Dietmar is Symphony’s chief information officer. He leads product management and engineering along with customer support and internal IT. He has a long history of building large-scale critical IT systems and is an open source and open systems believer. Previously he was the senior vice president of Platform Engineering, Global Operations and executive committee member at Amadeus. Dietmar has a deep network in the IT industry. His focus is on product management, mission critical systems engineering and emerging technologies.

 Randy Goldsmith is a Managing Director at Tradeweb, and a member of the firm’s Institutional Technology team. He oversees Rates Technology initiatives and projects across Interest Rate Swaps, Government Bonds, Repurchase Agreements and Mortgage-Backed Securities. Prior to joining Tradeweb in 2015, he spent more than 10 years at J.P. Morgan’s investment bank. He held various roles within Technology, before assuming responsibility for Rates E-Commerce Product Management. He also worked within the New Product Development group driving projects across investment bank business lines. 

Randy holds a B.S. from Florida State University. 

Dave Treat is a Senior Managing Director, leading Accenture’s Tech Incubation Group which includes its Blockchain and Multi-Party Systems business which he formed in 2015, as well as its Extended Reality, and Quantum Computing businesses. He is also the Global Technology Lead for Capital Markets business and has nearly 25 years of experience in Financial Services.  Dave serves on the Board of Directors for the Linux Hyperledger Project, Enterprise Ethereum Alliance, Global Blockchain Business Council (Board Chair), Interwork Alliance, and the ID2020 Alliance.  Dave is a member of the World Economic Forum C4IR Global Blockchain Council, Digital Currency Governance Consortia, and Project Advisor for the World Economic Forum’s Digital Identity Initiative and the Known Traveler Digital Identity project.  He is a program advisor for the Chamber of Digital Commerce, and co-Chairs the New York Fintech Innovation Lab.   Dave holds over 101 blockchain patents and pending patents and was named one of the Sci-Tech 100 2018: The Architects of the Future by Silicon Republic.

Nichola is a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank AG where she leads the Group Architecture team. Her current focus is ensuring that Deutsche Bank has a well-articulated IT Strategy across all business lines and a supporting technology approach. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Nichola has had a varied career starting in consulting then setting up her own company working with clients in Manufacturing, Financial Services and later at the British Red Cross Society driving through transformational change. She has spent the majority of her career in Financial Services delivering technology solutions to achieve business goals and meet regulatory requirements.

Traci Robinson-Williams currently leads the Market Insights team for GitLab where she previously served as a senior product market leader focused on driving DevOps transformation in Regulated Industries, including FinServ, FinTech, and Public Sector. Before joining GitLab, she helped envision, develop, and evangelize emerging technology solutions and capabilities for the U.S. Public Sector at Accenture Federal Services.

Traci has led strategic go-to-market initiatives, particularly related to Digital Transformation and Customer/Citizen Experience (CX), in organizations across a variety of industries, including management and technology consulting, professional and IT services, cyber security, wireless, telecom, hospitality, IT hardware and software, and Public Sector.

Andrew Aitken is the GM and Global Open Source Practice Leader for Wipro Ltd., a premier global systems integrator, and a leading open source strategy consultant. In his 22 years of experience he launched the industry’s first open source strategy consulting firm, Olliance Group (acquired by Black Duck Software), launched the Open Source Think Tank held in Napa, CA and Paris, France - a highly regarded event regularly attended by over 100 top open source thought leaders for over 10 years. Andrew has advised organizations such as the White House Office of CIO, Microsoft and IBM, more than 20 startups and VC firms, and dozens of other enterprises on their open source strategies.

Bhupesh has over 20 years’ experience working in the front office trading technology for some of the world’s leading investment banks. Beginning his career at Barclays working across Infrastructure, Equity Derivatives, Fixed Income and Credit Derivatives, he moved to Lehman Brothers for 4 years in 2005 before returning to Barclays where he held a number of senior management positions and was to inevitably head up Credit, Municipal and Securitized Products Technology alongside running Trade Capture across Markets. He subsequently left Barclays to take on the opportunity as Europe Head of Capital Markets Quantitative and Technology Services at RBC in July this year. With deep expertise in risk, analytics and electronic trading and passion for technology, Bhupesh has continued working closely with innovators in the FinTech space to build forward looking platforms in Investment Banking.