I am pleased to announce on behalf of the PM Clusters an important conference upcoming at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

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/

Conference 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.

Today, new ways to share, trade and aggregate information using Internet-based markets are exploding. These powerful Web 2.0 knowledge markets help companies, schools, governments and individuals 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 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.

The Collective Intelligence Summit is practical. The focus is enterprise case studies. You will hear successful enterprise applications of collective intelligence through innovative market software solutions. You will learn how to apply 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.
 

Availability

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

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

Secure, online Check-in required and includes meals, refreshments, materials and Wi-Fi. Your transaction email response is your event registration receipt. Conference check-in required in advance.  No on-site registration. 

About the Prediction Market Clusters

The Prediction Market Clusters, founded in 2004, are the global 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. The Prediction Markets Cluster is 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: 978-468-0267, Fax: 206-984-2429, Web: http://www.pmcluster.com/, Email: sarah.jones@pmclusters.com. 

Sincerely,

Sarah

Sarah V. Jones, Event Director

Phone: 978-468-0267

Fax: 206-984-2429

Web: http://www.pmcluster.com/

Email: sarah.jones@pmclusters.com.