May 28 – 30, 2025
Singapore
| Time | Wednesday, May 28 | ||
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5:30 - 7:30 p.m. Singapore Cricket Club Connaught Drive, Singapore 179681 |
Opening Reception, sponsored by Datagum | ||
| Time | Thursday, May 29 |
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8:00 - 9:00 a.m. The Fairmont Singapore, Stamford Ballroom, Level 4, 80 Bras Basah Rd, Singapore 189560 |
Registration |
| 9:00 - 9:10 a.m. | Opening Remarks |
| 9:10 - 9:35 a.m. |
Keynote Address
The Future of Data (and the Data Professional) in Asia's Capital Markets Kevin Morgan,Senior Principal, Expand Research |
| 9:35 - 10:15 a.m. |
Exchange Leaders Discussion
The post-COVID recovery has ushered in a new era of global trading with disruptive market technology, ever-increasing expectations from market participants and innovative new trading products. Established exchanges are meeting new players head-to-head, resulting in exciting commercial and strategic responses, e.g. all the major US exchanges and ATS' will operate a 5x24 market, CME Group will operate an FCM, and SGX is facilitating market access and clearing for India's derivatives market. Our panel of senior and distinguished exchange executives will share global and regional perspectives on how the role of the traditional exchange is evolving. Moderator:Mark Schaedel,CEO, DataBP Aniruddha Chatterjee,CEO, NSE Data & Analytics Jamie Crank,Group Executive Technology & Data, ASX James McKeone,VP, Head of Asia Pacific, Capital Access Platforms (Data, Index, Analytics), Nasdaq Lester Ngoh, Head of Data Services, SGX |
| 10:15 - 10:55 a.m. | Networking Break |
| 10:55 - 11:40 a.m. |
Data as a Service: Mega Efficiency Boost or Over-Hyped? The financial information industry has evaluated myriad data management configurations seeking to streamline complex and mission critical operations. These efforts have explored centers of excellence, process automation tooling, managed services, and other third-party commercial arrangements. Do today's Data as a Service (DAAS) offerings represent a compelling new proposition or is it simply another reconfiguration of the existing data management stack? Join us to hear this panel of global and regional experts explore the latest upsurge in DAAS offerings. Moderator:Frederic Demesy,Executive Director Data Services, Asia Pacific, CME Group Wolfgang Matzner,Managing Director, Baha Patrick Tompsett,Regional Director, Enterprise Data Solutions, FactSet Bruce Traan,Global Head of Indices, dxFeed Chris Vera,Specialist, Digital Solutions Consulting, Asia Pacific Asset Servicing, Northern Trust |
| 11:40 - 12:15 p.m. |
Rising Stars in APAC: The Talent Speaks! Since no one goes to school to study market data (yet), finding and retaining the best talent is an industry-wide priority. Rising Stars from APAC region and beyond will share how they were "discovered", what they have found surprising about the industry, where they hope to make their mark, and how their management is helping them succeed. Moderator:Eric Herdzik,Head of Engineering, Asia-Pacific, Bloomberg Erika Bressan,Field Sales Manager, Financial Services, Google Cloud Yusho Sanogawa,Senior Technical Solution Engineer, BT Radianz Shuya Shan,APAC Representative, Equities Trading, London Stock Exchange plc, LSEG Samhita Srikanth,FIA, Associate, Software Engineer II, Market Data Services, J.P. Morgan |
| 12:15 - 1:30 p.m. | Networking Luncheon, sponsored by CME Group |
| 1:30 - 2:10 p.m. |
Servicing Red-Hot Markets with New Data Sources As capital markets firms in the APAC-region keep pace with breathtaking growth, their data requirements are becoming more sophisticated, necessitating deeper in-house expertise and access to novel data sources. Attend this session to explore the phenomenon of general-purpose data "tsars" who are leveraging their experience to source a wide variety of emerging and challenging data sets across geographies. The data tsars themselves will explain how rapid market evolution demands creative and innovative sourcing and disciplined data management techniques. They will also cover growing pains, including the need for hard-to-source datasets ranging from ESG and carbon to private debt markets, and how the data industry can help. Moderator:Laura Ryan,Founder, Telos Advisory Naj Alavi,Managing Director & President, Xenomorph Eng-Ban Ho,Director, Asia Pacific, CUSIP Global Services Ian Sams,Global Head of Product, TraditionData Ian Webster,Chief Revenue Officer, Neudata |
| 2:10 - 2:50 p.m. |
Intended and Unintended Consequences: Regulations Impacting Data Sourcing and Distribution Sourcing external data at financial institutions is a critical component of price discovery and risk management and by association, regulatory compliance. New regulations are emerging in the areas of data sourcing, data operations and data commercialization, underscoring both the critical systemic role that data plays and the complexity of the global data supply chain. New regulatory regimes often result in unintended as well as intended consequences, with extraterritoriality top of the less desirable side effects. Our panel of experts will explore how participants within the supply chain in Asia navigate data regulations. Moderator:Laurence Van der Loo,Partner, Flint Global Sara Baker, Global Head of Commercial Management, CJC Rebecca Drummond, Global Customer Service and Data Experience Lead, LSEG Jessica Horsfall, Global Head of Exchange Relationship Management, Bloomberg Alex Roberts,Partner, Head of China TMT, Shanghai, Linklaters LLP |
| 2:50 - 3:30 p.m. | Networking Break |
| 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. |
Roundtables Round Table 1 - Building a Blueprint for a Successful DAAS Deployment Alastair Hawkins,Global Head Professional Services, Datagum Round Table 2 - AI in Action: Aggregating News, Real-Time Market Data & Historical Insights Bruce Traan,Global Head of Indices, dxFeed Patrick Costello,Director & Co-Founder, QuantDesigned Round Table 3 - Data and analytics for sophisticated retail traders - is it Mortons or McDonalds? Keiren Harris,Independent Industry Advisor Round Table 4 - The Future of the Humble Market Data Terminal in an Age of APIs and AI Paul Callaway,Head of Real-Time Systems Architecture, Bloomberg Wolfgang Matzner,Managing Director, Baha |
| 5:00 - 5:10 p.m. |
Panel Keynote: Extended US Equity Trading Hours Changes in global equity exchange strategies and proposed extended US trading hours will likely impact APAC’s markets and traders (both institutional and retail). This theoretically aligns the 24-hour accessibility of underlying equity assets with their derivative cousins and has the potential to change trading and liquidity patterns across the 24-hour day. A keynote followed by a panel of local and global experts will discuss this exciting development and share insights on how this is likely to evolve. Adam Inzirillo,Executive Vice President, Global Head of Cboe Data Vantage, Cboe |
| 5:10 - 5:50 p.m. |
Extended US Equity Trading Hours Panel Discussion Moderator:David Day,Group Head of Sales, APAC, LSEG Marco Chung,Director of Sales and Relationship Management, NYSE Matthew Fuchs,FIA, Executive Vice President – Market Data, OTC Markets Group Adam Inzirillo,Executive Vice President, Global Head of Cboe Data Vantage, Cboe Minah Kim,Executive Director, Equity & Cryptocurrency Products Asia Pacific, CME Group |
| 5:50 - 7:30 p.m. | Extended US Equity Trading Hours - Reception, Sponsored by Cboe |
| 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. |
Rising Stars Gathering ContactRachel Mauney to reserve your space. |
| Time | Friday, May 30 |
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| SGX, 2 Shenton Way, SGX Centre 1, Singapore 068804 | Engineering Stream & Lunch Sponsored by AMD |
| 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. | Registration |
| 10:00 - 10:05 a.m. |
Engineering Stream Introduction David Anderson,Program Director, FISD/Atradia |
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10:05 - 10:40 a.m. |
Evolving Technology and its Impact on Market Data With hardware companies now becoming some of the largest in the world and the recent advancements in technologies such as AI, it is ever more important to understand how the market landscape has and continues to evolve, its impact on market data from every increasing volumes to new use cases for market data in Ai and how to stay on top of what is coming next to ensure continued competitiveness. Alastair Richardson,Strategic Business Development Director, Financial Technology, AMD |
| 10:40 - 11:05 a.m. |
Onboarding Tokyo Stock Exchange Arrowhead 4.0 to Bloomberg System With an ever-growing demand for fast, accurate, and information rich data delivery by market participants, exchanges are continuously upgrading their market data distribution systems to keep up with advances in technology. The Tokyo Stock Exchange’s Arrowhead 4.0 project is a good example of such an upgrade that happened in 2024, and which Bloomberg onboarded from the go-live date. Let’s take a deeper dive into the technical challenges the company's Real-Time Market Data engineers faced integrating Arrowhead 4.0 and how they overcame them. Yuji Takai,Market Data Engineer, Bloomberg |
| 11:05 - 11:25 a.m. | Coffee Break |
| 11:25 - 11:50 a.m. |
The Aspiration for Containerization: What is .NET Aspire and Why is it so Awesome? As a developer, do you ever feel overwhelmed by all the Docker, Kubernetes, and containerization complexity? You’re not alone. The good news? Microsoft’s got your back. With .NET Aspire, you can build cloud-native applications without diving deep into the messy world of container orchestration. Aspire simplifies service-to-service communication, telemetry, and deployment, so you can focus on writing great code instead of wrestling with infrastructure. In this session, we’ll break down what .NET Aspire is, why it’s a game-changer for developers, and how it makes cloud-native development easier. To prove it’s as easy as it sounds, we’ll walk through a live demo—deploying a microservices-based app in minutes. Whether you're a .NET pro or just getting started with modern cloud development, this session will show you how Aspire can take the hassle out of containerization and let you ship faster with confidence. Ryan Spears,Head of Development, Datagum |
| 11:50 - 12:15 p.m. |
Rethinking Market Data Distribution in the Cloud: Options Around the Multicast Challenge As financial institutions accelerate their cloud adoption journey, market data distribution at scale still presents a significant challenge. Traditional multicast-based architectures long relied upon in on-premises environments, struggle in the cloud, where multicast is not natively supported. With market data update rates reaching new highs in 2024 and still doubling in size every two years, the demands on networking infrastructure continue to grow. Firms must navigate the complexities of maintaining bare-metal performance while managing cloud networking constraints and the rising costs of egress. This session will explore how CJC's independent performance testing of LSEG RTC on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provided key insights into designing high-performance market data solutions without multicast. Key discussion points include:
Peter Williams,Chief Technology Officer, CJC |
| 12:15 - 12:40 p.m. |
Rethinking Capital Markets Data Supply Chains for Open and AI-Driven Data Collaboration Capital markets data architectures are becoming increasingly fragmented, strained by multi-cloud environments, hybrid setups, and diverse data topologies. This complexity creates silos that block efficient data flow between market data vendors, buy-side firms, sell-side players, and other participants across the capital markets value chain. In this session, we will explore how modern, open-source-driven data architectures can break down these silos and tackle the most pressing data challenges in the era of Generative AI. We’ll also discuss how Snowflake’s global data mesh enables firms to access, share, and replicate data, applications, and AI products seamlessly across clouds, geographies, and counterparties, without the heavy lifting of complex data movement or duplication. Sasi Subramaniam,Solution Engineering Manager, Snowflake |
| 12:40 - 2:00 p.m. | Networking Luncheon |
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2:00 - 3:30 p.m. SGX, 2 Shenton Way, SGX Centre 1, Singapore 068804 |
Constituency Group Meetings (By invitation only)
Data Vendor Constituency Group Moderator:Tom Davin,Managing Director, FISD Consumer Constituency Group Workshop - The AI Advantage: Achieving Time-to-Value in Market Data Management In today’s data-driven financial landscape, firms are under increasing pressure to make faster, smarter decisions—while managing the complexity, volume, and cost of market data. Artificial Intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept; it’s a strategic enabler, transforming how organizations unlock value from their data assets. This workshop will explore key process that are ripe for AI adoption and its benefits. Prabhas Abhayakumar,Director, Managed Services Operations & Site Leader, TRG Screen India Mei Kuan Chee,Regional Manager Customer Success, TRG Screen Exchange Constituency Group - Exchange Direct Data Workshop Exploring regional and global successes and challenges associated with building the business case, defining the products, navigating technology choices and ultimately building end-customer relationships. Frederic Demesy,Executive Director Data Services, Asia Pacific, CME Group Steven Jacobs,VP of Revenue and Research, Bobsled Mark Schaedel,CEO, DataBP Paul Spence,Chief Data Scientist, Rozetta Technology Peter Tierney,APAC Program Director, FISD |
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