Opening & Welcome

Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

Panel: How to move to a modern, component based trading architecture using a BuyANDBuild Approach

• What are the limitations and challenges of just buying or building?
• When firms are considering new data and technology products in trading, how should they decide what to build and what to buy? 
• What are financial institutions looking for in a technology partner and what is key to a successful collaboration and partnership?
• What are the critical success factors for successful technology integration? 
• What are the expected benefits and ROI?

Moderator: Steve Grob, Founder, Vision57
Gary Collier, CTO, Man Group
Will Winzor Saile, Partner, Execution Analytics & Architecture, Redburn Atlantic
Jon Butler, CEO, Velox

BuyANDBuild innovation case study # 1: Innovation unleashed! Building a competitive advantage with a flexible and agile high performance trading platform

• How to align business and technology to develop the strategic technology vision and strategy
• How to strike the right balance between buy and build and critical success factors for a successful technology partnership
• How to build open platforms using deterministic event-driven architectures, Aeron and cloud
• Lessons learned: Key insights into the process, technical underpinnings and secrets of project success
• How to identify and measure metrics and ROI of a new trading platform

Anvar Karimson, CTO, Kepler Cheuvreux
Matt Barrett, CEO & Co-Founder, Adaptive 

Keynote

Panel: Modernising data infrastructure and creating a strong data foundation for trading applications

• What are the components and capabilities required for a modern data infrastructure? 
• Where are firms on their integration journey to gain a complete view of their data landscape?
• How are new tools and techniques (e.g. cloud, data fabric/mesh, knowledge graphs, glossaries, catalogs etc) being used to unify disparate sources of data?
• What are the best practice approaches for data ingestion into the cloud environment? 
• With regulators’ increasing focus on cloud concentration risk e.g. DORA, how should firms best mitigate it and strengthen their operational resilience?

Moderator: Hayley McDowell, EU Equity Electronic Sales Trader & EU Market Structure Consultant, RBC Capital Markets
Duncan Cooper, Chief Data Officer – Asset Servicing, Northern Trust
Sachin Sureka, Global Principal – Financial Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

BuyANDBuild innovation case study# 2: Modernising data infrastructure

Panel: Implementing interoperability and low code no code development frameworks – A practical guide on how to streamline workflows, build best-of-breed platforms and increase efficiencies

• Why implement interoperability and LCNC? What are the business and technical problems that these technologies are  solving for?
• What are the considerations when evaluating whether to buy or build these technologies?
• How do you get started with your interop and/or LCNC implementation?
• What common standards are needed for interoperability and LCNC?
• What are the best practices for delivering a project using interop and/or LCNC?
• What type of solutions are being built using interoperability and LCNC?

Moderator: Reena Raichura, Founder, Finergise
Louis Blackburn, Lead Product Designer, Lloyds
Colin Duggin, Global Head of Equities Product, TP ICAP

BuyANDBuild innovation case study# 3:  Low code, no code developments frameworks

Jon Butler, CEO, Velox

BuyANDBuild innovation case study# 4:Transforming the equity trader’s workflow with Interoperability

Learn how T. Rowe Price has modernised the equity trading desk with interop.io.

• How does a successful interoperability project go from ideation to production?
• Explore guiding principles to consider, such as customisation and scalability
• What are the steps to deliver a working prototype?
• How do you get internal buy-in / see traders begin to adopt the new platform?
• What are some workflows that T. Rowe has created for traders?

Dan Schleifer, President and Co-Founder, Interop.io
Dan Green, Group VP – Global Trading, T. Rowe Price

Panel: How to successfully integrate and deploy AI in trading analytics and research

• What are the current trends in trading analytics and how are analytics being deployed to support stages of the trading lifecycle – pre-trade, execution, TCA?
• As data becomes commoditised, how are firms focusing on innovative analytics to drive trading performance and effectiveness?
• How can firms leverage alternative data sources and use AI and Machine learning techniques, including Generative AI/LLMs for trading analytics and research?
• What are the critical success factors for successfully integrating AI and ML tools into trading workflows?
• Should firms build or buy their AI/technical expertise? How do you see strategic investment in AI evolving?
• How will analytics continue to improve the evolving trader’s workflow?

Moderator: Nicola Hedley, Co-Founder, Dark Spark Consulting
Matthew Hertz, Head of ML Technology, Man Group
Adam Ragol-Levy, Global Multi-Asset Product Manager, RBC Capital Markets
Joe Everitt, Managing Director, Electronic Trading, Stifel Financial

BuyANDBuild innovation case study# 5: Harnessing data and integrating AI driven trading applications