Conference Chair - Peter Harris

Pete Harris is President, Americas and Editor-at-Large at A-Team Group, a publishing, research and events company focused on the deployment of information technologies in the global financial markets.

Pete is a regular contributor to A-Team’s coverage of the financial markets IT space, focusing on front-office, low-latency, cloud and infrastructure technologies.

As conference chair for A-Team Insight Exchange, Pete brings some 25 years of experience of creating thought provoking and innovative financial markets IT events. In the 1980s, Pete created the DWT event in London, and followed that up with several Waters-branded events in New York City, including the Advanced Technology Conference. He then created and led content for the ‘on Wall Street’ series, which ran for nearly a decade up until 2009.

Before joining A-Team, Pete worked as an independent consultant, advising technology innovators on how to best position their products and services to serve Wall Street and the financial markets.

Prior to working as a technology consultant, Pete held a number of editorial, publishing and management positions – including Editor-in-Chief and President – at Waters Information Services (now Incisive Media). There, he spearheaded the company’s move into events and online services.

Earlier in his career, Pete specialised in software development. In the mid 1980s, he was a project manager and software architect, working in the Advanced Systems Group of the London Stock Exchange. At the LSE, Pete built one of the world’s first digital market data distribution systems, dubbed Radix. He has also held a variety of software management and development roles at Intercom Data Systems (now Fidessa), Knight-Ridder Unicom (since merged into Reuters) and the Financial Times.

A board member of GenomeWeb, Pete is also active in the independent music scenes in NYC and Austin, Texas, producing a blog and a podcast showcasing emerging talent.