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Mat Fogarty and Leslie Fine are speaking at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston.

Enterprise 2.0 – Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. – 2009-06-22~25
The Promise of Prediction Markets [*] #e2conf33
When will the product really ship? How much will we sell next year? While accurate forecasts are a cornerstone of a well-run enterprise, the methods to arrive at those forecasts haven’t changed in decades. Prediction markets offer the ability to tap the [...]

Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

Inkling Administrator Conference on May 7th, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Adam Siegel:
There won’t be any sales pitches or windy academic talks.
I like that.
And their price ($79) is reasonable —contrast it with the $400 that the clown charges for “sales pitches” and “windy academic talks”. I highly support and recommend this Inkling workshop. However, [...]

Nate Silver at TED 2009

TED 2009

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The San Francisco conference on prediction markets

I previously wrote that that San Francisco vendor conference is not worth the $400 they are asking. However, in all honesty to my readers, I shall notify that they have just made one (small) change that goes in the right direction. World’s #1 prediction market researcher Robin Hanson is now scheduled to talk about combinatorial [...]

Prediction Markets for Emerging Technology: An Experiment in the Wisdom of Crowds

Coalition for Networked Information – Prediction Markets – @ Washington, D.C., U.S.A. – 2008-12-08~09
http://markets.nitle.org/
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NewsFutures workshop — Monday, October 27, 2008

After you have participated in this NewsFutures workshop, send me an e-mail at … cfm |-at-| midasoracle |.|-com-| … or …. chrisfmasse |-at-| gmail |.|-com-| … to tell me how it went. I need to hear from the participants, not just from Emile and his gang. Just to form my own independent opinion on this [...]

Prediction Markets and Wisdom of Crowds 101

NewsFutures WorkShop – @ New York City – 2008-10-27
I do not endorse their workshop, but I know that Emile Servan-Schreiber, Maurice Balick and Norris Clark have high quality content to deliver. I would go, if I were in the area that day.
Best wishes to them.

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Pop!Tech 2008

Pop!Tech 2008 – Maine, U.S.A. – 2008-10-23~25
Not on prediction markets.
But Inkling is a partner.
UPDATE: Inkling’s post.

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INFORMS on prediction markets

INFORMS on prediction markets – Washington, D.C., U.S.A. – 2008-10-15
I am highly interested in what Robin Hanson will say about how to assess the informational value of the prediction markets.

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Is Charles Plott a bigger thinker than Robin Hanson?

The answer to this question: next October, in Santa Clara.
Charles Plott @ Yahoo! @ Santa Clara, California, U.S.A. – 2008-10-09

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