I’m going to Chicago for one day (tomorrow) to talk to a few people and browse FIA for serendipity. I know it’s not much notice but I might have an hour or two to talk to interested people. I run a medium sized HFT futures firm not in Chicago.
Topics of interest:
Digital currencies
Mifid II compliance (Eurex version)
Good programmers
Algorithmic trading in the strictly defined, highly optimized sense
China
PM me if interested in meeting up.