Finance & Banking

AssetOps Chicago 2026

AssetOps Chicago is the premier investment operations conference for senior buy-side leaders. The event brings together COOs, Heads of Investment Operations, Chief Technology Officers, Chief Data Officers, and transformation leaders from leading asset managers, institutional investors, and pension funds. Focused on the future of investment operations, asset…

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31Speakers
6Sponsors
25On the bill · sessions
28Companies · in total
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Speakers

Programmed at AssetOps, in alphabetical order.
Adam Ness
Chief Operating Officer · Meeder Investment Management
Alpha FMC
Bhavna Goyal
Senior Director · ORIX Corporation USA
Cassie Hrtanek
Chief Operating Officer · The Inland Real Estate Group
Chandra Halverson
Senior Vice President Operations · Brookstone Capital Management
Chris H Kuehne
SVP Global Head of Investment Operations · Northern Trust Asset Management
Chris Johnson
Head of Back Office · Teza Technologies
Gabriella Sussman
Manager, Data Governance Operations · BMO Financial Group
Gorkem Sevinc
Co-founder and CEO · Qualytics
Jack Lynch
Chief Strategy Officer · Ridgeline
Jen Burka
Head of Investment Operations · Harris | Oakmark
Jim Seng
Director, Financial Operations · Longview Asset Management
Jon Emswiler
VP of Financial Services, North America · SS&C Blue Prism
Jordan Elkind
VP of AI Strategy and Transformation · Meeder Investment Management
Kirby Eckels
Senior Partner · Alpha FMC
Kuno Tucker
Chief Compliance Officer · Manulife Wealth
Laura Peck
Chief Operating Officer · Riverwater Partners
Luis Pelaez
Head of Internal Sales & Service · Nuveen
Mary-Patricia Harrison
Global Securities Data Lead - Senior Vice President · Northern Trust
Medy Agami
Senior Partner · Ben-Roz
Neal Naidoo
Head of Investment Intelligence · Rimes
Peeyush Shukla
Chief Data, AI, and Technology Officer · Meeder Investment Management
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Sponsors

The houses behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.
Alpha FMCGold
Blue PrismGold
QualyticsGold
RimesGold
RidgelineSilver
FundGuardNetworking
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Agenda

Selected from 25 sessions on the bill.
  • 04:00pm

    Fireside Chat | The convergence of public and private markets: What do successful unified portfolios look like?

    Operational implications of multi-asset portfolios Data integration across public and private investments Portfolio transparency and reporting challenges Technology platforms suppo…

  • 04:05pm

    Fireside Chat | Scaling Smart: How to Achieve Growth from CFO’s Seat

    - Anticipating operational demands before they become bottlenecks - Making strategic investments in technology, data, and service providers - Balancing institutional-grade infrastr…

  • 04:05pm

    Fireside Chat | The convergence of public and private markets: What do successful unified portfolios look like?

    • Operational implications of multi-asset portfolios • Data integration across public and private investments • Portfolio transparency and reporting challenges • Technology platfor…

  • 04:30pm

    Discussion Group | Automation and AI in practice: From proof-of-concept to firm-wide adoption

    Where AI and automation are delivering real returns in US operations (workflow orchestration, reconciliation, reporting) Overcoming the execution gap: model governance, training da…

  • 04:35pm

    Discussion Group | Automation and AI in practice: From proof-of-concept to firm-wide adoption

    • Where AI and automation are delivering real returns in US operations (workflow orchestration, reconciliation, reporting) • Overcoming the execution gap: model governance, traini…

  • 05:00pm

    Chair’s closing remarks

  • 05:05pm

    Chair’s closing remarks

  • 08:45am

    Chair's opening remarks

  • 09:00am

    Keynote | Built to Evolve: Transforming the Asset Management Operating Model

    Lessons for Asset Managers from Chicago’s Architectural History

Intermission
Part the Second · For the Buyer

What does it mean when 28 companies show up, and 4 bet on three roles at once?

28 companies. four are betting more than once.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
4All threespeak · spons · exh
2Sponsoringsponsor only
22Companies Speakingspeaker only

The Triple-Threat

Alpha FMC·Qualytics·Ridgeline·Rimes

Speakers by seniority

84% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite1032%
  • Founder / Owner26%
  • VP-level619%
  • Director / Head of826%
  • Manager / Lead26%
  • Engineer · IC13%
  • Other roles26%

Of 31 on the bill · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
  1. 01Alpha FMCSp·G1V
  2. 02QualyticsSp·G1V
  3. 03RidgelineSp·S1V
  4. 04RimesSp·G1V
  5. 05Blue PrismSp·G
  6. 06FundGuardSp·N
  7. 07Meeder Investment Management3V
  8. 08Northern Trust2V
  9. 09SS&C Blue Prism2V
  10. 10Alternatives Watch1V
  11. 11Ben-Roz1V
  12. 12Bluespring Wealth Partners1V
  13. 13BMO Financial Group1V
  14. 14Brookstone Capital Management1V
Sponsors by tier
gold4
67% of 6
silver1
17% of 6
networking1
17% of 6
At peer events but not here

These companies sponsored two or more peer events recently, but aren't on this program. For an organizer, that's a list of warm prospects.

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