Rethinking precision: Why floating-point math could be costing you money

9:20 AM

9:35 AM

John Gustafson

Founder, VQ Research

Pure Data Architecture: Redefining Acceleration Beyond GPUs

9:35 AM

9:40 AM

Rob Glanzman

Global Strategic Alliances Principal Architect, Financial Services, Pure

The Fast Lane: Low-Latency Systems for Time-Series Analytics

9:40 AM

9:45 AM

Kevin Gildea

Solutions Architect, Intel

Optimizing Data and Performance, "Every Second Counts"

9:45 AM

9:50 AM

Joe Steiner

CTO Dell Ai Data Platform, Dell

Lenovo Innovation Roundup

9:50 AM

9:55 AM

Marc Fisher

Director - Adv Computing Solutions East, Lenovo

Dual-writes problem amplification for AI

9:55 AM

10:00 AM

David Bressler

Staff Product Marketing Manager, Cockroach Labs

Streaming under pressure: Adapting messaging platforms for new data demands

10:05 AM

10:35 AM

Shreejith Billenahalli

Senior Director of Technology, Trading System Development, New York Stock Exchange

George Levin

Co-founder & CBO, AlgoX2

Vlad Ilyushchenko

Co-Founder & CTO, QuestDB

10:35 AM

11:05 AM

Break

STAC Insights: Fast machine learning stacks for price forecasting

11:05 AM

11:25 AM

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

Deterministic ultra-low latency inference for Gradient Boosted Trees in trading

11:25 AM

11:40 AM

Andrea Suardi

Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera

Model Evolution in Lowest Latency ML Inference

11:40 AM

11:45 AM

Peter Baldwin

CEO, myrtle.ai

Agentic Debugging Using Time Travel

11:45 AM

11:50 AM

Greg Law

Founder and CEO, Undo

New products from Google Cloud to enable your HPC workloads

11:50 AM

11:55 AM

Annie Ma-Weaver

Group Product Manager, Cloud HPC, Google

Market data meets the private mind: Orchestrating agents in the data center

12:00 PM

12:15 PM

Ryan Ballantine

Director, Product Management, Options Technology

STAC Insights: GPU performance, deployment models, and evaluation methods for AI in finance

12:15 PM

1:15 PM

Lunch

1:15 PM

1:35 PM

James Corcoran

Head of AI and Analytics , STAC Research

1:15 PM

1:20 PM

Afternoon Welcome

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

The last nanoseconds to UTC

1:20 PM

1:35 PM

Bob Van Valzah

STAC Fellow, Researching in Retirement

AI-Driven Innovation: Supermicro Solutions for Financial Services

1:35 PM

1:40 PM

Michael Watson

General Manager: Field Applications Engineering, Supermicro

Logistical latency - decrease your time to deploy

1:35 PM

1:40 PM

Mark Naguib

HFT Account Manager, Techary

The Superintelligence Cloud: Powering the Next Era of Intelligence.

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

Thomas Sheeran

Enterprise Sales Director, Lambda

White Rabbit Unlocked: Vendor Choice in Precision Timing

1:40 PM

1:45 PM

Lasse Johnsen

Co-Founder, Timebeat

A Controlled Burn? The AI Cash Inferno

1:45 PM

1:50 PM

Rob Hirschfeld

CEO & Co-founder, RackN

FMADIO: Completing the capture ecosystem. From tap to capture to cloud.

1:45 PM

1:50 PM

Aaron Foo

CEO, FMADIO

AI Innovation - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

1:50 PM

1:55 PM

Attila Narin

Vice President of Cloud Engineering, Oracle

1:50 PM

1:55 PM

TimeLynx by Safran

Denis Reilly

Timing Architect, Safran

Introducing the next generation AMD Low Latency NIC

1:55 PM

2:00 PM

Faisal Dada

Director of Product Management for Low Latency Networking Adapters, AMD

Beyond the black box: Interpretability of LLMs in finance

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

Ariye Shater

Managing Director, Head of Risk AI, Head of Traded Risk and Treasury Quantitative Analytics, Barclays

Radio/Fiber arbitration: a deep-dive into low-latency networking over mixed media

2:05 PM

2:20 PM

Raymond Russell

Fellow, Pico

From the model to the metal: Optimizing the LLM and compute stack for peak inference efficiency

2:15 PM

2:45 PM

Alex Liu

SVP, Product and Business, FuriosaAI

Brian Kurtz

Head of Customer Engineering, Positron

Zev Rekhter

CEO , Evergrid AI

Jack Kiernan

Solutions Architect, Etched

Adapting to new CPU Architectures and Accelerating the Network

2:20 PM

2:35 PM

Alastair Richardson

Strategic Business Development Director, Financial Technology, AMD

2:35 PM

3:05 PM

Break

2:45 PM

3:10 PM

Break

STAC Insights: the latest from STAC

3:05 PM

3:15 PM

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC Research

Agents with wallets: Risks and fiduciary duty in high-stakes AI

3:10 PM

3:25 PM

Pramod Viswanath

Professor, Princeton University

Accelerating Next-Gen Low-Latency NICs with Blackcore®️ Overclocking

3:15 PM

3:20 PM

James Lupton

CTO, Blackcore

State Machine Replication: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love distributed architectures

3:20 PM

3:25 PM

Marc Pinto

Performance Engineer, Adaptive

3:25 PM

3:40 PM

Maximizing GPU availability in NVIDIA Clusters through autonomous remediation

Jeff Chu

Senior Sales Director, Penguin Solutions

Next Generation Market Data and Analytics

3:25 PM

3:30 PM

Mike Dunne

Co-founder and CTO, Chiral Financial Technology

The ultimate arbitrage: A pathway to heterogeneous GPU acceleration in financial computing

3:30 PM

3:35 PM

Chris Kitching

CTO, Spectral Compute

AI-Driven Innovation Supermicro Solutions for Low Latency Trading

3:35 PM

3:40 PM

Michael Watson

General Manager: Field Applications Engineering, Supermicro

Building the future of AI data centers with open systems

3:40 PM

3:55 PM

Yousuf Khan

Corporate Vice President, Business and Product Management Network Technology Solutions Group, AMD

From FPGA to ASIC: Exploring Open-Source Design for Trading Systems

3:45 PM

4:05 PM

Daniel Wisehart

Managing Member, Wyoming Financial Trading

3:55 PM

4:00 PM

AI Trading Factories

Hunter Almgren

Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Driving Performant CPU-Based Neural Network Inference with Intel AMX

4:00 PM

4:05 PM

Joshua Segovia

AI Software Solutions Engineer, Intel

High-Performance Infrastructure for AI Research: CoreWeave × W&B

4:05 PM

4:10 PM

Alan Zaccone

Account Executive, Coreweave

From Speed to Scale: Rethink Trading Infrastructure with Exegy Nexus

4:05 PM

4:10 PM

Laurent de Barry

Chief Product Officer, Exegy

Deterministic Market Data at Scale for the Enterprise Using FPGAs

4:10 PM

4:15 PM

Cliff Maddox

Director of Business Development, Novasparks

Interrupting the agentic kill chain: defending autonomous systems

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

Alex Tibbles, CISSP

Head of Application Engineering, Tassat

Faster Trades with Ultra-Low-Latency Using Orthogone Framework 1.7

4:15 PM

4:20 PM

Tom Coombs

VP of Sales & Business Development, Orthogone

ÜberNIC Update - Expanding Scope and Scale

4:20 PM

4:25 PM

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets-Holdings

Control or convenience? The architecture trade-offs behind AI-as-a-Service

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

Sai Teja Akula

Senior Director, Data Science, Broadridge Financial Solutions

Dino Vitale

AI/ML Platform Engineering, TD Securities

Camille Fournier

VP, Engineering, Coreweave

Innovation in Trading: Staying Ahead of the Curve

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

Michael Gorbovitski

ex-Morgan Stanley

Krista Sticco Carr

Founder, ex-UBS, All Rise Advisory

David Lariviere

Clinical Professor of Financial Engineering, University of Illinois