Conferences / STAC Summit
STAC Summit Hong Kong, Spring 2026
Apr 15, 2026 · HKEX Connect Hall, One and Two Exchange Square, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Conference
- STAC Summit Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Apr 15, 2026
- Venue
- HKEX Connect Hall, One and Two Exchange Square
- Place
- Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- stacresearch.com
- Recorded
- 18 sponsors · 28 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Hosted in partnership with HKEX. 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 18
Title / headline 1
- HKEX · Main Sponsor
Platinum 1
Silver 1
Other 10
- BMLL · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- cPacket Networks · Additional Exhibitors
- Equinix · Additional Exhibitors
- ICC (Intelligent Computing Concepts) · Additional Exhibitors
- Ingram Micro · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- ITRS Group · Additional Exhibitors
- LDA Technologies · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- The Modern Data Company · Additional Exhibitors
- VAST Data · Additional Exhibitors
- Waypoint · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
Speakers and talks 28
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alastair Richardson | AMD | Speaker | Adapting to CPU architectures and accelerating the network | — |
| Andrea Suardi | Xelera | Speaker | Xelera Silva: Sub-microsecond ML inference — Three execution modes, one API | — |
| Arthur Cheng | Supermicro | Speaker | Frontline AI for capital markets: Redefining the speed of alpha with Supermicro, AMD and myrtle.ai | — |
| Arthur Cheng | Supermicro | Speaker | Supermicro solutions for AI factory : Low latency trading use case | — |
| Charlie Chiu | Amazon Web Services | Panelist | Model selection and hardware targeting for trading and execution systems. | — |
| Cindy Sim | Bursa Malaysia | Panelist | Market structure meets infrastructure: How exchange decisions shape execution | — |
| Davis Zhou | DolphinDB | Speaker | DolphinDB: AI-ready high performance quant stack without the complexity | — |
| Dawei (David) Ding | Shanghai Institute for Mathematics and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Fudan University | Speaker | Using quantum entanglement for decision cordination in high-frequency trading networks | — |
| Ethan Wang | LTP | Panelist | Market structure meets infrastructure: How exchange decisions shape execution | — |
| Francisco (Paco) Girela Lopez | Safran | Speaker | Wait a second! How long is a second? | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | STAC Summit Welcome | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | STAC Insights: Trade Flow | — |
| James Corcoran | STAC | Speaker | STAC Insights: Analytics | — |
| James Corcoran | STAC | Speaker | STAC Insights: Machine Learning & AI | — |
| James Shannon | Optiver | Panelist | Scaling under pressure: Capacity planning, colocation strategy, and the AI memory squeeze | — |
| John Hsu | Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) | Speaker | STAC Summit Welcome | — |
| Jon Axon | Options IT | Speaker | Building and optimising server hardware to handle high bandwidth (200 Gb/s +) | — |
| Keith Chow | Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) | Speaker | High performance and resilient exchange trading platform | — |
| Margaret Niche | Intercontinental Exchange | Panelist | Scaling under pressure: Capacity planning, colocation strategy, and the AI memory squeeze | — |
| Michelangiolo Mazzeschi | EPAM | Panelist | Model selection and hardware targeting for trading and execution systems. | — |
| Michelle Cheng | HashKey Exchange | Panelist | Market structure meets infrastructure: How exchange decisions shape execution | — |
| Morten Sorensen | Jefferies | Panelist | Model selection and hardware targeting for trading and execution systems. | — |
| Niguel Brooks | Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) | Panelist | Market structure meets infrastructure: How exchange decisions shape execution | — |
| Paul Ho | Arista | Speaker | UEC - Ultra Ethernet Consortium | — |
| Qingli Gao | Avenir Group | Panelist | Scaling under pressure: Capacity planning, colocation strategy, and the AI memory squeeze | — |
| Timothy Wong | Avelacom | Panelist | Scaling under pressure: Capacity planning, colocation strategy, and the AI memory squeeze | — |
| Tom Kearney | Lean Edge | Panelist | Model selection and hardware targeting for trading and execution systems. | — |
| Xuefeng Gao | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Speaker | Factor-based conditional diffusion model for portfolio optimization | — |