Ashok Reddy, as the CEO of KX, applies his wide-ranging experience with Fortune 500 companies, leading banks and firms worldwide to foster a better understanding and use of AI systems. His main focus rests on the often overlooked, yet fundamental, concept of temporal reasoning in AI, i.e., the system’s ability to understand the relationships between events over time.

Ashok recognizes that the current design of many AI systems does not fully harness the potential of time-dependent data. He advocates for AI’s broader problem-solving and decision-making capacities by integrating temporal reasoning, thereby equipping these systems to tackle dynamic real-world scenarios more efficiently.

In the world of AI, Ashok emphasizes not just the technology itself but also its symbiotic relationship with humans. He believes AI is meant to augment human capabilities, not replace them, and champions a future where AI’s analytical skills and humans’ intuitive understanding work in harmony.

Ashok Reddy is dedicated to making a tangible difference in the AI field. He seeks to enhance AI’s capacity through temporal reasoning and is passionate about fostering a more collaborative future between humans and AI, where each entity benefits from the other’s strengths.

Michael is an experienced software business executive with a strong track record of driving growth and building scalable global software product businesses for the enterprise market. At KX, his focus is on driving a product-led software strategy, accelerating market growth by democratizing access to KX’s market-leading technology, principally the KDB.AI vector database.

With over 20 years of experience in software development Michael held a number senior positions at IBM, leading teams in product management and engineering for data, AI, integration, and automation technologies. Most recently, he served as an advisor to the leadership team at Domo Inc, a cloud business intelligence company, on product and business strategy.

Áine Rafferty is the Chief Legal Officer of KX and Senior Vice President, responsible for the global legal affairs of KX. Áine joined KX in 2017 as VP of KX Legal and was appointed Chief Legal Officer and SVP in March 2022. Áine last served as Corporate Counsel and Company Secretary for a large Pharma corporation. Prior to that she worked in private practice as a Litigator. Áine also provides a pro-bono advisory role to a number of scaling SMEs. Áine has over 15 years’ experience as a trusted legal advisor to board level and senior executives. She brings a depth of expertise across a range of legal disciplines and of driving legal teams to success.

Áine serves on the Society for Computers of Law Cloud Committee and was recently appointed the rare status of Legal Master by the NI Law Society in April 2022. Áine was shortlisted for “General Counsel of the Year” at the British Legal Awards in 2022 and also led the team that was a Finalist for “Global In-House Team Of The Year” 2022 at The Lawyer Europe. Áine graduated with a First Class Honours LLB and obtained her Solicitor qualifications from the Institute of Professional Legal Studies, Queens University Belfast and holds accreditations from Harvard Business School.

Clint Maddox is a senior business executive with more than 25 years’ experience leading large-scale transformation initiatives. Clint has a proven track record for building and scaling SaaS businesses in both public and private equity business models by using a data driven approach and proven go-to-market approaches that leverage strategic partnerships. As Chief Revenue Officer, Clint is responsible for managing the complete go-to-market strategy for KX’s world-wide sales and customer success organization. He leads a team of high-performing experts that solve complex problems for KX customers and partners by leveraging real time data analytics, accelerating the speed of data and expediting generative Al into production.

Peter Finter is a senior international marketing executive with broad experience across product, sales, and marketing. Peter has successfully led global organizations through periods of rapid growth and transformation across a variety of B2B high technology industries and business models, from pre-IPO start-ups to highly mature public organizations in the US, Canada and EMEA. Peter’s deep expertise includes brand development, product-led growth, account-based marketing, product & solutions marketing, channels, alliances & partnerships, strategy, and operations.

Paul is an experienced and successful Company Executive with over 15 years of senior management experience in both private and public multi-national tech companies. He is responsible for KX’s technology vision and roadmap, delivering its product strategy across all industry verticals. Paul is passionate about using technology to generate value and helping clients to achieve their business objectives. He was formally the Communication Sector Leader (Telco, Media & Entertainment and Utilities) for IBM’s Analytics Solutions globally. Prior to IBM, Paul was CTO of TheNowFactory – an awarding winning mobile network analytics company which was sold to IBM in 2013, 6.5 years after startup. Before IBM, Paul worked in various engineering roles in Openet and Logica. He holds a BSC in Electronic Eng and an MBA from Smurfit Business School.

As Chief Growth Officer, James is responsible for driving strategic and operational initiatives to accelerate KX’s growth and for building the KX developer and user community across the world. He joined First Derivatives in 2009 and spent several years building front office trading and analytics platforms, using KX technology, for many of the world’s largest financial institutions. He was subsequently appointed to a number of leadership positions, including CTO, and led the global expansion of the product and solution engineering teams through a combination of organic growth and the integration of strategic acquisitions. He holds an MSc in Quantitative Finance from University College Dublin.

After spending the 90s in ground-breaking, real-time telecoms software development at Alcatel, in 2002 Charles specialized in applying KX technology at the Equity Derivatives Group in J.P.Morgan, followed by Unicredit and Deutsche Bank. He joined KX as CTO in 2008, where he has since led the team that develops and supports the ultra-fast database, kdb+. As of 2021, Charles continues as Chief Scientist, responsible for the research initiatives that help KX retain its position as the leader of time series streaming analytics.

Lauren joined KX in July 2021 as VP of Human Resources and was promoted to SVP in March 2022. Lauren is a hands-on leader, actively engaged in driving the people strategy to retain and attract the industries best talent in support of the overall business plan. Lauren is a seasoned leader having worked in the software industry for over 10 years and has held several human resources and talent acquisition roles at several high-growth businesses including TIBCO, Information Builders and [m]Platform. Lauren holds a Bachelor’s degree and is a Certified Professional in Human Resources.

Paul joined KX in 2017 and has more than 25 years of experience in providing specialist advice on Partnerships, Alliances and corporate structures. Prior to joining KX, Paul spent much of his career at KPMG Ireland, rising to become head of its corporate finance business and responsible for setting the strategic direction of the business unit and leading a large team of corporate finance professionals. A trained accountant, Paul has spent the first 3 years at KX establishing KX Ventures – creating a portfolio of 20 venture-backed KX companies. Since 2020 he has been Head of Partnerships and Strategic Alliances for KX globally, successfully originating and developing meaningful KX partnerships with a focus on Cloud Vendors, Corporate Development Partners, ISVs, SIs, Data Vendors and hardware providers. He holds a BSc in Accounting (Queens University Belfast) and an MBA (University of Ulster, Jordanstown).

Based in Maryland, he works with customers around the globe to translate business and technical requirements into products that enable customers to improve how they access, manage and use data to generate insights for their Capital Markets business.

Kevin Webster is the author of the Handbook of Price Impact Modeling and teaches at Columbia University and Imperial College on topics such as price impact, algorithmic trading, and kdb. He has ten years of experience building large-scale, systematic, and model-driven frameworks for trading and has deployed algorithms for top-tier financial institutions such as Citadel, Deutsche Bank, and BNP Paribas. At KX CON [23], Kevin will share his experience leveraging kdb to estimate and run price impact models on high-frequency Nasdaq trading data from lobster.

Erin Stanton is a leader in the field of data science and big data and is known for her big energy which she brings to everything she does. With a wealth of experience spanning over 15 years in the industry, she presently serves as the head of Virtu’s Analytics Global Client Support team. Erin is a fervent advocate for all things automation, AI and machine learning and data visualization related. Beyond her daily duties, Erin actively supports the inclusion of women in data science and leads Virtu’s Women in Data Science conference annually. Erin earned her undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Economics from Lehigh University and holds a Master’s degree in Information and Data Science from UC Berkeley. 

Conor (he/him) is a Research Scientist at NVIDIA working on array programming models and languages. He is extremely passionate about programming languages, algorithms and beautiful code. He is the founder and organizer of the Programming Languages Virtual Meetup, he has a YouTube channel and is the host of three podcasts: 

• ArrayCast (a podcast about array languages) 
• ADSP (a podcast about algorithms, programming languages and more)
• RUN FOR THE FUN OF IT! (a running podcast) 

Conor is also an avid conference speaker. You can find all of Conor’s conference talks and podcast appearances (on other podcasts) here. 

Dr Val Prasad is the founder of Anthill Investment Technologies, a financial technology start-up focused on providing technology solutions to quantitatively-driven investors and investment institutions in the digital asset space. He is also the principal of Anthill Advisors, a boutique consulting firm which specializes in providing clients with portfolio management, systematic trading and trade execution research solutions in traditional finance and cryptocurrency spaces.   Prior to this, Dr Prasad was the Head of Execution Research at ExodusPoint Capital Management and Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, and a portfolio manager at WorldQuant LLC.  He has over 16 years of quantitative trading and modeling experience, having worked on both the sell- and buy-side in execution research and portfolio management.  Dr Prasad is also an adjunct professor at Cornell University where he taught a graduate-level course titled “Quantitative Portfolio Management: From Model to Market”.  

Dr Prasad graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Physics from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago.  He has published over 40 papers in refereed scientific journals and has won several international awards for my work.  Dr Prasad was also a member of the Supernova Cosmology Project, which was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011. 

Data Acquisition, Analysis & Insights Architect / Senior Manager PIMCO.

Citadel LLC.

Aaron Davies is a Vice President in the Fixed Income Division at Morgan Stanley, where he manages a data team handling market, reference, and collateral data for a variety of fixed income products. Aaron has been at Morgan Stanley since 2009; before that, he worked on equity KDB+ systems at Tudor Capital Singapore and Bank of America. Aaron holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Columbia University and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Louisville.

Phineas Porter is a Software Developer at Jump Trading. Previously, he held roles in quant research and technology at UBS and Citibank. He graduated from Columbia University in 2014 with a degree in Operations Research.

Peter has spent over 20 years driving change at the intersection of technology and complex business problems. At STAC, Peter’s mission is to leverage this experience to guide the continued rapid growth of the STAC community.

His key roles prior to STAC include CTO of Allston Trading, developing and supporting multi-asset, low latency trading systems; Co-founder of 12Sided Technology, which developed high-throughput network data capture and analytics; and Head of Electronic Markets Strategy and Development at Dealerweb. Peter has a BA in English and a MS in Computer Science from Loyola University Chicago.

Nataraj Dasgupta is the VP of Advanced Analytics at Syneos Health, a global Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) that has helped develop 92% of novel new drugs approved by the FDA in the past 5 years.

Nataraj was a founding team member of RxDataScience, a Healthcare AI/ML startup, which was acquired by Syneos in 2021. Using kdb+, RxDataScience deployed enterprise-scale solutions at some of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies.

At KXCON[23] Nataraj will share his real-world experience and the technical and business nuances of how kdb+ enabled him and the founding team to create competitive analytics products and establish a highly successful global startup from inception to exit.

Nick Psaris is a trading strategist with over two decades of experience building automated option market making and equity statarb backtesting and trading systems as well as data and analytic platforms. He is a CFA charterholder and holds a Masters in Computational Finance (MSCF) from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.

Nick wrote “Q Tips: Fast, Scalable and Maintainable Kdb+” based on his years of practical experience developing production trading systems in q. His second book, “Fun Q: A Functional Introduction to Machine Learning in Q”, uses the expressive q language to guide readers through implementing twelve machine learning algorithms from scratch.

Nick is currently an adjunct professor for the Market Microstructure and Algorithmic Trading class at Carnegie Mellon’s MSCF program and a Managing Director in the Central Risk Book of a top-tier American investment bank.

Ashok Reddy joined as Chief Executive Office in August 2022. He has more than twenty years’ experience leading teams and driving revenue for Fortune 500 and private equity-backed technology companies. He spent ten years at IBM as Group General Manager where he led the end-to-end delivery of enterprise products and platforms for a diverse portfolio of global customers. In addition, he has held leadership roles at CA Technologies and Broadcom and worked as a special adviser to digital transformation company in the Digital AI we helped the senior leadership team devise the product and platform vision and strategy.

As chief growth officer James is responsible for driving strategic and operational initiatives to accelerate KX’s growth and for building the KX developer and user community across the world. He joined First Derivatives in 2009 and spent several years building front office trading and analytic platforms using KX technology, for many of the world’s largest financial institutions. He was subsequently appointed to several leadership positions including CTO and led the global expansion of the product and solution engineering teams through a combination of organic growth and the integration of strategic acquisitions. He holds an MSc in Quantitative Finance from the University College Dublin.