Tim O'Reilly
Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also publishes online through the O’Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, Wesabe, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

Sessions

8:30am Wednesday, 02/06/2008

Money:Tech Opening Salvo

Keynote
Location: Starlight Roof

Paul Kedrosky (Venture Capitalist), Tim O'Reilly (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-sum world of money are finding their places in investing. From social stock-picking, to new and tradable web-based data, to search, all of these Web 2.0 technologies are showing up on Wall Street. Read more.

9:30am Wednesday, 02/06/2008

Open Source Finance: A Contradiction in Terms?

Location: Starlight Roof

Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.), James Altucher (Stockpickr), Graham Miller (Marketcetera), Steve Bate (FOLIOfn)

Some think open source technologies are fundamentally at odds with the zero-sum world of capital markets. Can you make money sharing some of your intellectual property? Increasingly we are seeing investors share technologies, ideas, and, yes, find more profits. Read more.

9:05am Thursday, 02/07/2008

The Coming Revolution in Financial Information

Location: Starlight Roof

Devin Wenig (Thomson Reuters Markets), Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)

Reuters is the largest information services company on the planet. It sits on some of the most widely used data, but is that data's time past? We'll find out with the company's Devin Wenig. Read more.