Roboadvisors are gathering in New York City.

Today and tomorrow more than 750 executives are gathering in midtown Manhattan for the second annual In|Vest conference on the changing wealth management industry. In|Vest 2016, "Innovations in Investing, Saving and Advice", kicks off this afternoon at the Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel, though pre-conference sessions began this morning. The conference ends tomorrow afternoon.

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Robo executives who are scheduled to speak include: Jennifer Barrett, chief education officer at PayPal-backed Acorns; Mike Kane, co-founder of Hedgeable; Bo Lu, CEO of BlackRock subsidiary FutureAdvisor; Mike Sha, CEO of Eaton Vance-backed SigFig; Greg Smith, president of retirement-focused robo blooom; Lex Sokolin, partner and chief operating officer of white label robo Vanare; Jon Stein, CEO and founder of robo giant Betterment; Hardeep Walia, CEO and founder of Motif Investing; and others.

Other speakers on the agenda include: Blaine Aikin, executive chairman of fi360; Roger Alt, head of digital channels at AssetMark; Yvette Butler, president of Capital One Investing; David Canter executive vice president, practice management and consulting for Fidelity Clearing & Custody Solutions; Mitchell Caplan, CEO of Jefferson National; Warren Cormier, partner and CEO of Boston Research Technologies; Bill Crager, president of Envestnet; Joe Duran, CEO of United Capital; Rob Foregger, co-founder of NextCapital; Bill Harris, founder and CEO of Personal Capital; Neesha Hathi, executive vice president, investor services platforms, strategy and client experience at Charles Schwab; Elizabeth Kelly, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy, White House National Economic Council; Jeff Kletti, senior vice president and head of investments for Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust; Eric Lordi, managing director at Morgan Stanley; Jeff McMillan, chief analytics and data officer at Morgan Stanley; Diana Moy, senior vice president and head of wealth management digital at US Bank; Ram Nagappan, chief information officer for BNY Mellon's Pershing; Charles Smith, executive director of advisory services at EY; Jim Smith, head of workplace strategy and sales for North America at Morningstar; Robert Stanich, global wealth management offering manager at IBM; Richard Steinmeier, head of emerging affluent and the wealth advice center for UBS Wealth Management - Americas; Nathan Stevenson, founder and CEO of Forwardlane; and Gauthier Vincent, head of the wealth management practice for Deloitte Consulting.

Big sponsors of the conference include: Capco, a financial services consulting arm of FIS (which bought SunGard last year); Fiserv; IBM; Salesforce; and Vanare. The conference is put on by Financial Planning and OnWallStreet parent SourceMedia. 

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