Speakers:
John Goeller, Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee , Managing Director, Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Jim Northey, Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee , Co-Founder, LaSalle Technology Group
And
Andrew Karsgaard, Co-Chair FPL Canadian Subcommittee , Vice President, Quantitative Execution Services, BMO Capital Markets

Regulatory Reform: Where are We Now, and Where are We Heading?

With the most sweeping financial reforms in 80 years moving at a rapid pace, this session looks at current proposed regulatory reforms by Congress and the implementation of new regulatory reforms including Reg NMS.

Speaker:
Robert Colby, Partner, Davis Polk

Going Global

With remote access, co-location and global platforms with cross exchange listings a reality, what are the opportunities and limitations of global trading?

This session will explore the access and adoption of global electronic trading.

Moderator:
Tom Jordan, President & CEO, Jordan & Jordan

Panelists:
Martin Koopman, Head of Strategy, NYSE Technologies
Frank Loughlin, SVP, Americas Equity Trading, Alliance Bernstein
Ann Neidenback, SVP, Global Technology Services, NASDAQ OMX
Alan Shontz, Director Channel Partner Management, CME Group

Risk Management in the Electronic Trading Era

Since the 'Flash Crash' of May 6, 2010 how has systematic risk evolved?

This panel will investigate whether organizations have changed their tolerances and views on risk management to protect themselves since May 6, how limits are being determined and what vendor solutions are available.

Moderator:
John Goeller, Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee, Managing Director, Global Execution Services, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Panelists:
Stuart Breslow, CEO, Townsend Analytics/RealTick
Chuck Garcia, Head of Sales, Sophis
Ralston Roberts, SVP, Head of Project Management, SunGard
Adam Striffler, Vice President at GS Electronic Trading, Goldman Sachs
Leslie Sutphen, Managing Director, Newedge

FIX: In Depth

This interactive session will address the design issues facing delegates in attendance at this event, along with an introduction to the FIX tool-box.

As well as, exploring the functional elements of FIX that can prove challenging for developers, this session will enable attendees to develop a stronger understanding of:

- Order Chaining
- Order Execution Reporting Capabilities
- Mass Quoting Capabilities
- Reference Data

Speakers:
Hanno Klein,Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee/Co-Chair FPL Global Exchanges & Markets Committee, Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Boerse Group
Jim Northey, Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee, Co-Founder, The LaSalle Technology Group

Multi-Asset Trading: Consolidation & Integration

Multi asset class platform convergence is taking shape at buy-side firms and with their technology providers.

This panel will explore best practices at buy and sell side firms and with vendors, who are modifying their trading, service and workflow models to accommodate the associated demands.

Moderator:
John Lothian, President & CEO, John J. Lothian & Company, Inc.

Panelists:
Harry Gozlan, Chief Executive Officer, SmartTrade
Laurence Latimar, SVP & Managing Director Global Trading, SunGard
Pat Luongo, VP Advanced Execution Services, Credit Suisse
Rishi Nangalia, Managing Director & Head of Business Development at GS Electronic Trading, Goldman Sachs
Lee Saba , Co-Chair FPL Americas Buy-Side Working Group, Vice President Trading Applications, Wellington

Wealth Management: Creating a Standardized Solution

Innovation in electronic trading has created increased efficiency and choices for institutional investors and hedge funds yet have largely left retail and individual investors behind. The migration of money to Registered Investment Advisors (RIA's) is highlighting the need for the more rapid development of a standards based solution. In addition, the recent cost basis legislation and other regulatory changes are causing a resurgence of wealth management participants to demonstrate significant interest in the use of FIX.

The session discussion will focus on the growing push from the wealth management community for standardization and the opportunities that exist within this market place to increase efficiencies.

Moderator:
Nick Nickitas, Co-Chair FPL MMI Collaboration Working Group, Director of Business Development, FIX Flyer

Panelists:
Randy Bullard, Executive Vice President, Business Development, Placemark
Gary Jones, MMI, Vice President of Industry Technology and Operations, President, Jones & Jones Consulting
Heeren Pathak, Chief Technology Officer, Vestmark
Colby Payne, Product Manager, Trade Order Management & Compliance, Advent
Josh Rosen, Product Manager, Deutsche Bank

Considerations for Achieving a Low Latency Solution Using FIX

No matter whether your firm is a high frequency trading shop or simply routing order flow, the entire industry is focused on reducing latency throughout the trading process.

This panel will focus on identifying where latency exists within the trade lifecycle; identify the relevant considerations and recommend the best practices to achieve a low latency FIX solution.

Speakers:
Rolf Andersson, Co-Chair FPL Market Data Optimization Working Group, Chief Executive Officer, Pantor Engineering
Mark Reece, eTrading Solutions Architect, HSBC Bank
Raymond Russell, Chief Technology Officer, Corvil

High Frequency Trading

High Frequency Trading is now an integral part of markets, but is often portrayed as a shadowy practice.

This panel session will take an in-depth look at what is actually happening in the HFT space including technology and regulatory demands.

Moderator:
Candyce Endelen, Chief Executive Officer & Founder, Propel Growth

Panelists:
Dr. John Bates, Chief Technology Officer, Progress Software
Thomas Chippas, Managing Director, Barclays Capital
George Hessler, Chief Executive Officer & President, Stock USA
Arzhang Kamarei, Chief Operating Officer, Tradeworx
D. Keith Ross Jr. , Chief Executive Officer, PDQ Enterprises LLC

FIXatdl^SM: Generating Efficiency Gains and Cost Savings for the Algorithmic Trading Community

This interactive session will review the real opportunities that FIXatdl offers to the trading community, since its launch six months ago. It will explore its increased adoption and application, challenges being addressed and how it is being used by the capital management community.

Moderator:
Rick Labs, Co-Chair FPL Algorithmic Trading Working Group, CL&B Capital Management

Panelists:
Scott Atwell, Co-Chair FPL Global Steering Committee, Manager of FIX Connectivity, American Century Investments
Gregg Drumma, Founder, Gamma Three Trading
Neal Goldstein, Managing Director, Nomura Securities
Dimitry Koltunov, Senior Vice President, Highbridge Capital Markets
Dan Yu, Head of Sales, RealTick

FIX: Using the Repository

FPL recently released the 2010 edition of the FIX Repository which offers data quality improvements and a re-factoring of the data format.

The FIX Repository is a computer readable definition of FIX messages, fields, components, and enumerations that make up the protocol. It is used to generate the table sections of the FIX Specification, FIXimate web viewer, and the FIXML Schema.

In this session the FIX Repository will be presented along with a demonstration of simple ways you can use the FIX Repository. Allowing your firm to join the already large number of organizations and vendors who have improved the automation of FIX implementations within their organizations using this tool.

Speaker:
Jim Northey,Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee, Co-Founder, The LaSalle Technology Group

High Frequency Trading: Beyond Equities

HFT has long been the domain of the equities markets, but with asset class investment diversification and the proliferation of global trading, HFT is now increasingly used in the derivatives and commodities markets.

This panel will investigate how HFT is being utilized in these markets and what the impacts of it are.

Moderator:
Scott DePetris, Chief Operating Officer, Portware

Panelists:
Ricardo Elvir, Co-Chair FPL Fixed Income Committee, U.S. Head of E-Commerce Fixed Income, UBS Investment Bank
Rueben Guerreo, Business Development, Orc Software
Alex Lamb, SVP Business Development and Marketing, RTS
Ari Pine, Senior Gold Trader, Prime Trading
Philippe Thomas, Managing Director, ULLINK
Greg Wood, VP Advanced Execution Services, Credit Suisse

Common Clearing Standards: How will this work?

With changing regulation and a greater emphasis on risk management, what work is being done to achieve common clearing standards?

This session will explore how the industry is gearing up to develop and implement common clearing standards, and how they will work in reality.

Moderator:
Jim Northey, Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee, Co-Founder, The LaSalle Technology Group

Panelists:
Hanno Klein, Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee/Co-Chair FPL Global Exchanges & Markets Committee, Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Boerse Group
Karen Glad, Vice President, The Options Clearing Corporation
Niranjana Sharma, CME Group
Lisa Taikitsadaporn, Managing Partner, Brook Path Partners, Inc.

FIX.5.0 and FIXT.1.1: The Time is Now

Since the introduction of FIX.5.0 and FIXT.1.1 improvements have been made that greatly expand FIX functionality to include additional business processes and a multitude of new capabilities within the existing business process areas. This has included the release of the first service pack for the application layer, FIX.5.0SP1, and an errata to FIXT.1.1 was issued as a further enhancement.

Since inception the iterations have now been successfully implemented within multiple markets. This interactive session will provide an insight into the benefits of FIX.5.0 and FIXT.1.1 provide implementation guidance and best practice recommendations.

Speaker:
Kevin Houstoun, Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee, Chairman and Founder, Rapid Addition

Transparency/Access to Liquidity: Did I Achieve Best Execution?

Investors are demanding in unprecedented detail information regarding where, how and with whom their trades are being executed.

This session will discuss liquidity access in a fragmented market environment, dark pool and crossing network optimization, impact analysis, TCA and execution quality review.

Moderator:
Bill Hebert, Co-Chair FPL Global Events Committee, Executive Director, CFS Consulting Services

Panelists:
Dimitri Galinov, Head of Liquidity Strategy, Credit Suisse
Ignatius John, Former Director and Global Trading Strategist, AXA Rosenberg
William Libby, Vice President, Electronic Trading Business, Barclays Capital
Ben Polidore, Director, Algorithmic Trading, ITG

Low Latency:
'How Low Can You Go'

This panel session will explore the low latency advances in order routing in the era of high frequency trading, proximity hosting and co-location: identifying the latency hotspots that can emerge during the order life-cycle.

Moderator:
Pete Harris, President, Americas and Editor-at-Large, A-Team Group

Panelists:
Raymond Russell, Chief Technology Officer, Corvil
William Karsh, COO, Direct Edge
John Knuff, General Manager, Equinix
Feargel O'Sullivan, Head of Trading Solutions, Americas, NYSE Technologies
John Prewett, Co-Chair FPL Implementation and Optimization Working Group, Senior Vice President, Lava Trading, Citi
Henry Young, Co-Chair FPL Inter-Party Latency Working Group, Director of Product Development, TS-Associates plc

Implementing FIXatdl^SM

FIXatdl allows new algorithmic trading strategy providers to release their specifications in the industry standard, computer readable XML format as opposed to the traditional method of supplying detailed documentation, considerable coding and testing.

Through live demonstrations, this session will provide delegates with the technical insight needed to create FIXatdl files, provide an understanding of how they can be used and how firms can implement this new standard.

Speaker:
Scott Atwell, Co-Chair FPL Global Steering Committee, Manager of FIX Connectivity, American Century Investments

Trading & Research: Bridging the Gap

As trading & research continues to be more decentralized, vendor lists shrink and firms are going global, how much do you pay for ideas and research?

This panel will look at trends in research, how best to evaluate the quality and how to assess the value of it.

Moderator:
Brian Ross, FIX Flyer

Panelists:
Michael Butowsky, Partner, Mayer Brown
William O'Connor, Director Global Commission Management Sales Americas, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Cameron Rice, Executive Director, Morgan Stanley
Chris Sims, Head of Investment Operations, Gartmore Investment Management

Post Trade in Real-Time

In the high speed and diverse modern trading environment post trade is no longer just for end of day reporting.

This session will take an in-depth view of how organizations now require and utilize real-time intra-day solutions and trade affirmation.

Moderator:
Matt Nelson, Director, Market Intelligence, Omgeo

Panelists:
Tom Brown, Manager, Trade Support, RBC Global Asset Management
Andy Clark, Director ITG Net Product Management, ITG
Robert Hubbard, Integration Business Manager, Fixed Income Trading Group, Bloomberg
Bob Riley, Head of Post Trade Services, Americas, Thomson Reuters
Nick Solinger, Chief Marketing Officer, Traiana

The FPL Technology Roadmap: Supporting the Evolving Needs of the Trading Community

Attendees at this session will gain an understanding of how the FIX family of Protocols and FIXatdl have developed over the past 12 months. It will then look at additional technical projects currently in progress by FPL and the developments that FPL will be delivering to the trading community to meet the industry's evolving needs in the next months.

Speakers:
Kevin Houston, Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee, Chairman and Founder, Rapid Addition
Hanno Klein,Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee/Co-Chair FPL Global Exchanges & Markets Committee, Senior Project Manager, Deutsche Boerse Group

How the Buy Side Uses High Frequency

During this session, the TABB Group will explore the trading automation issue of next-generation algorithms.

Presenter:
Adam Sussman, Director of Research, TABB Group

Delivering Performance for Exchanges: The FIX Protocol Business Case

Mass adoption of the FIX Protocol by the exchange / ECN community would present industry-wide cost savings that could easily spiral into thousands (if not millions) of dollars.

This session will explore the business case for the adoption, cost saving and efficiency benefits FIX offers to both exchanges/ECNs and all those that connect to them.

Additionally, it will examine the functionality available to meet evolving business requirements, and the performance gains and latency reductions that choosing FIX could achieve.

Moderator:
Greg Maynard, System and Product Strategy Officer, International Securities Exchange

Panelists:
Mark Jarrett, Director, Equity Options, TSX
Bob Moitoso, Senior Vice President, Transaction Services, NYSE Technologies
Alan Shontz, Director Channel Partner Management, CME Group

FIX: All You Ever Wanted to Know But Haven't Yet Asked.
Ask the Expert: Q&A Session

Attendees will have the opportunity to ask our panel of experts, questions they have on anything FIX.

From navigating FIX Protocol specification, implementation and interoperability advice through to the do's and dont's of building of a FIX engine: the experts will address your questions.

Prizes will be given for the best questions and if any questions stump our experts!

Participants:
Bill Hebert, Co-Chair FPL Global Events Committee, Executive Director, CFS Consulting Services
Jim Northey, Co-Chair FPL Americas Regional Committee, Co-Founder, The LaSalle Technology Group
George Kledaras, Founder, FIX Flyer
Kevin Houstoun, Co-Chair FPL Global Technical Committee, Chairman and Founder, Rapid Addition