FISD London Engineering Stream – December 3, 2024

Registration & Networking

Welcome and Introduction
David Anderson, Program Director, FISD/Atradia
Simon Clerck, Goldman Sachs

AI, Working with Large Language Models 
There’s a lot of talk about the recent emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and how they might enable breakthroughs in many areas of business, but what are the key things you need to know? Find out more about how they work, potential use cases to explore and best approaches for success.
Mandie Quartly, AI/ML Specialist, Google Cloud

Break

AI Interactive Presentation: Peek Into the AI That's Part of the AI-Enabled Treasury TCA Tool
CME Group is leveraging the latest Google Cloud technologies in AI and automation to design a suite of analytics and models to help customers better understand and enhance trade execution costs. Learn more about the neural network developed by CME Group to derive the most optimal peer grouping based on trading behaviors in the US Treasury market. Delve into another set of foundational models designed to understand and reduce slippage rate using XGBoost models and learn how we utilized explainable AI: SHAP values, DICE, and LIME to ensure model outputs are fully understood to help customers action the model outputs and improved trading costs. All built on cutting edge Google Cloud technologies using ML pipelines in Vertex AI using Feature Store, Model Registry and leveraging CI/CD framework to seamlessly manage the model pipelines.

James Boudreault, Global Head of Data Science, CME Group
George Deamont, Manager of Data Science, CME Group
Mark Scannell, Financial Services Solution Architect, Google

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Tech Talks 

SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) is a domain that focuses on applying software engineering techniques to automate IT operations tasks, with the goal of improving scalability and reliability, accelerating the detection of problems and shortening mean time to resolve. It also looks at the use of predictive analytics to anticipate capacity constraints. This part of the program looks at various aspects of implementing an effective SRE framework.

Simon Clerk, Global Head of Market Data Engineering, Goldman Sachs,
James Corcoran, Chief Growth Officer, KX
Christopher Marsh-Bourdon, VP Global Financial Markets, Oracle
Dominic Stewart, Cloud Engineering Senior Director, Oracle

Lunch

Real-time Market Data Platform in the Cloud: Installation, setup and demonstration in AWS.

This session will demonstrate how easy cloud technology has made it for data consumers to consider adding new data providers to their environment. With the cloud you can download, install and run a market data platform in a matter of minutes that includes Feed Handlers, a Last Value Cache, Entitlement systems, Reporting, and a Web Service for streaming real-time market data to any downstream applications and to users (including mobile devices). Each step required to get the job done will be shown in this live session.

Mauricio González Evans, CEO, BCC Group

AWS Analytics Workshop

AWS offers purpose-built analytics services for data movement, data storage, data lakes, big data analytics, log and streaming analytics. In this workshop, you will learn how to set up and configure a FX trading application that sends trade activity data to Amazon Kinesis, and use AWS Glue to catalogue and store the data on to Amazon S3 using Parquet. You will learn how to query and visualize this data using Amazon QuickSight and how to configure AWS Lake Formation to govern data access.

Oli Leach, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS