InvestOps USA 2026

March 9 - 11, 2026

JW Marriott Grande Lakes, Orlando

Michael Sands

Michael Sands

President & Managing Director Beacon AP
Michael Sands
Mike is a leader within the capital markets industry, focusing on the intersection of business reinvention, change management, and generative AI. He brings 20+ years of experience driving strategic and transformational change across the capital markets industry. His expertise spans operating model design, digital and data strategy, business process redesign, technology selection and implementation, and innovation integration. He is co-founder of BeaconAP. Previously, he served as Global GenAI Lead for Capital Markets at Accenture and as one of the asset management consulting leads. Prior to that, he was with Federated Investors. He has led major transformation and AI strategy initiatives for asset and wealth managers, private markets firms, banks, fund administrators, and asset owners, helping organizations translate innovation into tangible business value across the front, middle, and back offices. Mike speaks frequently at industry conferences and events and is regularly interviewed by media outlets on the impact emerging technology and AI are having on asset management.

Buy Side Innovation Day | March 9th

1:00 PM Innovation Case Study: GenAI’s Hidden Shift: Rewiring the Investment Ops Operating Model

As generative AI moves from pilots to production, investment operations teams are discovering that the biggest shifts are not in tools, but in data strategy, governance, and operational control. This session will feature a healthy, experience-driven debate on what is genuinely changing versus what still requires disciplined fundamentals.


This session will examine:

How GenAI is changing investment operations in practice, focusing on data quality, lineage, oversight, and workflow design.

Attendees will gain practical insight into how to redesign investment operations and data foundations to scale GenAI responsibly and deliver real operational value.

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Michael.

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