ICITFS is an annual event held in Hangzhou, China,
where professors and scholars from Zhejiang University, technical
and business experts from State Street Corporation and leading
international IT companies get together to host seminars, workshops
and technical discussions on the latest information technologies and
technical concepts, and to exchange ideas on how the latest information
technologies could contribute to the world's financial industry.
ICITFS was firstly held in Hangzhou in 2001 with the sponsorship of
Zhejiang University and State Street Corporation, and it has been recognized
as the most highlighted conference in the field of Information Technology and
financial services ever since.
The host city of this conference, Hangzhou, reputed as Silicon Valley in Paradise has developed rapidly in the fields of software development, service outsourcing and financial service outsourcing in recent years.
This year, Sunday sessions will focus on Finance, while the highlights on Monday will be IT for Financial Services. Topics for submission include, but are not limited to:
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The global financial crises has sped up the worldwide transfer of financial service outsourcing, and provided rare opportunities for China's development in financial service industry. On October 19th the 9th ICITFS2009, jointly hosted by Hangzhou Government, Zhejiang University, State Street and Insigma, had its grand opening in Zhejiang University. Guili TONG, the Deputy Mayor of Hangzhou, attended the conference and made Opening remarks.
Attracting the participation of over 40 senior officers, the event has been larger in scale than any previous ones. Also attending the event are senior officers and experts of dozens of well-known international financial services and IT enterprises including IBM, SUN, Symantec, Schooner and Broadridge, who come together to deliberate commercial and technological strategies for China's financial outsourcing industry development and building of international financial service center in the tide of global industrial restructuring and financial service transfer.
Maureen MISKOVIC, Chief Risk Officer of STT, delivered the keynote speech on the risk control and management in American financial market. STT's Chief Information Officer, Christopher PERRETTA showed STT Global Center's successful model of best practice jointly developed by Hangzhou and Boston teams. Tianxi WANG, IBM's Vice President of Greater China��John R. BUSCH, President and CEO of Schooner, and Bob FRANKSTON, known as the father of electronic spreadsheet made introductions of such latest developments and advances in financial and IT fields as modern computer model and technology, cloud computing strategy, etc.
Forum also invited senior experts and scholars from financial circle including Zaiyue XU, Vice President of China Foreign Exchange Center, Yu LI, Executive Dean of Shanghai Finance University International Finance Institute, and Dapeng LI, CTO of SHFE to discuss potential and policy trend of development of China's financial service industry.


