The Securities and Exchange Commission has postponed a roundtable on market technology issues and measures to ensure stability that was originally set to take place on Friday. Due to scheduling conflicts and a greater-than-anticipated level of interest, the sessions will be pushed up to Thursday, Oct. 2.

The roundtable, to be held at the SEC's Washington, D.C. headquarters, is open to the public and will be webcast. On the agenda is a discussion on current best practices for creating, deploying, and operating systems used to automatically generate and route orders, match trades, confirm transactions, and disseminate data. An afternoon session will focus on error response, with experts discussing how the market might better deploy independent filters and real-time crisis-management techniques to detect, limit, and terminate erroneous market activities.

Earlier this summer, following the two-year anniversary of the infamous May 6, 2010 “flash crash,” the SEC approved new proposals intended to protect against extreme market volatility by triggering trading suspensions. Among the initiatives is the establishment of a “limit up-limit down” mechanism that prevents trades in individual stocks from occurring outside of a specified price band. Another initiative updated existing market-wide circuit breakers that, when triggered, halt trading in all exchange-listed securities throughout the U.S. markets.

The current systems were credited by SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro as limiting the impact of trading errors made by Knight Capital Group on Aug. 1 when malfunctioning software sent out a flurry of erroneous orders.

The technology roundtable begins at 10 a.m. with a panel on “Preventing Errors through Robust System Design, Deployment, and Operation.” A second panel, “Responding to Errors and Malfunctions and Managing Crises in Real-Time, ”takes place from 2-4 p.m.

Public comments may be submitted online prior to the meeting, and those that have been received are posted here.