Programme
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March 4, 2009 Day I: Pre-conference IT Workshop: Getting IT Ready;
Learning from best practces- How can exchanges establish their best technological fit?
After the success of the 2008 Pre-Conference Workshop focussed on “Setting up a Derivatives Exchange”, the AFM has decided to organise an IT based Pre-Conference Workshop to precede the 2009 Annual Conference in Budapest.
Purpose of the Pre-Conference Workshop will be to educate and provide relevant and up to date technological information for those exchanges and participants in the Emerging Markets exchange business.
An agenda has been designed which we hope will deliver the key information that is needed when deciding upon implementation of a suitable IT solution. Several case studies will facilitate sharing of experience and identification of the best fit for your own markets.
Workshop Moderator: Clive Furness (Contango Markets)
09:00 - 09:10 Introduction to the IT Workshop: What is important from an IT persective in Emerging Markets? - by Simona Simon (Eurex)
09:10 - 10:30 Case Study I: Implementation of IT systems for financial markets
Building competitive advantage by choosing the suitable technology solution
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:15 Case Study II: Implementation of IT systems for commodity markets
Achieving competitive advantage through effective use of technology
12:15-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:45 Case Study III: Implementation of IT systems where the exchanges developed their own IT solution in house or in cooperation with a system provider
Basis for long-term success - obtaining the right technology and cooperation
The JSE and STT cooperation in developing a Total Derivative Exchange IT Solution - including front end, matching engine, deal management, physical delivery and clearing solution
By Roderick-Gravelet Blondin (JSE) and Michelle Janke (STT)
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-16:15 Case Study IV: Having exchange operations owned and run by technology providers
16:15-16:30 Wrap up and Closing remarks
17:30-19:30 AFM General Assembly (for members only)
20:00 - 21:00 Cocktails
21:00 - Opening dinner
March 5, 2009 Day II: 12th AFM Annual Conference
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:15 Welcoming Remarks
Mr. Sanit Vorapanya, Chairman, Agricultural Futures Exchange of Thailand
Chairman, Budapest Stock Exchange
09:15 - 09:45 Keynote Address:
09:45 - 10:45 Roundtable 1: The response of small, open markets to global crisis - the Hungarian case
Moderator:
Panelists:
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 12: 45 Roundtable 2: Restoring Investors’ Confidence – What can/must markets and their regulators undertake and what should they avoid
Futures trading and its outlook under recent economic movements- - will we witness fundamental changes in the futures industry?
Recent movements and crises in the world economy has received increasing attention from the government, producers and consumers, buyer and sellers, financial investors, some of them blaming derivatives trading. This crises surely have special implication for the commodity futures markets in the present and the future.
Moderator: Allan Thomson (JSE)
Panelists:Otto Naegeli (OEN Consulting); Simon Rostron (Rostron Parry); David Hiscock (ICMA)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Roundtable 3: Will the Central Eastern European region reach its potential?
Moderator:Bill Templer.Global Head of ETD, UBS
Panelists: Lidia Adamska (Warsaw Board of Trade); Simona Simon (Eurex); Darius Cipariu (SIBEX); Budapest Stock Exchange;
15:15-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30- 16:45 Roundtable 4: IT - Wrapping up the Pre-conference workshop
Moderator: Simona Simon, Eurex
Panelists: Select participants of the IT Pre-conference day
16:45 Session Concludes
17:00 Visit to the Hungarian Parliament
For more information about the Hungarian House of Parliament, please visit: www.parlament.hu
20:00 Conference Gala Dinner
March 6, 2009 Day III: 12th AFM Annual Conference
09:00 - 09:45 Case study presentation: How Holland got ready for derivatives training? (Options Training Initiatives in Holland)
by Alan van Griethuysen, Euronext. Liffe
09:45 - 10:45 Roundtable 5: Indexes - Great for markets and investors but how to set them up properly?
Moderator:
Panelists: Dr. John Mathias (Chief Business Officer, Singapore Mercantile Exchange), Dr. Markus Thomas (STOXX)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 Roundtable 6: Energy - fit for local markets?
Implications of Physical market structure and crises to futures trading: to how extent physical market structure counts in setting up derivative exchanges in the developing economies
Moderator:
Panelists:
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:15 Roundtable 7: Food crisis - Myth or Reality? If so - who is to blame? Speculators, regulators, exchanges...?
Moderator: Adam Gross (MCX Africa)
Panelists: Roderick Gravelet-Blondin (JSE); Lamon Rutten (MCX)
16:30 Danube River Cruise with Dinner | 
