AI‑Accelerated Model‑Driven Development

Description

Electronic trading has become a hyper‑competitive arms race. Exponentially expanding market‑data volumes and uncompromising demands for ultra‑low‑latency, fault‑intolerant systems have rendered traditional development approaches obsolete. The same pressures now govern networking, databases, and analytics infrastructure stacks.

This talk introduces AI‑accelerated, model‑driven development, powered by protocol compilers that transform formal exchange specifications and internal system definitions into complete, production‑ready infrastructure.

By treating every protocol — market data, order entry, internal routing, broker interfaces, network transport, database schemas, and analytics pipelines — as a structured, navigable model, we can generate the entire software stack directly from the specifications. AI systems assist in validation and transformation, while protocol compilers enforce determinism and reproducibility.

Across trading firms, brokerages, exchanges, and any high-performance distributed system, protocol compilers now generate nearly the entire operational surface area: network telemetry, market‑data infrastructure, brokerage systems, analytics pipelines, database transforms, and internal routing logic. Only proprietary strategy logic remains outside compiler scope. This approach collapses entire categories of engineering work into automated, verifiable processes.

Join us as we explore the evolution of exchange protocols and code generation and demonstrate the latest technologies powering the Open Markets Initiative, where AI‑accelerated protocol compilers have contributed tens of millions of lines of open‑source infrastructure code used around the world. These technologies are reshaping infrastructure engineering across distributed systems and the modern financial ecosystem.

About the Presenter

William Tegel is the founder of the Open Markets Initiative and Scaled Sources and a long time C++ developer.

Details

We will be opening doors for a social hour at 4:30 pm with pizza and drinks. The presentation will begin at 5:30.
Some of us may be head out for a drink or two afterward, but this will be organized based on interest, night-of.

This event is for in-person attendance. For virtual attendance, please see the alternative page.

Space is limited! RSVP is required for in-person attendance! We need to provide the building management with full names, so please message the host with your full name if you've not done so already and it's not on your profile.

When: Thursday, October 22nd
Doors open at 4:30 pm, presentation begins at 5:30 pm

181 West Madison Street
18th floor
Chicago, Illinois 60602

This event has been graciously sponsored by our good friends at Selby Jennings