How BlackRock Builds Custom Knowledge Apps at Scale — Vaibhav Page & Infant Vasanth, BlackRock
Summary
Black Rock's engineering team discusses scaling custom AI applications across their asset management business, focusing on four key application types: document extraction, workflow automation, Q&A systems, and agentic systems. The presentation highlights how their investment operations teams need complex internal tools to manage massive amounts of financial data and streamline trading processes. The core objective is to leverage large language models to augment and supercharge existing systems, enabling faster and more efficient technological innovation within their organization.