9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
8:30 a.m. — Registration & Continental Breakfast
Tuesday, December 10, 2002 
Chicago Mercantile Exchange Auditorium

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The FIA has formed a standards working group to facilitate communication between exchanges and firms about adoption of an industry-wide standard. Implementation of new technologies is well underway at U.S. exchanges. New protocols are being adopted for back office processing and current industry standards such as TREX will eventually be phased out. This half-day program will update business, operations and IT futures and options industry professionals on various standards initiatives in order to help you make decisions on your own IT program.

• How can FIXML/XML benefit my business?
• What is the difference between FIX/FIXML, FpML and XML?
• What do these technologies have to do with STP?
• What are the costs?
• Is there any downside to these new technologies?
• Are we making progress toward an industry-wide standard?
• What would my firm need to do to start using these new messaging technologies?

Speakers:

• John Munro, Senior Vice President, Product Design, Rolfe & Nolan and Chair, FIA Standards Working Group
• Angela Krug, Vice President, Deutsche Bank AG and Vice Chairman, FIA Standards Working Group
• Jim Northey, Principal, LaSalle Technology Management Group, Inc. and Chairman of the FIX Protocol Organization’s Global Derivatives Committee
• Ed Gogol, Director, Systems Development, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc.
• Tom McCabe, Vice President, Floor Operations, Chicago Board of Trade
• Matt Simpson, Senior Systems Analyst, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc.

Exchange Report on Standards

• What standards are exchanges currently using?
• What is in the development stages?
• Are they willing to move toward an industry standard?
• When are exchange initiatives going to be released?
• What is the opportunity/impact to my business (exchange interfaces/data feeds/new applications)?

Representatives from the Board of Trade Clearing Corporation, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc., Kansas City Board of Trade, Minneapolis Grain Exchange, New York Board of Trade, New York Mercantile Exchange, and Options Clearing Corporation have been invited to participate.