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Advanced Execution Strategies:
Algorithmic Trading & Direct Market Access – Threats and Opportunities for the Buy-Side & Sell-Side

December 8, 2004
Bayards, New York City
(Map)

 

  8:00    Registration / Breakfast with Exhibitors

  9:00    Chairperson’s Opening Remarks
            
  Andrei Postelnicu,
Financial Times

 
9:15    Keynote Address
             Impact on Market Structure and the Role of
             Exchanges, ECNs and ATS
s
               Rob Hegarty,
Vice President, Securities and Investments
               TowerGroup (View Presentation Slides)

  9:45    Vendor Roundtable
             Broker Neutrality & Market Consolidation:
             Opportunities for New Players?

                Moderator
                  Josh Galper,
Senior Consultant, The Tabb Group
               
Panelists
                  Eric Goldberg,
Chief Executive Officer
                  Portware

                  David Quinlan, President
                  Eze Castle Software
              
   Joe Horowitz, Chief Technology Officer
                  Aegis Software
                 
Lloyd Altman, Senior Vice President
                  Random Walk Computing            

10:30     Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

11:00     Case Study
              Empirical Analysis of Algo Trading/DMA Benefits:
              Cost, Capacity, Market Impact & Productivity
               
Peter Mulieri,
Senior Vice President
                Investment Technology Group
               
Doug Cote, Senior Portfolio Manager
                ING Investment Management

11:30     Traders' Forum
              Future of the Trading Profession: Will Black Box,
              Automated Trading Systems Replace Human Traders?
              Is Algo the Sorcerer’s Apprentice or a Very Smart
              Assistant?
                Moderator
                  Michael Scotti,
Former Director, TraderForum
               
Panelists
            
     Greg Tusar,
Managing Director
                  Goldman Sachs & Co

                 
Chris Mahler,
Managing Director
                  Weeden & Co LP

                  Rob Flatley,
Managing Director
                  Banc of America Securities
               
  Carl Carrie, Head of Product Management
                  JP Morgan
               
  Michel Debiche, President and Chief Executive Officer
                  Quantia Capital Management

12:15     Luncheon with Exhibitors

  1:15     Smart Routing and Sophisticated Order Types – What
              Works & When? How Intelligent, and Does it
              Really Learn?
               
Moderator
                  Greg Johnston,
Director of Financial Services,
                 
Headstrong Inc.
                Panelists
               
  Michael Richter,
Chief Executive Officer
                  Lime Brokerage LLC
               
  Randy Abernethy, Chief Executive Officer
                  UNX Inc.
               
  Richard Korhammer, Chairman & CEO
                  Lava Trading
               
  Tal Cohen,
Senior Vice President
                  Instinet, LLC

  2:00     Algo and DMA: What becomes of the Buy-Side/Sell-Side
              Relationship?
               
Moderator
                  Denise Valentine,
Analyst
                  CELENT

               
Panelists
                 
Dave Cushing, Managing Director, Program Trading Analytics
                  Lehman Brothers
               
  Derrick Johnson, Vice President
                  CS First Boston
               
  Mike Boyd, Head of Institutional Sales & Trading
                  CJM Securities
               
  Scott Stickler, Executive Director
                  Morgan Stanley
               
  Jana Hale, Global Head, Algorithmic Trading
                  Goldman Sachs

  2:45     Refreshment Break: Pepsi vs. Coke – You decide J

  3:00     Order Size, Market Fragmentation, Anonymity & Control:
              How Much Information Leakage is There, Really; and
              Where is/will be the Liquidity?
             
  Adrian Begley, Executive Vice President
                RoyalBlue Fidessa
             
  John Wightkin, President
                Quantitative Services Group LLC

  3:45     Market Impact & Benchmark Trading Strategies:
              The Role of Buy-Side OMS
s
 
                Moderator
                 
  Jessica Sommar, Managing Editor
                    Wall Street Letter

                  Panelists
                    Stephen Alepa,
Executive Vice President
                    Macgregor Financial Network
             
      Dave Mortimer, Managing Director
                    Piper Jaffray & Company
             
      Eric Bernstein, Director of Product Management
                    LineData
                    Rick Enfield, Director, Product Management
                    Charles River Development

  4:30     Conference Adjourns