A huge thank you to all our delegates, sponsors, analyst and association partners for making the FST EU Summit such a great success. Your feedback on the benefits you gained from meeting your peers and other industry thought leaders is highly appreciated and will help us shape the FST EU2 event in May 2008.

To our Financial Services delegates, I hope that you have found your attendance to be highly beneficial both in terms of meeting peer-on-peer to discuss many of the common challenges you face, but also in regards to the interactive workshops that resulted in a high level of thought leadership discussion throughout the duration of the summit. I also hope that via the one-on-one meetings, we have introduced you to Solution Providers who you can form successful long-term partnerships with in order to overcome your challenges and remain highly competitive in these challenging times.

To our Sponsor delegates, I hope that you secure a good level of new business as a result of your meetings and have further strengthened relationships with your existing clients. I also hope that we have created a unique format in which you have found answers to many of  your challenges and as a result are building further value for your customers having truly defined your value proposition.
 
To our Associations and Analysts, your insight into the latest trends in the industry and ability to engage discussion among delegates and vendors alike has been highly appreciated by all
 
I am very proud of what FST has achieved so far, but we recognise that there are always improvements that can be made and your feedback is key to that.
Remember you have real influence over the content and programme. Please contact me if you wish to make any suggestions.
 
Have a profitable year and we look forward to working with you again in May 2008.

Richard Owen
FST Event Director

FST Summit - Europe

20-22nd May 2008
The Western Turnberry Resort, Scotland

Concept

On 20-22nd May 2008, a select group of the most senior-level IT executives in the European financial services market will convene at the Financial Services Technology Summit, an invitation-only, critical information gathering event addressing the key challenges facing Europe¹s financial services technology decision-makers.

A C-level event reserved for 75 participants, the main aim of the FST Summit is to create discussion between busy and focused technology leaders. This is an opportunity to debate, benchmark and learn from other executives in your own finance market.

The format includes expert workshops, facilitated roundtables, peer-to-peer networking and a number of pre-scheduled, one-on-one technology meetings.

GDS International has built a reputation of respect amongst C-level executives in the finance, retail and telecoms markets through a unique and sophisticated approach to intimate and effective event planning.

Summit Feedback

The Bennu Group evaluates last week’s FST Europe Summit

Raising the Value Proposition - GDS Sets the High Mark

“The venue was unique. There is no expense or effort spared to ensure that everyone has a good experience…”

Matt Calman, Senior Vice President, Bank of America

"The best managed & organised event of this class that I have ever attended. My time is valuable & your team had me running from meeting to workshop - Not a minute of idle time! Thanks for your efforts & professionalism.”

Greg Anstead, Citibank

“The organisation was excellent with easy transition from private meeting to workshops. Quality of participants was outstanding.”

Thomas Butler, Anglo Romanian Bank

“It was an excellent opportunity to share own ideas and to see the "variety of varieties" of different ideas. The organisation was flawless, congratulations.”

Peter Ligezinski, Allianz Investment Bank

"I thought the summit was a superb event from a variety of perspectives: productive, informative, engaging, intimate."

Howard Lichtman, President, Human Productivity Lab

"I was very impressed by how well things ran over the two days - the organisation at the event was superb"

Brian Barbour, Standard Life Assurance

‘’Lively discussion of the concerns and challenges across the financial services industry in an informal atmosphere’’

Chris Nottage, Lloyds TSB

‘’As a first time attendee, the results have exceeded expectations and the event has also been enjoyable as opposed to just successful in a business sense’’

Stefan Tryggvasson, Vice Chairman China Systems

What is the best game in town when it comes to Conferences?

Steve Towers, The Bennu Group