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The TechConnects program starts with the TC session of your choice (see below) where top industry speakers will educate you on your particular technology of interest. Next, you will take an exclusive, intimate guided tour through our show floor and be brought to the front steps of the vendors meeting your chosen technology needs. After you've absorbed a ton of exciting information and worked up an appetite, join us for a delicious lunch. No guessing, no waiting in line and no getting lost on the show floor. Let us do all of the work!

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The 10th Annual Financial Technology Conference & Expo offers four TechConnects programs: 

Thursday, October 25, 2001, 9:00am - 10:15am, followed by Wireless tour and lunch
Make-or-Break Wireless Decisions: Device Platforms, Security, and Operating Systems
In wireless environments, nobody makes the key decisions for you: you must choose amongst multiple competing operating systems platforms, deploy across diverse networks, and cope with colossal inconsistencies in end-user wireless devices - all while ensuring end-to-end security.

• Comparing the leading platforms: Pocket PC, Palm, Symbian, and others
• Choosing the right approach to wireless application development
• Managing applications that must be deployed across multiple networks
• Hardening every hardware and network component of a wireless financial services solution 
   

Thursday, October 25, 2001, 9:00am - 10:15am, followed by P2P tour and lunch
Beyond Napster: Harnessing P2P for Serious Business
Discover how P2P technologies offer the potential to significantly improve the price-performance of financial services IT infrastructures, far transcending Napster-style file swaps.

• Potential P2P applications in professional investment communities
• Supporting the exchange of pre-trade information, stock trades, and complex securities transaction processing
• Leading business and technology models for P2P computing
• Ensuring security in P2P applications
• Integrating P2P capabilities with existing enterprise applications
• Will P2P ever achieve critical mass in banking, insurance, or securities?

Thursday, October 25, 2001, 9:00am - 10:15am, followed by Security tour and lunch
Security Challenges: State of the Art in PKI, Biometrics, Digital Signatures, Intrusion Detection, and Firewalls
This session offers a systematic guide to managing and minimizing the unique risks associated with performing financial transactions in mobile wireless environments.

• Overheard transactions, intercepted data, lost cell phones and PDAs: understanding the risks
• What it takes to deploy public key infrastructure
• Next-generation approaches: smart cards, hardware tokens, biometrics, and more
• Firewalls and intrusion detection for wireless applications: the latest attacks and countermeasures
• The wireless carrier's role in security - including the critical moment when m-commerce data is unencrypted
• Beyond technology: ensuring secure m-commerce business practices 

Thursday, October 25, 2001, 9:00am - 10:15am, followed by STP tour and lunch
The STP Landscape: A Solutions Map
What's the fastest route from your current systems to STP? This session offers guidance on virtually every key decision you need to make.

• STP and your broker/dealer relationships
• STP solutions for asset management, private banking, and custody
• Taking inventory of your current systems, identifying gaps, and establishing a roadmap to STP
• Identifying processes that will be impacted by T+1
• Identifying standards to be included in your strategies
• Making build-vs.-buy decisions
• Evaluating the role of GSTPA and Omgeo
  

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