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 HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING FINANCIAL MARKETS Show and Conference, September 19, 2012

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7:30 - 8:30 am Registration and Coffee Service in the Technology Showcase Exhibits.

8 – 4 pm Exhibits open with exclusive show viewing times.

8:30 - 10 am Session 1 Keynote Session

Ultra Low Latency for Wall Street – News You Can Use
High Frequency Trading firms and exchanges require ultra fast processors, low latency networks, hardware-accelerated messaging, precise time synchronization and efficient applications in order to accelerate trades at blinding speeds.

In this panel, industry and vendor representatives will share their perspectives on requirements, options and trends in the race to zero latency. For example, Intel’s Everest processor is one such technology that will be discussed.

Moderator: Lee Fisher, Worldwide FSI-HPC Business Development, Hewlett-Packard
Joseph Curley, Director, Technical Computing Marketing, Intel Corporation
Scott Hall, Managing Director, Americas Sales, ActivFinancial
Doron Arad, Client Solutions Director, Mellanox
Paul Skoog, PTP Product Marketing Manager, Symmetricom
Rob Cornish, IT Strategy and Infrastructure Officer, ISE
Jens von der Heide Director, Barclays Capital
10 - 11 am Coffee Break in the Exhibits
Exclusive show viewing time.

11 - 11:50 am Concurrent Sessions (select one of two)
Session 2 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)

Enabling High-Performance Trading Fabric in a Globally Connected Marketplace.
 How does a firm build a High-Performance Trading Fabric and what are the key technology enablers? Dealing with massive growth of data requires scalable architectures.How do cloud-enabling technologies and business models provide benefit for firms (participant firms and exchanges)?

Moderator: Aron Dutta, Senior Director and Global Head, Financial Markets Strategy, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Dave Malik, Director of Solutions Architecture, Advanced Services, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Rick Alm, Executive Director, High Performance Engineering, Morgan Stanley
Robert Hegarty, Managing Director, Global Head of Market Structure, Thomson Reuters
Jos Schmitt, CEO, Alpha Group
J. Barry Thompson, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Tervela, New York, NY

Session 3 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)
Reduce Costs and Gain Agility with the Cloud. Transform your operation with the Capital Markets Community Platform.
The industry vertical cloud is a relatively new concept and tech managers can not implement that strategy without a sound business and technical rationale. Before embarking on a cloud computing strategy for your firm, there are critical questions you need to answer such as:
  • What's the best deployment model for our critical application workloads?
  • What are the quantifiable benefits of cloud to our business?
  • How much change will this mean for the organization?
Co-Presentation:
Feargal O'Sullivan, Vice President of Platform Development, NYSE Technologies, New York, NY
Nancy Turbe, Solutions Partner, EMC

Session 4
12-1:00 pm Industry Luncheon for Conference Registrants
Network with your Wall Street IT colleagues in a congenial luncheon period.

1-1:30 pm Coffee and Dessert Service in the Exhibits Exclusive show viewing times.

1:30-2:15 pm Concurrent Sessions (select one of two)
Session 5 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)
HPC Cloud Computing is an Opportunity for Financial Firms to Increase Efficiency and Effectiveness.
 HPC clouds enable consolidation of scattered cluster resources, rapid service delivery and service integration. A large flexible HPC cluster resource pool facilitates greater analytical insights and faster time to market. Come join a discussion regarding the latest HPC Cloud dynamics.

J.D. Zeeman, WW Sales Executive, HPC Financial Markets & Cloud Computing, IBM
Egan Ford, IBM Executive IT Specialist, IBM Corporation
Michael Jackson, President, Adaptive Computing
Michael Jackson, President, Adaptive Computing
Jay Muelhoefer, Vice President, Platform Computing

Session 6 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)
Programming for 2012 instead of 2002.
 This session will focus on what has mandated programming changes in the last 10 years in the financial markets.

Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Managing Director, Global Risk and Trading Systems, Bank of America, New York, NY.

2:15-2:30 pm Coffee Break in the Exhibits. Exclusive show viewing time.
2:30-3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions (select one of two)
Session 7 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)
Cloud Computing Provides the Opportunity to Build a Large Scale Hosted Service to Control Security, Workloads and Orchestration.
 Cloud will reduce failure at every level and provide a wide network of shared computer resources.

Moderator: Henry Chien, TABB Group
Mike McGrath, Red Hat
Steve Bologna, Global FSI Solutions Group, Sybase, Inc.
Thomas Fay, Vice President, NASDAQ OMX

Session 8 - Concurrent Session (select one of two)
Accelerating Market Data Capture and Analysis of Parallel Storage.
 Market pricing data is increasing exponentially. Wall Street is struggling with this data deluge creating dozens of islands of tick data. These islands can be consolidated with O-I storage on the world's largest super computers. Hear what Wall Street is doing today.

Larry Jones, DataDirect Networks
Blake Gonzales, HPC Computer Scientist, Dell, Inc.
Don Clegg, VP, Super Micro Computer
3:15-4 pm Beverage Service in the Exhibits
Exclusive show viewing time. 4 pm Exhibits Conclude. Conference Continues.

4-4:50 pm Session 9
Architecting the Best Solutions for Wall Street Optimization.
 Optimizing ultra low latency for Wall Street's investment in speed and greatly increased transaction times in milliseconds. The sheer volume of transactions today mandates a new model for global market trading. This is a vital session from leaders in the field featuring low latency, straight through processing, high core count processors and greatly increased server-to-administrator ratio.

Moderator: John McCormick, Group Editorial Director, Securities Industry Monitor
Raymond Russell, CTO, Co-Founder, Corvil
Don Newell, CTO Products Group Business Unit, American Micro Devices (AMD)
Nick Ciarleglio, Financial Services Product Manager, Arista Networks
Chad Mynhier, Master Consultant, Forsythe Technology, Inc.
David Rubio, Forsythe Technology, Inc.

4 pm Exhibits Conclude. 4:50 pm Conference Concludes.


Speakers and Program subject to change.