In an industry starting to buckle beneath massive forces for change, we are teetering on the brink of a new era for capital markets, electronic trading technology and for the trader in particular. Whilst building TradeTech 2013 we spoke to over 200 market participants. We were asked to overhaul the agenda, create genuinely valuable content, look beyond the world of equities trading to more lucrative asset classes, and provide a forum for some serious soul searching by the markets as a whole.