Greg MacSweeney, Editor-in-Chief, Wall Street & Technology

As we move to a global, fully electronic market, the underlying technology becomes the battlefield. The firms with the most robust, highest performing and most advanced real-time technology platforms will take the lead. But with the latency benchmark already at sub-second levels, where will the speed increase end? In three years, what will be the new benchmark for low latency data?

Speaker: Steve Rubinow, CIO, NYSE Euronext

Message volume is going through the roof. NYSE Euronext is continually setting new records for message volume. The Options Price Reporting Authority (OPRA) is projecting required message capacity of 907,000 messages per second (mps) by this summer (80 percent higher than a year ago mps) with a 20 percent growth to more than 6 billion messages per day. What can multi-core processors and advanced architectures do to help firms stay ahead of the data flow?

Moderator: Kerry Massaro, Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Trading
Panelists:
Robert Almgren, Adjunct Professor, Quantitative Finance, New York University
Thomas Jordan, President & CEO, Jordan & Jordan
Vinod Kutty, Associate Director, Distributed Computing, CME Group

With data latency already measured in sub-second intervals, hardware acceleration promises to further lower latency. But can FPGAs and low-latency ticker plants realistically be integrated into advanced, flexible trading environments quickly?

Moderator: Ivy Schmerken, Editor-at-Large, Wall Street & Technology
Panelists:
Peter Johnson, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Architecture and Web Services, BNY Mellon
Peter Lankford, Director, Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC)
Robert Newhouse, CEO, Ballista

Handling the Data Overload with Grid and Multicore
With billions of electronic messages currently flooding systems and double-digit projections for volume increases, what do firms need to do to scale for the future? Are there other options besides just adding more data centers and capacity. Learn how peers are using grid computing and multi-core processors to solve the low latency challenge.

Moderators:
Greg MacSweeney, Editor-in-Chief, Wall Street & Technology
Kerry Massaro, Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Trading
Melanie Rodier, Associate Editor, Wall Street & Technology

Lowering Latency with Hardware Acceleration
Now that applications have outpaced the capabilities of processors, financial firms are turning to hardware acceleration technologies to handle ever increasing messages and to analyze data in real time. But are firms having success with hardware acceleration? Is it flexible enough to meet the ever changing demands of flexible trading strategies? Hear from your peers in this interactive session.

Moderators:
Penny Crosman, Executive Editor, Wall Street & Technology
Ivy Schmerken, Editor-at-Large, Wall Street & Technology

Complex Event Processing (CEP) holds the promise of major benefits for Wall Street firms, as it can speed up the interpretation of volumes of data in real time. Where is CEP being used today? Where will it be used in the future? Is it more hype than reality? In this special Get to the Point session, panelists will have 60 seconds to answer questions for the moderator and the audience.

Moderator: Greg MacSweeney, Editor-in-Chief, Wall Street & Technology
Panelists:
Marc Adler, SVP, Event Processing, Citi
Adam Honoré, Senior Analyst, Aite Group, LLC
Malcolm West, Chief Software Architect, HSBC's Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets division

A recent Wall Street & Technology survey found that the number one objective for IT organizations is to help the business get new products to market faster — more important than fraud detection, client acquisition, testing financial models and even risk management.

Speaker: Robert Iati, Partner & Director of Research, TABB Group

Using HPC to Get New Trading Products To Market Quickly
New products give firms a distinct, yet remarkably short term, competitive advantage, so the first mover advantage is quantifiable and real. However, building new trading offerings is risky, time consuming and requires extensive market and compliance testing. How are firms structuring their IT organization to meet the demands of the business? And how can advanced technologies, such as grid computing or multi-core processors, help firms test and validate new products quickly.

Moderators:
Robert Iati, Partner & Director of Research, TABB Group
Melanie Rodier, Associate Editor, Wall Street & Technology

Analyzing Real-Time Information
Analyzing news and other unstructured market information, alongside traditional market data, in an automated trading model has been the talk of the Street for a while, but where are firms with this strategy? Is CEP and other real-time data analysis techniques helping Wall Street accomplish their goals with reliable results?

Moderators:
Penny Crosman, Executive Editor, Wall Street & Technology
John Ecke, Vice President/Group Publisher, TechWeb
Adam Honoré, Senior Analyst, Aite Group
Christina McEachern, Executive Editor, Advanced Trading
Ivy Schmerken, Editor at Large, Wall Street & Technology

A leading Wall Street firm reveals how it is has restructured its technology organization and bolstered its architecture to meet demands for rapid product deployment.

Moderator: Penny Crosman, Executive Editor, Wall Street & Technology
Speaker: Carl Carrie, Executive Director and Global Head of Algorithmic Trading Products, JPMorgan Securities