AGORACOM, our very first sponsor of Money:Tech, has also made the first announcement of the conference:

It gives me great pleasure to announce that AGORACOM has launched “Investor Controlled Discussion Forums” for small-cap and micro-cap investors. What does this mean exactly? It means we are smashing the discussion forum status quo we’ve all come to hate over the past 10 years thanks to unrelenting spam, profanity, stock bashing, stock hyping and all the rest of the noise.