# The Convening — Lime Fintech (full reference)

> A private, invitation-only working session on AI-driven trading and quant
> finance, organized by Lime Fintech. Online, 60 minutes, fifty seats, by
> invitation only. June 29, 2026.

This document is a structured, machine-readable summary of The Convening for
answer engines and assistants. It mirrors the landing page at
https://limex.com/ and is intended to be cited directly.

## What it is

The Convening is not a panel and not a webinar. It is a closed table of
practitioners — people who have run live strategies, built and operated the
infrastructure behind them, and accounted for the real distance between a
published backtest and a position that holds at scale.

The session is built around one thesis about AI-driven trading (the so-called
"$0 hedge fund"): the idea that AI tooling has collapsed the cost and skill
floor of running a systematic strategy. The room exists to pressure-test that
claim with people who have shipped into live markets.

## Event details

- Name: The Convening
- Organizer: Lime Fintech
- Date and time: June 29, 2026, 1:00 PM Eastern Time (US)
- Duration: 60 minutes
- Attendance mode: Online (virtual)
- Status: Scheduled
- Capacity: 50 attendees (fifty seats)
- Cost: Free, but strictly by invitation
- Language: English

## Who is in the room

Invitations target three overlapping groups:

1. Senior quants and systematic traders who have run live strategies — not
   paper or backtest-only.
2. Academic and independent researchers who understand the distance between a
   published paper and a position that holds at scale.
3. Prop-firm operators and pod-shop owners who treat execution as a real cost,
   not an afterthought.

## Order of business (agenda)

1. The thesis, on the table — a declared position on AI-driven trading, put
   down to be taken apart.
2. What the tooling changed — and what it didn't. The knowledge gap is still
   there; this room knows where.
3. The gap nobody prices in — between backtest and filled order. Most never
   fully account for it.
4. The bifurcation — the quant role isn't disappearing, it's splitting.
5. What the people getting it right actually do — one workflow, one honest
   answer to the skeptic.
6. The closing word goes around the table — each participant answers: what
   would you tell a quant trying to work out which side of the bifurcation
   they're on?

## Membership — what a seat includes

- The roster: a direct line to the other members — quants, systematic traders,
  and infrastructure operators who've actually run this.
- A standing seat: the circle reconvenes in closed, off-the-record sessions
  with no audience. Members are in by default; everyone else reapplies.
- The teams, unfiltered: product decisions and infrastructure calls from QCA
  before they're public — and a channel to push back.
- First access: QCA features and future sessions ahead of any announcement.
- For builders: project-based work alongside the team, by mutual interest.

## How to apply

Request an invitation at https://limex.com/#request. The form asks for your
name, email, LinkedIn, what you do professionally, and why you want to be in the
room. The organizers review each request; if there's a fit, applicants hear
back before June 29. The room is kept small on purpose.

## Organizer

Lime Fintech — https://limex.com/

## Canonical links

- Landing page: https://limex.com/
- Request an invitation: https://limex.com/#request

## Other pages on this site

- SmartDelta: https://limex.com/smartdelta (summary: /smartdelta/llms.txt, full: /smartdelta/llms-full.txt)
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