Medusa at Neudata's Traditional and Market Data Summit: The Machine Consumer

Medusa founder Petr Merkuryev chaired the closing panel at Neudata's Traditional and Market Data Summit in London on 2 July: "The machine consumer: can traditional licensing survive agentic workflows?" The panel brought together Abhijeet Gaikwad (Founder and CIO, Agami Capital), Alexander Lokhov (Data Strategist, Jump Trading), Wai Chung Ip (Senior Quantitative Developer, Deutsche Bank), and Jahmal Nicholson (Senior Data Scientist and Discretionary Data Product Lead, Man Group).

The discussion moved quickly past the pricing question to a harder one: where the value in market data goes once agents, not humans, become the primary consumers. The panel worked through the shift from seat-based to consumption pricing, the "AI-ready premium" some vendors are floating, and where the edge moves once access to data gets cheap, upstream to genuinely scarce data, and downstream to the judgment and trust wrapped around it.