Automation is freeing desk capacity — and quietly redrawing the org chart. As execution gets systematized, traders are moving up the value chain into idea generation, portfolio construction input, and risk decisions, while PMs on systematic and multi-strat desks are self-directing more of their own flow. Compare notes with peers on where the line sits at your firm: what the desk now owns that it didn't three years ago, which hybrid roles are emerging, what skills the next generation of traders actually needs, and what it means for your own career path.

Everyone says "systematic trading." Almost nobody engages with where it's actually going. This session takes the ten-year view: fully automated trading desks, autonomous execution, and the buy-versus-build decision that will define the next decade. With only a handful of firms possessing the data and resources to build what the future requires, what does that mean for everyone else? A candid conversation about the long-term future of the buy-side desk itself.