10 September 2013 Mid-America Club
8.00 Registration and breakfast
8.30 Welcome remarks: Max Bowie, Editor, Inside Market Data
8.40 Morning Keynote
9.10 The role of market data management in controlling costs and maximizing profits
- Establishing lines of communication between users and vendors to ensure products and services meet market requirements
- Living with licensing issues and navigating terms and conditions in an era of rising costs
- Defining what's mine: Issues around data ownership, usage, compliance, reporting and audits
- The right tool for the job: Leveraging product knowledge to extract maximum potential
09.50 1st morning break
10.10 The "dark art" of using displays and analytics to turn data into dollars
- The social exchange: Incorporating social media as indicators for investment decisions
- Pandora's black box: The right combination of non-display engines and data to find hidden value in vast volumes
- Leveraging data and turning it into knowledge that will maximize the value of your decision making
- Mirror, signal, manoeuver: Visualizing the next generation of trading indicators and analytics
10.50 Flexing your IT muscle: Re-architecting data infrastructures to adapt to growing volumes and regulatory change
- Reducing architectural complexity to respond fast and flexibly to regulation, capacity and latency concerns
- Drivers, demands and designs for infrastructure modernization to cope with new business requirements
- Next-generation storage solutions to handle growing data volumes and the demands of Big Data
- Beyond BPO: Potential future scenarios for streamlining infrastructure by outsourcing components
11.30 2nd morning break
11.50 The lowdown on low latency: Cost, connectivity and co-location without compromise
- Fastest or fast enough? The changing value of continued investment in chasing zero for different types of firms
- Predictive profits: Latency monitoring, analysis and jitter control to make microseconds count
- Co-lo conundrum: Is market center consolidation creating opportunities for the host with the most?
- Cooking up connectivity: Optimizing microwaves, fast fiber and new tools in the datacenter to achieve optimal networks
12.30 Regulator-led, data-driven: The impact of risk mitigation efforts on data transparency
- Standards drive: Standard frameworks and protocols as stepping stones to transparency
- The future of the "futurization of swaps" and its impact on market data quality and quantity
- The risks of reducing risk: Swaps data repositories - great potential, or just potential for fragmented data?
- Setting up SEFs: The market data/IT demands of bringing new markets to market
13.10 Buffet lunch
13.55 Afternoon Keynote
14.25 The world is your oyster: Chicago firms broaden their net
- The role of regulation, market structure reform and data availability in identifying new marketplaces
- Is Chicago the "C" in BRIC? The opportunities and risks of emerging and frontier markets
- What's next: The New Jersey Board of Trade? Are traders gravitating towards liquidity centers or datacenters?
- Reaching further: Co-operation, not competition, to enter and exploit new geographies and assets using existing relationships.
