9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Core Track

9:10 AM

9:20 AM

STAC Insights: Analytics

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

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9:20 AM

9:35 AM

Latency and the look-ahead bias in TAQ data

Robert Battalio

Professor of Finance, University of Notre Dame

Core Track

9:35 AM

9:40 AM

Frontline AI for Capital Markets: Redefining the Speed of Alpha with Supermicro, AMD and myrtle.ai

Raj Sugathan

Sales Director, Supermicro

Core Track

9:40 AM

9:45 AM

Shifting RAG to the Source: Why the AI Factory Belongs Inside the Storage Layer

Sanjay Patel

Principal Storage Specialist Sales Manager, Americas, IBM

Core Track

9:45 AM

9:50 AM

Runtime Context for Complex Code

Greg Law

Founder and CEO, Undo

Core Track

9:50 AM

10:05 AM

Zero ontology: Extracting structured knowledge from SEC filings with KV-accelerated LLMs

Andrea Moccia

Vice President, AI and Data Infrastructure, Options

Core Track

10:05 AM

10:20 AM

Low Latency Tuning Challenge and Future of FinTech Student Expo

David Lariviere

Clinical Professor of Financial Engineering, University of Illinois

Core Track

10:20 AM

10:50 AM

Morning Break
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10:50 AM

11:10 AM

STAC Insights: Machine Learning & Al

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

Core Track

11:10 AM

11:25 AM

Beyond Tokens Per Second: Benchmarking Infrastructure for Long-Running Agentic Quant and Coding Workloads

Ben Boren

CTO, SwarmOne

Core Track

11:25 AM

11:30 AM

Accelerating Alpha with Google Cloud

Allen Brokken

Global GTM Practice Architect, Google

Core Track

11:30 AM

11:35 AM

Dell AI Data Platform with PowerScale

Vlad Voskoboynik

Systems Engineer, Dell Technologies

Core Track

11:35 AM

11:40 AM

AI Inferencing at Scale

Marj Samkough

Senior Solution Architect, Lenovo

Core Track

11:40 AM

11:45 AM

The Java Platform Built for Trading

Miles Dawborne

Senior Director, Global Sales Engineering, Azul

Core Track

11:45 AM

12:20 PM

Will AI replace the quant?

Michael Gorbovitski

AI/ML, Virtu

Rebecca Stoia

Quantitative Analyst, Attucks Asset Management

Amr Elashmawi

Executive Vice President - Strategy, Partnerships and Business Development, Tenstorrent

Vlad Ilyushchenko

Co-founder & CTO, QuestDB

Karan Nisar

Staff AI Solutions Engineer, Pre-Sales, Weights and Biases

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12:20 PM

1:15 PM

Lunch
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1:15 PM

1:25 PM

STAC Insights: Trade Flow

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Core Track

1:25 PM

1:40 PM

Protocol-driven development for electronic trading systems

William Tegel

Founder, The Open Markets Initiative

Core Track

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

Building low-latency, FPGA-based tick-to-trade systems in C++

Milan Dvorak

CEO, Magmio

Core Track

1:45 PM

1:50 PM

The Next Generation of 7130

Maxwell Weigel

Senior Systems Engineer, Arista

Core Track

1:50 PM

1:55 PM

AMD FPGA Update: STAC-ML Benchmarks and CXL with Versal Premium Gen2

Matthew Certosimo

Data Center FPGA Field Application Engineer, AMD

Core Track

1:55 PM

2:00 PM

Conquering Latency ​& Capacity Strain with Smarter Infrastructure

Arnaud Derasse

CTO, Exegy

Core Track

2:00 PM

2:05 PM

TimeLynx

Ramki Ramakrishnan

Senior Director Product Strategy & Business Development, Safran Electronics & Defense

Core Track

2:05 PM

2:20 PM

Heuristics inform trading strategies: It’s about time

Matt Bluske

Verification Technical Sales, Cadence

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2:20 PM

2:45 PM

Afternoon Break
Core Track

2:45 PM

3:00 PM

FractalSort: Bandwidth-Efficient Sorting for Trading Data Pipelines

Michael Dang'ana

Founder & Researcher, Eonforge Inc

Core Track

3:00 PM

3:20 PM

Quantum-enhanced timing: what’s an atto?

Paul Kwiat

Bardeen Professor of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Core Track

3:20 PM

3:25 PM

Beyond the GPU: Why Your AI Architecture is Feeding a Stalled Pipeline

Craig Wilcox

Principal Storage Sales Specialist - Storage for Hybrid Cloud (Fusion), IBM

Core Track

3:25 PM

3:30 PM

Supermicro, AMD and Algo logic: Algorithmic Trading Solution

Raj Sugathan

Sales Director, Supermicro

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3:30 PM

3:35 PM

Two World Records. One Vendor. Financial-Grade Production Hardware

Joe Fuchs

Product and Solution Marketing, HPE

Core Track

3:35 PM

3:40 PM

Tap to Trade

Kevin Formby

VP Finance and Capital Markets, Keysight

Core Track

3:40 PM

4:10 PM

Using LLMs for highly agentic SystemVerilog development

Matthew Pest

Principal AI Solutions Architect, Edgehog Trading

Yoav Karmon

Head of Hardware Engineering , Edgehog Trading

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