
SPEAKER
Diarmuid Early
Diarmuid founded Early Days Consulting and is a partner in The Golden Company, specializing in financial modeling, reporting, and automation. Before starting Early Days, he worked as a business manager at Deutsche Bank for ten years in New York and London and started his career as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group in London.
Along with his industry experience, he has a Ph.D. in computer science and earned a CFA charter, which gives him a unique perspective as a financial modeler and trainer.
Diarmuid is a two-time world financial modeling champion (2014 and 2021), and three-time runner-up. (2016, 2020, and 2022).
Moving to Advanced Function Arrays with LAMBDAS
DEC 8 | 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
Lambdas are a relatively new function that was added to Excel in December 2020. It provides an instrument to write and use customized functions, written within Excel, which was not possible before. Lambdas can be referred to as simple programming in Excel, developing Excel functionality to new horizons.
Therefore, in this masterclass, led by one of the most proficient Excel users, you will learn the whole specter of LAMBDAS functionality.
The Path Of the MEWC & FMWC Champion
DEC 9 | 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM
Moving from Excel to Python - the joys and the pitfalls
DEC 9 | 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
OTHER SPEAKERS
Acquisition, capital raise, project finance and corporate lending professional. Has MSc in civil engineering & construction, and project & structured finance.
An independent mining engineer and a university lecturer in Mining Engineering.
Practice Lead for Governance, Adoption and Change Management, SoftwareOne North America
Founder of The Golden Company. FMWC 2022 and 2023 Champion. Ex Wall Street quant.
Previously worked as actuary in PwC and Taylor Fry. Five times ModelOff finalist and one time bronze medalist. Two time MEWC finalist.
Worked at Operis for 2 years together with Michael Jarman. Active FMWC and MEWC participant. Part of the case design team. Currently pursuing an MSc. in Mathematics and Statistics.
Contractor with an impressive 23-year track record in the actuarial departments of leading insurance providers in Europe and the UK.
Road to Las Vegas and MEWC cases' author, Consultant at Oliver Wyman
Award-winning author in analytics, data science, and data visualization. 11-time Microsoft MVP Award winner
Founder & CEO of Financial Modeling World Cup. Financial Modeling World Championship 2-time finalist
25-time Excel MVP Award winner, author of 5 Excel books, Excel user since version 0.99
Executive Director at Financial Modeling Institute. Chartered Financial Modeler
Founder of The FP&A Guy. Providing world-class content and training for FP&A and Finance Professionals
Founder of Vertex42.com. Spreadsheet template developer since 2003