At United Airlines, EDA is revolutionizing operations ranging from flight routing and baggage handling to customer experience and operational efficiency. At CTC, milliseconds can mean millions in the high-speed world of proprietary trading, where real-time event streams drive faster market insights and execution.

This panel will examine how these two leaders have integrated and optimized their systems by building resilient, high-performance event meshes to handle the distribution of event streams for their critical event streams.

The discussion will highlight how United Airlines and CTC have successfully implemented event meshes to connect distributed environments, ensuring data flows securely and efficiently across cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Moderated by Solace’s experts, the panel will also explore lessons learned, common pitfalls, and best practices for integrating EDA in high-stakes, high-performance industries.

Jet Streams & Market Streams: Navigating EDA in Aviation and Proprietary Trading

Speakers

Thomas Kunnumpurath

VP Systems Engineering Americas

Solace

Thomas Kunnumpurath is the Vice President of Systems Engineering for Americas at Solace where he leads a field team across the region to solution...

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David McCue

Principal Engineer

Chicago Trading Company

David McCue is a seasoned technology expert with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He currently manages the Enterprise Messaging Infrastructure team...

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Kiran Manchikanti

Director of Applications

United Airlines

Kiran Manchikanti is a seasoned technology leader with over 20 years of expertise in the industry. Currently as a Director, he leads Application Development...

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