10:00 AM

10:05 AM

ASX Welcome

Jamie Crank

Group Executive, Technology and Data, ASX

10:05 AM

10:15 AM

STAC Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

10:15 AM

10:25 AM

STAC Insights: Fast machine learning stacks for price forecasting

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics, STAC

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:25 AM

10:40 AM

Optimizing execution with microstructure-aware analytics

Cat Turley

CEO/Founder, ExeQution Analytics

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:40 AM

10:45 AM

From Prompt to SQL: Real-Time Insights via MCP

Enda Gildea

Senior Pre-Sales Engineer, KX

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:45 AM

10:50 AM

High Performance is More Than Servers

Jon Tinberg

Head of Marketing, XENON

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:50 AM

11:25 AM

Inside the Exchange: Engineering for Speed, Scale, and Determinism

Andrew Walton

General Manager, Trading, ASX

David Snowdon

Engineer

James Shannon

Research Manager, Optiver

Featured Session

11:25 AM

11:45 AM

Tea Break

11:45 AM

12:05 PM

STAC Insights: AI inferencing stacks

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics, STAC

AI

12:05 PM

12:20 PM

Agent-based market simulation: A smarter way to test trading strategies

Ken Wessen

Chief Quant, Algoteq

AI

12:20 PM

1:00 PM

Control or convenience? The architecture trade-offs behind AI-as-a-Service

David Jenkins

Chief Technology Officer, ImpactX Markets

Will Liang

CEO, Amplify AI Group

Chris Horder

Principal Solutions Architect, AWS

AI

1:00 PM

1:45 PM

Lunch

1:45 PM

1:55 PM

Afternoon Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

1:55 PM

2:10 PM

STAC Insights: Trade Flow domains

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

Networking & Fast Trading

2:10 PM

2:30 PM

How Australian technology enables the world's trading systems

David Snowdon

Engineer

Networking & Fast Trading

2:30 PM

3:10 PM

Optimizing tick-to-trade latency in digital asset trading

Kate Cooper

CEO, OKX

Morgan Potter

Managing Director, Nine Mile

Theon

Prop Trader, A Prop Trading Firm

Networking & Fast Trading

3:10 PM

3:40 PM

Break

3:40 PM

3:45 PM

FPGA Performance, without Compromise

Clement Pelletier

APAC Sales Director, Novasparks

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:45 PM

3:50 PM

Beyond Bandwidth: Engineering Connectivity for the Trading Edge

Corey Bakker

Executive Vice President, Business Development, Xenith IG

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:50 PM

4:05 PM

Transforming HFT with ML trading strategies

Andrea Suardi

Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:05 PM

4:30 PM

Rethinking colocation: cloud, ecosystem, and exchange proximity

Alfred Boudib

Senior Business Development Manager – Tech and Data, ASX

Matthew Cretney

Head of Product Management, Beeks

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:30 PM

6:00 PM

Networking Reception