O'Reilly Conferences: Money:Tech

News Release: After the Goldrush: O'Reilly Money:Tech Explores Financial Tools for New Times: Call for Participation Now Open

Jackie Hadley, Communications Associate — 2008-08-28T15:39:37-08:00

Sebastopol, CA, July 30, 2008–The second O’Reilly Money:Tech Conference will mine the new veins where technology and finance meet February 4-6, 2009, at the Marriot Marquis in New York City. Program Co-chairs Paul Kedrosky and Robert Passarella invite proposals for conference sessions and a newly added full day of tutorials at this year’s expanded Money:Tech Conference.

An intimate, collaborative event that melds thought leadership with practical how-tos, Money:Tech 2009 will showcase the new kinds of technology and data from today’s increasingly networked world that can become the foundation for insight and value creation. Money:Tech brings together institutional and professional investors, web entrepreneurs and activists, technology and research experts, VCs, and high-profile thought leaders to expose the edges and give fundamental research new traction.

Read full press release here.

Select Money:Tech 2008 Video Available

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-05-26T08:10:10-08:00

We’re starting the preparations to launch the 2009 edition of Money:Tech, and to that end we’ve started posting select video from the inaugural 2008 event, including this VC panel led by program chair Paul Kedrosky:

O'Reilly Radar: New Release 2.0 on Money 2.0

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-05-02T16:01:21-08:00

“In this issue of Release 2.0, we consider the Wall Street/Web 2.0 mashup from a number of angles, writes Jimmy Guterman. “We talk to Paul Kedrosky, chair of our Money:Tech conference and an influential blogger on the topic (as well as others), about why some on Wall Street hate Web 2.0 — and what Web 2.0 can do to infiltrate Wall Street nonetheless.”

Ethical Corporation: Crossing Networks - Dark Traders

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-04-06T14:41:17-08:00

Locust wrote about a two important topics that came out of February’s Money:Tech conference:

A lively public stock exchange is often considered the necessary centrepiece of any successful economy. Yet at the O’Reilly Money:Tech conference in New York in February, which looked at how the internet is affecting the financial industry, one session discussed two troubling developments in the world of share trading: dark pools and crossing networks.

Technoetic: Open Source and Finance

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-29T08:58:22-08:00

One of the speakers at Money:Tech wrote this wrap-up of his panel discussion:

I recently had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion at the O’Reilly Money:Tech conference. We discussed the extent that the financial technology community had embraced open source. Other members of the panel were Tim O’Reilly of O’Reilly Media, James Altucher who founded StockPickr and Graham Miller of Marketcetera. I was representing free financial open source software developers in my role as founder and project lead for the QuickFIX/J project.

bbgm: Streambase: Query your streaming data

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-20T13:35:03-08:00

A blogger who normally focuses on “the interface of biology and information technology was intrigued by some of the conference presentations:

Over at the Money:Tech conference (O’Reilly does organize some of the coolest conferences), a couple of talks caught my eye, notably one by Michael Stonebraker on Streambase and another by Steve Skiena on using computer simulations and mathematical modeling to make bets (You can find the slides on the web site). After going through the slides, I wondered, is there anything there which would be useful for the life sciences.

Yahoo Tech Ticker: Cramer: Tech Is Poison

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-19T18:07:51-08:00

Tech Ticker host Aaron Task posted a video interview with speaker Jim Cramer shot during the conference.

The “Mad Money” host and my old boss at TheStreet.com reveals his favorite shorts in tech, a sector he believes will lag for several months because of the mindset of institutional investors. But is Cramer a contrarian indicator?

Infectious Greed: Money:Tech Post-Mortem, Plus a Personal Note

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-18T15:49:34-08:00

Money:Tech program chair Paul Kedrosky wraps up the first-ever event on his blog:

Money:Tech came off better than I could ever have reasonably expected, especially considering it was a) a first-time event b) in an emerging subject and c) on the other side of the country. Ordinarily, self-centered sort that I am, I would cheerfully accept all praise for the event’s success and motor on, but it sure wasn’t me. Far from it.

First, Money:Tech was about the people who attended. We had more than 400 registered Money:Tech conference-goers, which was great. When I finally forced myself to peek out from behind the on-stage screen Wednesday morning minutes before showtime and saw a full house, it made all the work and worry of the last six (!) months worth it. As I said at the end of the event, the Money:Tech audience’s enthusiasm and interest carried the show (and I’m personally delighted at all the people I had a chance to meet and talk to).

FT Alphaville: [MoneyTech] Filtering the Noise and Creating the Signal

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-12T12:06:28-08:00

“Many of the more interesting presentations at the Money:Tech conference dealt with the topic of data overload,” writes Stacy-Marie Ishmael “with an emphasis on how best to mine the Web and related online resources for ‘investment-grade information.’”

CNET TV: Money:Tech

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-12T06:24:41-08:00

This episode of Loaded with Natali Del Conte features interviews with a couple of Money:Tech participants onsite at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York.

AllAboutAlpha: Does the “Wisdom of Crowds” Produce Alpha?

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-11T12:15:46-08:00

A post on AllAboutAlpha.com observes that the intersection of finance and technology is getting crowded.

Along with information aggregation services and social investing networks, today’s the O’Reilly MoneyTech conference in New York featured celebrity financial bloggers. Barry Ritholtz (The Big Picture), Roger Ehrenberg (Information Arbitrage), Veryan Allen (Hedge Fund Blog), and even the reclusive and media-shy “Finbar Taggit” (Fintag.com). The event itself was moderated by blogger Paul Kedrosky (Infectious Greed) and counts among its four promotional partners, Footnoted.org and AllAboutAlpha.com.

SWFR: Money:Tech conference - Day 2

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-11T09:00:31-08:00

Christian Braun summarizes the highlights of final day of Money:Tech, including Devin Wenig of Reuters; Richard Bookstaber, author of “A Demon of Our Own Design”; Martin Wattenberg of IBM Research; and Bill Tancer of Hitwise, plus others.

Portfolio.com: Blogonomics: How Gerson Lehrman Pays Bloggers

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-11T08:51:58-08:00

“Call it the monetization of opacity,” writes Felix Salmon. “One of the biggest buzz topics of the Money:Tech conference is dark pools: the way that stock trades are migrating away from open and transparent public exchanges, and into black boxes which don’t make their trade data public.”

FT Alphaville: Wall Street Meets Silicon Alley

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-11T08:44:19-08:00

In her Financial Times blog, Stacy-Marie Ishmael posts a brief overview of the conference:

How do you find Alpha in a world where data is essentially a commodity? That was the question posed by the organisers of the Money:Tech conference in New York this week, Messrs. Tim O’Reilly and Paul Kedrosky.

eventVestor Launched at Money:Tech

Suzanne Axtell, Communications Gal — 2008-02-08T06:55:17-08:00

Anju Marempudi, a speaker at Money:Tech, announced the launch of eventVestor during his presentation. “EventVestor aims to become the most comprehensive data and analytics platform for event driven investment analysis and business decision-making. We identify, synthesize, and quantify key corporate actions, market reactions, and macro economic events into a near real-time structured database and provide an advanced analytics and flexible data delivery platform.”