Ian Salmon

Head of Product Marketing Adaptive

Ian Salmon is the Head of Product Marketing at Adaptive, bringing over 30 years of trading technology experience to the role. Prior to Adaptive, he led Equities and Derivatives Business Development at Fidessa, and held senior roles at the Swiss Stock Exchange and Reuters, following an early career in equity and warrant sales-trading. Ian drives Adaptive’s business accelerator initiatives, leveraging its high-performance core trading technology to build cutting-edge, bespoke trading solutions for capital markets firms.

Buy Side Day | 21st April

10:50 Future Tech Stack Panel: Rewiring the trading stack - How is the buy side rethinking technology to balance cost, flexibility, and resilience?

With cost pressures mounting and technology options expanding, buy-side firms are reassessing the design of their trading stacks- weighing whether to consolidate platforms, adopt SaaS-based solutions, or integrate modular, API-driven components. While cloud and third-party providers can bring efficiency and agility, they also change support models, increase vendor dependency, and introduce new resilience and data management challenges. This panel will explore how firms are approaching these trade-offs, adapting support processes for SaaS and third-party relationships, and maintaining continuous trading operations without losing control or execution capability. What defines a modern, agile tech stack- and how do you get there in a cost-constrained environment?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Ian.

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