OReilly Money:Tech Conference 2009

It's a new era for the financial investment community. From social stock-picking, to new and tradable web-based data, to search, the wave of Web 2.0 technologies is slamming into Wall Street. Sharing and social networks that once seemed antithetical to the zero-sum world of money are finding their places in investing. Market mashups with new sources of web-based data—auctions, real estate, pricing, weather—are transforming the never-ending hunt for a money-making edge.

At the same time, Wall Street is pushing the boundaries of technologies in areas ranging from realtime to databases, and the pace of change is accelerating. The confluence of money and technology is revolutionizing both, and there is a lot to learn on either side. How can investors and financial managers—Wall Street's hackers—stay current? And more importantly, gain an edge over competitors?

The second edition of the O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference will be an even deeper dive into the space where Wall Street meets Web 2.0, using technology as a lens to provide a unique view of the most pressing issues facing the industry now, ranging from securitization and trading velocity to risk measurement and the evolution of research. All of these issues have been heavily influenced by information technology in getting us to this point, and all of these issues will be influenced even more by technology going forward.
Presentations at Money:Tech 2009, which takes place February 4-6, 2009 in New York, will be ...

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