9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:10 AM

9:25 AM

STAC Insights: Analytics

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:25 AM

9:40 AM

Memory is the new bottleneck, and it's now software-defined

Luis Ancajas

Director of CXL Products Management, Micron

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:40 AM

9:45 AM

Modernize core systems into engines of innovation

Nick Oropall

Program Director, Product Marketing, Z Software and Core Databases, IBM

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:45 AM

9:50 AM

Turn Your AI Factory Into a Lean, Mean Token Machine

Alan McSeveney

Field CTO, M&E/AI, WEKA

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:50 AM

9:55 AM

Why Consistent Infrastructure Performance Matters in Trading

Jim McGhee

Principal System Engineer, A10

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:55 AM

10:00 AM

AI Inferencing at Scale

Marj Samkough

Senior Solution Architect, Lenovo

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:00 AM

10:05 AM

AI Factory for Market Operations

Michael Watson

General Manager Field Application Engineering, Supermicro

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:05 AM

10:20 AM

Open Markets Initiative: Structured infrastructure for electronic markets

William Tegel

Founder, The Open Markets Initiative

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:20 AM

10:40 AM

Rethinking the OMS: Modern architectures for modern markets

Brian Pomraning

Chief Product Officer for Trading and Connectivity Solutions, Broadridge

David Fellah

Vice President, AI Trading Solutions, Broadridge

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:40 AM

11:10 AM

Morning Break
Analytics & Machine Learning

11:10 AM

11:30 AM

STAC Insights: Machine Learning & AI

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

Analytics & Machine Learning

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

The Real Reason Why AI Initiatives Fail

Jeff Chu

Senior Director, Penguin Solutions

Analytics & Machine Learning

11:45 AM

11:50 AM

Alpha Without the Overhead: Simplifying the Modern Quant Data Pipeline

Rob Glanzman

Global Strategic Alliances Principal Architect, Financial Services, Everpure

Analytics & Machine Learning

11:50 AM

11:55 AM

Cold Climate, Hot Compute: The Move to the Nordics

Buster Hägg

Sales Director, BSI

Analytics & Machine Learning

11:55 AM

12:00 PM

Accelerating Alpha with Google Cloud

Annie Ma-Weaver

Group Product Manager, Google

Analytics & Machine Learning

12:00 PM

12:05 PM

Quantifying HPC Performance and Efficiency with STAC-A2

Joshua Segovia

AI Software Solutions Engineer, Intel

Analytics & Machine Learning

12:05 PM

12:10 PM

Sub-microsecond ML inference — Three execution modes, one API

Andrea Suardi

Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera

Analytics & Machine Learning

12:15 PM

12:55 PM

Beyond peak FLOPs: Memory and modern inference silicon

Emilio Andere

CEO, Wafer

Ramy Jaber

Solution Architect, Cerebras

Meg McNulty

Co-Founder and CEO, Cosmic Labs

Richard Ross

Independent

Michael Gorbovitski

Virtu

Analytics & Machine Learning

12:55 PM

1:55 PM

Lunch

1:50 PM

1:55 PM

Welcome

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

Al

1:55 PM

2:10 PM

AlphaAgents: Large Language Model based multi-agents for equity portfolio construction

Dhagash Mehta

Head of Applied AI (Investment Management), BlackRock

Al

1:55 PM

2:05 PM

STAC Insights: Trade Flow

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Low Latency Trading

2:05 PM

2:10 PM

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

Milan Dvorak

CEO, Magmio

Low Latency Trading

2:10 PM

2:15 PM

Barriers Broken in ML Inference Latency

Tom Lagatta

Executive Chairman, Myrtle.ai

Al

2:10 PM

2:15 PM

Tap to Trade

Kevin Formby

VP Finance and Capital Markets, Keysight

Low Latency Trading

2:15 PM

2:20 PM

Dell AI Data Platform with PowerScale

Christopher Botka

AI Solutions BDM, Dell

Al

2:15 PM

2:20 PM

STAC Independent Testing of Hoptroff Time as a Service

Richard Hoptroff

Co-founder and CTO , Hoptroff

Low Latency Trading

2:20 PM

2:25 PM

The Future of Enterprise AI: Maximizing AI Yield in the Token Economy

Matthew Klos

Client Solutions Engineering Leader, IBM

Al

2:20 PM

2:25 PM

The Java Platform Built for Trading

Miles Dawborne

Senior Director, Sales Engineering & Technical Account Management, Azul

Low Latency Trading

2:25 PM

2:30 PM

Built for Large-Scale Agentic Quant Research

Karan Nisar

Built for Large-Scale Agentic Quant Research, Weights and Biases

Al

2:30 PM

2:35 PM

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

Joe Fuchs

Product and Solution Marketing, HPE

Al

2:30 PM

2:45 PM

From packets to prompts: Self-service exploration of Corvil data

Matt Davey

Managing Director, Product Management, Pico

Low Latency Trading

2:40 PM

2:55 PM

Predicting AI Inference Efficiency Under Realistic Mixed Workloads

Praveen Mallya

Principal Sales Engineer, DDN

Al

2:45 PM

2:50 PM

Capture simplified: From tap to cloud

Aaron Foo

CEO, FMADIO

Low Latency Trading

2:50 PM

2:55 PM

How Benchmarking Strategy Impacts R&D, Supply Chains, and Technology Partnerships.

James Lupton

Managing Director, Blackcore Technologies

Low Latency Trading

2:55 PM

3:25 PM

Afternoon Break
Al

2:55 PM

3:00 PM

ÜberNIC The Growth Accelerates

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Low Latency Trading

3:00 PM

3:05 PM

Scaling Deterministic Performance in Existing Colocation Environments with Liquid Cooling

Adam Goshorn

Senior Director, Business Development, JetCool, A Flex Company

Low Latency Trading

3:10 PM

3:25 PM

Heuristics Inform Trading Strategies: It’s About Time

Adam Sherer

Account Technical Director, Cadence

Low Latency Trading

3:25 PM

3:40 PM

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

Andrea Moccia

Vice President, AI and Data Infrastructure, Options

Al

3:25 PM

3:55 PM

Afternoon Break
Low Latency Trading

3:45 PM

3:50 PM

Accelerating Monte Carlo with Intel®️ Math Kernel Library

Phil King

Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation

Al

3:45 PM

3:50 PM

High-Performance Analytic Solutions: Across The Trade Lifecycle

Conal Doyle

Senior Presales Engineer, KX

Al

3:50 PM

3:55 PM

AI Inference at Market Velocity

Michael Watson

General Manager Field Application Engineering, Supermicro

Al

3:55 PM

4:00 PM

From GPUs to Production: How Financial Institutions Deploy AI with Hands-On ML

Jessica Nicholson

Machine Learning Engineer, Lambda

Sean Smith

Head of FSI, Lambda

Al

3:55 PM

4:15 PM

Using LLMs for highly agentic SystemVerilog development

Matthew Pest

Principal AI Solutions Architect, Edgehog Trading

Low Latency Trading

4:00 PM

4:05 PM

High-Performance AI Infrastructure Built on Open Standards

Sean Kenney

Director of Business Development for Enterprise AI Platforms, Celestica

Al

4:10 PM

4:25 PM

Evolving the Quant Finance Workflow in the Age of AI

Tal Fishman

Head of Fixed Income Investment Strategy Analysis, Lord Abbett

Al

4:15 PM

4:20 PM

The Next Generation of 7130

Maxwell Weigel

Systems Engineer, Arista

Low Latency Trading

4:20 PM

4:25 PM

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

Matthew Certosimo

Data Center FPGA Field Application Engineer, AMD

Low Latency Trading

4:25 PM

5:05 PM

Scaling AI in the enterprise

Conor Twomey

Co-Founder & CEO, AI One

Aaron Blogg

Vice President, AI Research and Strategy, J.P. Morgan

Peter Decrem

Director, Rates Trading, Citi

Yuyu Fan

Principal Data Scientist, AllianceBernstein

Dhagash Mehta

Head of Applied AI (Investment Management), BlackRock

Al

4:25 PM

4:30 PM

Conquering Latency ​& Capacity Strain with Smarter Infrastructure

Laurent DeBarry

CPO, Exegy

Low Latency Trading

4:30 PM

4:35 PM

2-phase liquid cooling for High Performance Financial Computing

Stewart Orrell

Vertical GTM Lead, ZutaCore

Low Latency Trading

4:40 PM

5:00 PM

Firefly: Scalable, Ultra-Accurate Clock Synchronization for Datacenters

Yuliang Li

Software Engineer, Google

Low Latency Trading