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

9:25 AM

Accelerating Finance with NVIDIA Blackwell: Supermicro’s Next-Gen Infrastructure

Michael Spencer

Director of Field Applications Engineering (FAE) in Solutions Enablement, Supermicro

Analytics & Data Engineering

9:25 AM

9:30 AM

Real-Time Market Data to Parquet: A QuestDB 5-Minute Demo

Steven Sklar

Senior Cloud Engineer, QuestDB

Analytics & Data Engineering

9:30 AM

9:35 AM

IBM Storage Scale Global Data Platform

Matthew Klos

Senior Storage Sales Specialist Storage for Data and AI, IBM

Analytics & Data Engineering

9:30 AM

9:35 AM

Simplifying GenAI and RAG Data Pipeline Complexity…Revisited!

Rob Glanzman

Global Strategic Alliances Principal Architect, Financial Services, Pure Storage, Inc

Analytics & Data Engineering

9:40 AM

9:45 AM

Quantifying Architectural Gains: A Generational Leap in Risk Computing Performance

Kevin Gildea

Solutions Architect, Intel

Analytics & Data Engineering

9:50 AM

10:20 AM

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

Erica Pan

Data Strategy Lead, Office of Firmwide CDAO, JP Morgan

Vlad Ilyushchenko

Co-Founder & CTO, QuestDB

Emanuele Melis

Head of Field Engineering, AI One

William Beckler

Open Source Strategist, Open Markets Initiative

Analytics & Data Engineering

10:20 AM

10:50 AM

Break
Networking

10:50 AM

11:05 AM

STAC Update: Machine Learning & AI

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Code & Compute

11:05 AM

11:10 AM

Choosing the Right CPU for Your Application

Rick Hughson

PMTS, AMD

Code & Compute

11:10 AM

11:15 AM

Data Intelligence In Financial Services

Moiz Kohari

VP Enterprise AI, DDN

Code & Compute

11:15 AM

11:20 AM

Smart & Fast Trading Decisions with Xelera Silva: Harnessing Ultra-Low Latency AI

Andrea Suardi

Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera

Code & Compute

11:20 AM

11:25 AM

Moving ML inference closer to the network for sub-microsecond latency

Peter Baldwin

CEO, Myrtle.ai

Code & Compute

11:30 AM

12:10 PM

Don’t be too clever: Optimization through simplification

Bjarne Stroustrup

Creator of 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

Data Monitoring & DevOps

1:15 PM

1:30 PM

How to Choose a Threshold for an Evaluation Metric for Large Language Models

Dhagash Mehta

Head of Applied AI (Investment Management), Blackrock

AI Track

1:15 PM

1:20 PM

STAC Update: Fast Working Groups

Jack Gidding

CEO, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Data Monitoring & DevOps

1:20 PM

1:35 PM

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

Caolán McCarron

AtlasVision Product Manager, Options Technology

Data Monitoring & DevOps

1:30 PM

1:35 PM

IBM Content Aware Storage (CAS)

Matthew Klos

Senior Storage Sales Specialist Storage for Data and AI, IBM

AI Track

1:35 PM

1:40 PM

Dell AI Data Platform with Nvidia

Nicholas Ruggiero

Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies

AI Track

1:35 PM

1:40 PM

From Tap to Trade - Mastering Market Visibility in the Picosecond Age

Don Cronin

Director Finance Sales East Coast, Keysight

Data Monitoring & DevOps

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

Accelerating Enterprise AI/HPC Use Cases with Existing IT Infrastructure

Floyd Christofferson

VP of Product Marketing, Hammerspace

AI Track

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

The power of 3: because precision needs proof

Lasse Johnsen

Co-Founder, Timebeat

Data Monitoring & DevOps

1:45 PM

1:50 PM

Performant Deep Learning on CPUs: Intel AMX

Joshua Segovia

AI Software Solutions Engineer, Intel

AI Track

1:45 PM

1:50 PM

FMADIO: Breaking Vendor Lock-in with PCAP

Ciaran Kennedy

Sales, FMADIO

Data Monitoring & DevOps

1:50 PM

1:55 PM

Low Latency with Kubernetes: A Red Hat Update

Aric Rosenbaum

Chief Technologist, Global FSI, Red Hat

Data Monitoring & DevOps

1:55 PM

2:10 PM

Real-time retrieval: Powering production-grade RAG systems in latency-critical environments

Ohad Levi

Co-founder and CEO, Hyperspace

AI Track

2:00 PM

2:20 PM

Kubernetes at 10: Lessons from a decade of adoption

Steven Bower

Manager, Cloud Native Compute Services Engineering group, Bloomberg

Data Monitoring & DevOps

2:10 PM

2:45 PM

License to operate: Expanding MLOps for the agentic era

Kristi Kunworee Baishya

Data & AI Products, Nomura

Ania Musial

Product Team Lead, AI Platforms, Office of the CTO, Bloomberg

David Lariviere

Clinical Professor of Financial Engineering, University of Illinois

Prabhu Ramamoorthy

Global Financial Services Partner Manager, NVIDIA

AI Track

2:20 PM

2:35 PM

Half-decided: spotting speculative triggering in practice

Raymond Russell

Fellow, Pico

Data Monitoring & DevOps

2:35 PM

3:05 PM

Break
Networking

2:45 PM

3:15 PM

Break (AI Track)
AI Track

3:05 PM

3:20 PM

No turning back: Why it’s time for ASICs in HFT infrastructure

Adam Sherer

Account Technical Director, Cadence

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:15 PM

3:30 PM

STAC-AI Research & Benchmarks

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

AI Track

3:20 PM

3:25 PM

Smart Data Cache Injection: Optimized data transfer between CPU and Accelerators

Michael McGuirk

Sr Product Manager, Data Center, AMD

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:25 PM

3:30 PM

Stability During Market Turmoil

Cliff Maddox

Director of Business Development, Novasparks

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:30 PM

3:40 PM

AI Solution Validation: STAC & Intel OPEA

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, Strategic Technology Analysis Center

Padma Apparao

AI Solution Architect, Intel

AI Track

3:30 PM

3:35 PM

Exegy - A Few Updates and One Question

Arnaud Derasse

CTO, Exegy

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:40 PM

3:45 PM

Supermicro Accelerate Everything AI

Michael Spencer

Director of Field Applications Engineering (FAE) in Solutions Enablement, Supermicro

AI Track

3:40 PM

3:45 PM

AI Driven Fintech and Cyber Observability

Matt Dangerfield

CTO, Telesoft Technologies

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:45 PM

3:50 PM

Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling Solutions

Marj Samkough

Senior Solutions Architect, Lenovo

AI Track

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

Cyber at speed: Securing low-latency trading

Matt Dangerfield

CTO, Telesoft Technologies

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

3:50 PM

3:55 PM

Infrastructure for the AI Revolution

Thomas Sheeran

Enterprise Sales Director, Lambda, Inc.

AI Track

3:55 PM

4:00 PM

Title is Neurosymbolic AI – Combining AI with Quantitative Finance

Prabhu Ramamoorthy

Global Financial Services Partner Manager, NVIDIA

AI Track

4:00 PM

4:05 PM

The Truth About Overclocking: Finding the best fit for your performance needs

James Lupton

CTO, Blackcore

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

4:10 PM

ÜberNIC Update: PoC to General Availability…

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:10 PM

4:15 PM

Liquid Cooling Purpose-Built for Finance

Bernie Malouin

JetCool Founder and Flex Vice President, Jetcool

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:20 PM

4:35 PM

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

Norm Bright

Sr Dir AI Ops, cPacket

AI Track

4:25 PM

5:10 PM

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

Eric Powers

Director, Tech Fellow, Head of High Perf Arch Infra, Citi (invited)

Nick Lange

Executive Director - Low Latency Infrastructure and Platform Engineering Manager, Morgan Stanley

Vinit Adya

ULL Lead, Squarepoint Capital

Bernie Malouin

JetCool Founder and Flex Vice President, Jetcool

Bill Ruvo

Director, Business Development, Equinix

Jack Funchion

VP, Global Financial Services, Digital Realty

Low & Ultra Low Latency Trading

4:35 PM

5:10 PM

Feeding the beast: Unlocking the full potential of GPUs

Nicholas Wilt

Principal

David Lariviere

Clinical Professor of Financial Engineering, University of Illinois

Christoph Lameter

Distinguished Engineer, Ampere Computing LLC

Trond Myklebust

Co-founder, CTO & Linux Kernel NFS Client Maintainer, Hammerspace

AI Track

5:10 PM

6:10 PM

Networking Reception
Networking