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SPRING CONFERENCE AGENDA 
April 14 -15, 2011
 

OMERS
Royal Bank Plaza, North Tower
200 Bay Street, 23rd Floor
Toronto, Ontario

  Thursday April 14th, 2011
 
BIMA Spring 2011 Preliminary Agenda
7:30 am - 8:30 am BIMA Board Meeting
8:00 am - 8:45 am Continental Breakfast and Registration
8:50 am - 9:00 am Welcome Remarks
Milos Vukovic, RBC Asset Management
9:00 am - 9:45 am

Panel - Regulatory Update
Moderator: Renee Colyer, Forefactor
Speakers: Torstein Braaten, MatchNow
                  Kent Bailey, OSC
                  James Twiss, IIROC

9:45 am - 10:30 am Panel - New ATS Players in Canada
Moderator:
Justin Schack, Rosenblatt Securities
Speakers: Peter Coffey, Instinet LLC 
                  Darren Sumarah, Goldman Sachs Canada
                  Gary Knight, TMX Group
                  Dmitri Galinov, Credit Suisse
10:30 am - 10:45 am

Coffee Break

10:45 am - 11:45 am

Panel - Inside the Liability Desk
Moderator:
Craig Gaskin, TD Asset Management
Speakers: James Ehrensperger, BMO Capital Markets
                  Brian O'Hea, Cormark Securities

Noon - 1:15 pm

Lunch sponsored by Cormark Securities

1:15 pm - 2:00 pm

Panel - How can the Buyside leverage available technology for Best Execution?
Moderator:
Vidis Vaiciunas, Highstreet Asset Management
Speakers: Dan Kessous, Chi-X Canada
                  Andrew Hill, Instinet LLC 
                  Tim Foote, Cormark Securities

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm

Panel - Where was that Execution? The Evolution of FIX and Execution Intelligence
Moderator:
Michael Thom, Genus Capital Management
Speakers: Andrew Karsgaard, FPL Canada Chair, BMO
                  Capital Markets
                  Todd Lopez, GSET
                  Rob Pulkys, OTPP

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

Coffee Break

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Panel - ETFs: A Deep Dive for Advanced Users
Moderator:
Doug Clark, ITG Canada
Speakers: Kevin Gopaul, BMO ETFs
                  Greg Walker, Blackrock
                  Ian Williams, ITG Canada
                  Lewis Bateman, Horizons

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Cocktails - Liquidnet Canada offices
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm Dinner sponsored by TD Newcrest (Buyside participants only) 
e11even Restaurant, Maple Leaf Square, 15 York Street, Toronto ON, 416-815-1111
  Friday April 15th, 2011
8:00 am - 8:45 am Continental Breakfast
8:45 am - 9:45 am Panel - Perspectives on Market Microstructure: Assessing the role of intermediaries, marketplaces and regulators in the Eco-system of equity trading
Moderator:
Peter Haynes, TD Newcrest
Speakers: Michael Downey, NYSE Euronext
                  George Sofianos, Goldman Sachs
                  Craig Gaskin, TD Asset Management
9:45 am - 10:45 am Q&A with Senior Exchange Executives
Moderator:
Alison Crosthwait, Instinet
Speakers: Jos Schmitt, Alpha Trading Systems (9:45 to 10:15)
                  Kevan Cowan, TMX Group (10:15 to 10:45)
10:45 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
11:00 am - 11:45 am Presentation - Technicals for the Trader
Speaker:
Jeff Degraaf, Renaissance Macro Research
Noon - 2:30 pm BIMA Members-Only Lunch
Moderator:
Synthia St-Michel, Intact Investment Management

 

 

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