A-Team Insight Exchange – April 26, 2010, New York City

A-Team Insight Exchange - a new event series for 2010 - combines A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners. The theme for 2010 is "Ultra High Performance Technologies for the Financial Markets" and the series debuts on Monday, April 26th in New York City.

Craig Betts 
Brett Kotch

Opening Keynote Presented by Solace Systems and Liquidnet . . .

Solace Systems President and CEO Craig Betts will be joined by Brett Kotch, Head of Architecture at Liquidnet, to present the opening keynote, focusing on the strategies and technologies used to build a leading trading network.

Driving Innovation - Leadership in Financial Markets Architecture

Liquidnet has been voted the leader in operational excellence for the second consecutive year by Z/Yen’s 2009 survey of Operational Performance of Brokers. Their surveyed roster of clients, which include traders, portfolio managers, analysts and corporate issuers all recognize the value of having the most powerful and innovative tools at their disposal, and count on Liquidnet’s ground-breaking technology to access the global equities marketplace. Brett Kotch outlines strategies and technologies he’s used in building Liquidnet’s award-winning network.

Some of the Expert Speakers at the April 26th Insight Exchange . . .


Lloyd Altman
Accenture


Falke Bruinsma
IBM


Duncan Johnston-Watt
Cloudsoft


Frank Piasecki
ACTIV Financial


Barry Thompson
Tervela


Jason Gross
RNA Networks


Chris Liou
Infinera


Gerald Hanweck
Hanweck Associates

 


Nancy Turbe
Accenture


Mark Skalabrin
Redline Trading

 

Focused Insight Sessions

A-Team’s expert editors and analysts will be joined by a panel of industry participants to discuss issues and trends that are fundamental to today’s financial trading markets, including:

• Low-Latency Architectures for DMA and High Frequency Trading

• Building a Winning Trading Architecture for a Fragmented World

• Scaling Up and Out for the Real-Time and Low-Latency Market Data Explosion

• Powering Pre-Trade Analytics and Modeling

• The Financial Markets Data Centre - Strategic Asset or Cost of Doing Business?

In-Depth Drill-Down Sessions

These breakouts will explore specific issues, applications and technologies in detail. Expect sessions on low-latency trading architectures, co-location and connectivity, hardware acceleration, fragmentation of FX markets, and more.

Get Involved

Attending the Insight sessions? Have a burning question you would like to ask? Submit it in advance and we’ll pick the best ones and ask them live. And if we do, we’ll refund the conference fee! Contact A-Team’s Pete Harris - pete@a-teamgroup.com - with yours, or to make any other suggestions.

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