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8.20 Registration and breakfast
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8.50 Welcome remarks: Anthony Malakian, US Editor, WATERS and WatersTechnology.com
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9.00 MORNING KEYNOTE: Defining innovation: how to kick start it and how to reap the benefits
Tsvi Gal, CTO Enterprise Infrastructure, MORGAN STANLEY
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9.30 End-user panel: Driving change and innovation to achieve greater business agility and profitability
- Aligning business architectures with organizational culture: how do you manage people, systems, and processes at enterprise level?
- The strategic and the tactical: defining and justifying initiatives to optimize the use of technology within the organization
- Deciding what technologies are disruptive or not within your organisation
- What are the new cutting edge-projects being used to address risk management, regulation, mobility and Big Data?
- How can you up agility and capacity across the organisation without increasing infrastructure costs?
- How does standardization of business processes affect cost and innovation?
Moderator: Richard Huddleston, Executive Director, MORGAN STANLEY
Vlad Shpilsky, Global Head of Equity Linked IT, BANK OF AMERICA MERRILL LYNCH
Mary Kotch, CTO, AIG PROPERTY CASUALTY
Enrique Smith, CTO, CIFC ASSET MANAGEMENT
Peter Mager, CTO, DAVIDSON KEMPNER CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Alan Eddie, Head of Risk IT Americas, Global Head of Regulatory Risk and Operational Risk IT, RBS
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10.20 Morning Break
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STREAM 1: TRADING TECHNOLOGY
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STREAM 2: ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE: REDUCING COSTS, MAXIMISING VALUE, MEETING BUSINESS NEEDS
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10.45
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Chairman's opening remarks
Joseph Rosen, Editor, The Handbook of Electronic Trading; and Co-Author, Using Technology For Risk Management
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Chairman's opening remarks
Tony Bishop, Author, Next Generation Datacenters in Financial Services - Driving Extreme Efficiency and Effective Cost Savings
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10.50
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Panel: Electronic trading: game-changing platforms and strategies
- Assessing the benefits and drawbacks of buying trading-as-a-system: what technology and operational initiatives can firms implement to get ahead of the HFT game?
- Who should the onus of monitoring HFT be on: the regulators, exchanges or firms themselves?
- Balancing platform optimization and total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Trading on the web: evaluating frameworks and integrating mobile devices into your existing architecture
- Integrating equities, FI and FX trading architectures: what are the main drivers for electronification?
Moderator: Will Mechem, Managing Director, PAN ALPHA TRADING
Jean-Pascal Chauvet, Director, Chief Architect for Equities, CREDIT SUISSE
Mostafa Raddaoui, Vice President, BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI
Patrick Myles, CTO, CAPLIN SYSTEMS
Luke Flemmer, CEO, LAB49
Speaking slot available
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Cloud encryptions, restrictions, and disruptions
- Choosing and implementing the right security model for your cloud
- Restrictions across jurisdictional boundaries: addressing the challenge of utilizing hosted services in other countries
- Data, users, and identity: how do different firms address encryption?
- Connecting clouds together: how do you secure your data when moving it from one cloud to another?
- Assessing the viability of a common platform for all cloud suppliers
Moderator: Neil McEvoy, Founder & CEO, CLOUD BEST PRACTICES NETWORK
Graham Hill, Senior Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure, CITI
Maria Long, Vice President, Lead Security Architect, CREDIT SUISSE
Nathan Boylan, Head of IT Operations, LORD ABBETT & CO
Speaking slot available
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11.40
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Case study: Parameterization of trading algorithms according to markets' characteristics
Mehmet Yanilmaz, Partner, MYRA TRADING
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Case study:
Data visualization in the era of Big Data
Elliot Noma, Managing Director, GARRETT ASSET MANAGEMENT
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12.10
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Panel: Latency: measures, risks, and trade-offs
- Is FPGA the way to go? What other new technologies are being developed to meet performance and cost requirements?
- What are the challenges of integrating new technologies within existing platforms?
- Evaluating the importance of software, hardware, and consistency as latency measures: which can better tackle complexity, scale, and time-to market concerns?
- "Kill switch" or stop the orders? Assessing the risk of hybrid developments
- Circuits versus client sessions: what to encrypt to best support your data?
Moderator: Juan Ortega, Vice President, Market Data Engineering, GOLDMAN SACHS
Richard Huddleston, Executive Director, MORGAN STANLEY
Nikhil Bagga, Director, IT Program Manager for Equities Trading, UBS INVESTMENT BANK
Alejandro Canete, Head Quant Developer, PAN ALPHA TRADING
Gil Tene, CTO, AZUL SYSTEMS
Speaking slot available
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Panel: Rebuilding the concept of infrastructures: plans and strategies for mobility
- Recovery plans after hurricane Sandy: restructuring emergency procedures for better and safer access to data
- Balancing mobility, reliability and cost: what makes sense to bring in as a managed service instead of building in-house?
- Datacenters in the cloud: can all aspects of the data lifecycle be managed as a service?
- Are we moving beyond a centralized outsourcing system or to a more distributed cloud system?
- What other features are firms looking for in next-generation data infrastructures?
Moderator: Alex Abramov, IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance Practitioner, former JPMORGAN IT RISK LEAD
Richie Etwaru, Former COO Applied Innovation & Transformation Portfolio, UBS
Ed Dabagian-Paul, Vice President, IT Infrastructure, Architecture and Strategy Group, CREDIT SUISSE
John Knuff, General Manager, Global Financial Services, EQUINIX
Stephen Webster, CTO, MRE CONSULTING
Speaking slot available
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1.00 Lunch break
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2.00
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Case study: How has technology changed OTC post trade and where is it going?
Neil J. Monaghan, OTC Clearing, Global Head of Strategic Business Initiatives, CITI
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Case study: Everything as a service
Richie Etwaru, Former COO Applied Innovation & Transformation Portfolio, UBS
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2.30
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Panel: "The clash of the algos": real-time decision making and risk
- Building architectures for consistent access to and manipulation of real-time data
- Leveraging technology platforms across the organisation to support real-time capabilities
- Beyond existing models: developing analytics in a trading environment
- Screening inconsistencies in market data: can you implement Complex Event Processing (CEP) in hardware and for multiple sources?
- How do firms manage risk in an HFT environment?
Moderator: Mehmet Yanilmaz, Partner, MYRA TRADING
Minor Huffman, Managing Director, Global Head of Rates IT, CREDIT SUISSE
Ravi Ramnath, Global Algorithmic Trading Technology, CITI
Richard Tibbetts, CTO, STREAMBASE SYSTEMS
Louis Lovas, Director of Solutions, ONEMARKETDATA
Gil Tene, CTO, AZUL SYSTEMS
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Panel: Making the business case for Big Data
- How do we determine the business value of implementing big data solutions?
- Information and intelligence: Big Data as a trigger for innovation
- What are the new methods for analysing Big Data to make more informed trading decisions?
- Is ‘lean' the way to go? What data aggregation or storage solutions can increase agility, reliability, and transparency?
- What is the value of ‘open source' technologies and how can they be used to harness Big Data?
- Pace-layered architecture: how to adopt it within and across the enterprise?
Moderator: Dennis Gonzalez, Hedge Funds Technology, DEUTSCHE ASSET MANAGEMENT
Jennifer Costley, Director, Enterprise Architecture, CREDIT SUISSE
Dennis Smith, Managing Director, Next Generation Infrastructure Engineering, BNY MELLON
Allen Whipple, Co-Founder & Managing Director, QUARTET FS
Speaking slot available
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3.20 Afternoon Break
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3.50 AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: Scaling application architecture for growth
Klay B. Stack, CTO, MARATHON ASSET MANAGEMENT
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4.20 Panel: Is this the end of OTC trading as we know it?
- How is mandatory central clearing and the planned introduction of Swap Execution Facilities (SEF's) affecting infrastructure for the derivatives market?
- How will the role of the sell side and the buy side transform in the new landscape? Is there still space for middleware providers?
- Product innovation in the OTC space: what things will work and what will not?
- To centralize or to disperse? Organizing architectures to reduce risk and remain compliant
- Cross-border challenges and architectural implications: what is the state of play in Europe & Asia versus Dodd-Frank in the US?
Moderator: Neil J. Monaghan, OTC Clearing, Global Head of Strategic Business Initiatives, CITI
William Black, Vice President, CREDIT SUISSE
John Guthrie, Managing Director, US Head of Business Development and Client Management, BNY MELLON
Chris Vilsack, Vice President, BANK OF TOKYO MITSUBISHI
Speaking slot available
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5.10 Chairperson's closing remarks
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5.15 Cocktail Reception
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