2005 Conference Program

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8:00 am Registration and coffee service in the Technology Showcase Exhibits Area
9:00 am Welcome and Scene Setting

  • Pete Harris, President, Lighthouse Partners and Conference Chair

9:15 am Opening Plenary: “Grids in Use – Examples and Ideas”

The application of unique technologies to Grid and Grid to non-traditional market segments will become more prevalent. This session features the integration of Grid technology and what the future of Grid has in store, from the point of view of a leading Wall Street firm.

  • Michael Shevlin, Director, Business Development, Intel Corp.

  • Adrian Kunzle, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Architecture, JP Morgan Chase Investment Bank

10:15 am

Coffee Service in the Technology Showcase Exhibits Area

11:00 am Morning Plenary: “Why Wall Street Should Care About Deep Computing: Optimizing Compute Resources”

IBM has lead the way on Wall Street with the new innovative tools of the trade such as clusters, virtualization, grid, and Linux.

Now, IBM will discuss its strategy and directions on how it will lead Wall Street to further harness these tools to accelerate analytics for faster time to market, optimize access to and utilization of deep computing resources using in-house and IBM owned and hosted compute resources, and resolve the floor space, power, and cooling issues at hand. IBM will also discuss and showcase the innovation and leadership of its Middleware, BladeCenter, POWER, and BlueGene, which differentiates IBM from all other IT vendors, as well as IBM Engineering & Technology Services no other vendor has to offer in such depth.

  • Alan McCarter, Worldwide Deep Computing Sales Executive, Financial Services Sector, IBM

  • David Gelardi VP, Systems & Technology Group, IBM

12:00 pm

Luncheon with Keynote Speaker

  • Speaker to be announced

1:00 pm

Dessert Service in the Technology Showcase Exhibits Area

1:30 pm Afternoon Plenary: “Expanding the Boundaries of High Performance to Financial Services - Risk Management, Pricing and Next Generation Trading”

Sun Microsystems executives and partners will present real-life experiences of applying high performance computing to a range of financial markets applications.

  • Ari Shamash, Manager - Grid Computing, Sun Microsystems

  • David Lawler, Director of Product Definition and Strategy, Network Systems Group, Sun Microsystems

  • Shawn Findlan, VP/Technology Infrastructure Manager, Global Credit Trading/Global Emerging Markets, JPMorgan Chase

  • Dr. Dan Fraser, VP, US Operations, Paremus

  • David Litner, VP Engineering, TransactTools

2:30 pm

Afternoon Drill Down Sessions:

 
“High Performance Architectures For Low Latency Market Data”

An examination of the IT building blocks required for a scalable low latency market data infrastructure.

 “Using Grid Computing Environments to Support Algorithmic Trading on Wall Street”

The session will feature real life case studies from Wall Street firms that are boosting the performance of their algorithmic trading.

3:20 pm

Beverage Service in the Technology Showcase Exhibits Area

4:00 pm Closing Plenary Panel: “Service Grids on Wall Street - How Far Over The Horizon?”

Service Grids – shared IT infrastructure that serves the demands of multiple business units – offer a vision of high availability, massive scalability and reduced costs. But when will they be ready for Wall Street?

  • Robert Iati, Partner, The Tabb Group (Moderator)

  • Chris Kwasnicki, Vice President, Pershing LLC, a member of BNY Securities Group and a subsidiary of The Bank of New York

  • Chandy Nilakantan, Co-Founder and CTO, Scalent Systems

  • Chris Swan, VP, Information Technology, CSFB

  • Bruce Talley, Director, Virtualizer Products Group, BMC Software

5:00 pm

Conference closes

5:30 pm

Reception hosted by IBM, at IBM’s Linux Center of Competence @ 590 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor

Food and cocktails will be served while you browse and network with key ISVs and IBM consultants and management. RSVP to IBMLinux@us.ibm.com if you plan to attend the reception by providing your company name and your own name to insure you are on the list at the IBM 590 Madison Ave lobby security desk for admission.