CERN will host an event on Computing for Finance on Wednesday 21 November. The event, co-organized by the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project and CERN openlab, gathers four distinguished speakers from the banking industry and from IT companies that serve financial institutions. The talk will take place at 5.00–7.00 p.m. in the main auditorium.

The financial sector is one of the driving forces behind the use of distributed or Grid computing for business purposes. The speakers will provide an insight into how different types of Grid computing – from local clusters to global networks – are being applied in the sector. In particular, the event will encourage discussion on how new developments in Grid computing emerging from the world of science can benefit financial institutions.

The speakers are Michael Yoo, the managing director and head of the Technical Council at UBS (Switzerland); Fred Gedling, chief technology officer at DataSynapse (UK); Adam Vile, head of Grid, HPC and technical computing at Excelian Ltd (UK); and Daniel Egloff, head of the Financial Engineering Computing Unit at Zurich Cantonal Bank (Switzerland). As well as reviewing the state of high-performance computing in the financial sector, the speakers will describe the use of software and techniques from physics, such as Monte Carlo simulations, in the financial world.

The talks will be followed by a Q&A session and a networking cocktail for the audience and speakers. The event is organized in collaboration with the regional business network Rezonance. Participation is free and open to all. Registration is mandatory via www.rezonance.ch.