The conference will be held next Thursday (1 November) at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City. All of the details are available on the conference webpage (http://people.ku.edu/~cigar/PMConf_2007) and the schedule is listed below.
I am pleased to note that Mat Fogarty (Founder and CEO, Xpree) and Alexander Costakis (Managing Director, HSX) have been added to the program.
Please get in touch with me ([email protected]) if you are interested in attending or have any questions.
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Schedule
8:30 Registration, Coffee, Opening Remarks
9:00 Lessons from Corporate Applications of Prediction Markets
Henry Berg, Microsoft
Discussant: Robin Hanson (George Mason Department of Economics)
Christina Ann LaComb, GE (The Imagination Market- abstract is free, text is gated)
Discussant: Marco Ottaviani (Kellogg School of Management, Management and Strategy)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 Lessons from Corporate Applications of Prediction Markets (cont)
Dawn Keller, Best Buy (Best Buy’s TAGTRADE Market)
Discussant: Paul Rhode (Department of Economics. Eller College of Management, University of Arizona)
Bo Cowgill, Google (Putting Crowd Wisdom to Work)
Discussant: Eric Zitzewitz (Dartmouth Department of Economics)
12:45 Lunch
Keynote address: Jim Lavoie, Co-Founder and CEO, Rite-Solutions
1:45 Lessons from Prediction Market Organizers and Operators
John Delaney, Founder and CEO, Intrade
David Perry, Co-Founder and President, Consensus Point
Mat Fogarty, Founder and CEO, Xpree Inc
3:15 Break (refreshments)
3:30 The Legal Playing Field
Tom W. Bell, Chapman University School of Law
Discussant: Robert E. Litan (VP Research and Policy at the Kauffman Foundation, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Director of the AEI-Brookings Joint Center on Regulatory Studies)
4:15 General Discussion
Alexander Costakis (Managing Director, Hollywood Stock Exchange) will also be available to answer questions and may make a short presentation.
Previous blog posts by Koleman Strumpf:
- Prediction Markets in the Classroom: Inkling Markets
- Slides of presentations from Conference on Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets (1 November), Kansas City
- Summary of Conference on Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets (1 November), Kansas City
- Conference: Corporate Applications of Prediction/Information Markets (Thursday, 1 November 2007)
- Copernican Principle: How To Predict the End of the World
- Win Justin’s Money? (re: Is there manipulation in the Hillary Clinton Intrade market? Redux.)
- Is there manipulation in the Hillary Clinton Intrade market?