9:00 AM

9:15 AM

Morning Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

9:15 AM

9:25 AM

STAC Update: STAC-AI

Bishop Brock

Head of Research, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

STAC Update

9:25 AM

9:40 AM

Compromise is so last decade: Solving for speed, scale, and insight in risk management

Emmanuel Richard

Chief Solution Officer, Opensee

Tech Brief

9:40 AM

9:45 AM

Future Ready AI

Michael Watson

Senior Director of Field Application Engineering, Supermicro

Innovation Roundup

9:45 AM

9:50 AM

Simplifying GenAI and RAG Data Pipeline Complexity

Robert Glanzman

Global Strategic Alliances Principal Architect, Pure Storage

Innovation Roundup

9:50 AM

9:55 AM

Large Memory Servers using CXL Memory Expansion

Andy Mills

VP Advanced Product Development, Penguin Solutions

Innovation Roundup

9:55 AM

10:30 AM

Is breaking up hard to do? Storage and memory disaggregation for financial HPC

Caius Howcroft

Head of Infrastructure and Data Platform, Tradeweb

Andy Mills

VP Advanced Product Development, Penguin Solutions

Robert Glanzman

Global Strategic Alliances Principal Architect, Pure Storage

Emmanuel Richard

Chief Solution Officer, Opensee

Panel

10:35 AM

11:05 AM

Break

Networking

11:05 AM

11:15 AM

STAC update: Tick analytics & Risk Computing

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

STAC Update

11:15 AM

11:20 AM

How we built an open source time-series database for financial markets

Nicolas Hourcard

Co-founder & CEO, QuestDB

Innovation Roundup

11:20 AM

11:25 AM

Low Latency AI with the AMD Alveo V80 Accelerator

Michael McGuirk

Sr Product Manager, Data Center, AMD

Innovation Roundup

11:25 AM

11:30 AM

Preparing Your Infrastructure Strategy for AI

Brian Kuebler

Sr. Systems Engineer, Hammerspace

Innovation Roundup

11:30 AM

11:35 AM

Latest Innovation at Oracle Cloud for Fast Compute and Fast Data

Attila Narin

Vice President of Cloud Engineering, Oracle

Innovation Roundup

11:35 AM

11:40 AM

Michael Ryaboy

AI Developer Advocate, KX Systems

Innovation Roundup

11:45 AM

12:20 PM

The new table stakes? Advanced compute for time series modeling

Carl Carrie

Founder, Exiled.AI

Krishnan Iyengar

Group Vice President - Strategic Initiatives, Oracle

Ioana Boier

Senior Principal Solutions Architect, NVIDIA

Michael Ryaboy

AI Developer Advocate, KX Systems

Panel

12:20 PM

1:20 PM

Lunch

Networking

1:30 PM

1:40 PM

STAC Update: Fast Data

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

STAC Update

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

Title to be announced

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets-Holdings

Innovation Roundup

1:45 PM

1:50 PM

Why Architecture Matters when Every Packet Counts

Michael Hu

Director, Product Management, cPacket Networks

Innovation Roundup

1:50 PM

1:55 PM

Beeks Analytics: Distributed Packet Capture, Streaming Decodes and... Edge Intelligence

Matt Cretney

Head of Product Management, Beeks

Innovation Roundup

1:55 PM

2:00 PM

Maximize Efficiency and Compute Per Floor Tile with Self-Contained Liquid Cooling

David Fox

Senior Mechanical Engineer, JetCool Technologies Inc.

Innovation Roundup

2:00 PM

2:05 PM

GPU Power: Hit the “Easy Button” to Maximize Utilization and AI Training Efficiency

Jeff Chu

Senior Sales Director Financial Services, Penguin Solutions

Innovation Roundup

2:10 PM

2:25 PM

Stress relief: Using AI to analyze trading-platform telemetry

Fergal Toomey

Managing Director of Data Science, Pico

Tech Brief

2:25 PM

2:30 PM

AI/HPC Solutions for Financial Services.

Michael Watson

Senior Director of Field Application Engineering, Supermicro

Innovation Roundup

2:30 PM

2:35 PM

Lenovo AI and Sustainability Innovations

Danny Dorado

ISG Senior Account Executive, Lenovo

Innovation Roundup

2:35 PM

2:40 PM

Inside the Overclockers Toolbox

James Lupton

CTO, Blackcore Technologies

Innovation Roundup

2:40 PM

2:45 PM

NJFX Multi-Purpose Data Center Converging Connectivity and AI

Gil Santaliz

CEO, NJFX

Innovation Roundup

2:50 PM

3:05 PM

Fast Compute: How fast is Fast?

Aiken Cairncross

Senior Software Developer, Myrtle.ai

Tech Brief

3:05 PM

3:35 PM

Break

Networking

3:35 PM

3:40 PM

STAC Update: Tick-to-Trade

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

STAC Update

3:40 PM

3:45 PM

Adhoc Technology Tick-to-Trade Solutions and STAC-T1 Test

Ertugrul Kolagasioglu

Board Member, Adhoc Teknoloji

Innovation Roundup

3:45 PM

3:50 PM

A Full Featured Market Data Platform using FPGAs

Cliff Maddox

Director of Business Development, NovaSparks

Innovation Roundup

3:50 PM

3:55 PM

Title to be announced

James Calise

Senior Director, Cloud Engineering, FSI, Oracle

Innovation Roundup

4:05 PM

4:20 PM

No more flying blind: Detecting bad time in time to do something

Ciaran Kennedy

Sales, Safran

Tech Brief

4:20 PM

4:25 PM

Create your ULL FPGA application in 5 easy steps with nxFramework

Laurent de Barry

VP, Ultra Low Latency Trading, Exegy

Innovation Roundup

4:25 PM

4:30 PM

Ultra Low Latency Trading with the latest Alveo Accelerators and AMD CPU's

Michael McGuirk

Sr Product Manager, Data Center, AMD

Innovation Roundup

4:30 PM

4:35 PM

Deploy HFT Accelerators Faster with COFE!

Vijay Akkaraju

Application Engineer Architect, System Verification Group (“SVG”) AE, Cadence

Innovation Roundup

4:35 PM

5:15 PM

Show me some love: Improving the FPGA “Engineer Experience”

Ben Maron

Head of Hardware Engineering, Hudson River Trading

Rajiv Perera

Director of Hardware and HFT Engineering, MA Capital

Michael Gorbovitski

Executive Director, Morgan Stanley

Lakshmi Aiyer

Director, Sr. FPGA ULL Developer, UBS Financial Services

Matthew Certosimo

Data Center FPGA Field Application Engineer, AMD

Vijay Akkaraju

Application Engineer Architect, System Verification Group (“SVG”) AE, Cadence

Panel

5:15 PM

6:15 PM

Reception

Networking