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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T090000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T083000
DTSTAMP:20080105T211332
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2167
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-08:30--2167
SUMMARY:Money:Tech Opening Salvo
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Kedrosky (Venture Capitalist), Tim O'Reill
 y (O'Reilly Media, Inc.). The Web 2.0 wave is slamming into Wall Street.
  Sharing and social networks that once seemed antithetical to the zero-s
 um world of money are finding their places in investing. From social sto
 ck-picking, to new and tradable web-based data, to search, all of these 
 Web 2.0 technologies are showing up on Wall Street.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T093000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T090000
DTSTAMP:20080105T232450
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/109
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-09:00--109
SUMMARY:Blogs, Boo-yah, and the Future of Financial Media
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jim Cramer ( TheStreet.com/CNBC). So-called ama
 teurs have a bad rap in capital markets. Most professional investors sni
 ff at such people, but Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's Mad Money, has done mo
 re than anyone else to celebrate them.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T100000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T093000
DTSTAMP:20080111T160027
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/134
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-09:30--134
SUMMARY:Open Source Finance: A Contradiction in Terms?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), James Altu
 cher (Stockpickr), Graham Miller (Marketcetera), Steve Bate (FOLIOfn). S
 ome think open source technologies are fundamentally at odds with the ze
 ro-sum world of capital markets. Can you make money sharing some of your
  intellectual property? Increasingly we are seeing investors share techn
 ologies, ideas, and, yes, find more profits.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T103000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T100000
DTSTAMP:20080105T211623
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/1643
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-10:00--1643
SUMMARY:Search, Dark Pools, and Disappearing Traders: A Financial Techno
 logy Roadmap
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Larry Tabb (TABB Group). Dark pools, algorithms
 , disappearing traders—the markets are being transformed by technology. 
 Capital is increasingly disappearing into markets where immense computat
 ional power is required to find trading parties; and algorithms are repl
 acing traders at many funds.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T113000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T110000
DTSTAMP:20080105T231603
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/137
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-11:00--137
SUMMARY:Data Demos: Real Estate, Wikis, and the Web
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Simonsen (Altos Research Corp.), Bruce 
 Molloy (Connotate), Matt Jacobson (Connotate), Michael Sha (Wikinvest), 
 Parker  Conrad (Wikinvest), Fred Speckeen (AERS Terapeak Dataunison). Da
 ta is oxygen for stock markets. The trouble is, interesting new data is 
 increasingly scarce, and existing data—like financial and earnings figur
 es—are like mines picked over the point of exhaustion. Enter the Web.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T120000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T113000
DTSTAMP:20080108T193520
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/139
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-11:30--139
SUMMARY:If You Had Everything Computationally, Where Would You Put It, F
 inancially?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Leinweber (Haas School of Business at UC 
 Berkeley). Technology has transformed investment and trading over the pa
 st 30 years. Markets have become computer networks, brokers are disinter
 mediated by direct access and algo trading. Reporters are disintermediat
 ed when investors have access to primary sources at the same time they d
 o.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T133000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T131500
DTSTAMP:20080129T180806
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2187
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-13:15--2187
SUMMARY:Building An Expert Exchange: Networks in Decision-Making
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Alexander Saint-Amand (Gerson Lehrman Group ). 
 More and more decision-makers around the world in all industries are tur
 ning to expert networks—communities of top thinkers, managers, and scien
 tists—to help them make decisions.
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T134000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T133000
DTSTAMP:20080205T022324
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2653
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-13:30--2653
SUMMARY:Main Street Research Meets Wall Street: How Social Networking is
  Transforming Online Investing
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Thomas A. Desmond (TradeKing). TradeKing was th
 e first online broker-dealer to embrace social networking, introducing t
 he TradeKing Community in 2005. Now, with more than two years under its 
 belt - and 60,000 active traders & community members - TradeKing demonst
 rates how social networking is changing trading, to its own and its clie
 nts' benefit.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T140000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T134000
DTSTAMP:20080105T221430
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/208
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-13:40--208
SUMMARY:Learning to  Think Like a Financial Markets Hacker
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steve G. Steinberg (Steinberg Consulting). Wall
  Street is largely populated by hackers. Major funds, like Renaissance T
 echnologies, are run by ex-computer scientists, and they are among the h
 ottest firms on Wall Street. Where do they look for data? How do they fi
 nd an edge?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T143000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T140000
DTSTAMP:20080108T221556
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/209
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-14:00--209
SUMMARY:Sure, Data, Data Everywhere, But Is Any of It Any Good?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Keith Ackerman (Thomson Financial), Eric Christ
 iansen (Barclays Global Investors). In the current web-based data explos
 ion, buyers and sellers of financial data are struggling to stay relevan
 t and ahead. What data matters any more? What doesn’t? How do you know? 
 Where do you look?
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T150000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T143000
DTSTAMP:20080107T185531
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/210
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-14:30--210
SUMMARY:Building a Better Information Beast: What Will it Take
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Randall Winn (Capital IQ), Robert Passarella ( 
 .), Kevin Pomplun (SkyGrid), Renny Monaghan (Salesforce.com). The news a
 nd information business is changing rapidly. There is simply far more of
  it, with thousands of stories moving on major newswire on any given day
 , but there are also hundreds of market-moving niche sites and blogs.
END:VEVENT
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T151500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T150000
DTSTAMP:20080129T174154
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2169
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-15:00--2169
SUMMARY:Consumer Finance 2.0: What Happens When Investors Really Manage 
 Their Money?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jason Knight (Wesabe). Web 2.0 is all about col
 laboration, about people helping one another, sometimes consciously, and
  sometimes less. A new generation of money management tools exploits thi
 s emerging phenomenon, and Wesabe is a great example.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T152000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T151500
DTSTAMP:20080109T183955
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2287
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-15:15--2287
SUMMARY:The Future of Online Financial Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Presented by George Tsiolis (AGORACOM). AGORACOM is a second
 -generation financial community that has successfully eliminated epidemi
 c levels of spam, bashing and profanity that plagued first-generation co
 mmunities.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T153500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T152000
DTSTAMP:20080129T180914
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2474
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-15:20--2474
SUMMARY:Social Networks: A New Tool For Alternative Research
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Mike Gamson (LinkedIn). Over the last five year
 s, technological innovations driven by Web 2.0 companies have changed th
 e way business is conducted around the world.   In this session we will 
 explore some of those innovations and their impact on the investment man
 agement process.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T161500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T160000
DTSTAMP:20080122T160812
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2170
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-16:00--2170
SUMMARY:Google as Prediction Market
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bo Cowgill (Google Economics Group). Most peopl
 e don’t know it, but Google is running one of the largest internal predi
 ction markets in the world. In a sense, the fast-growing company has bro
 ught Wall Street inside, creating a marketplace to help it make decision
 s.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T163000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T161500
DTSTAMP:20080107T184022
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/214
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-16:15--214
SUMMARY:Do Something About the Weather: Make Money!
DESCRIPTION:Presented by David Friedberg (WeatherBill), Michael Ferrari 
 (Weather Trends International), Robert S.  Marshall (WeatherBug). Everyo
 ne talks about the weather, including investors. Weather data is rapidly
  becoming a crucial source of data about retail trends, catastrophe bond
 s, and event insurance. If you can't do anything about the weather, how 
 do you make money from it?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T164500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T163000
DTSTAMP:20080107T212440
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/182
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-16:30--182
SUMMARY:Data: Making Money from Air Travel
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Rick Seaney (FareCompare.com). Travel is one of
  the most technology-enabled industries, with a rapidly increasing amoun
 t of information exposed through travel-related sites. What can be done 
 with this data? Rick Seaney will show us.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T170000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T164500
DTSTAMP:20080111T031836
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/220
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-16:45--220
SUMMARY:Echoes & Whispers
DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Mahoney (InfoNgen). Everyone complains abo
 ut the existing news wires, but no one's willing to wade through all the
  noise online to monitor alternative sources of information.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T171500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T170000
DTSTAMP:20080130T043956
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2478
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-17:00--2478
SUMMARY:Motley Fool CAPS: Investors Helping Investors Beat the Market
DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Keeling (Motley Fool CAPS). About a year a
 go, we started generating stock ratings from the collective wisdom of th
 e Motley Fool community and Wall Street analysts. In a little more than 
 a year, we’ve collected ~1.5 million stock recommendations on over 7000 
 stocks. 5300 stocks have met our threshold for achieving a CAPS rating. 
 But can community-generated stock ratings benefit your stock research?
END:VEVENT
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T172000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T171500
DTSTAMP:20080206T165727
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/3175
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-17:15--3175
SUMMARY:Dow Jones
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Dave Savage (Dow Jones). Information coming soo
 n.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T173000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080206T172000
DTSTAMP:20080206T165737
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/161
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-06-17:20--161
SUMMARY:And Now, a Word from Your...
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Kedrosky (Venture Capitalist). More inform
 ation coming soon.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T083500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T083000
DTSTAMP:20071024T233207
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/254
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-08:30--254
SUMMARY:And Now, a Word from Your....
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Paul Kedrosky (Venture Capitalist). More inform
 ation coming soon.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T090000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T083500
DTSTAMP:20080105T222626
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/168
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-08:35--168
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Michael Stonebraker
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Michael Stonebraker (StreamBase Systems). Chang
 es in the size, speed, and capabilities of databases underlie every majo
 r technology change in capital markets. Entrepreneur and computer scient
 ist Michael Stonebraker will discuss what it all means—on and off Wall S
 treet.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T090500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T090000
DTSTAMP:20080207T152835
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/3186
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-09:00--3186
SUMMARY:PredictWallStreet
DESCRIPTION:Three slides in three minutes. How it is possible to harness
  collective intelligence to generate a 40% alpha.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T093000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T090500
DTSTAMP:20080207T152854
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/110
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-09:05--110
SUMMARY:The Coming Revolution in Financial Information
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Devin  Wenig (Thomson Reuters Markets), Tim O'R
 eilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.). Reuters is the largest information service
 s company on the planet. It sits on some of the most widely used data, b
 ut is that data's time past? We'll find out with the company's Devin Wen
 ig.
END:VEVENT
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T100000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T093000
DTSTAMP:20080110T211847
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/321
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-09:30--321
SUMMARY:Richard Bookstaber on Risk and Financial Technology: Have We Gon
 e Too Far?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Richard Bookstaber (Author of A Demon of Our Ow
 n Design), Bill Janeway (Warburg Pincus LLC). The author of "A Demon of 
 Our Own Design," argues that technology, rather than being a solution in
  financial markets, is part of the problem—and the creator of even more 
 and potentially calamitous problems. Innovation is running amok, creatin
 g immense problems in calculating and managing risk.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T103000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T100000
DTSTAMP:20080105T222000
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/181
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-10:00--181
SUMMARY:Collective Money Management
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jimmy Guterman (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ), Ken Kam
  (Marketocracy), Steven A. Carpenter (Cake Financial), Weiting Liu (Soci
 alPicks), Richard 'Rikki' Tahta (Covestor), Michiel de Boer (Zecco). The
  stock market has long been seen as the antithesis of sharing. There is 
 only so much money to be made, so why would you tell anyone else your go
 od ideas? How, then, do we explain the rise of a host of new web-based s
 ervices predicated on sharing information about trades and stocks?
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T111500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T110000
DTSTAMP:20080129T181459
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2569
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-11:00--2569
SUMMARY:“All the Information” or “Just the News”
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Kevin Pomplun (SkyGrid). Today’s hedge fund man
 agers, portfolio fund managers, and research analysts enjoy state-of-the
 -art desktop news feeds but still spend considerable time and effort sco
 uring the Internet for market-moving information.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T113000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T111500
DTSTAMP:20080105T213319
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/324
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-11:15--324
SUMMARY:Money is Beautiful: Looking at Markets in New Ways
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Martin Wattenberg (IBM Research ). More data is
  better, right up until it isn’t. Because after a while everything start
 s to disappear in data smog, with meaning lost in terabytes of data feed
 s and general information overload. How do you cope?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T114500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T113000
DTSTAMP:20080125T180653
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2171
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-11:30--2171
SUMMARY:Swimming Successfully in a Flow of Realtime News
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Brian O'Keefe (Panopticon Software, Inc). Marke
 ts are all about changes, about what is different now then what was goin
 g on ten minutes ago—and about what’s different from what people expecte
 d. Panopticon’s visualization tools process the motherlode of news data 
 from Bloomberg, Reuters, and other real time sources to produce a fascin
 ating picture of what’s different and what matters.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T120000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T114500
DTSTAMP:20080105T220225
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/216
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-11:45--216
SUMMARY:What Hitwise Knows
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Bill Tancer (Hitwise). Wouldn’t you like to kno
 w what is being searched for right now in Google? Better yet, what is be
 ing searched for at the company of your choice? At Goldman? At Renaissan
 ce? While that data is not yet available, the next best thing is availab
 le at search analytics company Hitwise.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T133000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T131500
DTSTAMP:20080118T214933
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2399
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-13:15--2399
SUMMARY:eventVestor Provides Fresh Insights into Event Driven Investment
  Analysis
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Anju Marempudi (EventVestor). eventVestor provi
 des the most comprehensive data and analytics platform for event driven 
 investment analysis and business decision-making.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T140000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T133000
DTSTAMP:20080110T211900
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/169
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-13:30--169
SUMMARY:Blogs, Analysts, and the Future of Equity Research
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Henry  Blodget (Silicon Alley Insider, Inc.), B
 arry L.  Ritholtz (Fusion IQ), Nouriel Roubini (RGE Monitor), Jonathan G
 lick (Gerson Lehrman Group). Equity research has gone from market hero t
 o market zero in a decade. Now, equity research is seeing a resurgence a
 nd some of the best research is happening on blogs. Are blogs the future
  of equity research? Does sell-side research even have a future? Find ou
 t.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T143000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T140000
DTSTAMP:20080105T215433
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/219
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-14:00--219
SUMMARY:A Conversation with John Seo
DESCRIPTION:Presented by John Seo (Fermat Capital Management, LLC), Jame
 s Altucher (Stockpickr). Market partcipants like to create new markets. 
 People want to trade stocks? Options? Commodities? Art? No problem. But 
 trading in all these things requires information, otherwise there is not
 hing to trade on. Case in point: Catastrophe bonds.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T150000
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T143000
DTSTAMP:20080201T225818
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/326
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-14:30--326
SUMMARY:Predicting the Future of Prediction Markets
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jason Jones (HighStep Capital), Craig Kaplan (P
 redictWallStreet, Inc. ), Adam Siegel (Inkling Markets), Justin Wolfers 
 (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Alex Forshaw (The Trad
 esports Political Maven). There is no denying the appeal of web-based pr
 ediction markets. They are the Web 2.0 notion of wisdom of crowds in act
 ion, with a knack for out-predicting experts on elections and sporting e
 vents. But can they ever outperform the biggest and most liquid predicti
 on market of them all, the stock market?
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T154500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T153000
DTSTAMP:20080129T182535
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/323
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-15:30--323
SUMMARY:Steve Skiena: Money, the Internet, and Jai-Alai
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Steve Skiena (Stony Brook University). Back in 
 the 1980s, computer scientist and hacker Steve Skiena thought of a great
  way to beat jai-alai markets. Trouble was, it required faster computers
  and more data than he had at the time. That changed in the late 1990s, 
 as Skiena exploited faster computers and web-based data to beat jai-alai
  markets, at least for a while.
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T161500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T154500
DTSTAMP:20080107T195901
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/328
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-15:45--328
SUMMARY:What Do Hedge Fund Managers Really Want?
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Cathleen Rittereiser  (Alternative Asset Manage
 rs, L.P. (AAM) ), JP Rangaswami (BT Design), Sean  Park (Nauiokas Park),
  Finbar Taggit (www.fintag.com). One of the problems with trying to tran
 sform Wall Street and capital markets is that neither is very good at be
 ing transformed. While you might think that market participants are aggr
 essive adopters of innovative technologies, it is actually hit-and-miss.
  It is better, goes the old Wall Street adage, to be wrong together, tha
 n wrong alone.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T164500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T161500
DTSTAMP:20080107T202131
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/329
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-16:15--329
SUMMARY:Crossing the Data Line: Scraping, Online Data, and Web-based Dat
 abases
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Tony Berkman (Majestic Research ), Stephen Kauf
 er (TripAdvisor), Penny Herscher (FirstRain, Inc.). The Web is like an i
 nfinite library. Prices, popularity, schedules, economic releases, weath
 er data, ocean buoy heights—it’s all there, and often in realtime. It ca
 n feel like a data bonanza to more enlightened financial market sorts, w
 ith this profusion of data opening up myriad doors for new strategies.
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T171500
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20080207T164500
DTSTAMP:20080105T210623
LOCATION:Starlight Roof
URL:http://en.oreilly.com/money2008/public/schedule/detail/2204
UID:http://conferences.oreilly.com/money--s2008-02-07-16:45--2204
SUMMARY:What's Next?  A Venture Capital View
DESCRIPTION:Presented by Stewart Alsop (Alsop Louie Partners), Roger Ehr
 enberg (IA Capital Partners, LLC), Bruce Golden (Accel Partners), Cary D
 avis (Warburg Pincus, LLC), Salil Deshpande (Bay Partners). For the long
 est time most of the innovation in financial markets came from the insid
 e. Teams would hive off from major brokerage firms, starting hedge funds
 , or less, commonly, new companies providing data and research services.
  Web 2.0 is changing all of this.
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