Alphathon 2026 is now:

Agenthon 2026

A Quantitative Finance Competition

Coming in Fall 2026!

Welcome to Agenthon 2026! The SQA is thrilled to announce #Agenthon2026, a hackathon in quantitative finance, focusing on Agentic AI, organized jointly by the Society of Quantitative Analysts SQA and the Center of Excellence in Wireless and Information Technology CEWIT at Stony Brook University!

This competition aims to develop and evaluate cutting-edge quantitative finance solutions for industry professionals, utilizing the latest mathematical, statistical and machine learning techniques and alternative datasets.

Agenthon 2026 is a month-long, online quantitative finance competition with in-person finals.

See Alphathon 2025 and Alphathon 2024, under Past Events above, for a better understanding of the event, including the:

Questions 2025
Winners 2025
Final and Conference 2025

More details coming soon!

Get Involved

Agenthon 2026 is open to industry professionals, graduate students and academics alike, able to attend the final in person, if successful. Agenthon 2026 is designed for individuals eager to enhance their skills in Agentic AI and quantitative finance, and to engage with the latest advancements in technology, computational statistics and data analysis in the financial sector. Winners will have substantial visibility in the industry, including the Question sponsors, and SQA member investment firms.

More details coming soon!

Compete

Apply your learning and
compete in Agenthon 2026

We will equip you with the
knowledge, tools, and data

More Details Coming Soon

Attend

Don't miss our Agenthon Conference
this Fall

Hear from our great Speakers
and Agenthon Winners

More Details Coming Soon

Question Partners

Agenthon 2026 questions will focus on Agentic AI in financial markets. Past Alphathon Questions have always been of real relevance to Hedge Funds and Asset Managers, and cover different areas of Quantitative Investment like Alpha Forecasting, Portfolio Optimization, dealing with Large, Alternative, Unstructured or High Frequency Data, Machine Learning and AI. Questions are provided and judged jointly by the SQA and our Question Partners.

See Questions 2025 for last year's Questions, to get a better feel of Alphathon priorities.

Alphathon 2025 Question Partners included the following:

Provide a Question

Open to select investment firms
(buy-side, sell-side, allocators) or similar,
subject to SQA approval

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Thank You,

The Organizing Committee

Christos Koutsoyannis
Chief Investment Officer, Atlas Ridge Capital
Adjunct Professor, NYU Courant
Executive Advisory Board, Columbia Business School, Program for Financial Studies

Pawel Polak
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and
Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Advanced Computational Science,
Stony Brook University

Our Supporters

Sponsor

A number of
Sponsorship Tiers and
Opportunities are available
including providing:

Monetary Sponsorship
Awards Sponsorship
Event Space
Data
Infrastructure
Compute

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