How to Get More Return on Your Architecture for Less Money

07:45 - Coffee & Registration Coffee & Registration

08:20 - Chairman’s Opening Address Chris Skinner, Chief Executive, Balatro Chairman’s Opening Address Chris Skinner Chief Executive, Balatro

08:30 - OPENING ADDRESS: Aligning IT with Business Strategies – Leveraging Technology to Unleash Business Growth Gerald Le Donne, CTO, Credit Suisse Creating a flexible environment that respond to rapid changes in business requirements and priorities How can you provide transparency so that adjustments can be made as market forces dictate? How can you align the IT book of work to the business strategy? Gerald Le Donne CTO, Credit Suisse

09:00 - Creating a Robust, Efficient and Flexible IT Strategy to Enable Long-Term Success Steve Rubinow, Co-CIO, NYSE euronext Linking all the cross-assets together to properly integrate and use market connectivity Synchronising 24 hours global trading in a world where emerging markets are linking up Forecasting the total systemic implication of electronic interdependence How to make sure future financial crises don’t impact all markets, which are all linked up with different algos Developing a strategy to back test to avoid loops Steve Rubinow Co-CIO, NYSE euronext Steve Rubinow is Executive Vice President and Co-Chief Information Officer, NYSE Euronext. He is responsible for most technology endeavors at the company. Prior to joining NYSE Euronext, Mr. Rubinow was Chief Technology Officer of Archipelago Holdings, Inc, prior to its merger with the NYSE in 2006. He was Chief Technology Officer since July 2001 and was responsible for Archipelago's software deve [read more]

09:30 - GUEST SPEAkER: Betfair’s Betting Exchange: How Exploding Global Transactions and Customer Numbers Don’t Mean Exploding Costs Matt Carter, Betfair This presentation will give an overview of the business model and architecture innovations that allow Betfair to adapt to explosive growth in transactions and customer activity. It will also cover how Betfair keeps pace with its continued global expansion, expanding product portfolio and growing customer numbers. Matt Carter , Betfair Matt Carter joined the Betfair team following the merger with Flutter.com 2002. Having held various senior positions, Matt is now Director of Architecture and Research tasked with defining Betfair’s technology architecture and dedicated R&D activity within its industry leading Technology team.  Matt gained international corporate experience whilst working for a large IT consultancy within thei [read more]

10:05 - Mid Morning Coffee in The Exhibition Area No session description available.

10:35 - Developing Effective Systems to Calculate Real-Time Risk Quicker, With More Volume and More Factors Tony Chau, Global Chief Architect for Credit, Rates and Emerging Markets, JP Morgan What do real-time responsive architecture and applications consist of? Ensuring that the architecture and applications are responsive and flexible enough for risk and surveillance How to be aware of what’s going on in your organisation for risk management whilst allowing front office innovation Tony Chau Global Chief Architect for Credit, Rates and Emerging Markets, JP Morgan

11:05 - Security and Risk Management Panel Discussion: Can Your Architecture Be Risk Proofed? Tony Chau, Global Chief Architect for Credit, Rates and Emerging Markets, JP Morgan Vahan Vardanian, CIO, Renaissance Group Peter Ligezinski, CIO, Allianz Invest Challenges of the trading environment & the human factor in transparency of technology costs How to control external, unpredicted factors such as financial meltdown and terrorist attacks Addressing the security and data privacy weaknesses of alternative sourcing models How do cloud computing and other alternative sourcing models address the uptime & reliability issues? How to make sure the architecture and applications are responsive and flexible enough for risk and surveillance Tony Chau Global Chief Architect for Credit, Rates and Emerging Markets, JP Morgan Vahan Vardanian CIO, Renaissance Group Peter Ligezinski CIO, Allianz Invest

11:35 - Managing Risk in an Intricate Emerging Markets Environment to Ensure Safe and Consistent Operation of Global Trading Vahan Vardanian, CIO, Renaissance Group Reducing the challenges of building global systems, especially in emerging markets Lessons learnt from the experiences of building brand new systems and infrastructure Making transaction costs transparent Vahan Vardanian CIO, Renaissance Group

12:05 - Guest Speaker: How Will The 2011 Review of MiFID Impact You and Will It Require A More Integrated and Flexible Trading Architecture? Regulatory Pipeline & Impact on Market Karel Lanoo, Chief Executive, CEPS What’s exactly changing with the 2011 review and why? What will be expected from the buy-side, sell-side and exchanges? Clarifications on what financial institutions can and cannot do with MiFID 2011 Will the European Commission continue its active intervention as seen in derivatives and hedge funds? What are the restrictions and changes to high-frequency trading and how disruption to markets will be avoided? Karel Lanoo Chief Executive, CEPS

12:35 - Structured “Speed” Networking Structured “speed” networking will ensure that you make plenty of new key contacts. This is an exciting, quick and easy way to meet fellow conference delegates and industry peers in one 30 minute session. These brief meetings are the starting point for valuable conversation and networking throughout the conference. This is where long lasting and profitable business relationships begin.

13:05 - C-Level Think Tank – By Invitation Only! C-Level Think Tank is a series of interactive discussions for you to network with your peers, to share their success stories and key challenges in niche areas that concern you most, and learn how others have overcome trading architecture’s fundamental issues. The content of this think tank is developed and shaped by the participants. This hour-long mini-track is limited to 25 CTOs & CIOs from major financial organisations. This closed-door session enables offline discussions around top-level strategic IT issues.

13:40 - Lunch Lunch

IT Infrastructure – Improving Front-Back Office Processi...Hosting, Grid, Cloud, Computing and Virtualisation 14:30 - STREAM A - Credit Suisse Case Study: Building the Best Performing Algotrading Infrastructure Connecting to Different Venues IT Infrastructure – Improving Front-Back Office Processing Gerald Le Donne, CTO, Credit Suisse Building a responsive and flexible architecture for algotrading How to best utilise your current infrastructure and expand it? Achieving better efficiency in your algotrading infrastructure Which language should be used for trading? Is it worth developing a solution in high language like Java? Gerald Le Donne CTO, Credit Suisse 14:30 - STREAM B - Morgan Stanley Case Study: The Cloud as a Business Strategy – Assessing Suitability for Your Business Requirements Hosting, Grid, Cloud, Computing and Virtualisation Evangelos Kotsovinos, VP Technology, Morgan Stanley Evaluating the suitability of migration strategies to guarantee success Selecting the optimal cloud strategy that improves the bottom line Understanding the different types of risks involved in moving to the cloud Scale matters: how the size of your infrastructure can determine your cloud strategy Evangelos Kotsovinos VP Technology, Morgan Stanley

Assessing the Latest State of the Art Technology - Manag...Are Graphical Processing Units a Viable Alternative to G... 15:00 - STREAM A - Assessing the Latest State of the Art Technology - Managing Costs through Hosted Global Market Data Technology Assessing the Latest State of the Art Technology - Managing Costs through Hosted Global Market Data Technology Combie Cryan, Head of Business Development, Global Data Products, NYSE Technologies How to best use middleware to speed up the processes Which is the best architecture for trading technology products? What are the best ways to achieve transparency in technology costs? How can costs of acquiring new technology be transferred to profit? Combie Cryan Head of Business Development, Global Data Products, NYSE Technologies 15:00 - STREAM B - Are Graphical Processing Units a Viable Alternative to General Purpose CPUs in Processing Grids? Are Graphical Processing Units a Viable Alternative to General Purpose CPUs in Processing Grids? Florent Duguet, Parallel Computing Architect, BNP PARIBAS Using GPUs for computational finance : tools, knowledge transfer and learning curve Latency, efficiency and environmental impact Case study at BNP Paribas Equity - from proof of concept to production Florent Duguet Parallel Computing Architect, BNP PARIBAS Florent DUGUET graduated PhD in Computer Graphics at Nice University. He is consulting various industries enabling exotic and hybrid technologies for demanding clients including Computational Finance, Oil and Gaz, and Energy. Pursuing this effort, he is now Parallel Computing Architect for BNP Paribas.

15:30 - Afternoon Coffee in the Exhibition Area Afternoon Coffee in the Exhibition Area

IT Infrastructure – Improving Front-Back Office Processi...Mitigating Risk in Complex IT Environments to Ensure Tim... 16:00 - STREAM A - Case Study: Experiences and Lessons Learnt from Building a Brand New Clearing Architecture to Achieve Integrating Efficiency & Comply with Fast Changing Regulatory Requirements IT Infrastructure – Improving Front-Back Office Processing Michael Bischoff, Head of Development and Production, LCH - London Clearing House What needs to change and which procedures need to be followed to fully comply with regulatory requirements in the most cost effective way? Addressing the impact of cost and settlement costs under MiFID rules Integrating electronic representation instruments to achieve full efficiency Improving the processing between the front and the back office to save time and cost Key lessons learnt from building new clearing architecture Michael Bischoff Head of Development and Production, LCH - London Clearing House 16:00 - STREAM B - Mitigating Risk in Complex IT Environments to Ensure Timely and Accurate Business Transactions Execution Mitigating Risk in Complex IT Environments to Ensure Timely and Accurate Business Transactions Execution Russell Rothstein, VP Product Marketing, OpTier What is BTM? How BTM ensures accurate and successful execution of financial transactions How BTM quickly isolates any performance problems and allows you to proactively prevent service degradation How BTM is vital to support the move to private/hybrid clouds and shared services? Who has adopted BTM, what are the measurable outcomes and what the industry analysts are saying about it all? Russell Rothstein VP Product Marketing, OpTier Before joining OpTier, Mr. Rothstein was AVP Product Marketing at OPNET Technologies. Prior to that, he was co-founder and CEO of Zettapoint (a venture-backed enterprise software startup), ran marketing for Open Sesame (a Web 1.0 startup acquired by Bowne), and deployed enterprise applications working for Oracle’s services organization. Mr. Rothstein holds a BA in Computer Science from Harvard Uni [read more]

IT Infrastructure – Improving Front-Back Office Processi...Hosting, Grid, Cloud, Computing and Virtualisation 16:30 - STREAM A - Scalability and Availability Patterns for Most Effective Trading Infrastructure IT Infrastructure – Improving Front-Back Office Processing Michel Andre, Chief Architect, Saxo Bank Provisioning the capacity at a lower cost: Is synchronised processing a solution for scalability? Addressing the challenges involved in monitoring complex grid-based architectures Best practice to avoid loss of performance Michel Andre Chief Architect, Saxo Bank 16:30 - STREAM B - Combining Innovative Grid Technologies to Provide Tractable Solutions for Trading, Pricing and Risk Hosting, Grid, Cloud, Computing and Virtualisation Robert Johnson, Head of Technology Solutions Group, MITSUBISHI UFJ SECURITIES INTERNATIONAL PLC Provisioning the capacity at a lower cost: Is synchronised processing a solution for scalability? Addressing the challenges involved in monitoring complex grid-based architectures Best practice to avoid loss of performance Robert Johnson Head of Technology Solutions Group, MITSUBISHI UFJ SECURITIES INTERNATIONAL PLC PhD in Parallelism in Computational Logic, Queen Mary College, London, followed by post doctoral research.Dr. Johnson started out in financial software houses covering both global and boutique businesses for four years.He then joined the exotics desk at TMI in 2000, latterly assigned as Head of TSG at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International, where he is responsible for all Front Office trading tec [read more]

17:00 - End of Conference Day One End of Conference Day One

17:00 – 18:00: TradeTech Architecture Drinks Reception TradeTech Architecture Drinks Reception