Date: 14 - 16 October 2026
Location: JW Marriott Washington DC See the map
Source: Security Traders Association
On 14-16 October, the Security Traders Association’s 93rd Annual Market Structure Conference will take place in Washington, DC, bringing together leaders from across the securities industry under the theme ‘The Future in Focus’.
This year’s agenda will focus on key developments and forces shaping the equities, options, and ETF markets, including tokenization, prediction markets, artificial intelligence, extended-hours trading and capital formation across both private and public markets.
The three-day program will include, but will not be limited to, the following topics:
- Market Structure in Focus: Analyst Perspectives on the Road Ahead
- Off-Exchange Trading and Non-Bank Liquidity: The Face of Market Depth
- The Always-On Market: Liquidity, Volatility, and the Future of 24/7 Trading
- Options Market Structure: Adapting to New Realities and Participants
- ETFs at the Center: Innovation, Liquidity, and Market Evolution
- Electronic Trading: Innovation and a Changing Regulatory Landscape
Exactpro’s Elena Treshcheva, Program Manager and Thomas Toller, Managing Director of Exactpro USA, will be onsite to reconnect with the STA community and discuss how Exactpro’s AI-enabled software testing approach can help strengthen the operational resilience of financial market infrastructures worldwide.
About Exactpro
Exactpro is an independent provider of AI-enabled software testing services for financial sector organisations. Our clients are exchanges, post-trade platform operators, and banks across 20 countries. Our area of expertise comprises protocol-based testing of matching engines, market data, market surveillance, clearing and settlement systems, payments APIs. We help our clients to decrease time to market, maintain regulatory compliance, improve scalability, latency and operational resiliency. Exactpro is involved in a variety of transformation programmes related to large-scale cloud and DLT implementations at systemically important organisations.
Our approaches leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to help harness the power of exploratory data analysis and big data analytics to assist in the generation of test ideas and the interpretation of test results, supported by advanced execution capabilities of the th2 frameworks suite.
Founded in 2009, the Exactpro Group is headquartered in the UK and operates delivery centres in Georgia, Sri Lanka, Armenia, and the UK and representative offices in the US, Canada and Italy, and as well as a global distributed network of consultants.
Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of your system, reducing costs, accelerating time to market, while maintaining operational resiliency and regulatory compliance? Visit us at exactpro.com.