I have organized a conference on corporate prediction markets which may be of interest to Midas Oracle readers. It will take place on 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/PredictionMarketsConference.html) with some background available on the conference flier (http://people.ku.edu/~cigar/PMConf_2007/PredictionMarketsConference_Flier.html). Note that this is a free conference but you should get in touch with me if you plan on attending.
The preliminary schedule is listed below:
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)
12:30 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
3:00 Break (refreshments)
3:15 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)
4:00 General Discussion
6:30 Dinner
Location TBA
