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The latest videos, presentation files, and photos from Money:Tech, updated as new media becomes available:

Keynote Video

• Kedrosky & O'Reilly, "Money:Tech Opening Salvo"
  20:28
• Winn, Passarella, Pomplun, Monaghan, "Building a Better Information Beast..."
  25:49

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Presentation Files

Presentation files for the 2009 conference will be made available after the session has concluded and the speaker has given us the files.

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Twitter

• pkedrosky: @skipshean yeah, i've been to all the usual places. i'll find it.it'll be in an economic history paper somewhere.
• robpas: OK folks -- my sensors are up - I see lots of independent research on the horizon given the fallout from the sell side cutbacks
• MoneyTech: Combining Portfolio Analytics & Risk Management by Richard Lindsey check it out@ http://en.oreilly.com/money2009/public/schedule/detail/6743

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News & Coverage

• O'Reilly Radar: WSJ's End of Wall Street: Don't Order The Tombstone Just Yet
• NYSSA: O'Reilly Money: Tech Conference 2009
• Paul Kedrosky: Banks 2.0: Build, Not Bail?
• News Release: O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference Opens Registration
• What I'll be Presenting at O'Reilly Money Tech 2009

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Blogs

Intellectual Bedfellows: David Petraeus and Nouriel Roubini, pk
[Infectious Greed]

MONEY:TECH 2009 Up and Running, Robert Passarella
[O'Reilly Radar]

After the Goldrush:
Financial Tools for New Times

Back in June when we opened our call for speakers for the 2009 edition of Money:Tech, we noted the financial investment industry had entered a new era. Many of us realized that social stock-picking, new and tradable web-based data, search—the whole wave of Web 2.0 technologies slamming into Wall Street is changing fundamentally the way we do business. Fewer of us predicted how radically the financial markets would be upended by events of just the last month.

Participants in the first Money:Tech Conference last February, however, were given the opportunity to get ahead of the curve of financial disaster. Speakers there identified how, thanks to the illusion of modern financial theory, market participants piled on risk through ever more complex instruments financed by ever more leverage. When confidence in just one set of the model-derived instruments was shaken by rising mortgage defaults, the entire financial structure began to melt down. Nouriel Roubini also predicted at the conference that the performance of the "real" economy would be dominated by the failure of the financial system. And, as Bill Janeway suggested, the response forced on the authorities would be a systemic refinancing of the entire banking system.

We expect to see more of the future—and what to do about it—onstage at the second edition of Money:Tech, happening February 4-6, 2009 in New York. Here's just a taste of what you'll experience:

• Electronic Shareholder Forums and the Future of Investor Relations with Eric Nowak (Swiss Finance Institute), Dean Starkman (Columbia Journalism Review), Gary Lutin (The Shareholder Forum, Inc.)
• News Alpha: Ripped From the Headlines with Alan Slomowitz (Dow Jones)
• "No Dumb Questions": Social Media in Financial Services Turns Killer Service Channel with Donato Montanaro (TradeKing)
• Evolving Alternative Practices in Investment Research with Charles Frumberg (Emancipation Capital), Keith McCullough (Research Edge LLC), Gregory Saxton (SUNY-Buffalo), William Murphy (Capital IQ), Penny Herscher (FirstRain, Inc.)
• Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing Make Financial Markets More Accessible with Claude Courbois, Jeff Kimsey, and Oliver Albers (all from NASDAQ OMX)
• An Orderly, Visual Approach to More Profitable Trading with Scott Kaylie (QuantRunner Software)
• Insights from the Internet's Most-visited Financial Site and Community with Mark Interrante (Yahoo!)
• The 13 Paradoxes of Financial Signal Data with Eric Christiansen (Barclays Global Investors)

The schedule for Money:Tech 2009 will continue to evolve as the state of our financial system and global economy rapidly shift. Some of the topics we're considering as we refine the agenda include:

• Type conversion in markets. When wildfires burn a landscape too regularly the vegetation is permanently altered to a more fire-prone landscape. What happens to capital markets when they have regular crises too? Arguably, something similar: They become more conflagration-prone, not less.
• What can we learn about markets from queuing, congestion, and urban planning? Lots of interesting work going on about calming measures on city streets (i.e., traffic/biking/etc.). What happens when we apply this thinking to markets? How does building slack and slowing change things? Does it make markets safer? Or just non-functional?
• Investors say they can't operate with transparency; markets have proven they can't work with current (low) levels of transparency. How does this tension resolve itself? Does bringing more transparency about pricing, holdings and risk, for example, make markets more or less functional? We may have no choice.
• Big data. If we have enough data we can find anything. Want a level of certainty for something? Enough data can be found around financial markets to make it look true at some place at some time. Are we solving problems by embracing new terabyte data sets? Or are we creating problems?

Wall Street is pushing the boundaries of technologies 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.

While we can't lose sight of Wall Street's root worries, we also need to be optimistic and forward-looking. Web 2.0 is ultimately about "collective intelligence"—as are financial markets. 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. An intimate, collaborative event that melds thought leadership with practical how-tos, Money:Tech 2009 will showcase new kinds of technology and data that are coming to light in today's increasingly networked world that can be the foundation for insight and value creation.