11:00 AM

11:10 AM

Opening Welcome

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

How AI Is transforming model risk management — and why AI itself is becoming the biggest unmanaged risk

Gunjan Agarwal

Quantitative Professional, Model Risk Management , Mizuho Securities

11:30 AM

11:53 AM

When risk models outgrow the stack: Compute, AI, and governance at institutional scale

Gaël Robert

Head of Global Risk Analytics, Mizuho

11:53 AM

12:00 PM

Capture simplified, from tap to cloud

Aaron Foo

CEO, FMADIO

12:00 PM

12:07 PM

Built to Accelerate Financial Services - Closing the AI Inference Gap

Hidetoshi Iwasa

Senior Manager, FAE & Business Development, Supermicro

12:07 PM

12:14 PM

From packets to prompts: Exploration of Corvil data

Denis Sweeney

Director, Business Development, Pico

12:20 PM

12:40 PM

The data-fragmentation problem: Unifying market, alternative, and research data for AI-driven quant workflows

Gen Uehara

Head of Financial Services Industry, Japan, Snowflake

12:40 PM

1:00 PM

Scientific AI: The next wave after Generative AI

Tiago Ramalho

CEO, Recursive

1:00 PM

1:07 PM

IOWN: The next-generation information and communications infrastructure 次世代情報通信基盤「IOWN」

Masayuki Hayashi 林 雅之

Evangelist エバンジェリスト, NTT DOCOMO BUSINESS, Inc. NTTドコモビジネス株式会社

1:07 PM

1:14 PM

Before the model: Ontologies for institutional knowledge in regulated finance

Ilya Kulyatin

CEO, Foundry Labs

1:15 PM

2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

STAC Research: AI and Analytics

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

2:20 PM

2:40 PM

Some economics of AI

Colin Rowat

Principal Research Scientist, Rakuten Institute of Technology

2:40 PM

2:47 PM

Accelerating AI and Low Latency with AMD

Alastair Richardson

Strategic Business Development Director, AMD

2:47 PM

2:54 PM

Built to Accelerate Financial Services - Closing the AI Inference Gap

Hidetoshi Iwasa

Senior Manager, FAE & Business Development, Supermicro

2:54 PM

3:01 PM

From Event Mesh to Agentic AI: The Real-time Backbone for Capital Markets

Phil Scanlon

Field CTO, Solace

3:01 PM

3:25 PM

Cloud under pressure: Building for AI when compute is scarce

Nick Williams

Distinguished Engineer and Head of Enterprise Computing, Morgan Stanley

3:25 PM

3:55 PM

Afternoon Break

3:55 PM

4:15 PM

STAC Research: Trade Flow

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

4:15 PM

4:22 PM

Breaking the latency barrier: Shengli’s latest 1+FPGA switches & China’s seismic trading landscape shifts

Louis Liu

CEO, Shengli Technologies

4:22 PM

4:29 PM

Why timing infrastructure is the next critical challenge

Kohei Suzuki

Global Market & Product Strategy | Precision Timing Solutions, Seiko Solutions

4:30 PM

4:45 PM

J-GATE 4.0 - Reimagining Japan's derivatives market infrastructure

Isao Nakamura

Director, IT Development (Derivatives Systems), Osaka Exchange

4:45 PM

4:50 PM

Closing Remarks

Satoshi Takura

Senior Executive Officer and Chief Information Officer, Japan Exchange Group, Inc.

4:50 PM

5:50 PM

Networking Reception