STAC Performance Summit (19 Nov 09) - Agenda

When:

Thursday, November 19, 2009
3:00 PM GMT

Where:

Deutsche Bank
23 Great Winchester Street
London EC2P 2AX

Who and what:

• Discussions on modern challenges and opportunities for market data, messaging, and trade-execution systems.

• Overview of the STAC model and how US firms are leveraging it.

• Tours of the STAC Benchmark specs.

• STAC-M2 Benchmark results for IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging (LLM).

• Overview of LLM, by IBM.

• Innovation Roundup, in which vendors have 5 minutes each to present something new to the Council. So far, the presentations are:

- “Continuous Intelligence – Making Sense of a Fast Moving World,” by Dale Stevens, Sales Director - EMEA, Aleri.

- "Using hardware technologies to accelerate and cut costs in your messaging infrastructure," by John Page, Director of Business Development, Messaging Products, TIBCO Software.

- "The era of unified messaging: Hardware, better, faster, stronger," by Dave Clare, Director, EMEA Sales, Solace Systems.

- "Ultra Low Latency without the Pain," by Dr. David Riddoch, Chief Software Architect, Solarflare Communications.

- "Winning in the Market with the Next Generation Messaging Infrastructure," by Greg Wiley, Senior Systems Engineer, 29West.

- "HP Low-Latency Updates: STAC HP Benchmark Lab, Real-Time Linux, and Layer 2 Fabrics," by Jonathon Traer-Clark, Director of Capital Markets WW FSI, HP.

The meeting will be followed by an opportunity to network with your peers over cocktails.