Oct. 4, 2010, San Francisco, Calif. at the St. Regis Hotel
GigaOM readers receive 15% on tickets. Register here http://crowdconf.eventbrite.com/ with code gigom.
The Event:
CrowdConf brings together researchers, technologists, outsourcing experts, legal scholars, and artists to discuss the rapidly democratizing and flattening of the global labor market. The event includes a series of peer-reviewed presentation tracks, posters, technology demonstrations as well as invited keynote addresses from leaders in crowdsourcing.
Confirmed Speakers:
- Sharon Chirella, VP, Amazon Mechanical Turk
- Tim Ferriss , Author, The 4-Hour Work Week
- David Alan Grier , Author, When Computers Were Human
- Barney Pell , Partner, Strategist and Evangelist, Microsoft
- Maynard Webb, CEO, LiveOps
- Jonathan Zittrain , Professor,
Harvard
Topics:
- Past, present, and future of crowdsourcing
- Quality assurance and metrics
- Social and economic implications of crowdsourcing
- Task design/Worker incentives
- Innovative projects, experiments, and applications
We are inviting submissions on all topics regarding crowdsourcing, including:
- Past, present, and future of crowdsourcing
- Quality assurance and metrics
- Social and economic implications of crowdsourcing
- Task design/Worker incentives
- Innovative projects, experiments, and applications
Contacts:
Sponsorships/Registration:
Mollie Allick
events@crowdflower.com
Media/PR:
Julie Crabill
press@crowdflower.com
Speaker/Program Ideas:
Aaron Shaw
papers@crowdflower.com
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