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Grand Ballroom, 3rd Floor | Attendee or Exhibitor Badge Required
Join us for lunch and a special keynote speaker at noon. Your NAPE badge is your ticket in.
The buffet is open from 11:15 a.m. until 1:15 p.m. Make plans to get there early so you can hear the keynote session beginning at noon.
noon - 12:30 p.m.
Keynote: Prediction Markets — The Risk Management Potential for Commodities
The Expo Lunch Keynote has been approved for 0.5 AAPL CEUs.
Andy Ross is head of institutional business at Kalshi, the first regulated prediction market exchange. A 25-year veteran of global financial markets, Ross joined Kalshi from Standard Chartered Bank, where he served as global head of prime brokerage and U.K. head of financial markets. Previously, he was CEO of CurveGlobal, the interest rate derivatives venture backed by the London Stock Exchange Group and a consortium of major global banks.
Ross' career includes 16 years at Morgan Stanley, where he rose to become European head of OTC clearing. Throughout his career, he has specialized in building market-leading businesses from the ground up and managing C-suite relationships across top-tier hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks. At Kalshi, he is focused on scaling the institutional franchise and integrating prediction markets into the broader financial ecosystem.