4 Sept 2002: Wall Street IT-tng Show for Web Services

Web Services for the financial market segment will be the focus of the Wall Street IT-tng showcase and conference running today and tomorrow at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York.

The conference – organized by Lighthouse Partners (the founder of XML on Wall Street) and Flagg Management – features presentations and exhibitions of how Web Services and related technologies, including J2EE, XML and .Net, are being deployed by financial services firms. The conference succeeds Lighthouse Partners’ previous XML on Wall Street show.

Among the scheduled speakers are: Ron Schmelzer, founder and senior analyst at Zapthink; Gunner Burkhart, global head of trading and broker relationship management at Deutsche Bank; Steve Neiman, vice president, high performance computing, JP Morgan Chase; Devin Wenig, president, investment banking/brokerage division, Reuters; Leo Schlinkert, CEO, Communicator Inc.; Jeremy Lehman, senior vice president, software development IMG, Thomson Financial; and Andy Wachs, program director, Linux strategy and market development, IBM.

In addition, a special pre-conference training seminar on Wednesday morning was to focus on Web Services for technology managers. Presented by Anne Thomas-Manes, CTO of Systinet, the seminar was to include an overview of the various elements of Web Services technology, including XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. A free, pre-conference technology visions seminar, sponsored by Software AG will take place at 12.45 p.m. Wednesday.

The exhibition opens at 4 p.m. Among those exhibiting are: Altio, Altova, Arbortext, BEA Systems, Clearnet/The Morris Group, Contivo, eXcelon, Global Securities Information, Iona Technologies, Microsoft, Platform Computing, Random Walk Computing, Software AG and ZapThink.