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.