In case you missed it, Daniel Chait of Lab49 did a great job of hitting on some of the key themes that we will cover at our upcoming Financial Services Developer Conference. Worth a listen.

http://cid-868323e9083a1958.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/IndustyChats/IndustryChat002.mp3

The Impatient Listener Guide:

• From 0-10 minutes
  • Who/What is Lab49 - its the birth in AI
  • Technology Landscape and the pace of development (it's not just about latency and performance)
  • The mystery of the Lab49 Name and building real applications
• From 10-22 minutes
  • Why User Experience matters in Financial Services and the trading floor
  • Its about presenting data and new perspectives on data
  • Trends in the market and the "flight controls" analogy
  • An introduction to Algorithmic Trading
• From 22-35 minutes
  • The business of Capital Markets
  • The architecture of modern systems - real time, event driven, flow based, grid computing, large scale databases and new user experiences
  • The impact of HPC and Grid computing - the limits of Moore's Law
  • A real world example - mortgage backed securities
• From 35 minutes to 40 minutes (end)
  • Mundane Requirements vs. Monte Carlo Simulations - finding the opportunities and making the fit

Like what you hear? Drop us a line. Got some thought leadership you want to share? We want to hear it!

P.S. Lab49 is doing some very interesting things: check out their WPF in Finance Innovation Contest. 

P. P.S. Love this tag line I saw on one of their blogs!