Conference Program for 2003 

Tuesday, Feb 4:
Pre-Conference Training Seminar, Sun Java Technology Update, Java in the Financial Markets Application Workshops

8.30am Morning Training Seminar:
“A Practical Guide to Web Services and Java”
led by Anne Thomas Manes, CEO, Bowlight, Boston, MA
12.00pm Lunch for morning seminar attendees, and VIPs
1.00pm Welcome
Nigel Woodward, Global Manager for Capital Markets and Securities, Sun Microsystems, London, UK
1.05pm

Sun Java Technology Briefing
 Dennis MacNeil, Senior Product Marketing Manager - J2EE Platform, Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, CA
Judith Lilienfeld, Senior Product Manager - J2EE Application Server and Tools, Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA
2.20pm Java Momentum in the Financial Market Update
Nigel Woodward, Sun Microsystems
2.40pm Break to Workshops
2.50pm

Java in the Financial Markets – Application Workshops
Featuring Sun financial markets partners
“Enabling Automated Standards-based Financial Market Connectivity”

Moderator: Jorge Vidal, Vice President for Sales and Marketing, Random Walk Computing, New York, NY

This workshop will explore issues related to client connectivity, including protocols such as FIX and ISO 15022.

 “Patriot Act to Basel II – Responding to the New Regulatory Frameworks”

Moderator: Nigel Woodward, Sun Microsystems

New risk management and compliance issues will be the focus of this workshop.
3.50pm Break/Workshop Changeover
4.00pm Java in the Financial Markets – Application Workshops
“Building Next-Generation Market Infrastructure”

The hot issues related to central matching utilities and exchanges will be explored in this workshop.

 “Re-modeling the Trader Interface”

A chance to catch up on innovative approaches to delivering market data and desktop applications to traders.
5.00pm

Break to Technology Showcase exhibit area
and opening reception
Featuring Sun Partner Pavilion
7.00pm

Technology Showcase exhibit area closes for the day

Wednesday, Feb 5:
2003 Wall Street on Java Technology Conference

8.15am

Welcome
Peter Harris, President, Lighthouse Partners, New York, NY
8.30am

Industry Keynote:

“Hooking Fixed Income Up to the Grid - Decentralizing Support for Investment Decisions”
Ronald V. “Van” Simmons, Director, Fixed Income Technology, INVESCO Institutional, Boston, MA

This presentation will discuss an emerging architecture to support a global fixed income front office. The basis of the architecture is the decomposition of all major IT functions into a set of grid-based services. Discussion will center on the use of Jini for resource discovery, JavaSpaces for analytics distribution, JSP/Servlets for application deployment, means of interacting with legacy systems, and the potential for outsourcing tasks such as feed handling and reference data gathering.
9.15am

Executive Plenary - “Leveraging Java For 21st Century Banking – A case study on Business, Technology and Organizational drivers”
Presented by Gilles Acogny, Marketing & Global Accounts Director and Mike Hosking, Development Director, Midas, Misys International Banking Systems, London, UK.

In the late 90’s, banks were reluctant to adopt new technologies as most of the activities were handled on a local and regional level. Now, because of increased security demands associated with settlement, processing, trades and messaging, the demand for the banking industry to globalize is becoming increasingly critical. These financial institutions must address management and regulator information needs on all levels - local, regional and international. They need to respond rapidly to their customers with superior technology tools such same day trade settlements and STP, which shorten the gap between the Front and Back Office operations.  Furthermore, banks must anticipate and evolve with advancements resulting from the dotcom era and the adoption of J2EE and web services.

In this presentation, Gilles Acogny and Mike Hosking of Misys International Banking Systems will address the need for banks to adopt leading edge Java technologies to ensure that they stay ahead of their game.
10.00am Break in Technology Showcase area
10.45am Sun Keynote:
“Java Web Services”
 Richard L. Green, Vice President, Sun Developer Tools and Java Software, Sun Microsystems, Santa Clara, CA
11.30pm IT Futures Plenary – “Java Technologies for Process Oriented Middleware and Autonomic Computing”
Duncan Johnston-Watt, CTO, Enigmatec Corp., London, UK
12.15pm Lunch, including keynote:
“Megatrends – How Technology Transforms Finance”
Presented by Till Guldimann, Vice Chairman, SunGard, Saratoga, CA

Megatrends in Finance. Advances in information technology (capacity, speed and price) are well understood. Their continuing profound impact of the structure of the financial markets is less so. 9/11 illustrated how interconnected and interdependent market participants have become. Political initiatives to protect the privacy of individuals from the power of data accumulators is another sign of change. Expect more surprises, not less.

Followed by dessert service and coffee in Technology Showcase exhibit area from 1pm.
2.00pm Workshop sessions:
“J2EE and Beyond in the Financial Markets”

Chairperson: Frank D. Greco, CEO, Crossroads Technologies, Inc., New York, NY

“Maximizing Performance for the Financial Markets with Enterprise Java”

Dr. Alejandro Hernandez, Director of Engineering, Application Networks, Palo Alto, CA

Lewis Cirne, Founder and CTO, Wily Technology

 “Java at the Traders Desktop”

Chairperson: Andrew Delaney, Director, A-Team Consulting, New York, NY

“Thin or Fat Clients – the Java Application Deployment Debate Continues”

Steve Shum, Executive Vice President, Sector Data, San Francisco, CA

Patrick Smith, Director, Product Management – DeployDirector, Sitraka (now part of Quest Software), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Guy Smith, Global Deployment Manager, Global Equity Derivatives Platform Group, Deutsche Bank, London
3.00pm Final workshop sessions:
“Building Intelligent Financial Services with Java Technology”

Ken Krupa, Chief Technology Architect, GFI Inc., New York, NY

“Integrating Telephony and Java to Boost Trader Returns”

Jeremy Sevareid, Senior Engagement Manager, Random Walk Computing, New York, NY

Chris Miller, Vice President, Strategic Marketing, IPC Information Systems, Fairfield, CT
3.45pm Break in Technology Showcase exhibit area
4.00pm Java Pro Developers Panel - “Application Performance Management:  Getting the most out of J2EE-based financial services applications”  Sponsored by Quest Software

Moderator: Dan Ruby, Java Pro

Demanding financial applications provide the ultimate test of J2EE's ability to scale and perform at enterprise-class service levels. This panel of industry experts will explore approaches and solutions to detecting, diagnosing and resolving performance issues in distributed J2EE-based financial applications.
5.30pm Event Closes