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I’m happy to say that there has been a good interest shown in the London Prediction Markets Conference, which will be taking place on October 11-12th. Based on the speaker list alone, this should be an exciting event.

Conferences are really valuable in bringing people in the prediction market industry together. (In that sense, the breaks are the most important part of any event!) You meet the various software vendors (such as NewsFutures and ConsensusPoint), academics doing research in the field, and representatives from companies that have actually used prediction markets in their business (like Google and Microsoft). (Note that the above list are companies that have presented in the past. The specific list for the London conference can be found my clicking the banner below.)

To those who are interested, I’ll be speaking about my experience running two years’ worth of small prediction markets. My focus on the research end has been on how few participants you need in order to have calibrated predictions, and the behaviours observed by participants. The last of my markets (Rowing markets, hosted by Inkling) are finishing in the next week and a half so I will have data from those, as well.

The link above will take you directly to the site where you’ll be able to find information on the speakers, as well as register. I hope to see some of you there!

Update: I edited the second paragraph for clarity.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 at 9:03 am and is filed under General.