| How
You Can Contribute |
The Council
welcomes contributions from members, affiliates, and others. If you can contribute your
time and energy on an ongoing basis, consider participating in a leadership role. Contributions to individual meetings
and their subject matter are always welcome. Meeting subjects are announced in
advance so that members, affiliates, and other interested parties can offer suggestions
and contributions. Contact the meeting committee if you want to propose a
presentation. The Council often receives more offers to speak than can be
accommodated in a meeting. Some valuable contributions aren't well suited for
presentation at a meeting. If your contribution can't be made as a presentation at
the meeting, consider providing it as background or collateral material. The Council
will publish material related to meeting topics on its web site, and, in some cases, as
hard copy for use at the meeting. |
| Meeting
Objectives |
The Securities
Industry Middleware Council provides a forum in which its members and participants share
information with each other, with the rest of the securities industry, with middleware
vendors, and with the middleware community at large. General meetings of the Council
usually address a specific class or aspect of middleware, or a specific business function
or driver. We attempt to relate Securities Industry business drivers to our
industry's particular or unusual requirements for middleware, and IT in general. It
is always our goal to identify a variety of approaches that might be used to address these
requirements, and compare and contrast them to increase the depth of our
understanding. The state of the art in the industry is compared to our needs, and
best approaches to meeting the requirements with existing technology are identified when
they exist. |
| Content |
SIMC is an
organization of business technologists and sophisticated technology users.
Presentations and submitted material should respect the expertise of the audience.
Since the majority of the people participating in SIMC are working technologists, we
expect all presentations to include technical content, or to clearly articulate specific
securities industry business requirements that must be met by specific uses of
technology. |
| What
it is not |
SIMC General Meetings
are not intended as product presentations or surveys. Since SIMC never endorses
products or vendors, inclusion or exclusion of a product or vendor among the speakers at a
meeting or in other material published or distributed by the Council does not imply
anything about the product. |
| No
endorsements |
Speakers may use
their own products as exemplars of an approach to meeting securities industry
requirements. While they are encouraged to compare approaches used in
different products, we ask them not to compare the products. Presenters from
analyst firms and other similar organizations must not use SIMC presentations to sell
their services. They should feel free to demonstrate their - and their
firms' - general erudition and mastery of important issues, then leave it to the listeners
to draw their own conclusions. |
| Speaker Selection |
It is the Council's
intention that its General Meetings should stimulate discourse and debate that would not
otherwise take place. With this in mind, speakers are selected to provide a variety
of views. We favor speakers who can clearly articulate provocative ideas. In
general, the opinions of speakers at Council General Meetings are their own, and not
necessarily those of their employers or of the Securities Industry Middleware Council,
Inc. If you speak at a SIMC meeting, we will not provide a net. |
| Collateral Materials |
Documentary material submitted in support of meeting
topics should conform to the same guidelines as do presentations. Contributed
material may, at the discretion of the Council, be distributed at the meeting and/or
published on the Council's web site. The Council cannot accept material with any
restrictions, except that copyright notices will be preserved. The material must be
self sufficient for publication from the Council's web site, without links to any other
publishing facility. Contributed material will not be edited or modified without the
contributor's permission. |
