Unlocking Capital Markets Innovation with CockroachDB

April 10, 2025 | 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm

10 Grand Central | 155 E. 44th St. New York, NY 10017 | 11th Floor - The Meeting Galleries

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In today’s fast-evolving financial landscape, firms must modernize their trading infrastructure to stay competitive. On Thursday, April 10, you’re invited to explore how AWS services, combined with CockroachDB, can revolutionize capital markets and financial services institutions (FSIs) through innovation and modernization.

Learn how CockroachDB enhances trading systems by ensuring ultra-low latency order execution and real-time market data storage. And how it can help in post-trade processing—streamlining clearing, settlement, and compliance with built-in consistency and fault tolerance.

Discover how CockroachDB on AWS enables seamless scalability, high availability, and data consistency—key pillars for capital markets firms navigating today’s digital transformation. Whether you are a financial architect, a developer modernizing trading systems, or a decision-maker evaluating cloud-native infrastructure, this session will provide actionable insights into building scalable, compliant, and future-ready financial applications on AWS and CockroachDB.

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Experience the Elegance of 10 Grand Central

Step into the timeless sophistication of 10 Grand Central—an iconic, light-filled Beaux-Arts landmark originally built in 1931 and thoughtfully reimagined for today.

Join us on the 11th floor to explore The Meeting Galleries, where recent renovations have transformed this historic property into a stunning fusion of classic architecture and contemporary design. Highlights include a sleek cocktail bar, a town hall-style meeting room, and an elegantly appointed tenant lounge.

The lounge, with its distinctive rounded windows, warm olive seating, copper accents, and refined burlwood wall paneling, evokes the luxurious charm of vintage train travel—creating a truly elevated environment for connection.

Agenda

Capital Markets Trading Day

2:00 - 2:20 PM

1

Guest Arrival & Check-in

2:20 - 2:25 PM

2

Welcome

2:25 - 3:15 PM

3

Thought leadership panel on Capital Markets Modernization

• Spencer Kimball, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Cockroach Labs
• Murtaza Chowdhury, Head of Product Management, Agentic AI, Amazon Web Services
• Arunagiri (Giri) Subramanian, US Head of Capital Markets Tech, Accenture

3:15 - 4:00 PM

4

How You Can Leverage CockroachDB for Resilient, Scalable, and Secure Capital Markets Solutions

• Peter Williams, Head of Global Financial Services Partner Technology, Amazon Web Services
• David Joy, Senior Manager, Sales Engineering, Cockroach Labs

4:00 - 4:30 PM

5

Capital Markets: Modernization Patterns for Innovation and Resilience

  • Aric Rosenbaum, Chief Technologist, Financial Services, Red Hat

4:30 - 5:15 PM

6

Fireside chat and closing thoughts

• Peter Mattis, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Product Officer, and Co-Founder, Cockroach Labs
• Customer TBD

5:15 - 7:00 PM

7

Social Hour



Speakers

Spencer Kimball

Spencer Kimball

Co-founder & CEO,

Cockroach Labs

Peter Mattis

Peter Mattis

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Product Officer,

Cockroach Labs

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Peter Williams

Head of Global Financial Services Partner Technology,

Amazon Web Services

[Headshot] Arunagiri (Giri) Subramanian,  US Head of Capital Markets Tech, Accenture

Arunagiri (Giri) Subramanian

US Head of Capital Markets Tech,

Accenture

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Cassie Zimmerman

Senior Director, Global Alliances,

Cockroach Labs

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David Joy

Senior Manager, Sales Engineering,

Cockroach Labs

Murtaza Chowdhury, Head of Product Management, Agentic AI @ AWS

Murtaza Chowdhury

Head of Product Management, Agentic AI,

Amazon Web Services

Aric Rosenbaum Red Hat

Aric Rosenbaum

Chief Technologist, Global Financial Services,

Red Hat