Upcoming Events in May

1. DKF Munich 2026 (May 12)

    DKF Munich 2026 brings together Europe’s market data, financial information, and technology communities to explore how AI is reshaping financial services. This year’s theme, “From Insight to Acceleration: AI at the Core of Financial Innovation,” highlights the growing convergence of market data, analytics, cloud infrastructure, and intelligent automation across capital markets.

   The event focuses on practical strategies for modernizing data ecosystems, improving investment workflows, and navigating regulatory and operational challenges in an increasingly AI-driven environment. Industry leaders, financial institutions, and technology providers will share insights on market data management, reference data, emerging technologies, and next-generation financial information services.

   Topics:

   • Market Data Products & Solutions

   • Investment & Portfolio Management Trends

   • Reference Data Management & Feeds

   • Market Data Management, Managed Services & Regulatory Developments

   • Emerging Technologies (like AI, AR, ML, Cloud and Robotics)

   Link: https://dkf.events/en/events/dkf-munich-2026/

   
   

   

2. FISD Chicago (May 13)

   Hosted by Barchart, FISD Chicago 2026 will bring together financial market participants, data providers, and technology innovators to discuss the future of financial information services and market data infrastructure. The event highlights how AI, APIs, and modern interoperability standards are transforming the way firms access, distribute, and consume financial data.

   This year’s sessions will explore emerging topics including Model Context Protocols (MCP), evolving US equities market structure, and new approaches to prediction and analytics platforms. The conference provides a collaborative forum for discussing market data engineering, AI integration, and the operational challenges facing firms as financial ecosystems become increasingly real-time, intelligent, and interconnected.

   Topics:

   • APIs Meet AI: Rethinking Market Data with Model Context Protocols (MCP)

   • US Equities Market Structure

   • Betting on the Future: Prediction Markets

   Link: https://www.siia.net/event/fisd-chicago-may-13-2026/

3. ExchangeTech Summit London 2026 (May 14)

   ExchangeTech Summit London 2026 is a dedicated forum focused on the future of exchange technology, trading infrastructure, and digital market ecosystems. Organized by A-Team Group, the event brings together exchanges, alternative trading venues, and technology providers to discuss the next generation of matching engines, market access, surveillance, and low-latency architecture.

   Key themes include AI-driven exchanges, digital asset infrastructure, data monetization, cloud migration, and the convergence of traditional and digital markets. With increasing demand for high availability, scalability, and 24/5 trading capabilities, the summit will examine how modern infrastructure and intelligent automation are redefining resilience, liquidity, and operational performance across global trading environments.

   Topics:

   • Navigating the European markets landscape: Competitiveness, strategy and the Exchange’s role in liquidity

   • The AI driven exchange: Enhancing value creation in trading, risk and operations

   • Setting the matching engine at the heart of the exchange tech ecosystem – Next gen architecture, microservices and cloud migration strategies

   • Building the ultimate low latency highway: Execution gateways, order routing and ensuring near zero jitter and determinism

   • The convergence of traditional and digital: Tokenisation, DLT based market infrastructure and the unique challenges of digital currency platforms

   • Next generation surveillance: Using AI/ML to detect market abuse, regulatory compliance and managing cross venue regulatory reporting

   • Data monetisation: Productising market data, tick histories and other high-value datasets – licensing, delivery via APIs/cloud

   • Ensuring high availability in the shift toward 24/5+ trading – system testing, performance monitoring and cyber security in critical market infrastructure

   • Ensuring mission critical system resilience with system and network testing

   • Post trade services in the era of T+1 and T+0: Technology requirements for faster cycles and reducing counterparty risk

   Link: https://a-teaminsight.com/events/exchangetech-summit-london/

4. AsiaFIC Singapore 2026 (May 20-22)

AsiaFIC Singapore 2026 will gather leaders across financial markets, market data, and trading technology to discuss the evolution of low-latency infrastructure, real-time data platforms, and production-ready AI architectures. The event focuses on how financial institutions are modernizing their trading and analytics environments to support increasingly data-intensive and AI-driven workflows.

Sessions throughout the conference will explore AI deployment strategies, market data modernization, interoperability frameworks, streaming architectures, and infrastructure optimization for both trading and AI workloads. Bringing together practitioners, exchanges, vendors, and engineering teams, AsiaFIC provides a platform for discussing scalable, AI-ready financial ecosystems and the technologies shaping the future of capital markets.

Topics:

• AI production deployment

• Market data evolution / tokenization

• Legacy ↔ next-gen data integration

• Cloud-native data architecture

• Licensing / governance / cost control

• Retail investor trends & APAC infrastructure

• Engineering stream

• Real-time distribution

• Metadata & discoverability

• LLM inference performance and cost optimisation

• Streaming architecture

• Data engineering topics

  Link: https://asiafic.net/2026-agenda/