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If you weren't able to make it to Chicago for R/Finance, the annual conference devoted to applications of R in the financial industry, don't fret: the entire conference is being livestreamed (with thanks to the team at Microsoft). You can watch the proceedings at aka.ms/r_finance, and recordings will be available at the same link after the event.

Check out the conference program below for the schedule of events (times in US Central Standard Daylight Time).

Friday, May 19th, 2017
09:30 – 09:35	Kickoff
09:35 – 09:40	Sponsor Introduction
09:40 – 10:10	Marcelo Perlin: GetHFData: An R package for downloading and aggregating high frequency trading data from Bovespa
	Jeffrey Mazar: The obmodeling Package
	Yuting Tan: Return Volatility, Market Microstructure Noise, and Institutional Investors: Evidence from High Frequency Market
	Stephen Rush: Adverse Selection and Broker Execution
	Jerzy Pawlowski: How Can Machines Learn to Trade?
10:10 – 10:30	Michael Hirsch: Revealing High-Frequency Trading Provisions of Liquidity with Visualization in R
10:30 – 10:50	Matthew Dixon: MLEMVD: A R Package for Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Multivariate Diffusion Models
10:50 – 11:10	Break
11:10 – 11:30	Seoyoung Kim: Zero-Revelation RegTech: Detecting Risk through Linguistic Analysis of Corporate Emails and News
11:30 – 12:10	Szilard Pafka: No-Bullshit Data Science
12:10 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Francesco Bianchi: Measuring Risk with Continuous Time Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity Models
	Eina Ooka: Bunched Random Forest in Monte Carlo Risk Simulation
	Matteo Crimella: Operational Risk Stress Testing: An Empirical Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms and Time Series Forecasting Methods
	Thomas Zakrzewski: Using R for Regulatory Stress Testing Modeling
	Andy Tang: How much structure is best?
14:00 – 14:20	Robert McDonald: Ratings and Asset Allocation: An Experimental Analysis
14:20 – 14:50	Break
14:50 – 15:10	Dries Cornilly: Nearest Comoment Estimation with Unobserved Factors and Linear Shrinkage
15:10 – 15:30	Bernhard Pfaff: R package: mcrp: Multiple criteria risk contribution optimization
15:30 – 16:00	Oliver Haynold: Practical Options Modeling with the sn Package, Fat Tails, and How to Avoid the Ultraviolet Catastrophe
	Shuang Zhou: A Nonparametric Estimate of the Risk-Neutral Density and Its Applications
	Luis Damiano: A Quick Intro to Hidden Markov Models Applied to Stock Volatility
	Oleg Bondarenko: Rearrangement Algorithm and Maximum Entropy
	Xin Chen: Risk and Performance Estimator Standard Errors for Serially Correlated Returns
16:00 – 16:20	Qiang Kou: Text analysis using Apache MxNet
16:20 – 16:40	Robert Krzyzanowski: Syberia: A development framework for R
16:40 – 16:52	Matt Dancho: New Tools for Performing Financial Analysis Within the 'Tidy' Ecosystem
	Leonardo Silvestri: ztsdb, a time-series DBMS for R users
Saturday, May 20th, 2017
08:00 – 09:00	Coffee/ Breakfast
09:00 – 09:05	Kickoff
09:05 – 09:35	Stephen Bronder: Integrating Forecasting and Machine Learning in the mlr Framework
	Leopoldo Catania: Generalized Autoregressive Score Models in R: The GAS Package
	Guanhao Feng: Regularizing Bayesian Predictive Regressions
	Jonas Rende: partialCI: An R package for the analysis of partially cointegrated time series
	Carson Sievert: Interactive visualization for multiple time series
09:35 – 09:55	Emanuele Guidotti: yuimaGUI: A graphical user interface for the yuima package
09:55 – 10:15	Daniel Kowal: A Bayesian Multivariate Functional Dynamic Linear Model
10:15 – 10:45	Break
10:45 – 11:05	Jason Foster: Scenario Analysis of Risk Parity using RcppParallel
11:05 – 11:35	Michael Weylandt: Convex Optimization for High-Dimensional Portfolio Construction
	Lukas Elmiger: Risk Parity Under Parameter Uncertainty
	Ilya Kipnis: Global Adaptive Asset Allocation, and the Possible End of Momentum
	Vyacheslav Arbuzov: Dividend strategy: towards the efficient market
	Nabil Bouamara: The Alpha and Beta of Equity Hedge UCITS Funds – Implications for Momentum Investing
11:35 – 12:15	Dave DeMers: Risk Fast and Slow
12:15 – 13:35	Lunch
13:35 – 13:55	Eric Glass: Equity Factor Portfolio Case Study
13:55 – 14:15	Jonathan Regenstein: Reproducible Finance with R: A Global ETF Map
14:15 – 14:35	David Ardia: Markov-Switching GARCH Models in R: The MSGARCH Package
14:35 – 14:55	Keven Bluteau: Forecasting Performance of Markov-Switching GARCH Models: A Large-Scale Empirical Study
14:55 – 15:07	Riccardo Porreca: Efficient, Consistent and Flexible Credit Default Simulation
	Maisa Aniceto: Machine Learning and the Analysis of Consumer Lending
15:07 – 15:27	David Smith: Detecting Fraud at 1 Million Transactions per Second
15:27 – 15:50	Break
15:50 – 16:10	Thomas Harte: The PE package: Modeling private equity in the 21st century
16:10 – 16:30	Guanhao Feng: The Market for English Premier League (EPL) Odds
16:30 – 16:50	Bryan Lewis: Project and conquer
16:50 – 17:00	Prizes and Feedback
17:00 – 17:05	Conclusion

R/Finance 2017 livestream: aka.ms/r_finance

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