Agenda

Registration and Networking 

Opening and Welcome

Keynote Fireside Chat: The new world of trading technology – a view from the top 

• Lessons learnt from the last year and how that is helping us now
• Digital transformation and trading technology: where to invest to maximize innovation?
• Talent, skills and diversity for trading technology
• New trends: Digital assets, Sustainability and ESG: impact on the trading landscape

Interview with: Nikhil Singhvi, Managing Director – Core Trading Technology, Credit Suisse
Interviewed by: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group 

Keynote
Available for sponsorship

Panel: Modernizing trading platforms – How to leverage technology to differentiate and create a best in class trading platform 

• Technology modernisation: decisions around buy vs. build
• Interoperability: How to approach integration with legacy systems and workflows; open source, devops and APIs
• Applying lessons learnt from technology builds for mature asset classes to new asset classes
• The shift to inter-connectedness: How the vendor-client landscape will evolve and what this means for your trading technology strategy

Moderator: Andrew Delaney, President & Chief Content Officer, A-Team Group
Fabrice Scialom, Head of Digital Business Architecture, RBC Capital Markets
Dave Johnsen, Head of Electronic Trading, Equities & Fixed Income, Scotiabank
Zach Cohen, Managing Director, Head of Trading Engineering, Two Sigma Investments
Matt Barrett, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptive
Representative from Genesis

Panel: A hybrid approach for moving your trading platform to the cloud 

• How to approach cloud migration
• What are differences in managing compliance and latency considerations as you move onto the cloud? 
• Lessons learnt: what works and what to look out for
• Transitioning to a devops approach 
• Practical applications of hybrid cloud
• The potential in the next 3-5 years

Moderator: 
Vijay Bhandari, Technology Principal & Innovation Lead for Investment Bank, Deutsche Bank  Innovation Labs
Representative from Options Technology 

Networking and Refreshment Break

Panel: Optimising trading infrastructures for high performance and agility in fast markets 

• Latest trends in connectivity and networks: what is the optimum set up to ensure reliability and availability in your connectivity infrastructure
• Trade infrastructure monitoring: Latest developments in analytics and cloud monitoring to improve performance
• Developments in co-location, hosting and data centres
• Reviewing the vendor landscape and the evolution of the best of breed hosting services

Moderator: Nigel Cheetham, Synechron
Jason England, Head of Capital Markets Networks & Hosting, TD Securities
Habib R. Shaikh, Director – Global Head High Performance Low Latency Electronic Trading Infrastructure, Credit Suisse 
David Taylor, Co-President and CTO, Exegy

Panel: Accessing liquidity in digital assets: Connecting and trading in the emerging exchange landscape

• Exploring the evolving trading venue and exchange landscape for trading digital assets – price transparency and sourcing liquidity 
• Connectivity and hosting issues for managing digital assets and how are these can be addressed  – SORs, execution algorithms

Moderator: Kathryn Zhao, Head of Electronic Trading, Cantor Fitzgerald
Jay Biancamano, Head of US Digital Assets, State Street
Abhay Navale, Global Head of Digital Assets Engineering, BNY Mellon

Networking Drinks and TradingTech Insight USA Award Winners Ceremony

Ends