Steve Bate
VP of Software Development, FOLIOfn

Stephen Bate is the VP of Software Development at the FOLIOfn online brokerage firm. His experience with trading software development ranges from market data distribution to order routing, order matching and automated trading systems. Earlier in his career he was involved in artificial intelligence and distributed processing research and did object-oriented database and software development consulting. Mr. Bate is also the founder and project lead for the QuickFIX/J project, the leading open source Java FIX engine implementation.

Sessions

9:30am Wednesday, 02/06/2008

Open Source Finance: A Contradiction in Terms?

Location: Starlight Roof

Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), James Altucher (Stockpickr), Graham Miller (Marketcetera), Steve Bate (FOLIOfn)

Some think open source technologies are fundamentally at odds with the zero-sum world of capital markets. Can you make money sharing some of your intellectual property? Increasingly we are seeing investors share technologies, ideas, and, yes, find more profits. Read more.