The 8th Annual GIOA Conference will be held March 21-23, 2012 at the Monte Carlo Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Hotel Reservations: For hotel reservations, please visit www.montecarlo.com, or call 800-311-8999, and use group code XGIOA03. The room rate is $55, plus a mandatory $15 resort fee, and is good until February 20, 2012. Useful Links Relating to the 2012 Conference: Register for the conference 2012 GIOA Conference Agenda Become a sponsor   This Year's Sponsors:   Platinum Sponsors Alamo Capital Atlanta Capital Management Company BNP Paribas FTN Financial Jefferies & Company KeyBanc Capital Markets Mainstreet Capital Advisors Morgan Keegan RBC Capital Markets RBS Global Banking & Markets State Street Corporation Stifel Nicolaus TD Securities (USA) LLC Toyota Motor Credit Corporation Vining Sparks Wells Fargo Securities   Gold Sponsors: Barclays Capital Citigroup Global Markets Cortview Capital Securities LLC Federated Investors Gleacher & Co Government Perspectives J.P. Morgan Securities LLC Multi-Bank Securities, Inc. Seattle-Northwest Securities Corp (SNW) U.S. Bank UBS Financial Services Weller, Anderson & Co. Ltd Zions Bank Capital Markets   Exhibitor/Sponsors: BondEdge Solutions Fitch Ratings MarketAxess Moody's Investor Services QED/DST Global Solutions Standard & Poor's Sungard SymPro Treasury Mgmt Software GIOA 2011: 2011 GIOA Conference Agenda GIOA 2011 Conference Presentations: Name Presentation Jim Zucco Fannie Mae Callable Debt Workshop Joe Cousins Federal Home Loan Bank FHLBank Overview and Debt Funding Programs Stephen Manning RBC Effective Agency Strategies Michael Feroli JP Morgan The US Economic Outlook Peter Rizzo Standard and Poor's "Proposed" Criteria For Rated Funds David Hendler CreditSights, Inc. Money Never Sleeps John Richards RBS Global Banking & Markets Dealing with the Deficit Ivan Hrazdira Credit Suisse US Agency Debt Markets Robert Rowe Citigroup Agency Debt Markets and the GSEs Rick Phillips Main Street Capital Advisors Keeping Score: Benchmarking Your Portfolio George Richardson World Bank Investing in Supranationals Richard Eisenberg Farmer Mac Farmer Mac Update David Zervos Jefferies & Co. The Deflation Put Donald J. Boyd The Rockefeller Institute of Government State & Local Financial Update Jim Womack Atlanta Capital Understanding Securitized Assets