About Insight Exchange
A-Team Insight Exchange is a new event series for 2010,which will combine A-Team’s expertise in financial markets IT with thought leadership from world-class technology innovators and practical experience from financial market practitioners.
The A-Team Insight Exchange day will consist of a main conference track, consisting of a keynote address, a luncheon pre-address, and a number of insight sessions, combined with up to two breakout drill-down tracks, each providing an opportunity for sponsors to directly engage with delegates to share their own wisdom through educational sessions.
See the Conference Program page for more information on the format and structure of the conference.
Alongside the insight and drill-down sessions, a technology showcase exhibits area will allow delegates to interact with sponsors and exhibitors providing technologies and solutions to meet the high performance challenges of the financial markets.
The main insight conference track is for paid delegates and VIPs (invited by A-Team and sponsors) only. The drill-down breakout tracks and technology showcase exhibits are open to all registered delegates (registration for the technology showcase and drill-down sessions is free).
Why Insight? Sessions that make up the conference day will include a presentation by an A-Team analyst, providing our own expert and independent viewpoint, plus a moderated panel to add current and practical perspective to topics. Panels will include up to two sponsor representatives, plus market participants invited by A-Team. An hour-long insight session would typically be comprised of: 15 minutes A-Team presentation, 30 minutes panel discussion, 15 minutes of audience Q&A.
Why Exchange? As well as Q&A time during the main conference insight sessions and drill-down breakouts, there will be opportunities to network during lunch and beverage breaks in the technology showcase the exhibits area. These events encourage the exchange of ideas, knowledge, experience and – most importantly – business.
A-Team encourages interest from potential sponsors for participation in the panel discussion element of insight sessions. Sponsors might nominate their own executive thought leaders, or suggest customers or other market participants to contribute.
Drill-down session topics are set by sponsors, and would typically focus on a more focused subject, perhaps on a specialised application or technology solution. Drill-downs will be educational in nature, although formats will vary – from formal presentation to panel session. Q&A time will be incorporated.
Who will attend A-Team Insight Exchange? The attendance at A-Team Insight Exchange will comprise senior business-savvy IT executives and IT-savvy business executives from major financial markets participants, including broker/dealers, investment and money center banks, exchanges and other liquidity venues, investment managers and hedge funds. Representatives from financial markets and infrastructure IT, software and networking specialists, market data vendors, systems integrators and consulting firms will also attend. All will provide a community for the exchange of ideas, knowledge, experience and – most importantly – business.
Promotion of A-Team Insight Exchange: A-Team Insight Exchange will be promoted via A-Team Group’s heavily trafficked website and its targeted email resources. The financial markets IT community relies on A-Team for intelligence in the areas of market data and low-latency delivery technologies, algorithmic and electronic trading systems, enterprise financial data management, and risk and regulatory IT.
The A-Team Insight Exchange events will be promoted within A-Team’s coverage of these specialist areas, including in a series of articles and podcasts featuring sponsor panel participants.
A-Team Insight Exchange is being led at A-Team by Pete Harris. Most recently, Pete was conference producer of the successful High Performance Computing on Wall Street event, and other “on Wall Street” events, a series that began in 2001. Before that, at Waters Information Services, he produced events including the Advanced Technology Conference, Focus on FIX and Global Treasury Systems. In partnership with a leading marketing services company, he also created the Dealing With Technology event, which launched in 1995.
For more information, including sponsorship and exhibit opportunities and conference suggestions, contact Pete Harris via email – pete@a-teamgroup.com.
A-Team Group – www.a-teamgroup.com - provides news, analysis and research on the deployment of IT in the global financial markets, with particular focuses on low-latency market data and electronic trading, enterprise approaches to data management, risk management and regulatory drivers.
