9:00 AM

9:10 AM

STAC welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

STAC

9:10 AM

9:20 AM

STAC Update: Tick Analytics & Risk Computing

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Analytics & Data Engineering

9:20 AM

9:35 AM

Beyond Monte Carlo: Faster results with a Convergence-Oblivious Computation Accelerator

Phillip Stanley-Marbell

CEO/CTO, Signaloid

Analytics & Data Engineering

9:35 AM

10:00 AM

Innovation Roundup
Analytics & Data Engineering

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Open for business: Are open data formats the key to a successful data strategy?

Jonny Press

CTO, Data Intellect

Martin Swanson

Founder, Atomic Wire

Vlad Ilyushchenko

Co-Founder & CTO, QuestDB

Justin Morris

Solution Engineering Leader, Databricks

Analytics & Data Engineering

10:30 AM

11:00 AM

Break
Networking

11:00 AM

11:10 AM

STAC Update: Machine Learning & AI

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Machine Learning

11:10 AM

11:35 AM

Conformal prediction: A practical approach to reliable machine learning

Valery Manokhin

Managing Director, Open Predictive Technologies

Machine Learning

11:35 AM

11:55 AM

Innovation Roundup
Machine Learning

11:55 AM

12:10 PM

Tackling Injury Risk with Machine Learning: Data Analytics in Rugby and Beyond.

Chris Leckey

Research Officer, Irish Rugby Football Union

Machine Learning

12:10 PM

12:40 PM

Panel: From data to decision
Machine Learning

12:40 PM

1:40 PM

Networking Lunch (AI Track)
AI Track

12:40 PM

1:40 PM

Lunch
Networking

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

Afternoon Welcome

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

AI Track

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

Afternoon Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Data Monitoring

1:45 PM

2:00 PM

Optimizing techniques for LLMs in finance

Pere Martra

AI Engineer, Caixabank Tech

AI Track

1:45 PM

1:55 PM

STAC Update: Fast Working Groups

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Data Monitoring

1:55 PM

2:10 PM

The Missing link: Multi-layer correlation for performance-critical trading

Caolán McCarron

AtlasVision Product Manager, Options Technology

Data Monitoring

2:00 PM

2:25 PM

Innovation Roundup
AI Track

2:10 PM

2:35 PM

Innovation Roundup
Data Monitoring

2:25 PM

2:40 PM

AI agents in finance: Architecture, patterns, and practical use cases
AI Track

2:35 PM

2:50 PM

Half-decided: spotting speculative triggering in practice

Matt Davey

Managing Director, Product Management, Pico

Data Monitoring

2:40 PM

3:25 PM

License to operate: Expanding MLOps for the Agentic era

Amit Nandi

VP Data Science, Barclays Corporate Investment Banking

Justin Xu

Head of Investments, Millennium Global Investments

Annapoorani Lakshmi Narayanan

Vice President, AI Research, JP Morgan Chase

Gargi Agrey

Generative AI Engineer, Flutter

Vikesh Kumar Pandey

Principal GenAI Specialist Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services

AI Track

2:45 PM

3:15 PM

Networking Break (AI Track)
Networking

2:50 PM

3:20 PM

Break
Networking

3:20 PM

3:35 PM

FPGA to ASIC
Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:35 PM

4:00 PM

Innovation Roundup
Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:55 PM

4:10 PM

Performance Considerations for Extreme-Scale Data Analytics and Production AI

Dr. Richard Mansfield

Pre-Sales Manager, DDN

AI Track

4:00 PM

4:20 PM

Cyber at speed: Securing low-latency trading

Matt Dangerfield

CTO, Telesoft Technologies

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:10 PM

4:25 PM

Silent stalls, big impacts: Exposing hidden bottlenecks in AI data centers

Andy Barnes

Business-Driven Telecoms Leader, cPacket

AI Track

4:20 PM

4:45 PM

Innovation Roundup
Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:25 PM

4:40 PM

Topic to be announced
AI Track

4:40 PM

5:10 PM

STAC-AI Research & Benchmarks

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

AI Track

4:45 PM

5:20 PM

At the limits: Rethinking data centers for the next era of financial trading

Mark Acton

Head of Technical Due Diligence, Future-tech Ltd

Chris Woosnam-Savage

Principal Engineer, Advanced Engineering, Digital Realty

Eleni Coldrey

Business Development Director EMEA, Financial Services, Equinix

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:50 PM

6:00 PM

Networking Reception
Networking

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

Networking Reception
Networking