James Shannon

Market data rates, model complexity, and infrastructure density continue to rise, while global memory supply is experiencing "RAMmageddon". These dynamics are reshaping how firms plan & manage collocated environments.

Behind every trade is a complex stack of exchange technology tuned for extreme performance. In this session, experts who build exchange platforms will sit down with technologists from the trading industry to explore the engineering behind modern market systems—from deterministic networking and cable length equalization to ultra-low-latency market data delivery and next-generation matching engine architectures.

To stay in the game, trading firms must manage ever-growing data rates and keep their architectures competitive, whether it’s making software faster or hardware smarter. But mounting requirements for regulation, compliance, and cyber are straining resources.