Date  May 3, 2006   Venue  The Union League Club Of New York 38 East 37th Street New York, NY 10016

The success and efficiency of an information technology organization in the financial industry is driven by its ability to adapt to market dynamics and regulatory changes, and its flexibility in meeting the demands of compressed product cycles and new product development initiatives. The objective for successful IT leaders is to create and optimize business value through information technology. Financial companies are adopting several strategies to gain competitive advantage, such as leveraging a global workforce and optimized sourcing models, using new and emerging technologies, building an on-demand infrastructure and making significant investment in IT architecture

Next Generation IT Strategies in the Financial Industry will be a premier one-day conference focusing on

• IT strategies that leading CIOs and senior IT executives in the financial industry are adopting to give their firms long-term competitive advantage.
  
• Best practices in architecting, implementing and providing an on-demand, scalable and highly available infrastructure .
  
• Trends and analysis of using alternate sourcing models and leveraging a global workforce in the information technology organization.
  
• Insights into the developments and emerging trends in key IT domains such as .Net and J2EE technologies, security, storage and grid computing.
  
• Enterprise case studies, which will provide detailed and first-hand experience from leading financial firms on how to to achieve higher return of investment in IT projects while lowering the total cost of ownership of IT assets.
• Panel discussions featuring industry leaders and practitioners debating the emerging trends in IT and their applicability to the financial industry.

Who Should Attend the Conference?
The conference is targeted toward the senior management of the financial industry and IT product and services industries. It is a must-attend conference for all IT decision-makers in the banking and capital markets industry. The conference will provide valuable strategic insight and experience sharing from senior IT executives in the financial industry. The conference has specifically been designed for:

• Chief Information Officers
  
• Chief Technology Officers
  
• Directors or Direct Reports of the CIOs and CTOs
  
• IT Architecture Managers
  
• IT Infrastructure Managers
  
• Application Development Group Managers
  
• Chief Outsourcing Officers
  
• IT Security Managers
  
• IT Network Managers
  
• IT Sourcing and Contracts Management Executives
  
• Business Executives involved in the technology planning and decision-making process
  
• Others involved in enterprise-level IT decisions