These leading organizations below are sponsors and participants for the biennial Collective Intelligence Summit: Leading Prediction Markets on Friday 6 November 2009 at the University of Chicago's Gleacher Executive Center. All are welcome. Secure, online, low-cost registration in advance required.

Collective Intelligence Summit: http://www.pmcluster.com/CHI09.htm

Since 1995, Aurora WDC has helped its global clientele identify and manage competitive threats and opportunities in diverse industries, in ways they can immediately put to use. Confronting and overcoming clients' most challenging intelligence roadblocks isn't easy; it requires primary research, incisive analysis, advanced training, and expert implementation advice alongside programs combining these disciplines to help your organization meet its collective intelligence objectives.

About Consensus Point -- http:/consensuspoint.com/

Consensus Point, a Nashville based company, is the leading provider of enterprise prediction markets serving corporations and government. Formerly known as Foresight Technologies, Consensus Point has over 15 years of experience providing enterprise prediction markets, Consensus Point offers a comprehensive collective intelligence solution, including Software as a Service (SaaS) with on-demand or on-site licenses, consulting services, and support. The company helps customers reduce the risk of uncertainty, improve revenue through accurate forecasts of products and services, and manage projects with immediate insight into future completion dates and budgets. Prediction markets provide viable prospective business insights that compliment other useful information tools by aggregating the tacit knowledge from employees, customers, and/or partners about your most critical business initiatives.

About Crowdcast - http://crowdcast.com

Crowdcast provides enterprise forecasting solutions that dynamically aggregate team intelligence to deliver accurate and insightful forecasts. When will the product really ship? How much will really sell in Q4? Unbiased, accurate forecasts of such key operational and strategic metrics can be efficiently generated by tapping the wisdom of your team using Crowdcast's Team Intelligence Platform™. Crowdcast is led by experts in enterprise forecasting and prediction market design and provides accurate team forecasts for Electronic Arts, GM, Johnson & Johnson, NERA, The Monitor Group, and CFO Magazine.

About Exago -- http://exagomarkets.com

Exago is pioneering the use of Information Markets as a tool to support decision making in organizations. Exago’s approach makes available a set of services allowing clients to implement the desired process and ensure it is sustainable within the organization. Exago supports customers not only with process definition but also with continuous communication activity about the process and the validation of the incentive model.

About George Mason University -- http://gmu.edu/

 Named the #1 national university to watch in the 2009 rankings of U.S. News & World Report, George Mason University is an innovative, entrepreneurial institution with global distinction in a range of academic fields. Located in Northern Virginia near Washington, D.C., Mason provides students access to diverse cultural experiences and the most sought-after internships and employers in the country.  Mason offers strong undergraduate and graduate degree programs in engineering and information technology, organizational psychology, health care and visual and performing arts.

About Iowa Electronic Health Markets -- http://iehm.uiowa.edu/

The Iowa Electronic Health Markets is a research project at the University of Iowa exploring the use of prediction markets as a tool for disease surveillance. By combining the strengths of prediction markets with the knowledge of our trading community from around the world, our hope is that these markets will report future infectious disease activity quickly enough to be clinically useful.

About Intrade - http://intrade.com

Founded in 1999, Intrade is an Irish incorporated service business. Our team has almost 80 years combined experience in prediction markets. Intrade.com is considered to be the leading prediction market platform. intrade.com is a person-to-person trading "Exchange". It allows you to trade in the most innovative, transparent and exciting way on financial, sporting, current events, entertainment and many similar events. Intrade members trade directly with each other, bypassing the middle-man. 

 Motorola is known around the world for innovation in communications and is focused on advancing the way the world connects. From broadband communications infrastructure, enterprise mobility and public safety solutions to high-definition video and mobile devices, Motorola is leading the next wave of innovations that enable people, enterprises and governments to be more connected and more mobile. Motorola (NYSE: MOT) had sales of US $30.1 billion in 2008. For more information, please visit www.motorola.com.

About Prediction Market Clusters -- http://www.pmcluster.com

The Prediction Market Clusters, founded in 2004 in Silicon Valley, are the global industry commons and open community for prediction markets and collective intelligence networks worldwide. The open, agnostic community is a focused collaboration network 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. PM Clusters conduct popular, distributed leadership retreats for prediction markets, Wisdom of Crowds, collective intelligence networks and collaborative enterprise forecasting.

About Spigit -- www.spigit.com

Spigit is the leading developer of social productivity software for enterprises to drive innovation and empower decision makers. Spigit's product offerings range from the intra-enterprise Innovation. Spigit(TM) to its customer-facing IdeaSpigit solutions. Spigit currently powers innovation at numerous Fortune 500 companies and has been named Best of Software Interop 2008 and is listed on the AlwaysOn Global 250 list, the power list of the top 250 private global technology companies.

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