Conferences / STAC Summit
STAC Summit Chicago, Spring 2026
Jun 4, 2026 · The Metropolitan Club, 233 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL, United States
- Conference
- STAC Summit Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Jun 4, 2026
- Venue
- The Metropolitan Club, 233 South Wacker Drive
- Place
- Chicago, IL, United States
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- stacresearch.com
- Recorded
- 21 sponsors · 35 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
Platinum 2
Other 9
- Azul · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- Hudson River Trading · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- ICC (Intelligent Computing Concepts) · Additional Exhibitors
- LDA Technologies · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- Lightbits Labs · Additional Exhibitors
- Liquid Technology · Additional Exhibitors
- Siemens · Additional Exhibitors
- Silicon Creations · Additional Exhibitors
- VAST Data · Additional Exhibitors
Speakers and talks 35
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen Brokken | Speaker | Accelerating Alpha with Google Cloud | — | |
| Amr Elashmawi | Tenstorrent | Panelist | Will AI replace the quant? | — |
| Andrea Moccia | Options Technology | Speaker | Zero ontology: Extracting structured knowledge from SEC filings with KV-accelerated LLMs | — |
| Arnaud Derasse | Exegy | Speaker | Conquering Latency & Capacity Strain with Smarter Infrastructure | — |
| Ben Boren | SwarmOne | Speaker | Beyond Tokens Per Second: Benchmarking Infrastructure for Long-Running Agentic Quant and Coding Workloads | — |
| Craig Wilcox | IBM | Speaker | Beyond the GPU: Why Your AI Architecture is Feeding a Stalled Pipeline | — |
| David Lariviere | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Speaker | Low Latency Tuning Challenge and Future of FinTech Student Expo | — |
| Greg Law | Undo | Speaker | Runtime Context for Complex Code | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | STAC Insights: Trade Flow | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | Welcome | — |
| James Corcoran | STAC | Speaker | STAC Insights: Analytics | — |
| James Corcoran | STAC | Speaker | STAC Insights: Machine Learning & Al | — |
| Joe Fuchs | Hewlett Packard Enterprise | Speaker | Two World Records. One Vendor. Financial-Grade Production Hardware | — |
| Karan Nisar | Weights & Biases | Panelist | Will AI replace the quant? | — |
| Kevin Formby | Keysight | Speaker | Tap to Trade | — |
| Marj Samkough | Lenovo | Speaker | AI Inferencing at Scale | — |
| Matt Bluske | Cadence | Speaker | Heuristics inform trading strategies: It’s about time | — |
| Matthew Certosimo | AMD | Speaker | AMD FPGA Update: STAC-ML Benchmarks and CXL with Versal Premium Gen2 | — |
| Matthew Pest | Edgehog Trading | Speaker | Using LLMs for highly agentic SystemVerilog development | — |
| Maxwell Weigel | Arista | Speaker | The Next Generation of 7130 | — |
| Michael Dang'ana | Eonforge Inc | Speaker | FractalSort: Bandwidth-Efficient Sorting for Trading Data Pipelines | — |
| Michael Gorbovitski | Virtu | Panelist | Will AI replace the quant? | — |
| Milan Dvorak | Magmio | Speaker | Building low-latency, FPGA-based tick-to-trade systems in C++ | — |
| Miles Dawborne | Azul | Speaker | The Java Platform Built for Trading | — |
| Paul Kwiat | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Speaker | Quantum-enhanced timing: what’s an atto? | — |
| Raj Sugathan | Supermicro | Speaker | Frontline AI for Capital Markets: Redefining the Speed of Alpha with Supermicro, AMD and myrtle.ai | — |
| Raj Sugathan | Supermicro | Speaker | Supermicro, AMD and Algo logic: Algorithmic Trading Solution | — |
| Ramki Ramakrishnan | Safran | Speaker | TimeLynx | — |
| Rebecca Stoia | Attucks Asset Management | Panelist | Will AI replace the quant? | — |
| Robert Battalio | University of Notre Dame | Speaker | Latency and the look-ahead bias in TAQ data | — |
| Sanjay Patel | IBM | Speaker | Shifting RAG to the Source: Why the AI Factory Belongs Inside the Storage Layer | — |
| Vlad Ilyushchenko | QuestDB | Panelist | Will AI replace the quant? | — |
| Vlad Voskoboynik | Dell Technologies | Speaker | Dell AI Data Platform with PowerScale | — |
| William Tegel | The Open Markets Initiative | Speaker | Protocol-driven development for electronic trading systems | — |
| Yoav Karmon | Edgehog Trading | Speaker | Using LLMs for highly agentic SystemVerilog development | — |