Hi Martin –

Thanks. Will sign up.

Thought invitation may interest you and KWT.

-j

Collective Intelligence Networks and prediction markets (CI/PM) continue their sharp growth on all fronts as key innovations for the enterprise, for institutions and consumer markets. The next CI action/research cluster is 18 June 2009 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.  

http://www.pmcluster.com/MSP09.htm

Collective Intelligence Summit:
Leading Enterprise Prediction Markets

Thursday 18 June 2009
Carlson School of Management
Executive Center,  Room 2-206
University of Minnesota
321 19th Avenue Minneapolis, MN 55455

Website: http://www.pmcluster.com/

Background and Purpose

In 2004 James Surowiecki published his now-famous book, “The Wisdom of Crowds: Why the Many Are Smarter Than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economies, Societies and Nations.” For many this milestone introduced the era of collective intelligence for people, business, institutions, the environment and civil society.

Collective intelligence networks and prediction markets are enormously efficient means to harbor and codify vast landscapes of information and bring them to bear on the most difficult problems of business and society. Innovative combinations of social networks and markets are achieving fundamental advancements in productivity, innovation and business performance.  

Since 2004, new ways to share, trade and aggregate information using Internet-based markets have become commonplace on the enterprise landscape. Powerful Web 2.0 knowledge markets help companies to acquire and master ever-growing bodies of knowledge. The new capabilities achieve mastery of collective intelligence with stunning speed, efficiency and accuracy. They resolve and improve enterprise forecasting and questions of competition, science, technology, management, strategy, planning, health and policy far better than experts or management.

Enterprise collective intelligence inhabits the ceaseless flurry of self-correcting social exchanges and knowledge markets. They cover everything from innovations and competitive business plans to forecasts and new product features. Enormously potent, these social markets generate new ideas and amass and refine knowledge and collective wisdom with blinding speed, low cost and remarkable accuracy.

Collective intelligence has become commonplace in the enterprise. Some top firms using prediction markets are Google, Best Buy, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Eli Lilly, Abbott Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Siemens. Collective forecasting is critical to Enterprise 2.0 information and knowledge management portfolios. Below are links to the thriving CI/PM ecosystem.

Discussion        http://groups.google.com/group/Prediction-Markets

People               http://www.linkedin.com/groupRegistration?gid=1179587

Events                http://www.pmcluster.com/

Videos               http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pZO10bG6OW-6z2LXIHvtQFQ

Presentations   http://www.slideshare.net/event/prediction-markets-summit-sfo-2009/slideshows

The Collective Intelligence Summit is practical. The focus is enterprise success stories. You will gain the know-how to optimize enterprise collective intelligence using innovative market solutions. You will learn how to apply these markets to master your competitive intelligence, forecasting, productivity, innovation and planning activities.

This conference is  for executives, directors, mangers, users and practitioners having immediate needs to apply collective intelligence networks and market mechanisms to advance business outcomes through mastery of collective wisdom. Sessions are focused, practical and conversational. You will be equipped with the practical knowledge to apply collective intelligence markets to achieve cost savings, productivity growth and continuous innovation.

Pricing and Availability

Check-in and registration for the Collective Intelligence Summit is open and available now. All are welcome. The event participant tuition includes the pre-event reception, full-day experience, meals, refreshments, books,  Wi-Fi and materials. Secure online event check-in in advance required. Tuition is $399.00. For enterprise teams, registering together, there is an additional 20% discount.

http://www.regonline.com/Checkin.asp?EventId=731171

Your transaction email response is your event registration receipt. Conference check-in required in advance.  No on-site registration. Questions?  Please Contact Sarah V. Jones, [address removed], Tel: [masked], Fax: [masked].

About the Prediction Market Clusters

The Prediction Market Clusters, founded in 2004 in Silicon Valley, USA, are the industry commons and open community for prediction markets and collective intelligence networks worldwide. The open, agnostic network is a focused collaboration of vendors, academia, traders, users, developers, markets, regulators and stakeholders. The goal is to provide awareness, diffusion, adoption and pull-through for enterprise, institutional and consumer prediction markets. Prediction Market Clusters are the worldwide Next Practices network for collective intelligence and enterprise prediction markets practices, tools and applications.

For all questions concerning this conference, registration, logistics and discounts, please contact Sarah V. Jones, Event Director, Phone: [masked], Fax: [masked], Web: http://www.pmcluster.com/, Email: [address removed].