2013 Conference Announcement
Impact of Emerging Information Technology on Capital Markets
April 5-6, 2013
Washington DC

Investors, regulators and registrants face both opportunities and challenges in the sea of change that has permeated the corporate information environment. For example, firms are increasingly turning to social media, such as Twitter, for investor relations, customer service and crisis management. Investors are using the Internet to obtain firm information via Google searches, corporate websites, investor blogs, and trader chat rooms. They also have access to real-time feeds of SEC filings and press releases, and some have found ways to determine online sentiment about a firm and incorporate this into their valuation processes. When investors turn to implementing trades, they are faced with market mechanics that are greatly affected by technological change, as evidenced by high frequency trading, flash orders, and dark pools. The SEC has been tasked with determining whether the various online information from blogs, chat rooms, social media and corporate websites qualify as acceptable disclosures under securities laws. And, as perhaps a sign of the times, the SEC has recently mandated that firms release their financial statements using a recent technological innovation, XBRL, that is touted as a 'quantum leap' in the way external parties gain access to information in firms' filings.

This conference will bring together leading experts, regulators, registrants, information intermediaries, and academics to provide a vibrant setting for discussing how the revolution in information technology is shaping the capital market information environment and impacting investors.

Speakers of Note

• Honorable Commissioner Troy A. Paredes, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Armando Gonzalez, President & CEO, RavenPack
• Laurence Herman, Gerson Lehrman Group
• Cathy Baron-Tamraz, CEO, Business Wire
• Darrell Heaps, CEO and co-founder, Q4 Web Systems
• Matthew P. Reed, Chief Counsel, Office of Financial Research, US Treasury
• Zack Miller, Tradestreaming.com
• Barry Hurewitz, COO, Managing Director for Research, Morgan Stanley
• Drew Jones, Product Manager - Banking, Private Equity and Investor Relations, Bloomberg
• Jacob Sisk, Lead Research Scientist, Thomson Reuters
• James Claus, Managing Director, Moon Capital
• Ted Bailey, CEO, DataMinr
• Craig Lewis, Director and Chief Economist, SEC
• Ajit Agrawal, Global Head of AlphaWise, Morgan Stanley
• Campbell Pryde, President XBRL US
• Richard Brown, Global Head of Quant & Event Driven Trading, Thomson Reuters
• Susan Yount, Office of Interactive Data, Securities and Exchange Commission
• Heather Hunter, Director of Marketing Communications, Safeguard
• Bill Ladd, Chief Analytic Officer, Recorded Future
• Jamie Selway, Managing Director, ITG
• Colin Clark, Senior Vice President, Strategic Analysis, NYSE Euronext
• Major Sam Linn, US Army
• Frank Hatheway, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, NASDAQ OMX
• Suzanne Morsfield, CEASA, Columbia Business School
• Bob Herz, Columbia Business School
• Larry Harris, University of Southern California
• Paul Healy, Harvard University
• Hal White, University of Michigan
• Erik Gerding, University of Colorado Law School
• Robert Bloomfield, Cornell University
• Greg Miller, University of Michigan
• Mark Bradshaw, Boston College
• Douglas Skinner, Chicago Booth School of Business
• Bill Mayew, Duke University
• Beth Blankespoor, Stanford University
• Jake Thornock, University of Washington
• Brady Twedt, Texas A & M University
• Frank Zhang, Yale University
• ...more to come.....

Our Organizers

• Darren Roulstone, Ohio State University
• K Ramesh, Rice University
• Hal White, University of Michigan
• Beth Blankespoor, Stanford University
• Peter Easton, University of Notre Dame

Last Updated: December 18, 2012