STAC Summit, 29 April 2025, London

STAC Summits bring together CTOs and other industry leaders responsible for solution architecture, infrastructure engineering, application development, machine learning/deep learning engineering, data engineering, and operational intelligence to discuss important technical challenges in trading and investment.

WHERE
Convene
133 Houndsditch
3rd Floor
London EC3A 7DB

Agenda

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"STAC Update: Tick Analytics & Risk Computing"
James Corcoran, Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

"Beyond Monte Carlo: Faster results with a Convergence-Oblivious Computation Accelerator"
Phillip Stanley-Marbell, CEO/CTO, Signaloid

"Accelerating Finance with NVIDIA Blackwell: Supermicro's Next-Gen Infrastructure"
Angelos Konstantopoulos, Field Application Engineer, Supermicro

"Real-Time Market Data to Parquet: A QuestDB 5-Minute Demo"
Javier Ramirez, Head of Product and Developer Relations, QuestDB

"Liquid Cooling Infrastructure for Modern Finance Intelligence"
Alberto Stec, Business Development Manager, KAYTUS

"Introducing FlashBlade//EXA"
Patrick Smith, VP & Field CTO for EMEA, Pure Storage

"Intel Xeon 6"
Evgueny Khartchenko, FSI SW Application Engineer, Intel

"STAC Update: Machine Learning & AI"
James Corcoran, Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

"Conformal prediction: A practical approach to reliable machine learning"
Valery Manokhin, Managing Director, Open Predictive Technologies

"Choosing the Right CPU for Your Application"
Rick Hughson, PMTS, AMD

"Precision, Speed, and Scale: AI-Driven Trading Infrastructure"
Daniel Goodman, Managing Director, BSI

"Smart & Fast Trading Decisions with Xelera Silva: Harnessing Ultra-Low Latency AI"
Andrea Suardi, Head of Acceleration Technology, Xelera

"Moving ML inference closer to the network for sub-microsecond latency"
Aiken Cairncross, Senior Software Developer, Myrtle.ai

"Tackling Injury Risk with Machine Learning: Data Analytics in Rugby and Beyond"
Chris Leckey, Research Officer, Irish Rugby Football Union

"STAC Update: Fast Working Groups"
Jack Gidding, CEO, STAC

"The Missing link: Multi-layer correlation for performance-critical trading"
Caolán McCarron, AtlasVision Product Manager, Options

"From Tap to Trade: Mastering Market Visibility in the Picosecond Age"
Diana Stanescu, Director Finance and Capital Markets, Keysight

"The power of 3: because precision needs proof"
Lasse Johnsen, Co-Founder, Timebeat

"Half-decided: spotting speculative triggering in practice"
Matt Davey, Managing Director, Product Management, Pico

"No turning back: Why it's time for ASICs in HFT infrastructure"
Michael O'Sullivan, Engineering Director, Cadence

"Smart Data Cache Injection: Optimized data transfer between CPU and Accelerators"
John Courtney, Fintech Marketing Manager, AMD

"The OPRA Challenge"
Sapna Swaly, Business Development, Novasparks

"Exegy - A Few Updates and One Question"
Olivier Cousin, Director FPGA Solutions, Exegy

"Cyber at speed: Securing low-latency trading"
Matt Dangerfield, CTO, Telesoft

"The Truth About Overclocking: Finding the best fit for your performance needs"
James Lupton, CTO, Blackcore

"ÜberNIC Update: PoC to General Availability..."
Seth Friedman, CEO, Liquid-Markets

"Competing in the AI Era: The Critical Role of Infrastructure"
Martin Davies, Senior Solutions Architect, Digital Realty

Click on the session titles below for the slides for the AI Track

"Optimizing techniques for LLMs in finance"
Pere Martra, AI Engineer, Caixabank Tech

"Supermicro Accelerate Everything AI"
Angelos Konstantopoulos, Field Application Engineer, Supermicro

"Lenovo Where HPC, AI, and Sustainability Converge"
Jim Roche, Sr. HPC Architect, Lenovo

"Extremely fast, resilient and cost-effective storage"
Davide Villa, Chief Revenue Officer, Xinnor

"Infrastructure Patterns for AI Workloads in Finance"
Tim Loake, Vice President and General Manager for the Infrastructure Solutions Group, Dell Technologies

"AI agents in finance: Architecture, patterns, and practical use cases"
Hanane Dupouy, Algorithmic Trader Equity

"Performance Considerations for Extreme-Scale Data Analytics and Production AI"
Dr. Richard Mansfield, Pre-Sales Manager, DDN

"STAC-AI Research & Benchmarks"
James Corcoran, Head of AI & Analytics, STAC

"Silent stalls, big impacts: Exposing hidden bottlenecks in AI data centers"
Andy Barnes, Business-Driven Telecoms Leader, cPacket

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