Advanced Trading's Buy Side Trading Summit is a two-day event where buy side traders and technology executives come together to share ideas and learn from each other. The 2007 event took place September 14-16 at the Ritz Carlton, Amelia Island, Fla. If you're considering attending next year's event, take a look at our 2008 preliminary agenda or view the 2007 photo gallery. In addition if you're interested in speaking or sponsoring, contact editor Kerry Massaro or Jennifer Iannucci, respectively.
Registration is only open to the buy side. Sponsors have included both technology companies and broker-dealers.

For those of you who attended our 2007 Summit, the session video is now available. The event was off the record, therefore the video on this site is password protected and only available to those who attended the summit. Once again, thank you for participating and helping to make our second Summit a very successful event.

Hope to see you all again next year!


The Buy-Side Trading Summit is an invitation-only event for the most senior-level buy side executives. If you are a buy-side trader or IT executive at a buy-side firm, this event was designed for you.

This year's event Transforming the Trading Desk — Illuminating the Dark focuses on the continuous evolution of the buy-side trading desk as buy-side traders incorporate cutting edge trading technology and learn to comply with new regulations such as Reg NMS and MiFID.

The trading desk transformation is still in its infancy. Some of the challenges and trends today that will result in technology investment or change include:
  • The challenges of integrating order-management systems and execution-management systems, which is an issue almost every buy sider is facing.
  • Determining what type of stand to take on soft dollars and possibly adopting commission management arrangements, means adopting new technology to manage these relationships.
  • The rapidity at which new crossing networks and dark pools are being launched is creating a conundrum for the buy side—do they need to connect to and tap all of these dark pools? Will the dark pools all one day link to each other to provide one large liquidity pool? Which dark pools are right for which type of fund?
  • And, of course, the transformation in the exchange space effects all traders—including the NYSE's union with Euronext and its partnership with Tokyo Exchange, the CBOT's possible deal with either the CME or ISE, and the Nasdaq potentially looking for a partner after being rebuffed by the LSE. The continuous change in the exchange space is causing change and confusion in the marketplace.
  • Lastly the multitude of investments by broker-dealers in regional exchanges and in up and coming ECNs is a predictor of an increasingly electronic marketplace, one where all buy side traders need to understand the tools available and the technology trends on the horizon.

The Buy Side Trading Summit attendees are the brightest minds in the industry who participate in peer to peer panel discussions, experience thought-provoking context, and partake in unsurpassed networking sessions.

What is our summit missing? - Large audience panel discussions, generic speakers, vendor booths and constant sales pitches.

By inviting the industry's most innovative and intelligent minds and limiting the number of attendees to only the most forward-thinking executives, the goal is to create a high-end, intimate experience where tremendous knowledge is shared among peers. Don't miss your opportunity.


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