External events

The Canadian Security Traders Association (CSTA) Annual Winter Vendor Fair 2023 took place on 2 March in Toronto. The Association aims to promote and improve the ethics and business standards of those who buy, sell, or trade securities.

This year, the Americas Trading Conference took place as a live event on 8 November in New York, USA. Organised by the FIX Trading Community, the event provided a series of panel sessions where leading industry experts discussed the current market needs and exchanged their knowledge and experience.

On 19 October, the new edition of the A4Q Testing Summit brought together globally recognised speakers to address the latest industry trends in Software Testing, Software Architecture and Requirement Engineering. The event was hosted by the Alliance for Qualification supported by The Moroccan Software Testing Committee (CMTL) and International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) and in cooperation with ISQI, GASQ and German Testing Board, among other partners.

Sibos, the world’s premier financial services event, returned as an in-person event on 10-13 October 2022 in Amsterdam.

The 61st General Assembly and Annual Meeting of the World Federation of Exchanges (the WFE) took place on 27-29 September hosted by the Malta Stock Exchange.

On 14 July, we hosted one more lecture of Exactpro’s AI Testing Talks event series – “Autonomous Vehicles (AVs): Basics and Testing Challenges”. The session was held by Julia Emelianova, PhD, Researcher at Exactpro.

The Zero Outage Executive Summit, hosted by the Zero Outage Industry Standard (ZOIS) and the University of Vienna, took place as an in-person event on 12 July.

Hosted by the FIX Trading Community, Nordic Trading Briefing returned as an in-person event on 9 June, 2022.

The 2022 Consensus Festival took place as a live event on 9-12 June in Austin, Texas.

The Association of Futures Markets (AFM) 2022 Annual Conference returned as an in-person event on 8 June in London.