From Oct 19th to Oct. 21th Hangzhou hosted International Conference on Information Technology for Financial Services (ICITFS) 2009. Building on the success of previous conferences, ICITFS’09 joins the efforts of Hangzhou Municipal Government, Zhejiang University, Insigma Hengtian and State Street Technology Zhejiang (SSTZ) in providing a platform for open discussion and knowledge sharing for technical experts from State Street, Insigma and their partners. Hengtian management attended the conference.
The conference attracted representatives, CEOs, and EVP-level senior management from State Street Corp., IBM, SUN, Broadridge, Symantec, Schooner and other leading international financial and IT corporations and headquarters attended the conference. The Vice Mayor of the Hangzhou Government, Ms. Tong Guili gave her opening remarks for the conference.
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. The success of the 8th ICITFS further contributes to Hangzhou’s goal of becoming the world’s international financial service outsourcing center.
