Conferences / STAC Summit
STAC Summit London, Fall 2026
Oct 6, 2026 · Cavendish Venues, Basinghall, London, United Kingdom
- Conference
- STAC Summit Vendor & industry
- Dates
- Oct 6, 2026
- Venue
- Cavendish Venues, Basinghall
- Place
- London, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- stacresearch.com
- Recorded
- 33 sponsors · 42 speaker appearances
- Notes
- One-day event. Speakers: full agenda as published on the event page (Agorify agenda embed); affiliations as listed at the time.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financial-firm practitioners | £0 | — | Event page: 'FREE For Financial Firms'. Vendor attendance is via sponsorship/exhibiting; no vendor ticket price stated. | stacresearch.com |
Sponsors 33
Platinum 2
Gold 9
Other 19
- A10 Networks · Tech discovery
- Amulet Hotkey · Additional Exhibitors
- Arista · Additional Exhibitors
- BSI · Additional Exhibitors
- cPacket Networks · Additional Exhibitors
- Digital Realty · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- Equinix · Additional Exhibitors
- Exegy · Tech discovery
- FMADIO · Additional Exhibitors
- LDA Technologies · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- Liquid Technology · Additional Exhibitors
- Liquid-Markets · Tech discovery
- MinIO · Additional Exhibitors
- Molex · SUPPORTING and Additional Sponsors
- Myrtle.ai · Tech discovery
- Orthogone Technologies · Additional Exhibitors
- Skygard AS · Tech discovery
- Sunbird · Additional Exhibitors
- Weights & Biases · Additional Exhibitors
Speakers and talks 42
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advije Rizvani | Calvin Risk | Speaker | When AI trades: Adversarial news and the security of agentic trading systems | — |
| Alastair Richardson | AMD | Speaker | Accelerating AI and Low Latency with AMD | — |
| Alex Kimber | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Open Resource Broker: A unified API for cloud capacity provisioning in HPC | — |
| Angelos Konstantopoulos | Supermicro | Speaker | Supermicro Closing the AI inference gap | — |
| Angelos Konstantopoulos | Supermicro | Speaker | Supermicro Optimizing HPC performance and TCO for FSI workloads with FlexTwin | — |
| Arnav Khare | Amazon Web Services | Panelist | From foundation models to market models | — |
| Ben Boren | SwarmOne | Speaker | STAC Research: Benchmarking the performance of quant research agents | — |
| Bilal Hafeez | Macro Hive | Speaker | Signals, research and decision-making with AI: A fireside chat with Bilal Hafeez | — |
| Charly Deighton | OpenAI | Panelist | From foundation models to market models | — |
| Ciaran Kennedy | Blackcore Technologies | Speaker | Blackcore®: Performance so good it Hz. | — |
| Daniel Goodman | BSI | Speaker | The Long Game: 40 Years of AI | — |
| Diana Stanescu | Keysight | Speaker | Ghost latency: When the clocks - and the evidence - disagree | — |
| Dimi Nikolaou | Fireworks AI | Panelist | From foundation models to market models | — |
| Edmund Humenberger | Symbiotic EDA | Speaker | Open-source FPGA tools may become a competitive advantage sooner or later | — |
| Eleni Coldrey | Equinix | Speaker | The hidden cost of intelligence. Engineering speed without creating dependency. | — |
| Flamur Gogolli | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Open Resource Broker: A unified API for cloud capacity provisioning in HPC | — |
| Fred Shubert | Jabil | Speaker | Jabil - Enterprise Infrastructure for Critical FSI Workloads | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | Where financial technology is heading, and what the evidence says | — |
| Jack Gidding | STAC | Speaker | STAC Trade Flow Research and Benchmarks | — |
| James Corcoran | STAC | Speaker | STAC Analytics & ML Benchmarks: New results, and the case for adjoint algorithmic differentiation | — |
| James Corcoran | STAC | Speaker | STAC AI Benchmarks | — |
| Jeff Chu | Penguin Solutions | Speaker | Finding the ‘Easy Button’ for AI infrastructure for more efficient and predictable outcomes | — |
| John Burie | Hypertec | Speaker | Nanoseconds Matter. Consistency Wins: Technical advantages for financial trading infrastructure | — |
| John Edge | Kavara | Speaker | World Models and real world data | — |
| Jun Rui Lee | STAC | Speaker | STAC Research: Benchmarking the performance of quant research agents | — |
| Namid Stillman | Simudyne | Panelist | From foundation models to market models | — |
| Nick Bond | A10 Networks | Speaker | Testing the Behaviour of AI Agents | — |
| Ning Lu | BlackRock | Speaker | AI Evals: From judging outputs to engineering decision context | — |
| Olivier Cousin | Exegy | Speaker | Architecting for Speed & Scale in Capital Markets | — |
| Oscar Thøgersen | Skygard AS | Speaker | Norwegian data centres for regulated workloads | — |
| Patrick Beart | Myrtle.ai | Speaker | ML inference: does optimizing latency mean sacrificing model flexibility? | — |
| Peter Hodgson | Options Technology | Speaker | The calendar of fear: What the market priced and what it missed | — |
| Puneet Mehta | LSEG | Speaker | Architectural approaches to agentic AI in exchange environments | — |
| Rebecca Kelly | Inqdata | Speaker | Sharding for speed: Making OPRA data accessible at scale | — |
| Ryan Hamilton | TimeStored.com | Speaker | Can AI build a database? Lessons from building PeachQ | — |
| Sachin Dhingra | AMD | Speaker | Scaling AI Compute Across Financial Services | — |
| Seth Friedman | Liquid-Markets | Speaker | Tech Discovery: Liquid-Markets | — |
| Seth Friedman | Liquid-Markets | Speaker | AI-Infused Financial Services: Optimizing the Data Path via PCIe Efficiency Improvements | — |
| Stephen Bailey | Everpure | Speaker | Data primacy in AI | — |
| Stewart Orrell | ZutaCore | Speaker | 2-phase Liquid Cooling – Evolving the cold plate | — |
| Yangling Li | BestX | Speaker | Designing the BestX AI Agent: AI product thinking for fintech | — |
| Zhijin Guo | JPMorgan Chase | Panelist | From foundation models to market models | — |