Stacey Kacek

Traditional market data systems are crumbling. They simply cannot handle the explosion of data and maintain a perfect record every single day. The impact to the financial trading ecosystem is tremendous — traders no longer have complete visibility of the market, firms are at risk for failing to supervise their traders, and organizations are facing lawsuits for activities they cannot see. In 2011, knowing that the current systems were failing and that a dramatic shift in data demands would require the same dramatic shift in available technologies, Vertex Analytics embarked on a mission to revolutionize market data. Over the next six years, Vertex launched products and innovations that challenged processes and the way the trading ecosystem used technology to protect market integrity. In 2017, Vertex launched V3, its patented trading analytics platform that empowers the user in ways never before possible through: Scanning - V3 matches trading behavior with the corresponding activity from the entire market and scans for potentially negative behaviors like spoofing, flickering, and market disruption/manipulation. Scoring – V3's scoring engine then populates a personal dashboard with behaviors, presented in escalating severity so users can proceed with confidence that their efforts are as focused as possible. Shaping - Users can then assess each behavior with market context, having access to trading data with the corresponding T[0] market data. This process gives users the full view of the trading activity for the first time ever, allowing them to shape their defensive and/or offensive strategies with the best foundation possible.

ITA/1871 offers innovative business services that enable Illinois technology companies to scale through collaboration, education, talent development and industry visibility. We aren’t a place you “go” - we are a network you access, a resource you leverage, an advisor you trust. The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) is a 501(c)6 not-for-profit organization.

SafetyIQ, a cutting-edge safety technology solution, addressing the critical need to protect employees in high-risk, remote, or solitary work environments. By using advanced tools and tracking, it ensures companies all over the globe, effectively look after their employees and maintain a secure working environment. SafetyIQ is used by international companies across a range of industries, including mining/oil and gas, construction and engineering, manufacturing, education, and health and community services. Our comprehensive suite of cloud-based tools includes: Journey Management Lone Worker Management Fatigue Management Risk Management EHS Management - Audits & Inspections - Incident Reporting - Safety Observations/Hazard Identification - Training Tracker - Corrective Actions Advanced Dashboards and Analytics We want to make sure workers get home safely every day. We’re dedicated to being pioneers in safety technology and practices. Foster predictability at work by creating an environment devoid of incidents, surprises or accidents. Our goal is to make the workplace uneventful, routine and reliably predictable. Eventually, safety is no longer a mere concern, but an unquestionable certainty.

UICO provides rugged touch solutions to the industrial, medical, marine, ATV and POS markets. Our solutions power touch through gloves, water, mud, saline and other harsh environments to customers that demand touch work whatever the environmental factors. We have a range of touch options available for our customers to be able to configure the best solution for each customer's specific use case, as no two use cases are identical. This has allowed us to service some of the largest Fortune 500 customers and provide premier touch for their premium products. UICO was founded in 2007, with a vision of expanding the ubiquitous smartphone interface to markets with harsh environments. To make it possible, we solved the biggest problems with capacitive touch - water, sweat, extreme temperatures, use with thick gloves, and thick glass durability. We are a team of touch experts that work alongside your engineers that bring a touch screen solution that is optimized for your specific needs. We have been doing this for a dozen years, solving difficult use cases, and providing touch screens to the most demanding of customers. duraTOUCH is UICO’s patented projective capacitive touch technology designed to overcome the challenges of harsh environments. We provide complete standard or custom solutions to meet our customer’s specific requirements, including touchscreen, coverlens, LCD, and fully bonding services. We offer touchscreens in a range of sizes from 1” up to 15.6” with larger sizes on our technology roadmap in the near future. What makes UICO touchscreens different is in our algorithms, which are specifically developed to provide the highest performance with thick gloves and water, both are typically problems for other touch providers selling into the industrial space as often it is in a wet environment, or often times gloves are a requirement. UICO has been providing projective capacitive touch for demanding markets in harsh environments for over a decade.

Sending and receiving critical information can literally save lives. Yet, in spite of all the digital advances the world has seen, many organizations still rely on outdated technology and processes. Biscom first pioneered the enterprise fax server and secure fax marketplaces over three decades ago. Today, we remain a market leader that is committed to continually innovating solutions that streamline and automate the way critical information is sent, received, and acted on. We are proud to empower enterprises in highly regulated industries with incredible control, flexibility, and scalability while giving them back something even more valuable: time.

Traditional market data systems are crumbling. They simply cannot handle the explosion of data and maintain a perfect record every single day. The impact to the financial trading ecosystem is tremendous — traders no longer have complete visibility of the market, firms are at risk for failing to supervise their traders, and organizations are facing lawsuits for activities they cannot see. In 2011, knowing that the current systems were failing and that a dramatic shift in data demands would require the same dramatic shift in available technologies, Vertex Analytics embarked on a mission to revolutionize market data. Over the next six years, Vertex launched products and innovations that challenged processes and the way the trading ecosystem used technology to protect market integrity. In 2017, Vertex launched V3, its patented trading analytics platform that empowers the user in ways never before possible through: Scanning - V3 matches trading behavior with the corresponding activity from the entire market and scans for potentially negative behaviors like spoofing, flickering, and market disruption/manipulation. Scoring – V3's scoring engine then populates a personal dashboard with behaviors, presented in escalating severity so users can proceed with confidence that their efforts are as focused as possible. Shaping - Users can then assess each behavior with market context, having access to trading data with the corresponding T[0] market data. This process gives users the full view of the trading activity for the first time ever, allowing them to shape their defensive and/or offensive strategies with the best foundation possible.

ITA/1871 offers innovative business services that enable Illinois technology companies to scale through collaboration, education, talent development and industry visibility. We aren’t a place you “go” - we are a network you access, a resource you leverage, an advisor you trust. The Illinois Technology Association (ITA) is a 501(c)6 not-for-profit organization.