Photo Gallery - EXPO 2019

FIA President and CEO Walt Lukken delivers his opening remarks to the conference.

CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert delivers a keynote address on his priorities for the agency.

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin reflects on more than 150 years of U.S. history in her keynote address at EXPO to put current political events into context.

Eric Aldous, managing director and head of futures at RBC Capital Markets, leads a panel on sustainability issues with CFTC Commissioner Rostin Behnam, ABN AMRO Clearing Chicago CEO Andrej Bolkovic, BP's Head of Commercial Advocacy and Regulatory Affairs Vincent Johnson, and Vassilis Vergotis, global head of product development and strategy for equity, equity index and digital assets at Eurex.

Conference attendees mingle in the exhibit hall at the Chicago Hilton.

A panel discussion entitled "Is There a Crisis in Liquidity?" featured experts including Andrew Stevens, general counsel at IMC; Stephen Berger, managing director, Government & Regulatory Policy at Citadel; Steve Crutchfield, head of market structure & electronic trading strategy at the Chicago Trading Company; Chris Edmonds, senior vice president of financial markets at Intercontinental Exchange; Brian Quintenz, CFTC Commissioner; Mariam Rafi, managing director, North American head of OTC clearing at Citi;  and Randolf Roth, member of Eurex Frankfurt executive board, Market Design & Delivery.

Jackie Mesa, Chief Operating Officer & Senior Vice President of Global Policy at FIA, moderated a spirited panel on CCP risk issues featuring Lee Betsill, managing director and chief risk officer at CME Group; Fredrik Ekstrom, senior vice president and head of EU FICC at Nasdaq; Nicolas Friedman, managing director at Goldman Sachs; Eileen Kiely, managing director at BlackRock; Travis Nesmith, assistant director and section chief, quantitative risk analysis, at the Federal Reserve Board; and Marnie Rosenberg, managing director and head of clearinghouse risk and strategy at J.P. Morgan. 

A panel discussion on "The Future of Operations" featured Eric David, director, NAM head of futures, Clearing, Collateral Operations, Citi and Ila Eckhoff, managing director of investment operations at Blackrock.

A panel discussion on "The Evolution of Futures for the New Generation of Customers" included Nicholas LaMaina, senior vice president of product management and strategy for TradeStation Securities; J.B. Mackenzie, managing director of futures and forex at TD Ameritrade; and Mark Omens, executive director of retail sales at CME Group.

A panel discussion on crypto assets includes Richard Gorelick, head of market structure at DRW Holdings; Juthica Chou, chief operating officer and co-founder of LedgerX; Jeanine Hightower-Sellitto, managing director of operations at Gemini; Kelly Loeffler, chief executive officer of Bakkt; Tim McCourt, global Head of equity products and alternative investments at CME Group; and Matt Trudeau, chief strategy officer at ErisX. 

Attendees at a session hosted by The Energy Project.were nominated by senior members of the industry to take part in a discussion on diversity issues.

Joe Pozzi of Goldman Sachs, Lou Rosato of Blackrock, and Bikram Singh of EZOPS discuss the practical challenges confronting banks and buyside firms as they apply artificial intelligence to post-trade processing.