Conferences / STAC Summit
STAC Summit Chicago, Spring 2025
May 21, 2025 · Convene, 311 W Monroe Street, Chicago, IL, United States
- Conference
- STAC Summit Vendor & industry
- Dates
- May 21, 2025
- Venue
- Convene, 311 W Monroe Street
- Place
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- docs.stacresearch.com
- Recorded
- 21 sponsors · 34 speaker appearances
- Notes
- One-day event. Speakers: full agenda as published on the event page (Agorify agenda embed); affiliations as listed at the time. No ticket price stated on the event page (STAC Summits are generally free for qualified financial-firm practitioners; not stated for this edition).
Ticket prices
No ticket prices recorded
Sponsors 21
Title / headline 1
- Supermicro · DIAMOND SPONSOR
Gold 6
- Cadence · GOLD SPONSORS
- cPacket Networks · GOLD SPONSORS
- DDN · GOLD SPONSORS
- Dell Technologies · GOLD SPONSORS
- Google · GOLD SPONSORS
- Options Technology · GOLD SPONSORS
Bronze 4
Other 10
- Aeron (Adaptive) · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- AHEAD · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- Amulet Hotkey · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- Arista · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- Hypertec · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- ICC (Intelligent Computing Concepts) · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- Liquid Technology · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- NextSilicon · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- Siemens · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
- Silicon Creations · ADDITIONAL EXHIBITORS
Speakers and talks 34
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adam Sherer | Cadence | Speaker | No turning back: Why it’s time for ASICs in HFT infrastructure | — |
| Bobbi Yogatama | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Speaker | The case for GPU acceleration beneath the database stack | — |
| Caolán McCarron | Options Technology | Speaker | The Missing Link: Multi-layer correlation for performance-critical trading | — |
| Charles Parlee | Digital Realty | Speaker | At the limits: Rethinking data centers for the next era of financial trading | — |
| Ciaran Kennedy | — | Panelist | Open for business: Are open data formats the key to a successful data strategy? | — |
| Cliff Maddox | NovaSparks | Speaker | Stability During Market Turmoil | — |
| Craig Mohan | Sk3w Technologies, Inc | Panelist | The Edge of fairness: Trading at the limits of time | — |
| Dan Schellinger | Dell Technologies | Speaker | Dell AI Platform with Nvidia | — |
| David Lariviere | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Panelist | The Edge of fairness: Trading at the limits of time | — |
| David Snowdon | Timebeat | Panelist | The Edge of fairness: Trading at the limits of time | — |
| Erik Rudin | cPacket Networks | Speaker | Silent stalls, big impacts: Exposing hidden bottlenecks in AI data centers | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | STAC Welcome | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | Afternoon Welcome | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | STAC Update: Fast Working Groups | — |
| James Corcoran | STAC | Speaker | STAC Update: Tick Analytics & Risk Computing | — |
| James Corcoran | STAC | Speaker | STAC Update: Machine Learning & AI | — |
| Jerry Nelligan | XR Trading | Speaker | At the limits: Rethinking data centers for the next era of financial trading | — |
| Josh Perkins | AHEAD | Speaker | Built to Scale: De-Risking Advanced Compute with Factory Integration | — |
| Kevin Formby | Keysight | Speaker | From Tap to Trade - Mastering Market Visibility in the Picosecond Age | — |
| Kevin Gildea | Intel | Speaker | Quantifying Architectural Gains: A Generational Leap in Risk Computing Performance | — |
| Lasse Johnsen | Timebeat | Speaker | The power of 3: because precision needs proof | — |
| Laurent de Barry | Exegy | Speaker | Exegy - A Few Updates and One Question | — |
| Luca Lin | Databento, Inc | Panelist | Open for business: Are open data formats the key to a successful data strategy? | — |
| Michael Watson | Supermicro | Speaker | Supermicro Accelerate Everything AI | — |
| Michael Watson | Supermicro | Speaker | Accelerating Finance with NVIDIA Blackwell: Supermicro’s Next-Gen Infrastructure | — |
| Mick Hittesdorf | OneTick | Panelist | Open for business: Are open data formats the key to a successful data strategy? | — |
| Mick Hittesdorf | OneTick | Speaker | Open Data Formats: Foundation of the Modern Data Ecosystem | — |
| Moiz Kohari | DDN | Speaker | Data Intelligence In Financial Services | — |
| Sean Sullivan | memQ | Speaker | Quantum Time: Synchronizing at Sub-Nanosecond Scale | — |
| Seth Friedman | Liquid-Markets | Speaker | ÜberNIC Update: PoC to General Availability… | — |
| Steven Keith Platt | Loyola University Chicago | Speaker | From Hype to Impact: AI That’s Reshaping Finance | — |
| Tim Lipscomb | Cboe Global Markets | Panelist | The Edge of fairness: Trading at the limits of time | — |
| William Tegel | The Open Markets Initiative | Panelist | Open for business: Are open data formats the key to a successful data strategy? | — |
| Xiangyao Yu | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Speaker | The case for GPU acceleration beneath the database stack | — |