9:00 AM

9:10 AM

Welcome
STAC

9:10 AM

9:30 AM

STAC Intro

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

STAC

9:30 AM

9:55 AM

Efficient evidence extraction: The art of automating AI compliance

Margaret Hartnett

Co-Founder, progressio.ai

Enterprise AI stacks

9:55 AM

10:35 AM

"Who says?": Tracing AI outputs to their source

Aaron Armstrong

Partner, intellimation.ai

Margaret Hartnett

Co-Founder, progressio.ai

Daniele Quercia

Director of Responsible AI, Nokia Bell Labs

Enterprise AI stacks

10:35 AM

11:10 AM

Break
Networking

11:10 AM

11:35 AM

AI agents in finance: A perspective from the front lines

Hanane Dupouy

Algorithmic Trader Equity, Bernstein Société Générale

AI development stacks

11:35 AM

11:40 AM

AI-Driven Optimisation

Mike Basios

CTO, TurinTech

AI development stacks

11:45 AM

11:50 AM

Low Latency AI with the Alveo V80 Accelerator

John Courtney

Fintech Marketing Manager, AMD

AI development stacks

11:50 AM

12:30 PM

Leaner AI: Integrating breakthrough capabilities without the bloat.

Charles Cai

Co-founder & CTO, Socialogix AI

Stuart Buckland

Technologist

Dr Jim Dowling

CEO, Hopsworks

Andreas Horn

Head of AIOps, IBM

AI development stacks

12:30 PM

1:35 PM

Lunch
Networking

1:35 PM

1:45 PM

Afternoon Welcome

1:45 PM

2:05 PM

Stop RESTing: How to make object storage fast enough for financial AI

James Coomer

SVP Products, DDN

AI training stacks

2:05 PM

2:10 PM

Lenovo AI and Sustainability Innovations

Emily Barrett

AI Lead & Technical Architect, Lenovo

AI training stacks

2:10 PM

2:15 PM

Make the Most of Your GPU Infrastructure Investment: Scale Capacity and Performance while Reducing Cost and Power Consumption

Giancarlo DiPasquale

Field CTO, Hammerspace

AI training stacks

2:15 PM

2:20 PM

Building secure multi-tenancy AI platforms - at factory scale

Alex Reddington

Senior Solution Architect - AI Solutions, HPE

AI training stacks

2:20 PM

2:40 PM

Proper pipes: How networks can reduce the cost of fine tuning and training

Adrian Skinner

Systems Engineer, Arista

AI training stacks

2:45 PM

3:15 PM

Break
Networking

3:15 PM

3:35 PM

Combining LLMs and numerical AI: The case of trading-platform telemetry

Fergal Toomey

Managing Director of Data Science, Pico

AI inference stacks

3:35 PM

3:55 PM

Don’t assume GPU: Why FPGA is better for some ML

Andrea Suardi

Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera

AI inference stacks

3:55 PM

4:20 PM

STAC Update: STAC-AI Benchmark & Audit Results

Bishop Brock

Head of Research, STAC

AI inference stacks

4:20 PM

5:00 PM

AI in the Cloud: how to keep your models flying high and deliver ROI

Dmytro Baikov

Technical Director, AI/ML, DataArt

Stuart Buckland

Technologist

Simon Treacy

Head of Data and AI Architecture, Amazon Web Services

AI inference stacks

5:00 PM

6:00 PM

Reception
Networking