Programme

8:30

Registration and breakfast
9:00

Welcome address
Phil Albinus, Special Projects Editor, waters
9:10

Morning Keynote Address
John Killey, Head of Realty Services for EMEA, CITIGROUP
9:50

Chairperson’s opening remarks
10:00

Panel Discussion
The efficient management of data centers: Power, cooling and other operational considerations

  • Which technologies are being investing in 2008 and what strategies are being implemented to align the data center with the investment management process?

  • Strategies for maximizing the use of data centers while maintaining low power usage

  • City of London infrastructure considerations

  • Managing high-performance computing with power and cooling constraints in the data center

  • Building large data centers with lowest possible recovery time

  • Technological innovation: Where are data centers headed in the three- to five-year time horizon?

Moderator: Bob Giffords, Independent Banking Technology Analyst
John Killey, Head of Realty Services for EMEA, CITIGROUP
Ashley Davis, Managing Director, JPMORGAN CHASE
Michael Mainelli, Director, Z/YEN GROUP LIMITED
11:00

Morning break and opportunity to visit the exhibition
11:30

Presentation
The London Accord: Finance and Green IT

Outside the data centre; the London Accord

Inside the data centre; Green IT

The wider picture - geography and the cloud, geography and millisecond trading strategies, black wanderers and dark computing rooms

Risk/reward and green it

Michael Mainelli, Director, Z/YEN GROUP LIMITED
12:10

Managing trading floor energy consumption

  • Handling the expansion in trading floor size with the need to be energy efficient

  • Trading floors and data centers: How far can they be situated and how distance can vary based on technology in place

  • Disaster management: maximizing capacity whilst minimizing recovery time

  • Servers and storage: getting the most bang for the buck

Speaker to be confirmed – please check back for updates
1:10

Lunch and opportunity to visit the exhibition
2:10

Panel Discussion
Managing the growth in grid computing

  • Outsourcing grid computing components

  • Negotiating power limitations

  • Capacity planning – ensuring resources are in place to handle caching, CPUs and data grid

  • Defining SLAs for business resources

Moderator: John Barr, Research Director Financial Markets & Head of EU Research, THE 451 GROUP
Yomi Abatan, Technical Architect, DEUTSCHE BANK
Ian Osborne, Project Director, INTELLECT
Additional panelists to be confirmed – please check back for updates

2:50

Special Networking Session
“Strategic Green” Discussion on the challenges and recommendations that influence culture and change leading IT organizations to “green”
Andy Lawrence, Research Director – Eco-efficient IT, THE 451 GROUP
John Barr, Research Director Financial Markets & Head of EU Research, THE 451 GROUP
3:50

Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
4:00

Cocktail Reception
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