David Kelly Chief Technology Officer SAC Capital

• Assessing your current infrastructure: Examining your current strengths and weaknesses
• Finding a scaleable, reliable, and resilient infrastructure design that can meet current and future business needs
• Ensuring the applications in place can adapt to new hardware deployments
• Preparing your infrastructure and systems to handle new technologies and business products expected over the next 3-5 years

Nirup Krishnamurthy Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President The Northern Trust Company

• Reviewing your current in-house legacy systems: Are these systems still meeting your business needs?
• Exploring best practices when migrating from your legacy equipment
• What are the short and long term implications of this?
• How do you retire technologies or applications at the same time you're rolling things out?
• Assessing the challenges for implementing new hardware with old software
• Planning for consistent upgrades to avoid future legacy situations

Stephen Santini Chief Technology Officer Banc of America

• Exploring and evaluating what is currently in-house as well as what’s available in the marketplace: Determining what these technologies mean for your business practices
• Ensuring your team is taking full advantage of all features within your current systems
• When are you spending just to spend? Ensuring you are purchasing based on user need and not just on novelty options
• Staying ahead of the curve: What types of programs and systems do you anticipate optimizing or requiring in the future to maintain a competitive edge?

	Stephen Santini Chief Technology Officer Banc of America
	Shawn McAllister Vice President, Architecture Solace Systems
	Gil Tene Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder Azul Systems

• Assessing your internal systems to find where potential bottlenecks are
• Unclogging the pipes: What are the best methods for moving high volumes of market data through your networks faster?
• How do you know how to analyze a latency problem and allocate resources when you cannot identify the source?
• Anticipating future latency issues based on continued significant growth in product complexity and data volume

	Dale Sang Director, Fixed Income Technology Lord Abbett & Co.
	John-Peter Lee Chief Technology Officer AM Investment Partners

• Capturing the correct requirements necessary to deliver usable functionality
• Engaging the client in the development cycle to ensure the design continues to meet certain criteria and will bring the desired end result
• Inter-group coordination: Managing the design when the project involves more than one development team within the firm
• Uncovering the pitfalls: How do you keep your designs from diverting from their original objectives?

	Ric Elvir Director, Fixed Income Connectivity UBS
	Thomas Chippas Head of Autobahn Equity, Americas Deutsche Bank
	Brian Lara Chief Technology Officer Five Mile Capital

• Evaluating the planning approach you currently use for various business projects
• Determining when to capitalize on half baked development to ensure quick returns rather than adhering to conventional IT procedures
• Discovering the value of both development ideologies and their potential longterm impact on your business operations

Kick back after a long, informative day with a glass of bubbly and some informal discussion. Join your fellow attendees as they discuss and debate on the issues that are the most relevant to your responsibilities. Pick a topic, introduce your concerns, and then offer up your own perspective to the table. Each discussion is led by a knowledgeable moderator who will introduce the subject at hand and facilitate the discussion between all the participants.

This is your chance to drill down to the most mission-critical aspects and challenges of your work that you need to solve. This one hour session brings insightful conversation within small groups and gives you the opportunity to develop key relationships early in the conference.

	Shawn McAllister Vice President, Architecture Solace Systems
	Moderator TBD

	Jeffrey Wallis Managing Partner SunGard Consulting Services
	Moderator TBD

	Jeff Drew Founder and CEO Trading Metrics
	Moderator TBD