8.20 Registration and breakfast

8.50 Welcome remarks
Tine Thoresen, Executive Editor, INSIDE REFERENCE DATA

9.00 Keynote Address: Outlook on the world economy and financial markets
Thorsten Weinelt, Global Head of Research and Chief Investment Strategist, UNICREDIT GROUP

9.25 End-user Panel: Realigning data procurement strategy with Germany's changing market structure

• Responding to price pressure and licensing issues: the challenge of delivering value from market data contracts
• Strategies of leveraging negotiation position
• How will the adoption of the legal entity identifier (LEI) impact the data industry?

Moderator: Albert Vliegen, Founder and Managing Director, TBXCOMPANY
Goeksel Yildiz, Global Head of Market Data Commercial Management, RWE SUPPLY & TRADING GMBH
Shirley  White, Global Market Data Manager, DEUTSCHE BANK
Stefanie Auth, Director, Global Market Data Manager, WESTLB
Janos Bohnke, Vice President, Head of Market Data Services, ALLIANZ GLOBAL INVESTORS

10.15 Case study: PIB - Produktinformationsblätter

Raimund Kaufmann, Account Manager, SIX TELEKURS 

10.40 Morning break

11.10 Panel: Forecasting the future trends of trading technology

• Are the entry costs for high-frequency trading now too prohibitive?
• Which technologies can firms that do not engage in the low-latency space utilise for their infrastructure?
• Building architecture to support real-time analytics for pre- and post-trade processing

Moderator: Peter van Kleef, Managing Director, LAKEVIEW CAPITAL MARKET SERVICES
Norman Hartmann, Head of Trading, AQUILA CAPITAL CONCEPTS GMBH
Edward Strauss, Head of Sales and Electronic Trading, BAADER BANK
Keith Wood, Head of Strategy & Solutions, SYBASE GMBH

12.00 Panel:  Facilitating the integration of data management across the enterprise

• Understanding the data model: how is it created, managed and used?
• Business objects: putting the right structure around data into place to create a truly holistic view of the enterprise
• Obtaining senior-level buy-in: demonstrating the business consequences of failing to put effective enterprise data management into place

Moderator: Alberto Ricciotti, Head of Global Modeling & Warehousing, CFO Data Governance, UNICREDIT
Peter Blenninger, Head of Software Development and Quality Management, BAADER BANK
Christian Knapp, Senior Market Data Analyst, COMMERZBANK
Peter Panse, Head Market Data Solutions, SIX TELEKURS
Nick Murphy, Product Owner, ASSET CONTROL
Markus Heer, Managing Director, WM DATENSERVICE

12.50 Lunch break

13.50 Panel: Assessing the impact of regulatory changes in both the US and Europe

• Understanding the growing need for different types of data in the front office
• Implementing pre-trade risk controls to manage exposure more effectively
• Meeting the challenges of pre-trade risk management and compliance

Moderator: Diego Valiante, Research Fellow, EUROPEAN CAPITAL MARKETS INSTITUTE (ECMI), CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES (CEPS)
Rudolf Siebel, Managing Director, BVI BUNDERSVERBAND INVESTMENT AND ASSET MANAGEMENT
Paul Kennedy, Business Manager Reference Data, INTERACTIVE DATA
Roman Trageiser, CEO, DEALIS FUND OPERATIONS

14.40 Panel: Navigating the competitive European data landscape: global exchanges, regional exchanges, dark pools, MTFs

• In an increasingly global market, to what extent does Germany still need regional exchanges?
• Analysing the drivers of change: the rise of dark pools and the impact of mergers and acquisitions
• Assessing the continued impact of consolidation and fragmentation

Moderator: Diego Valiante, Research Fellow, EUROPEAN CAPITAL MARKETS INSTITUTE (ECMI), CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN POLICY STUDIES (CEPS)
Shirley  White, Global Market Data Manager, DEUTSCHE BANK
Michael Hofmann, Managing Director, ABN AMRO CLEARING

15.30 Afternoon break

16.00 Case study: Reference data standardisation: progress report and outlook on the LEI (Legal Entity Identifier)

Francis  Gross, Head of External Statistics, EUROPEAN CENTRAL BANK

16.25 Panel:  "How did you come to that price?" Defining principles for increased transparency and accuracy in evaluated prices

• Improving due diligence in pricing analysis: how can users and vendors work together to build a clearer picture?
• Evaluating cash products: mortgages, municipals and corporates
• What challenges do illiquid and ‘hard-to-price' assets pose for evaluation and how can they be overcome?

Moderator: David Berry, Executive Member, IPUG
Oliver Anders, Head of Market Data Management, RWE TRADING
Anthony Belcher, Director - EMEA Valuations, INTERACTIVE DATA
Peter van Kleef, Managing Director, LAKEVIEW CAPITAL MARKET SERVICES

17.15 Cocktail Reception