Upcoming Webinar: From 24/7 to Event-Driven: Engineering the Next-Generation Exchange Platform
Date: 28 April 2026
Time: 10:00am ET / 3:00pm London / 4:00pm CET
Duration: 50 minutes
What digital asset and prediction markets are teaching traditional exchanges about availability, agility and time-to-market.
New market structures and regulatory changes are forcing exchange operators to rethink the foundations of their technology stacks.
Digital asset exchanges, prediction markets and retail-driven platforms have normalised 24/7 trading, continuous availability and rapid product iteration. In contrast, many traditional exchanges still rely on architectures designed around scheduled downtime, weekly maintenance windows and long development cycles.
As more established operators explore extended trading hours, tokenised assets and new distribution models, the technology gap between legacy systems and modern, modular architectures is becoming increasingly visible.
This webinar brings together exchange technology leaders to examine the architectural considerations behind the next generation of exchange infrastructure. We will explore how to balance the agility of a startup with the uncompromising resilience required by global regulators.
Discussion topics will include:
- The death of the maintenance window: What 24/7 trading really demands from core matching, clearing and surrounding infrastructure
- Performance at scale: Designing distributed, high-performance systems that allow for seamless upgrades without service interruption.
- Time-to-market as a competitive constraint: how new entrants build for speed
- Flexibility and IP ownership: buy, build or hybrid? Balancing the need for rapid deployment with long-term control and differentiation
- Lessons learnt: what traditional exchanges can learn from digital asset and prediction market platforms – and vice versa.
This session is aimed at CTOs/CIOs, heads of architecture and senior technology leaders across traditional exchanges, MTFs/ATSs, digital asset venues and emerging market operators.
Speakers:
Moderator: Mike O’Hara
Editor, TradingTech Insight
A-Team Group
More about our speakers:
David Smith
Global Head of Systems Engineering
Adaptive
David is the Global Head of Systems Engineering at Adaptive, with over a decade of experience architecting world-class trading systems. Previously the Principal Engineer for Universal Messaging, he specializes in resilient, high-performance event-driven architectures. An expert in Aeron® and State Machine Replication, David empowers market participants to achieve technical differentiation. He holds an MEng in Computing from Imperial College London and is a recognized authority on low-latency distributed systems and capital markets technology.
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