14–17 Oct 2019

Cris Lowery
Senior Manager, Baringa Partners

Cristobal Lowery is a senior manager and team lead for Baringa Partners’s modeling and machine learning centre of excellence, where he led the creation of Baringa’s data science and analytics team and supported our clients in their journeys to become leaders in artificial intelligence. Previously, he was an independent data science consultant in an investment bank and for a leading Formula 1 team. Cristobal is a passionate advocate of artificial intelligence and its potential to transform businesses. He holds two first-class master’s degrees in quantitative subjects and has published and patented a machine learning system.

Sessions

11:05–11:45 Thursday, 17 October 2019

Location: Windsor Suite

Executive Briefing: A look at the future of online pricing and algorithm-led collusion

AI Business Summit, Privacy, Ethics, and Compliance

Secondary topics: Reinforcement Learning

Rebecca Gu (Electron), Cris Lowery (Baringa Partners)

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In a future of widespread algorithmic pricing, cooperation between algorithms is easier than ever, resulting in coordinated price rises. Rebecca Gu and Cris Lowery explore how a Q-learner algorithm can inadvertently reach a collusive outcome in a virtual marketplace, which industries are likely to be subject to greater restrictions or scrutiny, and what future digital regulation might look like. Read more.