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who is actually trading anymore? Seriously 🤔 First it was humans-->Then algo trading-->Then bots--> Now we have AI researching markets, reading news, watching order flow, building strategies, sizing positions... At some point we need to ask: Is the trader still the human? this may be my favorite panel at Agentic Finance Summit. Because the four people on stage are seeing this shift from completely different places. Yoshi Yokokawa, Co-Founder & CEO of @AlpacaHQ is building the rails underneath it. Alpaca is increasingly positioning itself around agent-first brokerage infrastructure, as AI-native interfaces become another way people access financial markets. Then there is @frank_liquid, CEO of @liquidtrading, comes from a serious institutional AI and quantitative background, and Liquid is pushing the trading interface itself into AI. Think about that for a second. The trading interface used to be Bloomberg-->Then a website-->Then an app-->Now it might just be: I think oil is going higher. Analyze it, size the trade and execute Im sure Franklyn is laughing now :) Then @PeiChen01 , CEO of @TheoriqAI , brings another angle. How much should we actually let the machine do? Research? Monitoring? Execution? Portfolio management? Risk? And where does the human still need to sit in that process? And Blasting it with @cjhtech CJ Hetherington, Co-Founder & CEO of @trylimitless Limitless Labs. Prediction markets make this whole discussion even crazier. Because now the thing being traded is information itself. Will this happen? Will that happen? What probability should the market assign to it? And AI agents are almost perfectly designed for this. They can consume information continuously. They do not sleep. They can price thousands of outcomes simultaneously. And eventually they can trade against other agents doing exactly the same thing. So maybe the evolution looks like: Human trading-->Algo trading-->Bot trading-->AI-assisted trading-->Agentic trading------...And after that? Agents trading agents. Which leads to the question I want @ossingerj of @CNBC to put to this table: Your agent had a bad week. Now explain it to your LP? Joanna Ossinger | Yoshi Yokokawa | Franklyn Wang | Pei Chen | CJ Hetherington | October 8 | Singapore | This one should get interesting very quickly