The best trading desks aren't just executing well — they're proving their value to the investment teams they serve. This session covers the full investing lifecycle, from portfolio manager conviction through to execution: how leading desks translate investment intent into trading strategy, how modular API-driven infrastructure lets desks serve investment teams faster across asset classes, and how to position your desk as a source of alpha rather than a cost center.

When an AI agent routes an order badly, who answers for it? As autonomous AI moves into production on trading desks, the governance question has become urgent — and unavoidable. This session tackles the questions every desk will face: how to build auditability into agentic workflows, how to satisfy best-execution obligations when the decision-maker is a model, what the SEC expects, and why clean, connected data pipelines are the foundation that responsible AI governance is built on.