Although the name has changed subtly over the years, the three-day event, running from June 19th - 21st, 2012, has become a mainstay for financial technology executives on Wall Street and Main Street.

The conference has led the way in thought leadership, critical analysis of current issues, and showing the way with new technologies and financial technology and operations innovations.

This year will be no exception.

Looking at opportunities across the wide spectrum of the financial services, trading, and wealth and asset management industries to reply new and emerging technologies better meet client needs while at the same time boosting the profitability and reducing the cost base of the many different types of financial institutions.

Change and new opportunities will be very much a theme of the leadership conference but also mixed in with critical issues for the financial industry today including meeting new compliance and regulatory requirements and improving all forms of risk management, a need highlighted by recent events at one of the world's leading banks.

One other trend is taking center stage this year at the Tech Leaders Conference that is social media. The use of social networking and social media has increasingly become a facet of the financial industry both for internal use -- to drive efficiencies in information sharing and use and to drive innovation and collaborative work -- but also as an increasingly critical part of financial institution branding and marketing, in-partner collaboration, co-creation of value and products, and the development of new business models revolving around highly interconnected industry or product ecosystems underpinned by a social technology infrastructure.

Speakers at this year's Tech Leaders Forum include:

• Research company Gartner's Peter Sondergaard
• Scott O'Malia -- Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission 
• IBM's Tom Deutsch 
• Veteran Wall Street risk manager and author Rick Bookstaber
• Oliver L Frankel, a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
• Laurent Paulhac, Managing Director of OTC Products and Services at the CME Group

Among the key topics and critical issues being discussed are:

• Big Data
• Social Media
• Mobile
• Data Standards for Measuring Systemic Risk
• Optimizing Business Decisions in a Sea of Uncertainty
• Trading Swaps in the Future
• Exchange Traded and OTC Derivatives: Unifying Enterprise Infrastructure for Valuation
• Margin Risk Reporting
• Top IT Trends over the Next 10 Years
• the Impact of Exponentially Growing Technologies on the Financial Services Industry

As in pervious years, the conference is complemented by a large exhibition featuring several hundred mainly technology innovators many of whom are bringing new innovations and critical new capabilities to the financial industry to help industry participants see their way through the current turmoil impacting the industry and to help them innovate towards success, greater customer satisfaction, repaired reputations, and greater profitability.

For more info and registration go to: http://www.sifma.org/events/techforumandexpo2012/

The SIFMA Tech Leaders Forum and Tech Expo
June 19th - June 21st, 2012

the Hilton Hotel New York
1335 Avenue of the Americas

New York , NY 10019