Active management has never faced more pressure — and never had more tools. Jason Vedder, Director of Global Trading and Operations at Driehaus Capital Management, opens Technology Innovation Day with a candid look inside the decisions he's making right now: where AI is genuinely reshaping his workflows, where the limits of automation still require human judgment, how he thinks about the build-vs-buy question when his firm's edge is speed and conviction, and what he needs from the technology ecosystem that it isn't yet delivering.