8:30

Registration

9:00

Welcome Remarks

Kumar Goradia, Co-Chair of India Working Group, FIX Trading Community, and Head of Business Development & Operations, Tower Research Capital India

9:10

Opening Keynote: Innovation in India - Opportunities and Challenges

Bala Venkataramani, Chief Business Officer, BSE

9:40

Next Generation FIX and the FIX Repository Directions

-          Next Generation FIX

-          Multi-Asset Usage of FIX Protocol

-          FIX High Performance Working Group

Jim Northey, Co-Chair of Global Technical Committee, FIX Trading Community, and Principal Consultant, CameronTec Group

10:05

Low Latency Trading - What is Working and What is Not?

-          The Use of FIX in Low Latency Trading Environment

-          FPGA Cards

-          Adoption of FIX Protocol in India

-          The Need of Precision Time (PTP)

- Brandon DeCoster, Vice President of Product Management, FIX Flyer

- Anant Jatia, Founder and Managing Director, Greenland Trading

- Anant Pandit, Head of Operations and Business Development, Thomson Reuters

- Steve Pope, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Solarflare

- Kersi Tavadia, Chief Information Officer, BSE

Chaired By: Zameer Syed, Director and Chief Architect, STROBUS InfoSoft

11:10

Coffee Break

11:40

Regulatory Keynote: Regulations for the Future

Shri S.V. Muralidhar Rao, Executive Director, Market Regulation Department, Securities and Exchange Board of India

12:15

How the Game Industry has Left the Finance Industry in the Dust Technologically

-          How to Win: Trades, Games, and Regulation

-          Regulations: Change the Rules, and You Change the Players' Behaviors

Brandon DeCoster, Vice President of Product Management, FIX Flyer

12:30

Networking Lunch

1:30

Role & Importance of Benchmarking in India’s Investment Context

Madhusudan Subramanian, Executive Director - Analytics and Risk Research, MSCI

2:00

A Review of Global Regulation, Trading Landscape and FIX Initiatives

-          Reviews of Regional and Global Regulatory Changes

-          Shanghai - Hong Kong Connect

-          The Impact of Tick Sizes Changes in Japan

-          Global and Regional FIX Initiatives

- Murat Atamer, Head of Electronic Trading, Asia Pacific, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

- Raj Mathur, Head of AES Business Development, Asia, Credit Suisse

- Shilesh Shekhawat, Managing Director, Head of Equities Execution Services, Asia Pacific, J.P. Morgan

Chaired By: Edward Mangles, Regional Director, Asia Pacific, FIX Trading Community, and Director, GlobalTrading

2:45

Market Structure and Regulations

- Maninder Cheema, Deputy General Manager, Securities and Exchange Board of India

- Suresh Kakarla, Vice President, Institutional and Corporate Tech, Morgan Stanley

- Suprabhat Lala, Vice President, National Stock Exchange of India

- Sanjeev Sarda, Managing Director and Founder, Blackhat Capital

- Nehal Vora, Chief Regulatory Officer, BSE

Chaired By: Kumar Goradia, Co-Chair of India Working Group, FIX Trading Community, and Head of Business Development & Operations, Tower Research Capital India

3:25

Coffee Break

3:50

Algorithmic Trading and TCA

-          TCA and its Latest Developments

-          Latest Trends of Algorithm Usage in India and across Asia Pacific Markets

-          Algo Customizations

-          The Future Trend

- Siddharth Chhabria, Vice President, Goldman Sachs
- Abhishek Choudhary, Assistant Vice President, Trading Analytics, ITG

- Abhishek Mohla, Executive Director, Equities, Direct Execution, UBS Investment Bank

- Hrishabh Sanghvi, Head - Algorithmic Trading, Institutional Equities, Edelweiss

Chaired By:  Angkit Panda, Vice President, Autobahn Equity Trading, Deutsche Bank  
 

4:30

Buyside Trading in India - The Trends and Developments

Viresh Joshi, Chief Trader - Equity, Axis Asset Management

Nalin Moniz, Founding Principal, Forefront Capital Management

Vinoth Ramakrishnan, Senior Trader, Sundaram Mutual Fund

Vishtaspa Rana, Senior Manager - Investment Operations, Tata Asset Management

Chaired By:  Sanjay Awasthi, Director, Eastspring Investments

5:10

Closing Remarks
Vinata Mhatre, Co-Chair of India Working Group, FIX Trading Community, and Vice President, Asia Pacific Electronic Trading, Global Execution Services (GES), DSP Merrill Lynch (DSPML)