9:00 AM

9:30 AM

Welcome reception

9:30 AM

9:40 AM

Where financial technology is heading, and what the evidence says

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

9:40 AM

9:55 AM

STAC Analytics & ML Benchmarks: New results, and the case for adjoint algorithmic differentiation

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics , STAC

Quant

9:55 AM

10:10 AM

Can AI build a database? Lessons from building PeachQ

Ryan Hamilton

Founder, TimeStored.com

Quant

10:10 AM

10:15 AM

Supermicro Optimizing HPC performance and TCO for FSI workloads with FlexTwin

Angelos Konstantopoulos

Field Application Engineer, UK, Supermicro

Quant

10:15 AM

10:20 AM

Data primacy in AI

Stephen Bailey

Consulting Field Solutions Architect, Everpure

Quant

10:25 AM

10:35 AM

World Models and real world data 

John Edge

Founder & CEO, Kavara

Quant

10:35 AM

10:55 AM

Sharding for speed: Making OPRA data accessible at scale

Rebecca Kelly

Head of AI and Analytics, Inqdata

Quant

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Morning Break
Quant

11:30 AM

11:55 AM

STAC Research: Benchmarking the performance of quant research agents

Jun Rui Lee

Researcher, STAC

Ben Boren

CTO, SwarmOne

Quant

11:55 AM

12:10 PM

Open Resource Broker: A unified API for cloud capacity provisioning in HPC

Alex Kimber

HPC Principal Technologist, Global Financial Services, AWS

Flamur Gogolli

Senior Compute Specialist, AWS

Quant

12:10 PM

12:15 PM

ML inference: does optimizing latency mean sacrificing model flexibility?

Patrick Beart

Software Engineer, myrtle.ai

Quant

12:15 PM

12:20 PM

Norwegian data centres for regulated workloads

Oscar Thøgersen

Chief Commercial Officer, Skygard AS

Quant

12:20 PM

12:25 PM

AI Inference – Memory Capacity Challenge

Moiz Kohari

VP Enterprise AI, DDN

Quant

12:25 PM

12:30 PM

The Long Game: 40 Years of AI

Daniel Goodman

Managing Director, BSI

Quant

12:35 PM

1:00 PM

Signals, research and decision-making with AI: A fireside chat with Bilal Hafeez

Bilal Hafeez

Founder/CEO, Macro Hive

Quant

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

STAC AI Benchmarks

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics , STAC

AI

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

STAC Trade Flow Research and Benchmarks

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

Trading Infrastructure

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

When AI trades: Adversarial news and the security of agentic trading systems

Advije Rizvani

AI Research Engineer, Calvin Risk

AI

2:15 PM

2:30 PM

The calendar of fear: What the market priced and what it missed

Peter Hodgson

Head of Targeted Developments, Options Technology

Trading Infrastructure

2:30 PM

2:35 PM

Supermicro Closing the AI inference gap

Angelos Konstantopoulos

Field Application Engineer, UK, Supermicro

AI

2:30 PM

2:35 PM

Architecting for Speed & Scale in Capital Markets

Olivier Cousin

Director FPGA Solutions, Exegy

Trading Infrastructure

2:35 PM

2:40 PM

Scaling AI Compute Across Financial Services

Sachin Dhingra

Sr. Director, Enterprise AI Solutions, AMD

AI

2:35 PM

2:40 PM

Blackcore®: Performance so good it Hz.

Ciaran Kennedy

CRO, Blackcore Technologies

Trading Infrastructure

2:40 PM

2:45 PM

Testing the Behaviour of AI Agents

Nick Bond

Senior Systems Engineer, A10 Networks

AI

2:40 PM

2:45 PM

2-phase Liquid Cooling – Evolving the cold plate

Stewart Orrell

Vertical GTM lead, Zutacore

Trading Infrastructure

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

Architectural approaches to agentic AI in exchange environments

Puneet Mehta

Domain Architect – Trading (Head of FX & Cross-Asset Architecture), LSEG

AI

2:45 PM

2:50 PM

Jabil - Enterprise Infrastructure for Critical FSI Workloads

Fred Shubert

Sr. Director of Sales, Jabil

Trading Infrastructure

2:50 PM

2:55 PM

Tech Discovery: Liquid-Markets

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Trading Infrastructure

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

Afternoon Break
AI

3:00 PM

3:30 PM

Afternoon Break
Trading Infrastructure

3:30 PM

3:45 PM

Designing the BestX AI Agent: AI product thinking for fintech

Yangling Li

Head Quant, BestX

AI

3:30 PM

3:45 PM

Ghost latency: When the clocks - and the evidence - disagree

Diana Stanescu

Director Finance and Capital Markets, Keysight

Trading Infrastructure

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

Finding the ‘Easy Button’ for AI infrastructure for more efficient and predictable outcomes

Jeff Chu

Senior Sales Director Financial Services, Penguin Solutions

AI

3:45 PM

3:50 PM

Accelerating AI and Low Latency with AMD

Alastair Richardson

Strategic Business Development Director, AMD

Trading Infrastructure

3:55 PM

4:00 PM

Nanoseconds Matter. Consistency Wins: Technical advantages for financial trading infrastructure

John Burie

Product Manager – Hypertec HFT servers, Hypertec

Trading Infrastructure

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

AI Evals: From judging outputs to engineering decision context

Ning Lu

Vice President, BlackRock

AI

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

AI-Infused Financial Services: Optimizing the Data Path via PCIe Efficiency Improvements

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Trading Infrastructure

4:15 PM

4:50 PM

From foundation models to market models

Zhijin Guo

AI Research Scientist , JP Morgan

Arnav Khare

Principal Technologist, Resilience AI , AWS

Charly Deighton

Account Director, OpenAI

Dimi Nikolaou

Field CTO, Fireworks AI

Namid Stillman

Head of AI , Simudyne

AI

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

Open-source FPGA tools may become a competitive advantage sooner or later

Edmund Humenberger

CEO, Symbiotic EDA

Trading Infrastructure

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

The hidden cost of intelligence. Engineering speed without creating dependency.

Eleni Coldrey

Business Development Director, Equinix

Trading Infrastructure

4:50 PM

6:00 PM

Drinks reception