February 25th: Day 2: Main Programme
| 7.45 | Coffee & Registration |
| 8.30 | Chairman’s Opening Remarks |
| 8.45 | Opening Keynote Address:
Leveraging Technology To
Unleash Business Growth:
Creating A Clear, Transparent,
Flexible IT Strategy To Enable
Long-Term Success For Your
Business |
| 9.20 | Session Reserved For Lead Sponsor |
| 9.55 | Panel Discussion: Is The Role Of The
CIO Changing? Re-Examining The
Blueprint For Successful IT Leadership Kevin Lupowitz, Global CIO, Liquidnet |
| 10.40 | Refreshment and Networking Break in the Solutions Zone |
| 11.10 | Looking Into The Future Of Capital
Markets IT: Applying Tomorrow’s Technologies To
Today’s Capital Market Challenges |
| 11.45 | Panel Discussion: “What Do We Want
From Each Other?” Creating A Tighter
Alignment Between IT And Business
In Order To Respond Quickly And
Effectively To Market Pressures |
| 13.30 | Lunch |
| 12.30 | Interactive Roundtable Discussions After a morning of thought-provoking presentations and panel discussions, TradeTech Architecture 2009 gives you the opportunity to debate specific technology issues within small groups of your peers. Participating in an interactive roundtable discussion is a great way not only of finding out more about a particular topic, but of inviting expert participants to suggest solutions to your own specific technology problems. And as the discussion is strictly off-line, you won’t have to worry about mentioning your challenges in an open forum |
| 12.30 | C-Level Think Tank - By Invitation Only! The C-Level Think Tank is an hour-long discussion mini-track limited to 24 CTOs & CIOs from major financial organisations. This closed-door session enables offline discussions around top-level strategic issues including, but not limited, to:
Confirmed Participants Mike Wright
Global Chief Information Officer
Man Investments |
| The afternoon sessions have been specifically engineered to provide you with dedicated, solutions-focused content – whether you work in the development, infrastructure, or operational sides of the business. | |
| Stream A: Software Development | |
| 14.30 | SOA Design Principles At HSBC:
Building Effective, Trusted Services
That Thrive Within Collaborative
Architectures |
| 15.00 | Orchestrating The “Software
Ecosystem”: Managing Your
Applications Effectively To Create
Significant Cost Savings For The
Business |
| 15.30 | Refreshment and Networking Break in the Solutions Zone |
| 16.00 | Implementing An Enterprise Data
Fabric To Unleash The Performance
Of Real-Time Applications |
| 16.30 | Panel Discussion: Overcoming
The Challenges Of Long-Term
Architectural Planning |
| 17.15 | End of Stream A |
| Stream B: IT Infrastructure | |
| 14.30 | Overcoming The Challenges Of
Long-Term Infrastructure Planning:
Reducing Your Total Cost Of Data
Centre Ownership Over The Next 5
Years |
| 15.00 | Achieving Dramatic Enhancements In
Scalability and Performance: Using
Commodity Software To Get The Most
Out of Compute-Grid Architectures |
| 15.30 | Refreshment and Networking Break in the Solutions Zone |
| 16.00 | Towards A Unified Network Fabric:
The Infiniband vs. Ethernet Debate |
| 16.30 | Panel Discussion: “Achieving The
Green Data Centre” Identifying
The Most Effective Strategies For
Reducing Your Data Centre Footprint |
| 17.15 | End of Stream B |
| Stream C: Business Issues | |
| 14.30 | Supporting The Exotics and
Structured Products Business
Through The Utilisation Of An
Advanced Hardware Architecture
To Solve Large Scale Computational
Problems |
| 15.00 | Building A Stock Exchange In 8
Months: Or, How To Manage The
Assembly Line |
| 15.30 | Refreshment and Networking Break in the Solutions Zone |
| 16.00 | Calculating Risk Exposure
Throughout The Day With Real-Time
Business Intelligence |
| 16.30 | Panel Discussion: Who’s In Charge,
Man Or Machine? Re-Examining The
Assumptions Of IT Risk |
| 17.15 | End of Stream C |
| 17.20 | TradeTech Architecture 2009 Cocktail Party |
February 26th: Day 3: Main Programme
| 7.45 | Coffee & Registration |
| 8.30 | Chairman’s Opening Remarks
|
| 8.45 | Keynote Address: How Did We Get To
Where We Are Today? Examining The
Role Played By Technology In The Sub-
Prime Crisis – And Avoiding Future
Mistakes |
| 9.20 | Mitsubishi Case Study: Identifying The
Role Played By Blade Technology In
Building A 21st Century Trading Floor |
| 9.55 | Panel Discussion: Looking
Into The Future Of The
Execution Landscape:
Face-To-Face With The Technologies
Powering The Latest Breed Of
Execution Venues |
| 10.40 | Refreshment and Networking Break in the Solutions Zone |
| 11.10 | Panel Discussion: Solving The
Technology Challenges Of Smart Order
Routing: Making Real-Time Decisions
In A Distributed Environment |
| 11.55 | Keynote Guest Address: “Organising
The World’s Information” Lifting The
Lid On The Technology Needed To
Support Google’s Vision |
| 12.30 | Lunch |
| Stream A: Low Latency Trading | |
| 13.30 | Putting A Lens Into Your Trading
System Creating A Holistic Data
Monitoring Tool To Remove The
Surprises From Your IT Infrastructure |
| 14.00 | Time stamps, Resolution and
Synchronization: Is Micro the new
Milli? |
| 14.30 | Panel Discussion: How Much Is A
Microsecond Really Worth? Re-
Assessing The Importance Of The
Latency Race |
| 15.00 | Refreshment and Networking Break in the Solutions Zone |
| Stream B: Virtualisation | |
| 13.30 | A Case Study In “Stateless” Desktop
Virtualisation: Lifting The Lid On
Merrill Lynch’s Plan To Virtualise Half
Of Employee Desktops By 2012 |
| 14.00 | “Entering The Age Of Virtualisation”:
Understanding How The Latest
Breed Of Virtualisation Technologies
Have The Power To Transform Your
Business In 2009 |
| 14.30 | Panel Discussion: Has Virtualisation’s
Cost-Saving Potential Been
Overstated? Evaluating Strategies For
Getting The Full Cost Benefit From
Virtualisation Technologies |
| 15.00 | Refreshment and Networking Break in the Solutions Zone |
| 15.30 | “The Future of Financial Computing
R&D” Where Will The Research Dollars
Be Going Over The Next 10 Years? |
| 16.00 | End of Main Conference |






