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

Keynote Fireside Chat (User): Balancing continuous innovation with cost, resilience and security

• How should firms balance continuous innovation vs. investment needed on infrastructure to keep up with change, risk and security?
• Tech and business alignment: How can firms break down business silos and chart a path for future success?
• How can firms ensure your tech transformation will demonstrate quick wins as well as longer term ROI?
• What progress are firms making on adopting and integrating AI into the front office and how transformative will this be?
• Cyber security, operational resilience and DORA: how can FIs keep up in a threat landscape that is constantly evolving and ensure regulatory compliance?
• Talent and culture: How can firms build out high performance teams that want to collaborate?

Interview with: Stuart McDowell, UK Chief Information Officer, Societe Generale
Interviewed by: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

Opening C Level Panel: Harnessing AI driven digital transformation – A new era in front office productivity and efficiency

• How will AI re-shape front office trading operations, infrastructure and workflows? Where are firms on their adoption journey?
• What are the foundational technology investments in cloud, data analytics , APIs and more for AI integration?
• How should firms manage risks and ensure responsible and ethical AI?
• How should firms plan for workplace transformation and engagement?
• Costs vs. benefit: How should firms manage the computational complexity and high costs of AI models and data?
• What are the metrics to measure success and value from AI?

Moderator: Monika Fernando, Head of Global FI Client Data Analytics & Head of FI eTrading Strategy EAP, TD Securities
Anvar Karimson, Chief Technology Officer, Kepler Cheuvreux
Sachin Anandikar, Chief Technology Officer, Pemberton Asset Management
Barry Fitzgerald, Co-Head of Front-office Engineering, Man Group

Fireside Chat: Agentic AI – The next frontier to transform the financial markets ecosystem

• What are the key differences between GenAI and Agentic AI?
• How could agentic AI benefit financial services and specifically trading applications and capabilities?
• How should firms manage the challenges, risks and uncertainties?
• What actions should firms take to prepare for agentic AI?
  
  Interview with: Symon Garfield, Director Capital Markets Advisory & Digital Strategy, Worldwide Financial Services, Microsoft
  Interviewed by: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group

Panel: Transitioning from monolithic to agile architectures for high performance trading systems

• Why are firms moving to more agile architectures?
• What are the complexities in moving from monolithic to agile and open trading architectures/platforms?
• As firms move to microservices architecture what are some of the new challenges to be addressed?
• How should firms implement robust security measures to ensure digital operational resilience with DORA as well as with third party relationships?
• What are the essential skills, tools and technologies for microservices implementation?
• What are the benefits and expected ROI of transitioning to microservices?
• How will the technology landscape and vendor offerings in this space continue to evolve?

Moderator: Irina Sonich-Bright, Managing Director, Head of Market Access Product, Agency Trading, UBS
Anthony Warden, MD, Citi Tech Fellow – Global Head of High Performance Architectures, Citi
Minhaj Ahmed, Cash Equity Product Owner, HSBC
Deepak Dhayatker, Chief Technology Officer, Rapid Addition
Jon Butler, Co-Founder & CEO, Velox

Fireside Chat: Building for efficiency and scale: The role of interoperability in modern hedge funds

• How should firms approach infrastructure design when starting fresh?
• What challenges arise with data, applications, and interoperability?
• How does interoperability influence a best-of-breed strategy?

Dan Schleifer, President and Co-Founder, Interop.io
Sharat Gangwani, Chief Technology Officer, Ilex Capital

Panel: Enhancing trader efficiency – Innovative solutions for automated and streamlined trader desktop and workflows 

• What progress are firms making towards digitising and automating workflows on the desktop?
• How can interoperability, low code/no code, open source and AI add value and enhance productivity?
• What are the best practices for streamlined deployment of these technologies and approaches?
• Interop and AI: How does interoperability support AI integration?
• What does the trader desktop of the future look like?

Moderator: Mike O’Hara, Editor, TradingTech Insight, A-Team Group
Colin Duggin, Global Head of Equities Product, TP ICAP
Sunny Jaisinghani, Head of Data, Global Custody, State Street
Dan Schleifer, President and Co-Founder, Interop.io
Dina Dede, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
Martin Haines, Managing Director, EMEA, KX

Fireside Chat: Reviewing regulatory and market structure changes – Impact on the trading landscape and trading technology

• Cross asset regulatory and market structure roundup – what are the priorities for your watch list?
• How have equity market data businesses and fee structures evolved at Europe’s largest incumbent stock exchanges and what is the impact to the trading industry?
• How are the latest changes to MiFIR Review impacting the trading industry and what is the impact on trading technology?
• How will the implementation of the Consolidated Tape impact market transparency and how are market participants responding?

Nafisa Yusuf, Director, Head of International Market Structure, BlackRock
Matthew Coupe, EMEA Co-Chair, FIX Trading Community

Panel: Innovation in data and analytics – Leveraging data as a differentiator

• Where are firms on their journey of harnessing data with a curated data platform and how are firms leveraging data as a differentiator?
• What are the best practices for utilising cloud based data marketplaces and sharing capabilities to enable innovation and reduce complexity accessing essential data?
• How are firms maintaining data quality and governance to ensure data is accurate to meet the demands of regulatory reporting and advanced analytics?
• What progress are firms making in leveraging alternative and unstructured data sources for data insight?
• What are the opportunities and challenges of investing in AI and GenAI for trading research and analytics?
• Where should firms focus their efforts to advance their data and analytics strategies in 2025 and beyond?

Moderator: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group
Will Winzor-Saile, Partner, Execution Analytics & Architecture, Redburn Atlantic
Anna Branch, Head of Strategic Partnerships, TP Quilter
Dr. Elliot Banks, Chief Product Officer, BMLL
Peter Simpson, Product Owner, ONETICK
Diana Stanescu, Director Finance and Capital Markets, Keysight

Presentation: The future of AI powered trading analytics

• Why are real-time trading analytics a strategic imperative?
• What are the benefits of harnessing AI to power real time trading analytics?
• What are the challenges of implementing AI driven trading analytics?
• What steps should firms take to mitigate risks such as hallucinations?
• What are the essential tools, techniques and capabilities needed to drive real time insights?

Andy Simpson, Founder & CEO, Sigma Financial Trading

Debate: The evolution of OMS & EMS – Today’s challenges

The terms OMS, EMS, OMES are used interchangeably but they mean very different things depending if you are on the buy side or sell side. How do the drivers shape the future of this technology and decisions around buy vs. build?

Moderator: Steve Grob, Founder, Vision57
Chris Lewis, Head of Trading & Technology, Westbeck Capital Management LLP
Anvar Karimson, CTO, Kepler Cheuvreux
Ashwin Venkatraman, Head of Asset Management Trading Technology, J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Medan Gabbay, Chief Revenue Officer, Quod Financial 

Panel: The future of post trade – harnessing innovation to drive transparency and workflow efficiencies

• What are the key trends and challenges in the post trade space, particularly with the transition to T+1 settlement?
• What are the operational risks and workflow challenges in post trade operations processes, particularly in asset classes like FX and Fixed Income?
• How should firms adopt new technology infrastructure and upgrades to mitigate these risks and challenges?
• What are the best practice approaches for improving efficiency and transparency to drive real time insight, improve operational control and reduce operational risk?
• What benefits and efficiency gains should firms expect?

Moderator: Pete Tomlinson, Director – Post Trade & Prime Services, AFME
Aneet Shah, SVP, Global Head Custody Product Development, State Street
Sachin Mohindra, Executive Director, Client & Market Solutions, Goldman Sachs
Harriet Winters, Lab Product Owner, Markets Platform, Lloyds Banking Group
Lisa Danino-Lewis, Chief Growth Officer, CLS