10:00 AM

10:05 AM

ASX Opening Remarks

Jamie Crank

Group Executive, Technology and Data, ASX

Quant Finance, ML & AI

10:05 AM

10:15 AM

STAC Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

Quant Finance, ML & AI

10:15 AM

10:30 AM

STAC Benchmarks: Analytics

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

Quant Finance, ML & AI

10:30 AM

10:35 AM

Agent Memory for Agentic Analytics

Christopher Jenkins

Field CTO AI, WEKA

Quant Finance, ML & AI

10:40 AM

10:55 AM

Evolving clearing: Balancing regulatory stability with market velocity

Neil Gooden

Global Technology Architect, ABN AMRO Clearing

Quant Finance, ML & AI

10:55 AM

11:15 AM

Update on ASX colocation and systems

Lianne Klintworth

Head of Product Connectivity Services, ASX

Quant Finance, ML & AI

11:15 AM

11:45 AM

Morning Break

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

STAC Benchmarks: ML & AI

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

Quant Finance, ML & AI

12:00 PM

12:15 PM

Understanding modern processor architecture on Amazon EC2: From cache hierarchy to memory topology

Arthur Petitpierre

WW Graviton & EC2 Performance SSA , Amazon Web Services

Quant Finance, ML & AI

12:15 PM

1:00 PM

Will AI replace the quants?

Sergey Chigrinov

Senior Quant, Tier 1 Bank

Shubham Arora

Chief Engineer, Commonwealth Bank of Australia

Hugh McGuire

Director, Systematic Trading Associates

Jaya Singhal

Director of Engineering, Enterprise AI, Macquarie

Tom Clayton

Head of Data, Platinum Asset Management

Quant Finance, ML & AI

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM

2:10 PM

STAC Benchmarks: Trade flow

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure

2:10 PM

2:15 PM

Accelerating AI and Low Latency with AMD

Alastair Richardson

Strategic Business Development Director, AMD

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure

2:15 PM

2:20 PM

Capture simplified, from tap to cloud.

Aaron Foo

CEO, FMADIO

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure

2:20 PM

2:25 PM

Breaking the Latency Barrier: Shengli’s Latest 1+FPGA Switches & China’s Seismic Trading Landscape Shifts

Louis Liu

CEO, Shengli Technologies

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure

2:30 PM

2:50 PM

Building a flexible compute load around electricity spot prices

David Snowdon

Engineer

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure

2:50 PM

3:20 PM

Afternoon Break

3:20 PM

3:30 PM

STAC Research: Quantum in finance

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure

3:30 PM

4:00 PM

Performance tools and prompts

Brendan Gregg

Member of Technical Staff, OpenAI

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure

4:00 PM

4:40 PM

Resilience by Design: Engineering Markets for Recovery

Shane Beck

Head of Futures Trading Technology, ASX

Eugene Budovsky

Head of GSET Australia, Goldman Sachs

Damir Škorić

CTO, TRV Trading Group

Daniel Clarke

Head of Enterprise Sales APAC, ITRS Asia Pte Limited

Timothy Wong

VP, Head of APAC, Avelacom

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure

4:40 PM

4:45 PM

Closing Remarks

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

Low-latency Trading & Infrastructure