8.20 Registration and breakfast

8.50  Welcome remarks

9.00 KEYNOTE

Dohmnall McCormack, MD, Investment Bank CTO and Group Head of Business & Application Architecture (Group CTO), UBS

9.30 End-user Panel: The challenge of staying innovative: how to manage disruptive technologies

• Measuring the performance trajectory of new technologies
• What is the real issue for developing new projects and applications: cost or time to market?
• Aligning IT strategy with the needs of the business and optimising infrastructure to provide greater business agility
• How will regulation affect technology investment decisions?

Ryan Bateman, Director of Technology, SANDS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Vladimir Ignjatovic, Head of IT, UBS WEALTH MANAGEMENT
Hemathri Balakrishnan, Vice President and Enterprise Architect, MORGAN STANLEY
Eric Newcomer, Chief Architect, CREDIT SUISSE
Madge M. Meyer, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer and Technology Fellow, STATE STREET CORPORATION

10.20 Morning Break

Trading technology

Enterprise infrastructure: driving down costs, maximizing value, meeting business needs

10.50 Case study: Cost, design and performance criteria for high frequency trading systems
Mehmet Yanilmaz, Partner, MYRA TRADING

10.50 Case study: Using business architecture to transition from strategic vision to consolidated deliverable

• What is business architecture and who are business architects?
• Driving out ambiguity
• How to provide value through quantification
• Building the business case: selling it to your organization and implementing business strategies

Gregory P. Lembree, Managing Director, Back Office Technology, TD AMERITRADE
Ann Kuelzow, Manager of Financial Services, INTERSYSTEMS

11.20 Panel: Low Latency

• Hardware vs. software vs. hybrids: as firms allocate more resources to their low latency needs, which option offers the best value and why?
• Optimizing low-latency trading architectures for supportability and usability
• To what extent is latency becoming a regulation and compliance issue in asset classes such as OTC derivatives and FX?
• What's next for the arms race?

Yuri Salkinder, Director, CREDIT SUISSE
Kevin P. Adams, Senior Vice President, Investment & Wealth Management Technology, FRANKLIN TEMPLETON INVESTMENTS
Jens von der Heide, Infrastructure Engineering Lead, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
Fergal Toomey, Chief Scientist, CORVIL 

11.20 Panel: Do you have the capacity to meet competitive demands? 

• Projecting the future direction of virtualization and outsourcing
• Designing scalable e-trading architecture that can handle increasing volumes of users
• Calculating dynamic capacity
• Architecting an internal dynamic provisioning programme for the storage of historical data
• What is the real issue for responding to competitive demands: cost or time to market?

Moderator: Arsalan Shahid, Program Director, Financial Information Forum
Howard Halberstein, Vice President, Lead Solutions Architect - UNIX, DEUTSCHE BANK
Ravi Ramanth, Global Algorithmic Trading Technology Architect, CITI
Patrick Myles, Chief Technology Officer, CAPLIN

12.05 Panel: Assessing the continued viability of high-frequency trading

• Are firms now battling over ever-decreasing increments and will it reach a stage where the competitive advantage gained by latency becomes negligible?
• Finding new ways to analyze data and package content
• How much of a differentiator is being faster compared to finding ways to be smarter?
• Can firms gain advantage without having the lowest latency?

Moderator: Mehmet Yanilmaz, Partner, MYRA TRADING
Pankaj Chandhok, SVP, Global Head of Voice and Data Infrastructure, HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Dmitri Galinov, Director, Advanced Execution Services, CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES
Will Mechem, Managing Director, PAN ALPHA TRADING

12.05 Panel: Ensuring your cloud delivers value not vapor 

• Cloud and operability: once we have it, how can we use it?
• Tracking data sovereignty and processing sovereignty in a hybrid model
• Achieving the full potential of  your private or public cloud while maintaining compliance with current regulation
• Securing the cloud: performing due diligence on information assurances such as authentication, identity management, privacy, and data confidentiality

Nathan Boylan, Director, Head of IT Operations, LORD ABBETT
Graham Hill, Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure, CITI
Madge M. Meyer, Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer and Technology Fellow, STATE STREET CORPORATION
Brian Cunningham, Chief Technology Officer, BLOOMBERG TRADING SOLUTIONS

13.05 Lunch break

14.05 Case study:  Integrating a multi-product trading platform while facilitating a seamless user experience

Prasad Chaubal, Vice President, JP MORGAN CHASE

14.05 Case study: The Democratization of Trading Technology

• Leveraging the social graph:  how do we leverage the advantages of this powerful concept?
• Leveling the field with cloud:  what will be the impact of the increased competition that this creates?
• Leaving competition behind: how can we reduce the latency of deploying highly optimized solutions?

Daryan Dehghanpisheh, Global Director, Financial Services Segment, INTEL CORPORATION

14.35 Panel: Addressing the challenges of automating OTC trading

• Devising architecture to handle multiple layers for complex products and mutli-hedged positions
• What lessons learned from electronic trading to date can be applied to the OTC markets?
• Defining data and storage needs for programming and back testing algorithms for the OTC traded market
• What are the challenges of retrofitting existing systems?

Moderator: Ashok Mittal, Chief Information Officer, VYAPAR CAPITAL MARKET PARTNERS LLC
Daniel Schwartz, Managing Director, RBS
Jason Shell,  Head of North America FX Trading, Managing Director, DEUTSCHE BANK
Neil Monaghan, Director, Global Head OTC Clearing Client Service, CITI

14.35 Panel: Overcoming the big challenge of "Big Data"

• Maximizing the efficiency of your compute architecture for number crunching
• Measuring the processing power needed for large-scale model calculations
• Devising work-load specific architecture
• How do you extract useful knowledge from terabytes and petabytes of data?
• Do you take the data to the processing or bring the processing to the data?

Moderator: Eric Gulbrandsen, Managing Director, Financial Services Practice, MAVEN WAVE PARTNERS
Alejandro Canete, Head Quant Developer, PAN ALPHA TRADING
Ed Dabagian-Paul, Vice President, CREDIT SUISSE
Dennis Smith, Managing Director, Advanced Engineering Group, BNY MELLON
Edd Patterson, Chief Technology Officer, MARK LOGIC
Louis Lovas, Director of Solutions, ONEMARKETDATA

15.25 Afternoon Break

15.55 Industry presentation: Why data quality is so important for your organization
James Austin, Managing Partner, LEKKA CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
 

16.25 Panel: Real-time risk

• What are the virtues of having an independent real-time risk system that is not tightly coupled to the trading systems?
• Understanding where to utilize FPGAs and GPUs
• Leveraging real-time scenarios to identify gap risk and large market movements as they occur
• Do we really need a ‘real-time' approach to pre-trade risk or a more holistic one?

Moderator: Eric Gulbrandsen, Managing Director, Financial Services Practice, MAVEN WAVE PARTNERS
Vikas Shah, Managing Director, ROSENBLATT SECURITIES

17.15 Chairperson's closing remarks

17.20 Cocktail Reception