine learning class with Rodrigo Togneri
Feature engineering to detect anomalous market events, with the FGV EAESP professor. With FGV Tech.
Aug 28, 2026Visit
Visit to Vault Capital
Brunno Drezza, head of quantitative research, presented the crypto asset manager's challenge. With FEA.dev and IQF.
May 22, 2026Event
Itaú Asset Day
A conversation with CEO Carlos Augusto Salamonde, the Quant AI 2026 kick-off and a panel of former finalists.
May 19, 2026Visit
Visit to QI Tech
With Insper Quantitative Finance: talks by the team and how financial infrastructure works in practice.
May 16, 2026Event
Quant Connect 2026
2nd edition of the event FGV Quant co-founded: two days of panels, at Insper (May 16) and B3 (May 23).
May 11, 2026Event
Meeting with Christiano Lo Bianco (Itaú BBA)
The quant researcher covered hiring in the industry and what makes a quant professional.
May 6, 2026Class
Machine learning class with Murillo Toda
From the limits of OLS to Ridge, Random Forest, XGBoost and factor clustering, with the FGV EESP economics professor.
Apr 24, 2026Event
Meeting with Rafael Lavrado (Itaú Asset)
An introduction to the Quant AI challenge and career paths in quant.
Mar 5, 2026Class
Asset management class (Apex Partners)
A special class for members with Jean Hirschfelder of Apex Partners.

Earlier years

Dates are shown only as precisely as we know them: when we only know the month or semester, that is what we show.

2025

Nov 11, 2025Event
Rafael Lavrado (Itaú Asset) at FGV
Itaú Asset's Head of Quantitative Research gave feedback on the strategies of teams SP3CTRUM and Complexity Edge in the Quant AI challenge.
Sep 23, 2025Visit
Visit to XP Inc.
Hosted by Leonardo Campos, Head of QSG, and Vinicius Busti, Head of xVA Quants, on XP's quantitative teams.
Sep 10, 2025Event
Chat with Goldman Sachs traders
André Wurzmann and Gustavo Bassichetto, a former FGV Quant member, on trading, quantitative finance and derivatives.
Mar 24, 2025Visit
Visits to Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley
Internship programs and careers, at both banks' São Paulo offices. With Start Carreiras.
Mar 19, 2025Visit
Visit to Avantgarde Asset Management
The league presented its Pairs Trading study to Luciano Boudjoukian França and Mário de Avelar and got the firm's feedback.
Feb 27, 2025Event
Talk with Goldman Sachs traders
Guilherme Regueira, a volatility trader, and André Wurzmann, from Systematic Trading Strategies, talked about quant careers.

2024

Oct 7, 2024Visit
Visit to XP Inc. headquarters
A conversation with Marcelo Cruz, partner and head of the equities desk, about the trading desks.
Aug 26, 2024Event
XP at FGV
Pedro Dutra Henriques, XP Investimentos' Head of Sales, and Fernanda Rozman of XP Future shared their careers. With Start Carreiras.
Aug 14, 2024Event
Talk with Banco Pan
Market indices, bank funding, credit types and rates, with a Q&A and a quiz. With Start Carreiras.
Jun 19, 2024Event
Morgan Stanley: Equity Research at FGV
Mauricio Cepeda and Julia Habermann talked about day-to-day equity research and internship recruiting. With Start Carreiras.
Jun 17, 2024Visit
Visit to Giant Steps Capital
Members visited the quantitative asset manager and discussed technology in markets and its Zarathustra fund.
Jun 4, 2024Class
Talk with Eduarda Saurin (Kinea)
For trainees: the areas of the financial market and a deep dive into private equity, from a former Morgan Stanley investment banker.
May 22, 2024Event
TechDay at FGV EAESP
FGV Quant co-hosted FGV EAESP's largest technology event, on the impact of AI across industries, with 354 attendees.
May 9, 2024Visit
Visit to Goldman Sachs
A conversation about the bank and its areas, recruiting and internships, with a Q&A on quantitative topics.
Mar 20, 2024Event
Talk with Rodolfo de Angele (J.P. Morgan)
J.P. Morgan's Head of LatAm Commodities Equity Research covered equity research, valuation and getting into the industry, with a Q&A open to FGV students.
Feb 27, 2024Visit
Visit to XP Inc.
Members visited XP's São Paulo office and talked with people from several areas. With Start Carreiras.