4 - 6 October, 2010
Westin at Market Street, San Francisco, CA

Main Conference Day One

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Throughout the presentations on October 5th, participate in live, anonymous polling – right from your own conference chair. Find out how you really compare to your peers and competitors on everything from technology adoption to support of regulatory proposals. You’ll see the results on screen in real time. Plus we’ll send you the final full results report following the conference so you can share this invaluable information with the rest of your team. What a great way to effectively benchmark your firm and gain support from upper management where new technology purchases may be needed to keep you competitive.

7:00 Conference Registration & Breakfast In The Exhibit Hall
Conference Registration & Breakfast In The Exhibit Hall
7:45 Opening Remarks
Sara Mueller, Executive Director, Conference Development, Worldwide Business Research
Opening Remarks
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Sara Mueller
Executive Director, Conference Development, Worldwide Business Research

8:00 Chairperson’s Address
James H. Muller, Managing Director, ITG Inc.
Chairperson’s Address
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James H. Muller
Managing Director, ITG Inc.

Jim Muller is a Managing Director responsible for the Middle Markets Group and Business Development at ITG. Jim joined ITG in 1997 and has held several positions within the firm. In 1996, Jim launched an Institutional Equity Sales office for Fidelity Capital Markets in NYC. At Institutional Investor from 1991 – 1996, Jim lead several industry organizations. Jim was Director of Trader Forum and fou [read more]
8:15 Panel: Ensuring You Have The Necessary Tools And Relationships To Source Liquidity And Trade Profitably As Market Structure Evolves
Joe Gudorf, Head Trader, Principal Global Investors
David Margulies, Head of Electronic Products Group, Weeden & Co.
  • Assessing the current state of regulatory reform; how are desks responding to recently passed regulation and preparing for inevitable changes?
  • Observing how the buy side and sell side relationship has shifted in the past year; where is the buy side most dependent on the sell side?
  • Identifying new profit-making opportunities created by the new market structure
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Joe Gudorf
Head Trader, Principal Global Investors

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David Margulies
Head of Electronic Products Group, Weeden & Co.

8:55 Panel: Examining The Advancement Of The Asia- Pacific Equities Market Structure
Mayiz Habbal, PhD, SVP Securities & Investments, Celent
Andrew Freyre-Sanders, Global Head of Client Electronic Execution, Head of Equity Execution Services, Asia, RBS Securities Inc.
Tom Kingsley, Asia Trading Product Manager, Bloomberg Tradebook
  • Will the Asia-Pac market resemble US and European market structure any time soon?
  • What are different exchanges and regulatory bodies doing to foster more electronic trading or different venue types?
  • What are some of the idiosyncrasies of the market that may hold back adoption of advanced trading tools?
  • Establishing current trends and future predictions for buy side adoption of electronic trading tools in Asia-Pac
  • Determining where there is growth potential for high frequency trading in this region? Looking at how exchanges are starting to improve their order matching systems to cultivate this potential growth
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Mayiz Habbal, PhD
SVP Securities & Investments, Celent

Mayiz Habbal is Senior Vice President of the Securities & Investments Group at Celent and is based in the firm's New York office. His areas of research focus on enterprise architectures and aligning business strategy with IT initiatives. He brings with him over 15 years of experience in the management and development of software and engineering of IT strategies, predominantly in the investment [read more]
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Andrew Freyre-Sanders
Global Head of Client Electronic Execution, Head of Equity Execution Services, Asia, RBS Securities Inc.

Andrew Joined RBS in September of 2008 from JPMorgan where he spent 6 years working in Europe and Asia on their Electronic trading platforms and Microstructure research products. Prior to this Andrew spent 5 years at Dresdner in Quantitative and Execution Research. Andrew also sit on the DJ STOXX advisory committee.. His key focus at RBS will be to deliver the RBS strategic electronic execution pl [read more]
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Tom Kingsley
Asia Trading Product Manager, Bloomberg Tradebook

9:35 The New Liquidity Dynamic: How The Buy Side And The Sell Side Are Adapting In The Evolving Equity Trading Ecosystem
Brian Fagen, Managing Director, Head of Equities Electronic Trading Distribution, Barclays Capital
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Brian Fagen
Managing Director, Head of Equities Electronic Trading Distribution, Barclays Capital

Brian R. Fagen is a Managing Director and Head of Equities Electronic Trading Distribution. He was previously Co-Head of Liquid Market Sales, Americas, a role he also held at Lehman Brothers before joining Barclays Capital in 2008. Mr. Fagen spent two years at Lehman Brothers, after having held several senior roles at Morgan Stanley, including Head of Program Trading and Sales, Head of Equity Futu [read more]
10:15 Morning Refreshment & Networking Break In The Exhibit Hall
Morning Refreshment & Networking Break In The Exhibit Hall
10:50 Optimizing Your Trading Strategies: A Review Of The Latest Best Practices And Tools
Robert Kissell Ph.D., Executive Director, Direct Execution and Portfolio Trading, UBS Investment Bank
  • What are the latest innovations among the crowded, often confusing array of execution strategies?
  • What are the best practices in synthesizing in pre-, post-, and realtime TCA into your trading process?
  • What does "optimal" really mean? A practical guide to establishing effective metrics for today's dynamic market structure
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Robert Kissell Ph.D.
Executive Director, Direct Execution and Portfolio Trading, UBS Investment Bank

Dr. Robert Kissell is an Executive Director responsible for analytics product initiatives within UBS Direct Execution and UBS Portfolio Trading, working closely with both teams to develop a suite of quantitative services and value-added advisory as part of the firm’s pre-, at- and post-trade transaction cost analysis (TCA) offering; Investment Analysis & Portfolio Construction/Rebalancing; Ris [read more]
11:25 Benchmarking Polling Session
Here’s your chance to see how your firm stacks up to your competitors in everything from trader compensation to technology adoption. Have an area you’d like to benchmark at the conference? Submit your ideas to Sara Mueller at sara.mueller@wbresearch.com

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11:35 Guest Speaker: A Conversation With Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis, Journalist & Best-Selling Author, Liar's Poker, The Blind Side, and The Big Short
A shrewd observer of politics, finance, and the American scene, Michael Lewis combines keen insight with his signature wit, making him one of today’s leading social commentators. Starting with the years he chronicled in Liar’s Poker, he touches on the major economic events of the last twenty years, exploring what this period was all about, how it began, and how it is likely to end.
Michael Lewis

Michael Lewis
Journalist & Best-Selling Author, Liar's Poker, The Blind Side, and The Big Short

A shrewd observer of politics, finance and the American scene, Michael Lewis combines keen insight with his signature wit, making him one of today’s leading social commentators.A renowned best-selling author, Lewis is also a regular contributor to The New York TimesMagazine, Vanity Fair, Slate and Bloomberg. Lewis’ most recent book, The Big Short: Insidethe Doomsday Machine (2010), is a darkly hum [read more]
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
3:05 Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Break In The Exhibit Hall
Afternoon Refreshment & Networking Break In The Exhibit Hall
4:45 UBS Gala Cocktail Reception
After a day filled with constructive debate and information sharing, unwind with your new network of colleagues and friends at the TradeTech Cocktail Gala. Relax, have fun, and bring your business cards! Embrace this opportunity to forge new business partnerships and uncover additional equity trading and technology strategies in an informal atmosphere. Plus the music’s fun, the food is always great, and all your peers will be here! Don’t miss out!
6:15 Conclusion Of TradeTech San Francisco Main Conference Day One
Conclusion Of TradeTech San Francisco Main Conference Day One
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