September 2025, Evan Anderson, Oseberg.io

Presentation Information:  

This session reframes the question of whether upstream real asset acquisition is a beta-tracking strategy or an alpha-generating engine. Evan Anderson, a systems-level strategist and founder of Oseberg.io, argues it’s the latter, a structurally inefficient, signal-rich market that resembles pre-quant Wall Street: opaque, fragmented, and ripe for disruption. 

Drawing from 15 years of operating experience and live deployments, this presentation will:

What’s Possible with Technology: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), and graph-based modeling can now extract predictive signals from unstructured regulatory and courthouse filings, surfacing likely sellers, timing indicators, and behavioral patterns before assets are marketed. When paired with automated underwriting, this infrastructure enables firms to price and close faster, converting insight into execution without sacrificing precision.

Why Most Firms Can’t Execute: The limiting factors are cultural and structural, not technical. Most shops lack technical leadership capable of building integrated data systems. Their processes are…