Following on from the success in previous years, this years OpenSource in Finance eXchange has brought together the leading experts in Open Source technology and Financial Services software development with innovators, technologists, architects and developers in the developer community for an informal day of deep technical insight and friendly discussion.


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With 8 expert talks and two Parkbench sessions, the programme was structured to encourage discussion, networking and the exchange of ideas on the use open source technology in Financial Services with passionate members of the developer community in this sector.

Thanks to Alan Hardy, the Programme Lead, for putting together an interesting and exciting set of talks! PROGRAMME

Tuesday 15th December 2009

Track 1 09:30-10:00     WELCOME MESSAGE Alan Hardy: The day will start with some coffee, tea and refreshments after which Alan Hardy, programme lead of the Open Source in Finance eXchange will open the conference. more...     10:15-11:00    APACHE OPEN SOURCE FOR FINANCE Rob Davies: In this talk Rob explains how open source from the Apache Software Foundation can achieve high performance and availability and reliable delivery of information across many diverse systems more...     11:05-11:50    I NEED MARKET DATA 1MS AGO! Angelo Corsaro: In this talk, Angelo will explain how OpenSplice DDS is an Open Source technology for ultra-low-latency data distribution that is conquering the Capital Markets. more...     11:55-12:40    CLIMBING MOUNT COMPLEXITY David Vincent: In this talk David Vincent explores how open source software, particularly ESPER Complex Event Processing and QuickFixJ are used today in leading Liquidity Management Systems (LMS). more...     12:40-13:40    LUNCH & REFRESHMENTS Lunch & Refreshments        COMING SOON ....       14:30-15:15    SCALA, A BETTER LANGUAGE FOR FINANCE?! Alex McGuire: After describing some of the areas of Scala that are of particular interest in financial development, Alex talks about the reasons Scala improved his team's productivity, reduced the size of the codebase and eased maintainance. more...     15:20-16:05    HAND ME THE SPANNER, I THINK IT'S GOING Janne Valkealahti: Janne Valkealahti will give a talk on Hyperic, the web application performance management software provider, recently acquired by SpringSource. More information coming soon! more...     16:10-16:55    WAKING UP TO THE NEW ECONOMICS OF IT Emma McGrattan: Emma will discuss how an independent bank specialising in financing enterprises embraced the New Economics of IT and how an open source solution delivered low cost and accelerated innovation. more...     17:00-17:20    JVM PERFORMANCE TUNING Ben Evans: Why is performance analysis so hard to do well? What features of Java are the actual big-ticket items when it comes to performance? How much have recent advances in the JVM really helped? and more... more...     17:25-17:45    EUCALYPTUS Simon Wardley: Why don't financial institutions embrace cloud based computing solution? Is it possible to evaluate cloud concepts internally using standard API but running on the institutions own hardware, then move to external solution with none/minimal api impact? Eucalyptus could be the way forward! more...     17:45-18:00    OPEN SOURCE EXCHANGE SPONSORED PRIZE RAF Open Source eXchange Sponsored Prize Raffle and thanks to all speakers, delegates and sponsors, followed by some more drinks. more...

Track 2    COMING SOON ....          COMING SOON ....       11:00-11:50    INGRES DATABASE ADMIN (PART 1) : Ingres Visual DBA is an Ingres client tool to manage local or remote Ingres databases. This workshop will show how to perform an Ingres client install. Create a database. Import data. more...     11:55-12:40    INGRES DATABASE ADMIN (PART 2) : Ingres Visual SQL provides a client interface to manipulate data. The Query Execution Plan can be displayed for performance analysis.The second part of the workshop will demonstrate how to manipulate data using Ingres Visual SQL.Other VDBA options are covered, including table management, database backup and recovery. more...         13:45-14:30    INGRES DATABASE WORKBENCH : The Ingres Database Workbench (IDW) is a powerful, low-overhead tool that makes Ingres database maintenance faster and easier and simplifies database management tasks. IDW is based on the Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP). more...     14:30-15:15    INGRES SERVER : Install an Ingres DBMS server. Create a database and monitor sessions. more...        COMING SOON ....          COMING SOON ....          COMING SOON ....          COMING SOON ....

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