Stephen Morse is a consultant and advisor in the areas of FinTech, AI, and alternative data. He has over 20 years of experience in these fields, previously working at firms involved in data and financial technology. He is now the founder of Neudata, a company that leverages alternative data sources like social media to provide insights for financial markets. In his presentation, Morse discusses how analyzing data from Twitter, estimates from crowdsourcing platforms, geotagged social media posts, and other alternative sources can provide alpha and reveal breaking news or events that impact markets. He provides numerous examples of how social media posts and analyses from these sources predicted market movements.