Empowering Intelligence: democratizing data access and driving smarter decisions at Nasdaq

A NASDAQ executive explains how high-performance compute and agentic AI are reshaping both the physical trading infrastructure (data centers, colocation, liquid cooling, and CoreWeave partnership) and the fintech software stack (Verafin, Axiom, Calypso) through a shared intelligence layer. The talk centers on trust, resilience, governance and the bounded-exception problem that makes agentic workflows hard to scale in a regulated market.