Web Tech 2.0 on Wall Street (via the Fast Forward blog, a fantastic resource for all this E2.0):

The Wall Street meeting for Web 2.0 and SaaS. Web 2.0 collaboration and delivery offer great potential for Wall Street and the global financial markets.

Web 2.0 technologies - collaboration tools, such as blogs, wikis and social networking, plus deployment of rich user interfaces and delivery of Software as a Service (SaaS) - are taking off in the financial markets. Merrill Lynch, Lehman Brothers, Wells Fargo, Jefferies, and others have Web 2.0 applications at work to extend their business reach and agility.

2007 Web Tech 2.0 on Wall Street will focus on:

• Applications for collaborative technologies – blogs, wikis and social networks – on Wall Street
• Delivering financial applications using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model
• Rich User Interface technology options – AJAX, Flex, JavaFXand Silverlight – for the financial markets
• Webtop delivery – a fresh approach to the trader workstation?
• Mashups as the new messaging middleware for financial markets business processing
• Scalable and On Demand datacenter architectures to support Web 2.0 delivery to Wall Street

The web site is still a work in progress; i.e. there's no conference price yet, for example, except for exhibitors. No speakers listed yet either.