8:00-8:30AM Registration and Breakfast – Breakfast Sponsorship Available
8:30-8:50AM WSTA Introductions & 2011 Recap – Swamy Kocherlakota, Managing Director & Head of Infrastructure Architecture and Engineering, BNY Mellon and a WSTA Board Director
Today’s presentations will be available online on the agenda page at http://www.wsta.org/events/event_archive_photos
8:50-9:35AM Keynote -- “Key Enterprise Technology Trends to Innovate and Protect your Future - NOW”
Anthony Juliano, CTO, General Partner, Landmark Ventures
Everyone wants to say that their culture is focused on “Innovation,” but many don’t know how to get there – especially in financial service firms that are well-known for being “dependable” and “sturdy” and “safe” (i.e. adverse to risk – all the things that come hand-in-hand with innovation). So what strategies are IT Executives at financial services firms using to innovate?
As CTO and General Partner at Landmark Ventures, Anthony Juliano has spent 5+ years working closely with 100s of CIOs and CTOs who are driving innovation within their firms in order to take their businesses to the next level. Join us as we explore his findings in 3 key innovation areas that represent strategic growth for Financial Services technology organizations for the remainder of 2011 and through 2012 (as well as beyond): Strategic Mobility (Internal Productivity vs. External Brand), Business Intelligence (Real-time analytics, Governance, KPIs about your KPIs), and the Future Datacenter (investing in Cloud versus investing in your own 4 walls).
9:35-10:00AM "When Performance Matters – Getting the G2 out of Transaction Processing Network Elements"
Dave Seltz, Director of Field Engineering, Eastern Region, Wind River
The majority of today’s business transactions happen online from one connected device to another. How fast or slow that transaction takes place can make a huge financial difference. Join Wind River for a technical look at how the advances in packet handling capabilities of network elements can impact the rate at which transactions are handled. This session will look at how multicore software and hardware technologies can be applied to achieve maximum packet throughput, intelligence, and overall performance.
Learn how:
· New multicore architectures are raising the performance table stakes
· How packet intelligence can be applied to improve security and throughput performance
· How to leverage off-the-shelf solutions with pre-integrated performance optimizations
10:00-10:25AM “The Competitive Advantage of Low Latency Connectivity”
Mary Stanhope is responsible for marketing, product management and new market development at Sidera Networks
Speed, achieved through ultra-low latency connectivity, is one of today’s hot technologies. Low latency services, such as Sidera’s Xtreme Ultra-Low Latency network, have long been a key requirement for high frequency trading where time is money. As Financial Services adopt cloud computing, video applications, and other data center based server applications, the need for high capacity, high quality, and reliable low latency connectivity increases. This session will explore the competitive advantage of low-latency connectivity and how it is achieved.
Key Takeaways:
· What are the key aspects of an Ultra-Low latency service
· What business applications are driving the need for high capacity low latency solutions
10:25-10:45AM “Break and Demo Area Visit” – Break Sponsorship Available
10:45-11:10AM “Finance and Insurance: Driving Innovation & Business Transformation”
William Whitehead, Finance Vertical Account Manager, Verizon Wireless
The wireless industry is undergoing a major technological shift across the globe that is having a major impact on the financial services industry. How do you protect sensitive customer data, backup systems in case of an emergency, provide full banking capabilities at temporary satellite locations and give customers 24/7 mobile access to services. These are the challenges that you face, while reducing costs, managing risk, and improving the customer experience. Wireless solutions are available that will help you resolve these challenges and contribute to the bottom line. Verizon Wireless will touch on these trends to help you better understand how ATM kiosks, digital signage and Machine to Machine Services allow business operators, banks and retailers to deploy self-service capabilities almost anywhere. This flexible, secure and truly mobile approach can help companies boost sales, conduct more transactions, control operating costs and improve customer satisfaction levels.
11:10-11:35AM “The Moneyball Approach to Big Data – Creating an unfair advantage”
Rick Kawamura, VP Marketing, Kapow Software
Big Data is all around you and continues to grow. Do you see this as an advantage or a burden? Learn how a smarter approach to managing Big Data can give you a competitive edge by accessing data in real-time, extracting intelligence, making it actionable, and integrating with the rest of your enterprise. Join Kapow Software for a lively discussion on how innovative approaches to Big Data can help you outwit your competition.
11:35-12:00Noon “Hot Cloud Technologies – An Operations Nightmare”
Floyd Strimling, Cloud Technology Evangelist, Zenoss
The “Cloud” has brought the promise of agility, flexibility, and reduced costs to your business but it also has some untended consequences to Operations. To make matters worse, the rate of change across compute, storage, and networking is accelerating. Learn to organize the chaos and make service assurance a reality.
12:00Noon Seminar Concludes
Agenda and Times Subject to Change
