9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Featured session

9:10 AM

9:20 AM

STAC Insights: Analytics

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:20 AM

9:35 AM

Time-coherent analytics at scale: Snapshot barriers, deltas, and compiled plans

Fabien Huré

Head of Quantitative Research and Development, Independent

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:35 AM

9:40 AM

Alpha Without the Overhead: Simplifying the Modern Quant Data Pipeline

Stephen Bailey

Consulting Field Solutions Architect, Everpure

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:40 AM

9:45 AM

Shifting Foundations

Eleni Coldrey

Business Development Director, Equinix

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:45 AM

9:50 AM

Second is First Last Place: Why Consistent Performance Matters in Trading

Nick Bond

Senior Systems Engineer, A10 Networks

Analytics & Machine Learning

9:50 AM

9:55 AM

Supermicro NVIDIA AI Factory: Accelerating time-to-online for high-frequency trading, fraud detection, and regulatory compliance

Angelos Konstantopoulos

Field Application Engineer, UK, Supermicro

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:00 AM

10:15 AM

STAC community supporting Computing at School

Carl Cook

Quantitative Developer, Citadel Securities

Gargi Agrey

Generative AI Engineer, Flutter

Julia Adamson

Executive Director, Education & Public Benefit, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Featured session

10:15 AM

10:55 AM

Quantum for finance: Breakthrough opportunity or expensive distraction?

Dr. Jake Kennard

VP of Business Development, n2 Group

Andrew Lord

Senior Manager, Optical and Quantum Networks Research, BT

Malcolm Connolly

Co-Founder, Amorphiq/Imperial College

Simon Muskett

Principal Consultant AI & Quantum, Digital Realty

Esperanza Cuenca-Gomez

Developer Relations Manager for Quantum Computing, NVIDIA

Richard Murray

CEO and co-founder, ORCA

Analytics & Machine Learning

10:55 AM

11:25 AM

Morning Break
Analytics & Machine Learning

11:25 AM

11:40 AM

STAC Insights: Machine Learning & AI

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

Analytics & Machine Learning

11:40 AM

11:55 AM

FCA Innovation Services: Driving responsible innovation for growth, trust and resilience

Geraldine Kraev

Global Innovation Manager, Financial Conduct Authority

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

Starfish: The World's Most Scalable and Versatile File Management Platform
Analytics & Machine Learning

12:05 PM

12:10 PM

Machine Learning Infrastructure for Systematic Trading

Daniel Goodman

Managing Director, BSI

Analytics & Machine Learning

12:10 PM

12:15 PM

Powering the Ecosystem for AI

Simon Muskett

Principal Consultant AI & Quantum, Digital Realty

Analytics & Machine Learning

12:15 PM

12:20 PM

Navigating through RAMageddon – How to address increasing IT workloads during unprecedented supply constraints

Jim Roche

Principal Technical Architect, Lenovo

Analytics & Machine Learning

12:20 PM

12:55 PM

Market data at an inflection point: Platforms, performance, and technology

Laurent de Barry

Chief Product Officer, Exegy

Robert Bonaguro

Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, MarketsIO

Bill Bierds

President, BCCG

Analytics & Machine Learning

12:55 PM

1:55 PM

Lunch
Analytics & Machine Learning

1:55 PM

2:00 PM

Welcome

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

AI

1:55 PM

2:05 PM

STAC Insights: Trade Flow

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Low Latency Trading

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

New frontiers of Generative AI in finance: Structured agentic workflows and foundational time-series models

Hao Ni

Professor of Mathematics, University College London

AI

2:05 PM

2:10 PM

Be faster, stay faster with High-Performance Java

Daniel Witkowski

Principal Sales Engineer, Azul Systems

Low Latency Trading

2:10 PM

2:15 PM

Runtime Context For Complex Code

Greg Law

Founder and CEO, Undo

Low Latency Trading

2:15 PM

2:20 PM

Barriers Broken in ML Inference Latency

Conor Williams

Head of Machine Learning, Myrtle.ai

AI

2:15 PM

2:20 PM

Frontline AI for Capital Markets : Optimizing LLM Inference for Finance on Supermicro Cloud DC Server, NVIDIA RTX 6000 BSE, RH OpenShift

Angelos Konstantopoulos

Field Application Engineer, UK, Supermicro

AI

2:15 PM

2:20 PM

Wire-Speed Capture. Database-Speed Queries.

James Barrett

Sales Manager, FMADIO

Low Latency Trading

2:20 PM

2:35 PM

AI data platforms for time-series modelling in financial markets

Samuel Birch

UK Director for Unstructured Data Solutions and Security Resilience Platforms, Dell Technologies

AI

2:20 PM

2:25 PM

AMD FPGA Update - STAC-ML and Versal Premium Gen 2 with CXL

Michael McGuirk

Sr Mgr, Data Center, AMD, AMD

Low Latency Trading

2:25 PM

2:30 PM

ÜberNIC The Growth Accelerates

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Low Latency Trading

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

2:35 PM

3:05 PM

Afternoon Break
AI

2:45 PM

3:15 PM

Afternoon Break
Low Latency Trading

3:05 PM

3:20 PM

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

Andrea Moccia

Vice President, AI and Data Infrastructure, Options

AI

3:15 PM

3:35 PM

Where Time Breaks: What Really Limits PTP Accuracy in Production Networks

Richard Hoptroff

Founder and CEO, Hoptroff

Stuart Buckland

CTO, STAC

Low Latency Trading

3:20 PM

3:25 PM

Coreweave: Built for large scale quant research

Allan Stevenson

AI Solutions Engineer, CoreWeave

AI

3:25 PM

3:30 PM

AI with Intel®️ Xeon®️ 6 Processors

Evgeny Khartchenko

Optimization and Software Enabling Engineer, Intel

AI

3:30 PM

3:35 PM

DDN Supercharges NVIDIA

James Coomer

VP of Products, DDN

AI

3:35 PM

3:50 PM

Developing high assurance AI through collaborative engineering

Dr. Rosemary Francis

CTO, CommonAI Compute Ltd

AI

3:35 PM

3:50 PM

Heuristics Inform Trading Strategies: It’s About Time

Michael O'Sullivan

Engineering Director, Cadence

Low Latency Trading

3:50 PM

4:05 PM

Implementing agentic frameworks in investment research

Wai Ip

Senior Quant Developer, Deutsche Bank

AI

3:50 PM

3:55 PM

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

James Lupton

Managing Director, Blackcore Technologies

Low Latency Trading

3:55 PM

4:00 PM

Conquering Latency & Capacity Strain with Smarter Infrastructure

Laurent de Barry

Chief Product Officer, Exegy

Low Latency Trading

4:00 PM

4:05 PM

Every Order Has a Story. Can You Tell It?

Diana Stanescu

Director Finance and Capital Markets, Keysight

Low Latency Trading

4:05 PM

4:40 PM

Beyond peak FLOPs: Memory and modern inference silicon

Zigfrid Zvezdin

Solution Architect, Cerebras

Carlos Rueda Manzanedo

WW Tech Lead Compute EC2 / Startups Tech Lead, AWS

Tanya Mangoma

HyperCIM

AI

4:05 PM

4:10 PM

2-phase liquid cooling for High Performance Financial Computing

Stewart Orrell

Vertical GTM lead, ZutaCore

Low Latency Trading

4:10 PM

4:15 PM

AMD Solarflare and EPYC: Better Together

Alastair Richardson

Director of Strategic Business Development - Financial Services, AMD

Low Latency Trading

4:15 PM

4:40 PM

Evolving Trading Standards: FIX Orchestra and the Semantic Layer

Jim Kaye

Executive Director, FIX Trading

Martin Swanson

Founder, Atomic Wire

Stuart Buckland

CTO, STAC

Low Latency Trading