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FREE EVENT: QCON IN FINANCE EXCHANGE 08-10-08
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QCon in Finance eXchange, organised by Skills Matter and QCon, is a FREE one day event that returns to the finance sector to provide a forum to discuss some of the latest innovations, best practices and architectural challenges facing IT. The day is aimed at developers, managers, architects, vendors and consultants with a vested interest in making IT work within Finance.
Attendance is free for registered participants
The programme covers a wide variety of topics, effectively from the customer backwards. Are you leveraging the web to give your customers cutting-edge real-time networking? Are your applications taking advantage of component-based techniques? What lessons have been learnt moving datacentres into the cloud? How do you build fault tolerant systems with Erlang? What techniques are being used to capture, load, analyse, slice and dice large volumes of data for market risk?
QCon in Finance eXchange is free but places are limited. Sign up now to avoid disappointment!
PROGRAMME
09:00 - 09:15 CLEVE GIBBON: WELCOME TO THE QCON IN FINANCE EXCHANGE.
The finance sector is a challenging place for IT people. It comes with large, intricate and time sensitive problems that the business expect to be solved with simple, elegant and performant technical solutions. We all know that its simple to make things complex. At QCon Finance Exchange we have some very exciting speakers who know its complex to make things simple. Join us for a day of talks and discussions to share problems and solutions, dos and don'ts at QCon Finance Exchange in London.
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09:15 - 10:10 MATT DEACON: SUSTAINABLE IT – FROM DATACENTRE TO CLOUD.
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10:10-11:05 ERIC EVANS: DOMAIN DRIVEN DESIGN.
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11:20 - 12:15 JIM KENNEDY & GORDON WEIR: REAL LIFE ENTERPRISE SOLUTION DELIVERY USING INTENTIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND AGILITY.
 
UBS are nearly 2 years through a 4 year re-engineering and re-platforming of the middle and back office applications. Having successfully implemented the majority of the architectural components, UBS are running a significant volume of their business through these Java-based applications. This session focuses on ensuring successful delivery of major reengineering programmes and dealing with the challenges and key decisions required. How do you define a target architecture that can support a combination of business and IT reengineering? Can this be done quickly and with agility? How do you to build a delivery organisation that can ensure rapid and sustainable adherence to that vision and deal with real world issues such as change outside of the programme, legacy challenges / opportunities and resourcing.
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13:15 - 14:10 NEIL BARTLETT: OSGI IN BANKING.
In this presentation Neil will discuss real-world benefits and best practices learned from using OSGi in one of the largest Wall Street banks, including some of the pitfalls and road-blocks encountered along way, and how to avoid them.
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14:10 - 15:05 ERIK STENMAN: ERLANG MAKES MONEY GO ROUND.
In this talk Erik will give a short introduction to Erlang, arguing for why it is so well suited for building high availability financial systems. He will present some key features of Erlang which have helped in making Kreditor a success. The talk will also touch on the downsides of using Erlang and some lessons learned from building a start-up with Erlang technology. Finally, Erik will give some advice on when to use Erlang and when not to.
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15:20-16:15 DOMINIQUE DELARUE: ENTERPRISE COMPUTING AT BNP PARIBAS.
Developing and Running the Market Risk System at one of the world's largest banks: an architectural overview. The Market Risk System at BNP Paribas is a global system for calculating the market risk of all trading activities at the bank. This talk will describe how we solve the architectural problems in providing large amounts of market risk data to a global user base within a single integrated solution.
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16:15 - 17:10 BRIAN OLIVER: PATTERNS FOR MANAGING ORDER BOOKS AND REFERENCE DATA ON A GLOBAL BASIS (WITH ORACLE COHERENCE).
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17:20 - 18:20 ROD JOHNSON: THE CATHEDRAL, THE BAZAAR AND THE COMMISSAR: THE EVOLUTION OF INNOVATION IN ENTERPRISE JAVA.
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