2009 Speaker Presentations | 2009 Photo Review | 2009 Media Buzz

Jeff Birnbaum, BofA, Stanley Young, NYSE, Madge Meyers, State Street, Andy Bechtolsheim, Arista Networks and Sun Microsystems, among top Wall Street IT speakers on the program at the 2009 event.

State Street Corporation Executive Vice President and Head of Global Infrastructure Services Madge M. Meyer was Keynote. During the keynote session, Madge M. Meyer, EVP of global technology infrastructure at State Street Corporation discussed how State Street — one of the world's leading providers of financial services to institutional investors — has taken control of complexity using HPC technologies. Andy Bechtolsheim of Arista Networks and Sun Microsystems Arista Networks and Sun Microsystems founder Andy Bechtolsheim  addressed key trends in the high performance computing market that can help meet financial markets challenges. Andy presenting along with Craig Betts, CEO of Solace Systems.   Luncheon Panel: “Building the World’s Fastest Trading Network” BLADE Network Technologies CEO Vikram Mehta and Stanley Young, CEO, NYSE Technologies and Co-Global CIO, NYSE Euronext, participated on a special panel which focused on the deployment of a wide area, high speed, low-latency communications network to support advanced trading strategies.

Breakout sessions included: IBM, with BIDS Trading and Chi-Tech; BofA/Merrill's Jeff Birnbaum on parallel programming for multicore; plus sessions on cloud computing in practice, building high performance and low latency systems, open source and HPC, and hardware acceleration.

Cisco Systems hosted an end of day reception, 5-6:30 pm.

Attendees heard and saw High Performance Computing, Cloud, Virtualization, Low Latency, Linux, Grid, Blade, Cluster, in conference sessions and live on the show floor.

The High Performance on Wall Street event series was created by the same team that has produced highly successful landmark events for the financial markets IT space since 2001. Contact us to participate in 2009.