TWO upcoming conferences, on either side of the Atlantic
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I’m happy to say that if you’re interested in prediction markets, there are currently two conferences taking place quite shortly that you should know about.
I talked about the London prediction market conference last week, which takes place on October 11-12. There will be a wide variety of participants, including software vendors (NewsFutures, gexID, and nosco), prediction market end users (Microsoft, Financial Times, and Nokia), academics (from Nottingham Trent University and University of Copenhagen) as well as inTrade and myself. I really look forward to seeing everyone here in London!
Dave Perry announced last week that ConsensusPoint is hosting a prediction markets conference in New York City on September 24th! I will be speaking at this event as well, and James Surowecki (author of the Wisdom of Crowds) is the main keynote speaker. The majority of the other speakers are customers of ConsensusPoint that will be sharing their prediction market experiences. (Alex Kirtland of Usable Markets will be the other non-end user speaker.) It should be another exciting and informative event.
If you’re interested in prediction markets on either side of the Atlantic, there are now two great opportunities to learn more about them and hear about the benefits from end users themselves. I sincerely hope you take advantage of at least one of them.