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Discover how AQR, a 26-year-old investment management firm with $128 billion under management, successfully transformed its technology platform to achieve high scalability, agility, and distributed architecture in this 19-minute conference talk from the AWS Financial Services Symposium 2025. Learn about AQR's innovative approach to empowering subject matter experts as "Citizen Coders," enabling them to capture new business opportunities and enhance operational efficiency without traditional engineering bottlenecks. Explore the detailed case study of how these empowered Citizen Coders rapidly launched a new high-scale business line managing $14 billion and growing, while simultaneously pivoting to integrate artificial intelligence into their business processes. Gain insights into the strategic technology decisions and implementation approaches that allowed this established financial services firm to maintain competitive advantage through platform modernization and organizational transformation that bridges the gap between business expertise and technical execution.
