STAC Summit, 1 November 2010, Chicago
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Date/time
1 November 2010
Location
IBM Innovation Center
71 South Wacker, 6th Floor
Chicago, IL

Community-specified performance tests for trading systems
![]() Peter Lankford, Founder & Director, Securities Technology Analysis Center
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At this inaugural STAC Performance Summit in Chicago, Peter will provide a brief orientation to the STAC Benchmark specifications and test harnesses in market data and trade execution. |
Panel: "Trading technology: Today's challenges and opportunities"
Trading technology veterans from several areas of the ecosystem will offer perspectives on technical challenges and innovations affecting proprietary trading groups and trading venues.
![]() Joseph A. Panfil, Managing Director, Operations and Systems Engineering, CME Group
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![]() Matthew Giedt, Head of Technology, Bds Quant |
![]() Brennan Carley, SVP Product Management and Marketing, Spread Networks
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![]() Philip Enness, Banking and Financial Markets Global Solutions Manager, IBM |
Innovation Roundup
This session provides vendors with an opportunity to present new information in a 5-minute, get-to-the-point fashion. Presentations so far include:
- "How optimizing cache usage can lead to dramatic performance gains," by Scott Lasica, VP, Global Alliances, Rogue Wave
- "Network driver tuning for financial services configurations," by Allen Light, Director, Product Management, Broadcom
- "Precise time synchronization (and how to measure it)," by Paul Skoog, Product Marketing Manager, Symmetricom
- Presentation tba, HP
- "Wire speed capture for latency-sensitive environments," by Rick Kane, Regional Sales Manager, VSS Monitoring
- "Leveraging high performance network mirroring for application and transaction analysis," by Nick Ciarleglio, Senior Architect, Arista Networks
- "Building robust low latency infrastructures," by Jacob Rapp, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco
- "TIBCO Software: Lighting the way to extreme low latency," by William McLane, Senior Product Architect, Messaging, TIBCO Software Inc.
Panel: "Making standards-based infrastructure sing for HFT"
This panel will get more specific about leading approaches to building the fastest possible infrastructure for trading applications (compute platforms, networks, and messaging) .
![]() Falke Bruinsma, Chief Architect, WebSphere Front Office and Low Latency Messaging, IBM
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![]() David O'Shea, Financial Services Group, Intel |
![]() Steve Pope, Co-Founder & CTO, Solarflare
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![]() Jacob Rapp, Technical Marketing Engineer, Cisco |
Cocktail reception
Network in a relaxed atmosphere.
About STAC Events & Meetings
STAC events bring together CTOs and other industry leaders responsible for solution architecture, infrastructure engineering, application development, machine learning/deep learning engineering, data engineering, and operational intelligence to discuss important technical challenges in financial services.
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