Re-scheduled: Where Fin Tech Will Lead: Fin Tech & Kx Leading the Way

RESCHEDULED DUE TO SNOW. PLEASE NOTE.

• What we'll do
Gain insights on technology's future, no matter your industry.

Fin Tech is on a tear! Financial traders have applied lightning fast technology for decades. Now, variants of such technology are spreading through other industries.

What’s the leading edge in financial technology? How will such technology bleed through every other industry in our economy? Come hear.

The evening is sponsored by leading financial services provider Kx. Kx, the creators of programming language q, is technology provider to global financial institutions including banks, trading houses, financial markets, and others.

Gain insiders' commercial perspectives. For the businessperson, how can we think about the capabilities of cutting edge financial technology? What does such technology imply for competition in both the financial industry-- and for others? And, how will this technology bleed from finance to everywhere else?

Primary Speaker: Conner McNicholas: kdb+ Developer from Palo Alto, California
Conner's experience is primarily in stock market surveillance: live time reviewing of financial market trades on the NYSE and other platforms. Conner joined Kx Systems in January 2015 and is an expert in all things kdb+, q and Kx's database technology solutions.

Introduction: Mark Seaver: Global Business Development Executive
Mark joined Kx Systems in September 2016, and was sent as an expatriate from Ireland to the US East Coast. Mark is responsible for evangelizing Kx technology along the east coast of the United States, with remit over New York City, Philadelphia and Washington

Kx representatives will also provide a technical overview. They will illustrate how to use a relational time-series and columnar database with a tightly integrated query language. Why do such approaches matter? They’re capable of aggregating and consolidating billions of streaming and real time historical records.

Industry leaders, exciting talks—and great networking. Beers, pizza, and the evening are all on us. See you there!

Agenda:
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM: Registration & Networking
7:00 PM – 7:45 PM: Presentation: Fin Tech and Kx Leading the Way
7:45 PM –8:00 PM: Q & A Session
8.00 PM - 9.00 PM: Networking and Drinks