Platinum Sponsors Fidelity Capital Markets Services, a division of National Financial LLC, is the institutional brokerage arm of Fidelity Brokerage Company, one of the nation's leading brokerage firms. Fidelity Capital Markets Services executes equity and fixed income trades, provides execution services in listed options and trades foreign exchange on behalf of a wide array of clients, including millions of individual investors, 1,000 institutional firms, 350 correspondent broker/dealers, 3,200 registered investment advisors and 16.6 million client accounts. The firm also has a full-service Syndicate and Prime Services desk. For more information about Fidelity Capital Markets Services, visit www.fidelitycapitalmarkets.com Lehman Brothers (ticker symbol: LEH), an innovator in global finance, serves the financial needs of corporations, governments and municipalities, institutional clients, and high-net-worth individuals worldwide. Founded in 1850, Lehman Brothers maintains leadership positions in equity and fixed income sales, trading and research, investment banking, private equity, and private client services. The Firm is headquartered in New York, London, and Tokyo and operates in a network of offices around the world. For further information about Lehman Brothers' services and products, visit our Web site at www.lehman.com Merrill Lynch Execution Services offers a complete suite of premier equity trading services, including capital commitment and block trading, portfolio trading and analytics, direct market access and ML X-ACTsm, the firm's proprietary algorithmic trading platform. Accessible through order management systems or directly through Merrill Lynch, this powerful tool delivers efficiency and cost control by enabling institutional investors to tailor trades to meet specific benchmark, risk and cost objectives. Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading financial management and advisory companies, with offices in 36 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately $1.6 trillion. The Global Markets & Investment Banking Group offers equity, debt and investment banking services to clients worldwide, including corporations, financial institutions, agencies and governments. The firm's experts deliver smart solutions that capitalize on our global resources, market intelligence, product innovation and leading scale positions in the capital markets. For more information, please visit gmi.ml.com/mles. Progress® Apama® provides a next-generation Algorithmic Trading Platform for buy-side institutions that gives traders full control over the composition, testing, deployment of unique algorithmic strategies. In tandem with packaged algorithms that include VWAP, index arbitrage, spread trading and many others, Apama allows traders to leverage its intuitive graphical environment, sophisticated event processing language and highly scalable event processing architecture to create unique, differentiated strategies, doing so in days or mere hours, rather than weeks or months typical of other offerings. Apama customers, among the most prominent names in the industry, use its algorithmic platform for equities, futures and options, foreign exchange, and bonds - and often trade multiple assets classes within the same strategy as part of algorithmic trading, auto-hedging and other complementary applications. Apama incorporates tools to backtest prospective strategies and analyze the performance of those in production. It offers packaged adapters and integration framework to connect with any market data feed, order management system, and database. Trading Technologies International, Inc. Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) develops high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals. TT's X_TRADER® is among the most-used futures-trading screens in the world. X_TRADER's unmatched speed, intuitive real-time market depth views and advanced trading strategy support give traders an indisputable edge. TT's next-generation trading platform, X_TRADER® 7, features the new X_STUDY™ charting and analytics application plus innovations like the MD Trader® market depth order-entry grid, Autospreader® and Autotrader™. TT's high-speed gateways connect traders around the globe with the world's top futures exchanges including CBOE Futures Exchange, Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Eurex, Eurex US, Euronext.liffe, ICE Futures, IntercontinentalExchange®, Montréal Exchange, New York Mercantile Exchange and Sydney Futures Exchange. TT also connects to BrokerTec, Frankfurt Stock Exchange (Xetra) and Hotspot FX. In addition, TT provides high-performance FIX compliant solutions to support FIX connectivity and FIX order routing. TT offers complete hosting services through TTNET™, its Application Service Provider (ASP) solution. TTNET accelerates customer access time to international futures markets and increases trading platform stability through its fully redundant data centers situated in strategic locations close to the various exchange servers. The company's clients are some of the biggest players in the financial industry, including hedge funds, investment banks, brokers, proprietary traders, Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) and exchanges. Headquartered in Chicago, TT also has offices in New York, Houston, London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney. Gold Sponsors Dow Jones Newswires offers real-time information solutions that help trading, investment and research professionals create opportunities and act with first-to-know confidence. Just launched for institutional professionals are Dow Jones Total Coverage, a revolutionary information command center combining unprecedented real-time access to all Dow Jones news -and thousands of other sources-with state-of-the-art precision filtering and instant alerting powered by Relegence, and Dow Jones News and Archives for Algorithmic Applications, enabling firms to incorporate Dow Jones news into their computerized trading strategies. Contact Steve Reiser, Director of Marketing, Dow Jones Newswires 800 Plaza Two, Harborside Financial Center, Jersey City, NJ, 07311-1199 201.938.5951 djnewswires.com Morgan Stanley & Co. Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm with leading market positions in asset management, credit services and securities. Within the securities division, clients have access to a full range of financial services such as underwriting, sales and trading, capital raising and mergers and acquisitions. As part of this highly regarded division, Morgan Stanley's Electronic Trading Services provides a complete spectrum of services for pre-trade analytics, execution and post-trade execution performance analysis, all backed by a global support organization. We offer electronic access to research, market expertise and insight, historical trade and portfolio data and equity portfolio analytics. Our execution capabilities include BXS, award-winning trading algorithms designed to minimize market impact in today's highly evolved trading environment, as well as PASSPORT, Morgan Stanley's global investment portal with multi-product trading and order management capability. Regardless of access channel, Morgan Stanley's Electronic Trading Services group is committed to providing the highest level of service and quality trading solutions for the most demanding specifications. We look forward to discussing your execution needs, and combining the right Morgan Stanley people, trading solutions and financial products to best serve your investment goals. For more information, please contact your Morgan Stanley sales coverage or our Electronic Trading Services sales desk at 212.761.5959. Thomson Financial, the most complete source for integrated information and technology applications in the global financial services industry, is dedicated to driving profitable and measurable performance improvement for its clients. Thomson Financial works in partnership with clients to develop individual workflow solutions that leverage a client's unique way of doing business and enhances their competitive advantage in the marketplace. Our flagship desktop solution – Thomson ONE – has the most flexible platform in the industry, allowing us to integrate Thomson Financial content and products with a client's own proprietary assets and systems, and with relevant third-party applications. Thomson ONE brings to a client's fingertips the industry's broadest, richest and most powerful portfolio of content, analytics and transaction services, and helps clients to quickly identify and act upon investment, business and trading opportunities as they arise. Today, Thomson ONE offers workflow solutions designed to meet the needs of professionals in the following segments: investment banking, wealth management, investment management, institutional equities, fixed income, corporate management, institutional research and private equity. For more information, visit www.thomson.com/financial. UBS is one of the world's leading financial firms. As an organization, it combines financial strength with a culture that embraces change. UBS is the world's largest wealth manager, a top tier investment banking and securities firm, and a key global asset manager. In Switzerland, UBS is the market leader in retail and commercial banking. UBS, headquartered in Zurich and Basel, is present in all major financial centers around the globe. It has offices in 50 countries and employs 69,000 people worldwide. Visit our website at www.ubs.com Sponsorship opportunities for the Advanced Trading Buy-Side Trading Summit are designed to facilitate an intimate, high-level networking event to reach over 100 decision-making executives from buy-side firms. Advanced Trading offers two levels of sponsorship that allow sponsors to truly leverage their marketing investment via engaging and informative interaction with attendees at the event and other extended marketing opportunities, including print advertising, brand awareness and lead generation. Buy-Side Trading Summit 2006 is an exclusive event for buy-side trading executives with technology buying responsibilities. Advanced Trading Buy-Side Trading Summit presents the hottest topics and most authoritative speakers, along with unmatched networking opportunities for sponsors. The high-level event is comprised of conference sessions, break-out tracks and networking-focused social activities. Contact Advanced Trading Account Director or John Ecke, Publisher 212-300-3097 for pricing and additional custom sponsorship opportunities including special advertising offer.