Innovation and "Start-ups" at Goldman Sachs

Date: 16 October 2019 (Wednesday)
Time: 6-7pm
Venue: LTC
Title: Innovation and "Start-ups" at Goldman Sachs
Speaker: Mr. Mirza Baig, Vice President, Goldman Sachs

About the Talk:

Investment banks usually, and unfairly are associated with "legacy" technology due to the various compliance and legal obligations they are faced with. This talk will highlight how these very constraints spurred innovation inside Goldman Sachs, and led to the development of various products which went onto to become the defacto industry wide standards.

Speaker:

Mirza Baig has 14 years of experience working across many different roles in engineering and product management. He joined Goldman Sachs as a fresh graduate in Bangalore in 2005, and moved to Hong Kong in 2011. His focus has mostly been on workplace technology and digital experience for the people at GS. As part of his work he has been involved in many innovative products "internal startups" some of which went onto become industry wide products. He currently leads the Mobile Engineering and Workplace Technology Product Management for Asia Pacific.