We had over 60 folks along to our event our the Merchant Taylors’ Hall last week in London. Thanks to all who attended, all who helped with the organization of the event and sorry to miss those of you that couldn’t come along this time.

Some photos from the event are below starting with Brad Sevenko of Microsoft (Director, Capital Markets Technology Strategy) in the foreground with a few of the speakers doing some last minute adjustments at the front of the room before the guests arrived:

Rupesh Khendry of Microsoft (Head of World-Wide Capital Markets Solutions) started off the presentations at the event, introducing Microsoft’s capital markets technology strategy to a packed audience:

After a presentation by Virginie O’Shea of Aite Group on Cloud adoption in capital markets, Antonio Zurlo (below) of Microsoft (Senior Program Manager) gave a quick introduction to the services available through the Microsoft Azure cloud and then moved on to more detail around Microsoft Power BI:

After Antonio, then yours truly (Brian Sentance, CEO, Xenomorph) gave a presentation on what we have been building with Microsoft over the past 18 months, the TimeScape MarketPlace. At this point in the presentation I was giving some introductory background on the challenges of regulatory compliance and the pros and cons between point solutions and having a more general data framework in place:

The event ended with some networking and further discussions. Big thanks to those who came forward to speak with me afterwards, great to get some early feedback.