 2017 HPC on Wall Street Conference Welcome by Russell Flagg |
 Lacee McGee, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Keynote Session Speaker, "Convergence of HPC and BD and it Implication for FSI" |
 Lacee McGee, Sr Product Manager, FSI Vertical, Hewlett Packard Enterprise |
 Rapt Audience at Keynote Session #1 |
 Note-taking and FSI Focus at 1st Session |
 Laptops and iPads note-taking were standard in this Capital Market attendee audience |
 Capital Markets attendees came from major headquarter offices in New York and other Major Cities |
 Cell phone photos of presentation slides were standard with this techie audience |
 Attendees ot the conference included senior officers of major corporations |
 Justin Hodgson, Senior Acct Mgr, Financial Services, NVIDIA, was a featured speaker on the Opening Keynote Session #1 |
 NVIDIA's informative session covered CPU versus GPU |
 The NVIDIA's keynote session also featured Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Kinetica on the program |
 Karthik Lalithraj, Principal Solution Architect, Kinetica was on the Opening Keynote Session #1 covering Identifying Terroristic Threat in Real Time |
 Kinetica employs High Performance Computing for their super-speed, real-time computing of terrorism threats |
 Ciara / Hypertec Group |
 BIOS IT / San Francisco and London |
 Micron / Innovative Memory Solutions |
 Pure Storage / Cisco |
 Exhibitor and Capital Markets Attendees Interaction |
 Pure Storage / Cisco |
 Rima Alameddine of NVIDIA, one of the featured speakers, greets a colleague at the show. |
 BIOS IT Global IT Solutions discuss Capital Markets technology |
 Lenovo Technology discussions at their exhibit |
 Keynote Session #2 featured speakers from Hewlett Packard and Intel |
 Featured speakers included Chuck Newman, HP; Charles Milo and Russ Fromkin, Intel |
 An outstanding panel for Keynote #2 -- Chuck Newman, Charles Milo, Russ Fromkin covering HPC and accelerated technology for Ultra High Speed Trading |
 Russ Fromkin is Intel's Americas HPC and HPDA Sales Director |
 Charles Milo is Intel's Enterprise Technical Specialist |
 The Capital Markets were well represented at the conference, Credit Suisse as an example |
 An attentive audience at the Hewlett Packard and Intel session |
 Conference attendees represented major Wall Street firms, banks, international investment organizations |
 Apstra was showing their new Network Operating System (AOS) |
 Terasic FPGA Platforms were featured at their busy exhibit |
 Save-The-Date for 2018 - April 16, 2018 for the next HPC for Wall Street |
 Terasics exciting display of FPGA systems |
 Pure Storage demonstrations brought Wall Street IT people to their booth |
 Mellanox display of ultra high speed server / storage interconnect solutions |
 Dell EMC was active with their best-in-class HPC technology: applications, data, infrastructure and security |
 Dolphin Interconnect Solutions connects FPGA, GPUs and servers using PCI Express |
 Pico featured market data services and customized managed infrastructure solutions |
 Ciara / Hypertec Group was active in their exhibit |
 Micron was a Gold Sponsor and had an outstanding session #6 with Brad Spiers, Senior Technology Adivsor as a featured speaker |
 Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Intel were Gold Sponsor at our 14th Annual |
 Intel and Hewlett Packard Enterprise featured accelerated HPC solutions |
 The Hewlett Packard Enterprise / Intel exhibit was very active during exclusive show viewing times |
 Show interaction provided face to face discussions and new contacts established for vendor and potential customers |
 Old friends had the opportunity to network at this efficient one-day event |
 Lenovo and Intel were well represented at the exhibits and conference |
 Speakers and exhibitors had time to meet and discuss HPC technology issues for Wall Street and Capital Markets |
 Dell EMC featured machine-learning and AI in their presentations and conference sessions |
 Pure Storage discussed data storage solutions with Wall Street IT attendees |
 CDW had an active location and provided CDW solutions for their new-found friends |
 Apstra featured Vendor-Agnostic Data Center Network Automation |
 Harvey Stein of Bloomberg moderated panel Session #3 with Moiz Kohari (State Street), Jeff Birnbaum (60East Technologies), Sean Hafeez (Apstra) |
 Session #3 was an outstanding program "Outsourcing HPC Infrastructure in the HFT Ecosystem" |
 Session #3 panelists represented major financial firms of State Street, Bloomberg, 60East, Apstra |
 Moiz Kohari, State Street, was formerly with the London Stock Exchange |
 Jeffrey Birnbaum, 60East Technologies, was formerly with Merrill Lynch / Bank of America |
 Sean Hafeez, Apstra, Director |
 Aspera and IBM Company was a featured speaker on session #7 -- Jason Warman, Director of Engineering Financial Services, was a panelist |
 Lenovo had David Weber, Wall Street CTO, as a featured speaker on session 7. |
 Ciara / Hypertec Group had an active exhibit showing their new 1 Uorion HF.310-G4 High Frequency Server |
 Dolphin had an active exhibit showing the PCIe Network delivering low latency, simplified approach to sharing and moving PCIe devices between systems |
 Super Micro was represented in the BIOS IT exhibit |
 A delicious luncheon was an opportunity to share experiences and meet new Wall Street colleagues |
 The terrace Ballroom is one of the classic New York venues of our traditional luncheon program |
 Dessert was served in the exhibits to encourage more network opportunities |
 Dessert trays were passed throughout the exhibit hall immediately after lunch |
 Coffee service, soft drinks, cookies, and brownies were all party of the amenities |
 "Have another" the waiters suggested |
 Mellanox sponsored Session 5, "High Performance Storage -- Where is it Headed" with Asaf Wachtel of Mellanox the moderator |
 Asaf Wachtel is VP, Business Development, Mellanox Technologies |
 Narendra Narang is Principal Specialist Solution Architect, Red Hat |
 Robert Winter is Director Advanced Solution Architecture, Micron Technology |
 Piyush Chaudhary is Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM |
 Rob Davis was a distinguished panelist on Session 5 |
 Where is HPC Storage Headed -- Panel 6 was extraordinarily received by our Wall Street IT attendees |
 Network opportunities were at every corner of the HPC event |
 Mellanox's exhibit was well-received |
 Lenovo and Intel's exhibit featured servers and storage systems |
 Micron was a Gold Sponsor and Brad Spiers spoke on session 6, "Accelerate Unchanged Spark Code with FPGAs and SSDs." |
 Brad Spiers, Senior Technical Advisor, Micron Technology, Inc. |
 Micron's Presentation covered Machine Learning Infrastructure Progression in Time |
 Dave Weber, Lenovo, and Wall Street attendees |
 Micron's booth was busy during the show breaks |
 BIOS IT with "V Scaler" |
 Brad Spiers, Micron, speaks to a group of colleagues after his presentation at Session 6 |
 Andy Bach, Senior Technology Advisor, Pico Trading, was a featured speaker on Session 7 |
 Andy Bach covered Technology Network Trend Processing Speed |
 Matt Cushman also spoke on Session 6 -- Matt is CEO of Engineers Gate Market Technologies |
 Engineers Gate, founded in 2014, a multi-manager trading platform |
 Ed Turkel, Dell EMC, moderated the last panel of the day and focused on HPC in today's FinTech world |
 Ed Turkey is HPC Strategist, Dell EMC, and his presentation illustrated the depth of HPC in the financial market |
 Rima Alameddine of NVIDIA is their VP Eastern Region and discussed "AI Will Revolutionize Every Industry" |
 Rima Alameddine was a persuasive and well-received speaker |
 Jason Warman is a Director of Engineering Financial Services, Aspera, an IBM company |
 "Business Challenges" slide by Aspera |
 Dave Weber, Wall Street CTO, Lenovo |
 Lenovo's slide "The Modern IT Infrastructure Challenge," presented by Dave Weber |
 A well-deserved coffee break to end the day's events |