External events

On 8 May, The Trading Show Chicago is expected to bring together over 1500 attendees and more than 200 industry’s most influential speakers on Automated Trading and HPC, Alternative Data and Quant, AI and Advanced Analytics, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Exchange Technology.

The biggest one-day electronic trading event in the region, the Asia Pacific Trading Summit 2019 is expected to bring together over 700 key personnel in institutional trading to discuss the most pertinent issues impacting market participants.

Client Digital Transformation. The Promise of DLT Platforms, Robotics, AI and Crypto Assets.

ICST 2019 is the 12th International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation that will take place in Xi’an, China on 22-27 April 2019.

Synchronize is the leading conference dedicated to enterprise and institutional applications of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), blockchain technology and smart contracts within financial services.

This year, the Americas Trading Briefing program included a series of panel discussions within an interactive program addressing the market needs and providing impartial, high quality content and the expertise of industry’s leading professionals. The event gathered around 300 market participants, including senior decision makers from the buy-side, sell-side, vendor and exchanges/ECN, etc. The agenda addressed the most pressing fintech issues in the region. The event also offered outstanding networking opportunities. 

The First IEEE International Conference On Artificial Intelligence Testing is taking place in San Francisco alongside 4 other major IT conferences in the IEEE Joint Conference/Workshop program. The 6-day program includes numerous tracks on Blockchain, Big Data, Cloud Computing, Healthcare and Medicine using Big Data applications, AI Testing and Machine Learning, etc., supplemented with workshops, tutorials summit meetings and panel sessions.

IOMA: WFE's Clearing & Derivatives Conference takes place in the financial centre of India. This annual event brings together exchanges, clearing houses, the representatives of regulatory bodies and other financial industry stakeholders from all around the world to discuss the key market structure and business issues of the day. The focus of the two-day conference is post-trade and derivatives market issues. The agenda features but is not limited to the following topics:

The QA Financial Forum is designed to promote the sharing of information between quality assurance and software architecture managers of financial companies and other stakeholders in IT, whilst respecting the confidentiality of the speakers, following the principles of the Chatham House rule. The event focuses on the latest issues in quality assurance and testing for software at banks, insurance and asset management companies, with the main theme being Quality Assurance for the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). A special emphasis will be made on in-depth coverage of technologies for automation and continuous app delivery, including artificial intelligence.

This year’s Arab Capital Markets Conference had the Enhancing Transparency and Financial Innovation theme, underpinned by several keytalks and such panels as: