STAC Summit, 13 May 2025, New York

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
New York Marriott Marquis
1535 Broadway
New York
Astor Ballroom
7th Floor

Agenda

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

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

"Accelerating Finance with NVIDIA Blackwell: Supermicro's Next-Gen Infrastructure"
Michael Spencer, Director of Field Applications Engineering (FAE) in Solutions Enablement, Supermicro

"Real-Time Market Data to Parquet: A QuestDB 5-Minute Demo"
Steven Sklar, Senior Cloud Engineer, QuestDB

"IBM Storage Scale Global Data Platform"
Matthew Klos, Senior Storage Sales Specialist Storage for Data and AI, IBM

"Simplifying GenAI and RAG Data Pipeline Complexity…Revisited!"
Rob Glanzman, Global Strategic Alliances Principal Architect, Financial Services, Pure Storage, Inc

"Quantifying Architectural Gains: A Generational Leap in Risk Computing Performance"
Kevin Gildea, Solutions Architect, Intel

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

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

"Data Intelligence In Financial Services"
Moiz Kohari, VP Enterprise AI, DDN

"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"
Peter Baldwin, CEO, Myrtle.ai

"Don't be too clever: Optimization through simplification"
Bjarne Stroustrup, Creator of C++,

"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 Technology

"From Tap to Trade - Mastering Market Visibility in the Picosecond Age"
Don Cronin, Director Finance Sales East Coast, Keysight

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

"FMADIO: Breaking Vendor Lock-in with PCAP"
Ciaran Kennedy, Sales, FMADIO

"Low Latency with Kubernetes: A Red Hat Update"
Aric Rosenbaum, Chief Technologist, Global FSI, Red Hat

"Half-decided: spotting speculative triggering in practice"
Raymond Russell, Fellow, Pico

"No turning back: Why it's time for ASICs in HFT infrastructure"
Adam Sherer, Account Technical Director, Cadence

"Smart Data Cache Injection: Optimized data transfer between CPU and Accelerators"
Michael McGuirk, Sr Product Manager, Data Center, AMD

"Stability During Market Turmoil"
Cliff Maddox, Director of Business Development, Novasparks

"Exegy - A Few Updates and One Question"
Arnaud Derasse, CTO, Exegy

"Intelligent Networks: Low-Latency Trading in the Quantum Era"
Meg McNulty, Co-Founder and CEO, Cosmic Labs

"AI Driven Fintech and Cyber Observability"
Matt Dangerfield, CTO, Telesoft Technologies

"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

"Liquid Cooling Purpose-Built for Finance"
Bernie Malouin, JetCool Founder and Flex Vice President, Jetcool

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

"How to Choose a Threshold for an Evaluation Metric for Large Language Models"
Dhagash Mehta, Head of Applied AI (Investment Management), Blackrock

"IBM Content Aware Storage (CAS)"
Matthew Klos, Senior Storage Sales Specialist Storage for Data and AI, IBM

"Dell AI Data Platform with Nvidia"
Nicholas Ruggiero, Principal Engineer, Dell Technologies

"Accelerating Enterprise AI/HPC Use Cases with Existing IT Infrastructure"
Floyd Christofferson, VP of Product Marketing, Hammerspace

"Performant Deep Learning on CPUs: Intel AMX"
Joshua Segovia, AI Software Solutions Engineer, Intel

"Real-time retrieval: Powering production-grade RAG systems in latency-critical environments"
Ohad Levi, Co-founder and CEO, Hyperspace

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

"AI Solution Validation: STAC & Intel OPEA"
A joint talk with James Corcoran, STAC; and Padma Apparao, Intel

"Supermicro Accelerate Everything AI"
Michael Spencer, Director of Field Applications Engineering (FAE) in Solutions Enablement, Supermicro

"Lenovo Neptune Liquid Cooling Solutions"
Marj Samkough, Senior Solutions Architect, Lenovo

"Infrastructure for the AI Revolution"
Thomas Sheeran, Enterprise Sales Director, Lambda, Inc.

"Neurosymbolic AI – Combining AI with Quantitative Finance"
Prabhu Ramamoorthy, Global Financial Services Partner Manager, NVIDIA

"From Internet to Inference: The evolution of performance networking"
Mansour Karam, Founder and CEO, Aureka, Inc.

"Silent stalls, big impacts: Exposing hidden bottlenecks in AI data centers"
Norm Bright, Sr Dir AI Ops, cPacket

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