2026 Engineering Stream

Are you focused on market data engineering? Roll your sleeves up and join the market data engineering workshop.

The Engineering Stream is open to all member categories, all are welcome but please note that these sessions will be deeply technical. Join to hear insights from fellow engineering specialists and share your thoughts and experiences on Monday and Tuesday afternoon. For further information please contact Jon Neitzell.

Time Monday, October 12
TBC Introduction, Day 1: Building the Trusted Foundation
TBC Infrastructure pressure points: Cloud, resiliency, latency, distribution, operational scale
TBC APIs, MCPs & workflow integration: Modernizing how systems and engineering teams interact with data
TBC Normalization & data quality: Symbology, schemas, timestamps, reconciliation, reference data
TBC Governed data access, licensing & lineage: Entitlements, permissions, derived data rights, provenance, policy enforcement
TBC Operational resilience & observability: Operational resilience & observability: Monitoring, failover, security, reliability engineering
TBC Leadership Panel – Consumer Engineering Leadership: Where large firms are experiencing the greatest infrastructure and governance pressure today
Time Tuesday, October 13
TBC Introduction, Day 2: Activating the AI-Ready Enterprise
TBC Operationalizing AI infrastructure: Moving from experimentation into production environments
TBC Engineering workflow modernization: AI-assisted operations, orchestration, automation, developer productivity
TBC Real-time AI & model drift: Online/offline skew, monitoring, retraining, observability
TBC Trust, explainability & operational AI controls: Auditability, traceability, safeguards, governance frameworks
TBC Data catalogues & intelligent discovery layers: Governed AI access, metadata standards, semantic discovery, enterprise retrieval
TBC Leadership Panel – Future-State Architecture: AI, advanced compute, quantum, interoperability, and the evolution of enterprise engineering architectures

2026 Speakers

David Anderson

Program Director, FISD/Atradia
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William Bierds

Software Engineer, BCC Group
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Maurits Blok

Cloud Architect, Oracle
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Bob Bonaguro

Co-Founder and CTO, MarketsIO
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Terry Hedin

LSEG
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Miles Jackson

Consulting Member of Technical Staff, Oracle
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Alket Memushaj

Capital Markets Principal Architect, AWS
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Jude Osa

VP, Market Data Engineering, Goldman Sachs
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Kiran Pakala

Principal Software Engineer, FactSet
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Nigel Phelan

Chief Architect-Market Data Services, JP Morgan Chase
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James Calise

Senior Director, Cloud Engineering, Financial Services, Oracle
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Terry Roche

Co-Founder and CEO, MarketsIO
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Alastair Richardson

Strategic Business Development Director, Financial Technology, AMD
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Michael Watrous

Global Head of Market Data Engineering, Goldman Sachs
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Ben Whittam Smith

Founder, Deontic Data
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