FUTURE CITY builds on an established community of over 2,000 business & IT experts and decision makers, as an ideal forum for the exchange of ideas
FUTURE CITY evolves from the fasterCITY series of networking events running in London & New York since 2006
Each event produces short video podcasts and powerful market intelligence from its range of senior delegates
As the market regains equilibrium, regulation and business innovation is carving new market structure and business processes - resulting in pressure towards how technology and infrastructure will support new demands for risk data analysis, information management and interparty communication. The status quo is being challenged around how best to invest, capex and opex models and the role outsourced processes in a variety of service provider forms.
Continuing the series of very popular FUTURE CITY events in London and New York, FUTURE DATACENTRE, CLOUD and SERVICE PROVIDER will cover a range of perspectives on the challenge. What technologies to investigate and deploy – what service models to adopt – buy or rent, build or consume.
As usual, the formal FUTURE CITY proceedings will be followed by a Chief Wine Officer® reception of fine-wines, gourmet canapés and informal networking.
Cisco House is an exclusive venue created in celebration of Cisco´s role as the official network infrastructure supporter of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Cisco House is located above Westfield Stratford City, with stunning views over the Olympic Park. This venue is open for just five months to specially invited guests only, so please reserve your place now for this exclusive event hereusing the reference ‘futurecloud’ on the registration form, or simply reply to this email.
Mon 21 May 2012, 18:15
Cisco House - Westfield, Stratford City, London E20
Data Management in Financial Services
Buy side, sell side, front, middle or back office – whether the focus is on handling the deluge of market data for high-frequency trading, or getting to grips with worldwide transactions for risk, data is the lubricating medium that enables all other processes.
The market's marketers have adopted ‘big data’, but what does that mean in the context of financial services and how do we address the technical and computing challenge of data with today's business processes?
Continuing the series of very popular FUTURE CITY events in London and New York, FUTURE DATA will cover a range of perspectives on the data challenge across the financial transaction lifecycle. The combination of keynote and panel will enable insight into the views of the leading firms, to the positioning of the vendor market on key subjects such as market data volumes, standards, the quest for golden reference and impact on risk and capital adequacy to name a few "hotspots".
As usual, the formal FUTURE CITY proceedings will be followed by a Chief Wine Officer® reception of fine-wines, gourmet canapés and informal networking.
Tue 26 June 2012, 18:15
IET Savoy Place - 2 Savoy Place. London, London WC2R
Risk management is now undoubtedly at top of the agenda across financial services.
The challenges faced by the industry affect the fundamental culture of the market and the way firms operate, from the business processes through to the enabling technology infrastructures. Technology continues to innovate and bring new capabilities to market which must be considered in investment strategies to meet these challenges.
From transaction systems and data management to high powered computation, financial risk is attracting new approaches to technology which will be explored during this event.Attendees will hear views on the very latest technology that can be deployed to best and most cost-efficient effect, enabling faster responses to the demands of regulatorsand enabling new risk-factored business models.
The areas covered will include: addressing changing regulations; dealing with risk data consistency; how to achieve flexibility of response; and reducing the current complexity. Breaking news will cover the very latest developments in industry-standard multi-core computing, and how they optimise the analytical platform for sharable, re-usable and transposable models.
Technology options are varied and complex. FUTURE CITY will deliver perspectives on how to unravel the jargon and make the right choices to shape the necessary investment programmes going forward.
March 2012
Paramount Club - Centre Point, London WC1A, London
Whether the focus is on achieving high-frequency trading, getting ready for Basel III or consolidating legacy applications and infrastructures, data is the lubricating medium that enables all other processes.
Continuing the series of very popular FUTURE CITY events in London and New York, FUTURE DATA, sponsored by Push Technology, Dell and Intel, will cover a range of perspectives on the data challenge, from an insight into the views of the leading firms, to the positioning of the vendor market.
As usual, the formal FUTURE CITY proceedings will be followed by a Chief Wine Officer® reception of fine-wines, gourmet canapés and informal networking.
February 2012
Trump Soho - 246 Spring Street, New York City, NY 10013, New York
In the race for financial sophistication and technology-enabled differentiation, let’s not lose sight of the real target – the customer.
Continuing our series of very popular FUTURE CITY events in London and New York, FUTURE CUSTOMER will cover new customer service models in financial services through industry experts and panel discussions, encompassing a mix of future ideas and disruptive technologies.
Industry keynote speakers will include HSBC and CME Group.
As usual, the formal FUTURE CITY proceedings will be followed by a Chief Wine Officer® reception of fine wines, gourmet canapés and informal networking.
November 2011
195 Piccadilly BAFTA Headquarters, London W1
Whether the focus is on achieving high-frequency trading, getting ready for Basel III or consolidating legacy applications and infrastructures, data is the lubricating medium that enables all other processes.
Continuing the series of very popular FUTURE CITY events in London and New York, FUTURE DATA will cover a range of perspectives on the data challenge, from an insight into the views of the leading firms (including Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Nomura), to the positioning of the vendor market.
As usual, the formal FUTURE CITY proceedings will be followed by a Chief Wine Officer® reception of fine-wines, gourmet canapés and informal networking.
September 2011
195 Piccadilly BAFTA Headquarters, London W1
Event Series
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26th June 2012
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