12:40 PM

12:50 PM

STAC Summit Welcome

John Hsu

Group Chief Technology Officer, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Featured Session

12:50 PM

1:05 PM

STAC Insights: Analytics

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

AI & Analytics

1:05 PM

1:20 PM

Factor-based conditional diffusion model for portfolio optimization

Prof. Xuefeng Gao

Professor, Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

AI & Analytics

1:20 PM

1:25 PM

Supermicro solutions for AI factory : Low latency trading use case

Arthur Cheng

Senior Field Applications Engineer, Supermicro

AI & Analytics

1:25 PM

1:30 PM

DolphinDB: AI-ready high performance quant stack without the complexity

Davis Zhou

Founder & CEO, DolphinDB

AI & Analytics

1:30 PM

1:35 PM

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

Andrea Suardi

Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera

AI & Analytics

1:35 PM

2:10 PM

Model selection and hardware targeting for trading and execution systems.

Morten Sorensen

SVP, Quant Trader, Jefferies

Michelangiolo Mazzeschi

Senior Data Scientist, EPAM Systems

Tom Kearney

Director, Lean Edge

Charlie Chiu

Solutions Architect, AWS

AI & Analytics

2:10 PM

2:40 PM

Afternoon Break
AI & Analytics

2:40 PM

2:55 PM

STAC Insights: Machine Learning & AI

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

AI & Analytics

2:55 PM

3:10 PM

Using quantum entanglement for decision cordination in high-frequency trading networks

Dawei (David) Ding

Professor, Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Fudan University

AI & Analytics

3:10 PM

3:15 PM

UEC - Ultra Ethernet Consortium

Paul Ho

Technical Lead, Arista

AI & Analytics

3:15 PM

3:20 PM

Title to be announced

Speaker To be announced

KX, KX

AI & Analytics

3:20 PM

3:35 PM

Wait a second! How long is a second?

Francisco (Paco) Girela Lopez, Ph.D.

Senior Trading Specialist, Safran

Low Latency Trading

3:35 PM

3:50 PM

High performance and resilient exchange trading platform

Keith Chow

Head of Markets Systems , Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)

Low Latency Trading

3:50 PM

4:25 PM

Scaling under pressure: Capacity planning, colocation strategy, and the AI memory squeeze

James Shannon

Research Manager, Optiver

Qingli Gao

VP of Technical, Avenir Group

Margaret Niche

VP, Head of ICE Global Network, Intercontinental Exchange

Timothy Wong

VP, Head of APAC, Avelacom

Low Latency Trading

4:25 PM

4:55 PM

Afternoon Break
Low Latency Trading

4:55 PM

5:00 PM

STAC Insights: Trade Flow

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Low Latency Trading

5:00 PM

5:15 PM

Building and optimising server hardware to handle high bandwidth (200 Gb/s +)

Jon Axon

Managing Director: Atlas Insight, Options IT

Low Latency Trading

5:15 PM

5:20 PM

Frontline AI for capital markets: Redefining the speed of alpha with Supermicro, AMD and myrtle.ai

Arthur Cheng

Senior Field Applications Engineer, Supermicro

Low Latency Trading

5:20 PM

5:35 PM

Adapting to CPU architectures and accelerating the network

Alastair Richardson

Director of Strategic Business Development - Financial Services, AMD

Low Latency Trading

5:35 PM

6:10 PM

Market structure meets infrastructure: How exchange decisions shape execution

Niguel Brooks

Head of Infrastructure & Operations and Group Chief Information Security Officer, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX)

Michelle Cheng

Managing Director, HashKey Exchange

Cindy Sim

Executive Vice President, Product & Market Development, Bursa Malaysia

Ethan Wang

CEO HK, LTP

Low Latency Trading