The ladies from The Davidsohn Group booth.

Two delegates become guitar “heroes” at the CheckFree booth.

David Hackett (left) from NYSE Euronext talks advanced trading solutions.

Markus Reutzel from Deutsche Borse stands next to a BMW motorbike that will be raffled on Day Three.

Elaine Giblin of Corvil, a supplier of low latency networking solutions for electronic trading environments.

It’s a busy place around the Microsoft booth where partners are displaying the latest Microsoft-based technology.

Amnon Raviv and Susan Thomas from Microsoft partner Gigaspaces.

Ross Hamilton and Nemo Fontecchio from Microsoft Partner Lab49 take a well-deserved refreshment break at the end of the first day.

Santiago Martin-Romani — on hand to talk about Gemfire, the Enterprise Data Fabric solution from Gemstone.

Dan Lahl and Melinda Wilson from Sybase take a moment to say hello.

Fidessa sets the mood for low latency.

Christopher Pirigyi from Azul (left) talks about Java-based applications.

Daniel Tibbets from Linedata flashes a smile for the A-Team camera.

Nathan Wolaver talks about Aleri’s CEP solutions.

Aleri offers delegates a bit of Wii Play, with a CEP twist.

Jappy Takhar talks collaboration at BT.

Neil Boyd and Keith Mascheroni from Codestreet.

Thomas Burrus from GL Trade talking about the order life cycle. Tom has been a fixture at the show for many years, working for Decision Software, now acquired by GL Trade.

A lesson in real-time latency measurement from Trading Metrics.

John Williams from Trading Metrics (right) talking about the sources of latency.

Complex Event Processing (and lots of people) at the StreamBase booth.

James Woodford from Portware (left) discusses Portware’s software solutions.

Paul Clarke from Portware (right) demonstrating Portware’s solutions.

Katherine Calvert (left) and Stephanie Janus talking about Advent’s advantage.

Stephanie demonstrating Advent.