9:00 AM

9:10 AM

STAC Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Analytics & Data Engineering

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

9:45 AM

Innovation Roundup
Analytics & Data Engineering

9:45 AM

10:20 AM

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

Erica Pan

CDO - Data Strategy Lead, JP Morgan

Emanuele Melis

Principal Data Engineer, Talos

Vlad Ilyushchenko

Co-Founder & CTO, QuestDB

Analytics & Data Engineering

10:20 AM

10:50 AM

Break
Networking

10:50 AM

11:10 AM

STAC Update: Machine Learning & AI

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Code & Compute

11:10 AM

11:40 AM

Innovation Roundup
Code & Compute

11:40 AM

12:10 PM

Developer Topic: C++
Code & Compute

12:10 PM

1:10 PM

Lunch
Networking

1:10 PM

1:15 PM

Afternoon Welcome (AI Track)

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

AI Track

1:10 PM

1:15 PM

Afternoon Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Fast Data & Monitoring

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

LLM evaluation techniques

Dhagash Mehta

Head of Applied AI (Investment Management), Blackrock

AI Track

1:15 PM

1:25 PM

STAC Update: Fast Working Groups

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Fast Data & Monitoring

1:25 PM

1:40 PM

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

Caolán McCarron

AtlasVision Product Manager, Options Technology

Fast Data & Monitoring

1:30 PM

2:00 PM

Innovation Roundup
AI Track

1:40 PM

2:05 PM

Innovation Roundup
Fast Data & Monitoring

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

Running Billion-scale similarity search at LLM production systems
AI Track

2:05 PM

2:35 PM

Panel: Topic to be announced
Fast Data & Monitoring

2:15 PM

2:50 PM

License to operate: Expanding MLOps for the agentic era

Kristi Kunworee Baishya

Data & AI Products, Nomura

Richa Singh

Director and Head of Data and AI, Lexington Partners

Ania Musial

Product Team Lead for Machine Learning Platforms, Office of the CTO, Bloomberg

Prabhu Ramamoorthy

Global Financial Services Partner Manager, NVIDIA

AI Track

2:35 PM

2:50 PM

Half-decided: spotting speculative triggering in practice

Raymond Russell

Managing Director of Product Management , Pico

Fast Data & Monitoring

2:50 PM

3:20 PM

Break (AI Track)
AI Track

2:50 PM

3:20 PM

Break
Networking

3:20 PM

3:35 PM

STAC-AI Research & Benchmarks

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

AI Track

3:20 PM

3:30 PM

FPGA to ASIC
Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:35 PM

4:05 PM

Innovation Roundup
AI Track

3:35 PM

4:05 PM

Innovation Roundup
Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:05 PM

4:20 PM

From Internet to Inference: The evolution of performance networking

Mansour Karam

Founder and CEO, Aureka, Inc.

AI Track

4:05 PM

4:25 PM

Cyber at speed: Securing low-latency trading

Matt Dangerfield

CTO, Telesoft Technologies

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:20 PM

4:35 PM

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

Speaker to be announced

cPacket, cPacket

AI Track

4:25 PM

4:50 PM

Innovation Roundup
Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:35 PM

5:10 PM

Panel: Topic to be announced
AI Track

4:40 PM

5:15 PM

At the limits: Rethinking data centers for the next era of financial trading
Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

5:15 PM

6:15 PM

Networking Reception
Networking