Agorify

9:00 AM

9:15 AM

Welcome reception

9:15 AM

9:25 AM

Where financial technology is heading, and what the evidence says

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

9:25 AM

9:40 AM

STAC Analytics & ML Benchmarks: New entrants, new results, and the case for adjoint algorithmic differentiation in risk analytics

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

Quant

9:40 AM

9:55 AM

From trading infra to AI infra, navigating trends and challenges on datacenter strategy

Bill Mandra

Vice President, AI Infrastructure & Datacenter Strategy, Options Technology

Quant

9:55 AM

10:00 AM

Loading 20 years of tick data in 50 seconds: Seeking alpha at 10TB/s

Sean Colman

Principal Technology Strategist, Everpure

Quant

10:00 AM

10:05 AM

HPC performance. Standards-based. Built for AI. A modern data architecture for quantitative trading

Molly Presley

CMO, Hammerspace

Quant

10:05 AM

10:10 AM

AI inference: does optimizing latency mean sacrificing model flexibility?

Peter Baldwin

CEO, myrtle.ai

Quant

10:10 AM

10:15 AM

Best practices for reducing neural network latency: PyTorch accelerated by Intel Advanced Matrix Extensions

Joshua Segovia

AI Software Solutions Engineer, Intel Corporation

Quant

10:15 AM

10:20 AM

Supercharging network latency for capital efficiency

Raj Sugathan

Sales Director, Supermicro

Quant

10:20 AM

10:35 AM

FSI at Lambda: Research at the edge, performance in production

Jessica Nicholson

Machine Learning Engineer, Lambda

Devina Jain

Staff Research Engineer, Lambda

Quant

10:35 AM

11:00 AM

Order imbalance is just a change of coordinates: An elegant trading symmetry.

Peter Cotton

Chief Technology Officer, Global Strategic Minerals Corporation

Quant

11:00 AM

11:30 AM

Morning break

Quant

11:30 AM

11:35 AM

Welcome to the STAC Summit AI Track

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

11:30 AM

11:45 AM

Requested vs. used: Sizing workloads before they run

Ismaeel Bashir

Co-founder and CEO, Expanse

Quant

11:35 AM

11:50 AM

Runtime context for complex code

Greg Law

Founder and CEO, Undo

11:45 AM

12:00 PM

OpenGRIS: An open standard for distributed resource scheduling

Boris Litvin

Principal Solution Architect, AWS

Quant

11:50 AM

11:55 AM

Lenovo and AMD MEXT AI-Powered Predictive Memory

Brendan McDermott

Senior Solutions Architect, Lenovo

11:55 AM

12:00 PM

MiTAC STAC-AI & STAC-ML Benchmark Results

Samuel Cheung

Director of Technical Solutions, MiTAC Computing

12:00 PM

12:10 PM

STAC LLM Inferencing Benchmark Results

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

12:00 PM

12:05 PM

Accelerating alpha with Google Cloud

Allen Brokken

GTM Practice Architect for HPC, Google

Quant

12:05 PM

12:10 PM

The tail is the story

Joe Fuchs

Industry GTM Lead-Financial Services, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Quant

12:10 PM

12:15 PM

Dell AI infrastructure

Zac Akers

AI/HPC Solutions Architect, Dell Technologies

12:10 PM

12:15 PM

Token factory economics

Timothy Murphy

Field Architect, Aria Networks

Quant

12:15 PM

12:20 PM

KIOXIA: Shaping the future of enterprise & AI storage

Adil Rahman

Staff Engineer, KIOXIA America Inc.

12:15 PM

12:20 PM

Maximizing compute utilization, performance and scale with low latency flash memory fabrics

Thomas Isakovich

CEO and Founder, Nimbus Data, Inc.

Quant

12:20 PM

12:25 PM

Breaking the Memory Bottleneck in AI Inference

Kam Eshghi

SVP Business Dev & Sales, d-Matrix

12:20 PM

12:25 PM

All L broke loose

Jacob Loveless

Co-Founder and CTO, L Labs PBC

Quant

12:25 PM

12:40 PM

Sharding for speed: Making OPRA data accessible at scale

Rebecca Kelly

Head of AI and Analytics, INQDATA

Quant

12:30 PM

12:45 PM

AI-driven product experimentation: Using A/B testing and generative AI to build better trade-ordering infrastructure

Drishti Rellan

Director, UBS

12:40 PM

1:00 PM

Data infrastructure for trading without an end of day

Brian Pomraning

Chief Product Officer - Broadridge Trading and Connectivity Solutions, Broadridge

Nicolas Hourcard

Co-founder & CEO, QuestDB

Quant

12:45 PM

1:00 PM

Building, adapting, and governing large financial language models

Matthew Dixon

Co-Founder, BeliefLens

1:00 PM

2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM

2:10 PM

STAC Research: Benchmarking the performance of quant research agents

James Corcoran

Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

2:00 PM

2:15 PM

STAC Trade Flow Research & Benchmarks

Jack Gidding

CEO, STAC

Trading Infrastructure

2:10 PM

2:25 PM

The AI cost conundrum: Capital markets and quantitative hedge funds at the crossroads

John Lowrey

Founder and President, Imbrium Consultants

2:15 PM

2:20 PM

Accelerating AI and low latency with AMD

Davor Frank

Director Fintech Networking Sales Engineering, AMD

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

Trading Infrastructure

2:25 PM

2:30 PM

Usable FLOPS per dollar: the insight that built Lambda

Quinn Kennedy

Account Executive - Capital Markets, Systematic & Algorithmic Trading, Lambda

2:25 PM

2:30 PM

Architecting for speed & scale in capital markets

Cliff Maddox

Sales Executive, Exegy

Trading Infrastructure

2:30 PM

2:35 PM

Agentic AI: Threat, Capability, and Economics

Delvon Jones

Director and Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise

2:30 PM

2:35 PM

Blackcore®: Performance so good it Hz.

Ciaran Kennedy

CRO, Blackcore Technologies

Trading Infrastructure

2:35 PM

2:40 PM

Optimizing HPC performance & TCO for FSI workloads

Shahzada Sufyan

Sr Director of Product Management, Supermicro

2:35 PM

2:40 PM

2-phase Liquid Cooling – Evolving the cold plate

Stewart Orrell

Vertical GTM lead, ZutaCore

Trading Infrastructure

2:40 PM

2:55 PM

Finding the ‘Easy Button’ for AI infrastructure for more efficient and predictable outcomes

Jeff Chu

Senior Sales Director Financial Services, Penguin Solutions

2:40 PM

2:45 PM

ÜberNIC. The latest!

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Trading Infrastructure

2:45 PM

3:15 PM

When bandwidth is king, what happens to latency?

Nick Lange

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

Davor Frank

Director Fintech Networking Sales Engineering, AMD

Milan Dvorak

CEO, Magmio

Scott Schweitzer

Consultant, SmartNICs & DPUs, SmartNICs Today

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Timur Ozcan

CEO, NEOX Networks

Trading Infrastructure

2:55 PM

3:10 PM

Purpose-built agentic AI systems for finance

Irene Aldridge

Quantitative Portfolio Manager & Expert Consultant, ABLE Alpha Trading Ltd.

3:15 PM

3:45 PM

Afternoon break

Trading Infrastructure

3:40 PM

3:55 PM

Beyond the black-box: Interpretability of Agentic AI

Hariom Tatsat

Director, Barclays

3:45 PM

4:00 PM

Evolution of PTP

Kevin Formby

VP Finance and Capital Markets, Keysight

Trading Infrastructure

3:55 PM

4:10 PM

Frontier AI for quantitative finance: From reasoning to research

Stefano Fabbri

Applied Al Engineer, OpenAl

4:00 PM

4:15 PM

AI-infused financial services optimizing the data path via PCIe efficiency improvements

Seth Friedman

CEO, Liquid-Markets

Trading Infrastructure

4:10 PM

4:15 PM

AMD AI Solutions

Michael Fernandez

Financial Services AI Business Development, AMD

4:15 PM

4:30 PM

AI Inference – Memory Capacity Challenge

Moiz Kohari

VP Enterprise AI, DDN

4:15 PM

4:20 PM

Completing the capture ecosystem - From tap to capture to cloud

Aaron Foo

CEO, FMADIO

Trading Infrastructure

4:20 PM

4:25 PM

Jabil - Enterprise infrastructure for critical FSI workloads

Fred Shubert

Sr. Director of Sales, Jabil

Trading Infrastructure

4:25 PM

4:30 PM

From silicon to system: The performance impact of liquid cooling

Joseph Koelle

Sales Engineer, JetCool, A Flex Company

Trading Infrastructure

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

Closed vs open: Specialized AI systems for quant finance

Keith Kennedy

Founder & CEO, Cognetryx, Inc

Ted Hruzd

CEO and AI Developer, AI-FIT LLC

Arnav Khare

Principal Technologist, Resilience AI, AWS

Vid Jain

VP Software, d-Matrix

4:30 PM

4:35 PM

One interface, many cards: De-risking FPGA application development for ultra-low-latency trading

Tom Coombs

VP of Sales & Business Development, Orthogone

Trading Infrastructure

4:35 PM

4:40 PM

TimeLynx: Traceable, GNSS-independent time as a service

Denis Reilly

Timing Architect, Safran

Trading Infrastructure

4:40 PM

4:45 PM

Nanoseconds matter. Consistency wins: Technical advantages for financial trading infrastructure

John Burie

Product Manager – Hypertec HFT servers, Hypertec

Trading Infrastructure

4:45 PM

5:15 PM

Beyond colocation: Designing the cloud-native exchange

Pearce Peck-Walden

Managing Director, Markets Engineering, CME

Scott Caudell

FSI Architect, Google

Christopher Wilson

Global Head of Experience Modernization, 28Stone Consulting

Rolf Andersson

CEO, Sequitor Engineering AB

Trading Infrastructure

5:15 PM

6:15 PM

Evening Reception