Conference Program

8.00am Conference Chairman’s Welcome
Pete Harris, President, Lighthouse Partners, New York, NY
  
Morning Plenary Sessions
  
8.05am Introduction: The End of the Beginning
Jeremy Lehman, Chief Technologist, Financial Markets, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
  
8.35am Opening Keynote: “The XML Value Proposition for Wall Street”
Russ Goring, Deputy Chief Information Officer, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, London, UK
  
9.05am XML Everywhere - How Reuters is Embracing and Converging XML Standards
Mark Hunt, Director of e-Business Capabilities and XML Strategy, Reuters, London, UK
  
9.45am Coffee Break in Exhibit Area
  
Morning Breakouts
  
10.45am

XML Before the Trade

Chairman: Adam Greissman, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer, UDICo, New York, NY

FIXML's Role in the Pre-Trade Process” - George Kledaras, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Javelin Technologies, New York, NY

“Top-line Growth: How Putnam Lovell Leverages XML to Streamline the Research Process” - Skye Hauptman, Chief Technology Officer, BlueMatrix, New York, NY; also presenting is Rodric O'Connor, VP/Director of Technology, Putnam Lovell Securities

“Using XML for Trading Systems Data Abstraction at Commerzbank” - Jim Lowe, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Random Walk Computing, New York, NY

XML for Financial Market Data

Chairman: John Blossom, Vice President, Lead Analyst, Outsell, Westport, CT

“MDDL’s Role in Market Data Delivery” James Hartley, Catalyst, Office of the Chief Scientist, Reuters Group, Boulder, CO

“Integrating Financial Content with XML” Andrew Delaney, Chief Content Officer, Investhink, New York, NY

“Using XML to Aggregate and Deliver Research Services” - John Thorne, CEO and Founder, Researchsummary, London, UK

  
12.00pm Luncheon, including Keynote:
“XML and the Future of Web Standards” – Jean-Francois Abramatic, Senior Vice President R&D at ILOG and Chairman, W3C, Paris, France
  
1.00pm Dessert Service in Exhibit Area
  
Afternoon Breakouts
  
2.00pm  

Post-Trade XML

Chairman: Alan Paris, Partner, Capco, New York, NY

Leveraging XML for STP - a Vendor Perspective on Business Drivers, Benefits and Realities - James Wraith, Chief Technology Officer, Netik, London, UK

“Integrating XML into a Middleware Architecture” - Kathy Ball-Toncic, Vice President, Capital Markets, Financial Fusion, Inc.

“XML and the Convergence of FIX and SWIFT Messaging” - John Goeller, Director, CSFB and Chairman, ISO Working Group 10, New York, NY

XML Delivery Technologies

Chairman: Emilio Mercado, Managing Director, Logicscope, New York, NY

“Guaranteed Delivery of XML Transactions” - Frank Knifsend, VP Product Strategy, Slam Dunk Networks, Redwood City, CA

“Emerging Transport Protocols for XML Communications” - Ron Schmelzer, Founder and Senior Analyst, ZapThink, Waltham, MA

Secure XML, a Pre-requisite for Financial Transactions - Sean Rogers, VP - Business Development, North America, Vordel, Boston, MA

  
3.15pm Tea Break in Exhibit Area
  
Closing Plenary Session
  
4.00pm Web Services for Financial Markets Panel Session
Moderator: Peter Harris, President, Lighthouse Partners
  • Charles Francois, Financial Services Technologist, Sun Microsystems Inc.
  • Sam Johnson, President and Chief Executive Officer, TransactTools, New York, NY
  • Jeremy Lehman, Chief Technologist, Financial Markets, Microsoft, Redmond, WA
  • Robert S. Sutor, Director of e-Business Standards Strategy, IBM, Somers, NY
5.20pm Close